Any easy way to identify which hair file makes my game crash?
Daria:
As per the incredibly long title...is there an easy way for me to identify which of my hair files is making my game completely crash? It happens when I start scrolling through the hair files to change a Sim's hair colour. (Presumably it'd also happen in C-A-S, but I haven't had to make one new since the last major Hair update.) I have deleted the thumbnails to cause it to refresh fully, and taken out one set of hair that I was a little doubtful about, but it hasn't fixed the problem at all.
I've used the (marvellous) Wardrobe Wrangler to go through and bin my hairs, but unfortunately it can't tell me which hair/mesh is doing the crashing. They all load fine in WW.
I have tried Googling for answers without success, so all I can assume is that this isn't a common problem - either that, or my Google-fu is way off and I'm using the wrong search terms.
notovny:
Use a Binary Search.
Works relatively quickly. If you have, say, 100 hair files that are suspect, you can narrow it down to one in seven restarts. If you have 1,000, it will narrow to one in ten restarts. If you have 10,000, it will take about 14.
Daria:
Not quite so easy as I'd hoped, but sensible. I shall try this! Thanks :)
Zazazu:
If you have a lot of custom content, rename the Downloads folder to something like 2Downloads and put your hairs in a separate, temporary Downloads folder. That will cut down on game load time.
jolrei:
Additionally, if you know about when (in real time) the problem started, you can start your binary search process using just the hairs and meshes that you installed since just before that point (i.e. if problems started in late December, remove the ones that you added from December to the present).
This could save you some time.
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