Any easy way to identify which hair file makes my game crash?
Sapnish:
...and that is why I do not use doohickeys to bin my crap for me.
Also, when messing about with files, rename for easy identification.
Is BS crashing as well, or just the game?
Daria:
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Coincidentally, I just found one of my clothing files was crashing my game and I discovered a much better way to find the bad files. Scan the folder in SimPE and then sort by the health of the file. In my game, the files causing the problem had red health reports (bad directory info or something like that.) And they were TSR files modified in WW (thought I had gotten rid of all of those.)
Oh, that's handy! Thanks! You're probably right about the TSR files, too - I had/have a lot of those. I'll check out PMBD, see if I can find the corresponding hairs there and overwrite them.
Having normal-coloured hair appearing under 'custom' irritates me in a major way, so I'm willing to take the chance that I'll cause a BFBVFS again in the process of trying to put things where they SHOULD be...dagnabbit... but I'll avoid trying it on original TSR files now that I know they're evil. Also, will do them in tiny stages instead of getting gung-ho and doing the whole lot at once. (We'll call that a 'learning experience'...)
Sapnish - it was everything. The game would crash (completely) and then it couldn't be restarted again unless I rebooted. Similar effect to what WoW would do to it before they fixed the memory leak in the newbie Human zone.
Thanks for the advice, everyone. Sorry I've not been back for a bit; Real Life has been kicking my butt lately!
edalbformat:
The best way to put order on hair folders would be to separate them all in specific folders, one for new hairs with new meshes and another for Maxis recolors only. Simple recolors very seldom cause troubles.
The new meshes should be placed together with the recolors and if you use to rename files for easier identification, try to rename the recolors with the same name as the mesh only specifying the respective colors used.
There are several problems that can happen when downloading material from very different sources. It happened to me that one hair had the same data as one of the clothes and I started to have bald sims without body. Checking the files I found one hair that seemed to be messed up with one of the custom clothing. I don't really know the reason, but maybe the identification used by BodyShop can also cause a duplicate. I deleted the hair and the problem was solved. Very seldom I get crashes, to say the truth, never, except when I cause it self.
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