What am I doing wrong? I really borked it and I'm desperate! :^(
Annan:
Here's how you cull 13GB of CC: Chuck it all. Then start adding back what you really want. Nobody could possibly want or need that much CC.
On a side note, how do you people manage to get that much CC, anyway? I do my best to go over 1GB, but I find most CC is eye-damagingly bad and must be destroyed. Have you people npo standards?
phyllis_p:
Quote from: Avi on 2009 April 15, 12:16:09
phyllis_p: I've BEEN doing a binary search. I didn't know the 50/50 method was also called a "binary search". I've read the FAQ, just not after 2007 when that bit about a binary search was added. I've been lurking a long time but never really wanted to post that much here (and I still don't). I guess it's time to refresh myself with it.
I just wanted to know if anything else could be done in case CC isn't the problem because doing a binary search with over 13 gigs of CC is a bit painful as you can imagine. Plus if that ends up to not be the problem in the end, what a massive waste of time. You're still free to point and laugh. :^P
According to what you said in your original post, you haven't been doing a binary search. You've been trying starting the game with different chunks of custom content in the folder, but you apparently have not been doing it in a logical, ordered fashion in order to identify which files are the problem.
It's possible, of course, that your start-up crashes and the inclusion of certain custom content are totally coincidental. However, if the game starts fine every time without the Downloads folder, that screams "custom content problem" to me. It's possible that this isn't an "every time" situation, though. It was very hard to tell from your original post, and I have not gone back to reread since you divided it into paragraphs.
Finding solutions is rarely a pain-free experience. Personally, I would be far more upset if I spent money on a new graphics card and still didn't solve the problem than I would be if I took the time to do a careful binary search and still didn't solve the problem. I'd rather waste my time than waste my money.
nectere:
With the amount of free cc out there right now there is no reason at all not to chuck your whole downloads folder and start over, with exception to uninstalling whatever necessary hacks prior to doing so. This should be your first step in eliminating bad actors.
Mandapotpie:
Binary searches don't really take as long as you are afraid they will. You are narrowing by half every time, so it goes much more quickly than you would think. The only pain is starting the game every time. Do the search and rule it out, then people will start coming up with other ideas.
Avi:
I am doing a binary search as I originally halved my beginning 60k. I broke up the 60k worth of CC after I took out all the mods/hacks I could fine into 10k sections and then 5k sections and started adding them back in 5k chunks at a time. Most of the time I have to half the 5k chunks because there's something still borked in there. It's easier for me to scroll down 5k's worth of CC rather than say 30k at a time in order to find a possible culprit, so that's why I've done it this way. It's just a little change to the binary search, but I originally halved them so I guess it still technically is as I continue halving when I find a problem. I also started with the oldest CC first. I've taken out about 300 possibly corrupt/broken files and put them in their own folder. I have about 15k worth of CC left to put back in, so I have 1/3rd left to go.
I don't want to chuck all the CC and start over again. Most of my SavedSims won't work if I do that and I'll spend hours downloading it all again. I have removed a lot of the weird number files and other suspicious looking ones and so far have made it this far by doing that. It's just frustrating and time consuming.
I know I have too much CC. I want to get rid of a lot of it, but I need to know what it is first. I don't want to accidentally delete something I really wanted or what not.
I am upset about the card . . . I had forgotten about all the woes concerning nVidia and Sims 2. It's my own stupid mistake and I'll probably have to buy another ATI card and just save up for it. Maybe the card itself could be ruined, I don't know. Cards can go bad even though they're rather new. Some are bad out of the box.
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