Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
morriganrant:
Quote from: jsader on 2009 June 11, 20:10:12
Teels posted this back on page 14:
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I downloaded the Razor version (from seedgames) , and followed intructions I gathered from this thread. The program started up and loaded, but when it got to the neighborhood window, it said EA didn't recognize the disk as valid (something along those lines).
I'm having the same issue. Does this have anything to do with modifying the TS3.exe, aka no-cd crack? I've tried using morriganrant's crack, but obviously just pasting over the old .exe file doesn't work.
I know I'm missing something somewhere, just don't know what, exactly.
Worked for me when I used it, but I'm using the AwesomeMod now. The Launcher does not work with the NO-cd. After backing up your original .exe, you have to overwrite it with the no-cd.exe, and then bypass the launcher by making a shortcut that goes straight to the TS3.exe.
Lonesome Dove:
I've been running fine until just recently when an option popped up for one of my Sims (user-created, not one of the premade Sims) to move in with someone she'd made friends with. A married man, no less, the hussy! Anyway, I decided to go for it and see what happened. A screen came up asking if I wanted her to move out with furniture or without. I opted for the "with furniture" option.
Here's where it got weird. Only a few items went with her, like a painting she'd done and hung on the wall, and two of the bewitched gnomes she picked up in the mausoleum, and her bicycle (which she was out riding at the time). I think that's all. Everything else stayed, including her nice little garden.
I decided to play around with one of the premade families and I moved them into my Sim's old place. The wife has the gardening trait so she immediately gets to talk to the plants. Stupid, she should have to work for it at least a little while. Anyhow, they moved in and can interact with everything, but when they go to sleep the bed option says "Sleep in Lupe's bed" (Lupe is my old moved out Sim), as if they're guests. The toddler autonomously went to the dresser to plan her outfits. And twice now, when I've tried to plan outfits for the adults, on saving the game freezes and the "Saving" icon just keeps circling and circling. I left it for 20 minutes the last time and it never completed the save.
Is anyone else experiencing this kind of thing? Not just the saving freeze, but the move out with or without furniture bork?
jolrei:
Quote from: Lonesome Dove on 2009 June 12, 18:40:22
The wife has the gardening trait so she immediately gets to talk to the plants. Stupid, she should have to work for it at least a little while.
Sounds fine to me. If I move out of my house IRL, I will have to leave my garden behind for the use of the new residents. So they inherit a garden? Good for them.
Quote from: Lonesome Dove on 2009 June 12, 18:40:22
Anyhow, they moved in and can interact with everything, but when they go to sleep the bed option says "Sleep in Lupe's bed" (Lupe is my old moved out Sim), as if they're guests. The toddler autonomously went to the dresser to plan her outfits. And twice now, when I've tried to plan outfits for the adults, on saving the game freezes and the "Saving" icon just keeps circling and circling. I left it for 20 minutes the last time and it never completed the save.
This sounds a bit weirder. Almost like residual rubbish code left in some lots in TS2. Could be a borked lot, or borked furniture. What happens if you delete/sell the bed and buy a new one?
phyllis_p:
Quote from: Lonesome Dove on 2009 June 12, 18:40:22
Here's where it got weird. Only a few items went with her, like a painting she'd done and hung on the wall, and two of the bewitched gnomes she picked up in the mausoleum, and her bicycle (which she was out riding at the time). I think that's all. Everything else stayed, including her nice little garden.
Did you look in the family inventory? (The third tab in Buy Mode). I haven't tried it moving with furniture yet, but it was my understanding that the big stuff was to go to family inventory.
SnootCB:
I finally broke down and decided to try it. I'm not sure how well it will work since my CPU speed is only 1.8GHz (with XP, and all other requirements are met). Anyway, I got it all installed with daemon into its own virtual drive and I'm at the point of overwriting the TSLHost.dll and TS3.exe in the \Game\Bin folder. Problem: it says it is "read only". I tried unchecking "read only" under general properties on the Bin and Game folders but that didn't do a damn thing. Have I done something wrong? Is there a way to get the files overwritable? Any help would be appreciated greatly.
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