Game Freeze one minute before carpool and school bus due
Minty:
I have a household of five sims. Last time I saved, one was at work, three were at school and one was at home waiting for her carpool. Her carpool is due at 1pm, same time as one of the kids is due home from school. This lot had started to freeze at 12.59.
I can force an error using the batbox at any time before 1pm and they all come home but the problem occurs again when any carpool or school bus is due to arrive. I've checked out my portals and they're all there, same as any bog standard lot.
I've been playing this lot for quite some time now and this has only just started to happen.
Any ideas as to how I can fix this will be greatfully received.
Thanks.
Magicmoon:
Do you have testingcheats enabled? If not, enable it before time for the bus/carpool to arrive and see if you get an error. If so, post it here, along with your other relevant info such as which EPs you are running, as per the instructions in the FAQ.
Minty:
I put testingcheatsenabled on and no error message popped up to be able to attach a log for. However, this time the carpool did actually arrive in that it was on the lot, it just hadn't quite got to the spot where it parks and beeps annoyingly.
I'm using all EPs and all Stuff Packs. All hacks and downloads that I have in my game have worked fine up until this point and I've not downloaded anything new in months and months. (I've already tried taking out all CC which didn't change everything - the error is being very persistent)
Magicmoon:
Let's break the problem down a bit. I take it that you are not using a custom career for the Sim that the carpool is picking up because you said that you removed all CC and the problem continued. Does the carpool behave properly on your other lots? You said it freezes if any schoolbus or carpool is due to arrive. Is that correct? If only one of them is due to arrive, does it still freeze? If that is the case and you said your portals were fine, then I would suspect something left in the street (it may be invisible) that is blocking their path.
Check the nuke menu of the batbox for stuck kicky bags and that sort of thing. The stuck object remover is great for deleting other visible and invisible stuck items, but I can't remember if it works in the street. It can delete a portal, so if that happens, leave the lot without saving. There used to be a problem with stuck invisible spaceships, but I'm pretty sure that problem was fixed awhile back. If you've had an abduction on that lot you might want to do a search here for the relevant thread.
If the carpool is working correctly on your other lots and you can't find the invisible obstruction on this one, you may just have to move out the family and bulldoze this particular lot.
Minty:
Looks like I might have a bigger problem than I first thought. Out of the past four lots that I've tried to play in that neighbourhood, three have had the freezing problem. The other two just froze at a random point (but again, one minute before the hour) when nothing of significance was supposed to happen. I moved one family out and now am unable to load them into a new lot.
I did mange to do the force error on the lot I orignally posted about and got errors on so many things it was ridiculous. Everything from the windows to the sims wedding ring so something called "Emitter - Smell Negative".
Although it would be good to know what on earth has caused this, I'm at the stage now where I figure my hood is pretty much borked. I did some play testing of a Maxis neighbourhood and it appears to work just fine.
Thank you so much for your help, magicmoon, I've learnt an awful lot just from your responses.
But in case anyone else has a similar problem, I'll include answers to the questions that you asked although they're pretty much moot to me.
- Career was the Entertainer career that came with one of the EPs. I don't have any custom careers at all.
- The carpool does behave properly on other lots
- The nuke menu did nuke a few things but not enough apparently.
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