Is there an interpreter in the house?
Hook:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 August 09, 03:56:50
Even having NOTHING in your userdata directory is an acceptable run state for the game.
Having no save files is a normal state. Is having save files but no cache files a normal state at any point?
It's obviously extremely bad practice to store data that should have been in a save game in a file designated as cache instead. But it only takes one indication that this has happened to mean that they do it all the time. Just because no programmer in his right mind would do such a thing doesn't mean that EA programmers never did it.
If you have an obviously corrupted cache file, then any possible harm done by deleting it is overridden because the file is already causing problems. In that case you delete the file. Deleting a cache file when there are no problems is putting a lot of faith in EA using proper engineering practices.
Hook
edalbformat:
It sounds that it is WINDOWS that is considering TS3.exe as access violation. I saw briefly some file names when updating my Windows that had something to do with xml and it was in the section "critical updates". Did you update your Windows recently?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hook on 2009 August 09, 23:42:30
Having no save files is a normal state. Is having save files but no cache files a normal state at any point?
Yes. This happens at the very moment you start the game, when it loads the standard save file cachelessly (and redraws everything). The cache files are not part of the game and contain only data to accelerate texture loading. If they are not present, the game simply regenerates them. They are not essential, although they do improve performance until they become so bloated with obsolete data that the opposite begins to happen, and periodically detonating them helps clear out stale data.
The real culprit is probably dodgy CC.
ZiggyDoodle:
Quote from: edalbformat on 2009 August 10, 09:01:59
Did you update your Windows recently?
Nope.
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 August 10, 09:55:24
The real culprit is probably dodgy CC.
Nah, I think it's something more insidious than that. I've used Norton Utilities for years. It was great software way back when. The last incarnation I purchased was the 2005 Symantec SystemWorks. I stopped using the a.v. program a couple years ago but continued to use the utilities. That is, until this weekend when it refused to load and a popup appeared telling me I needed to activate the same software I purchased years ago, then refused activation unless I paid forty bucks.
That's blackmail, so I banished Symantec and installed Advanced SystemCare, plus their defragger (both free).
Last night I played my Riverview family and ran them through CAS for wardrobe changes. No CTD. Did the same with my Sunset Valley family tonght. No CTD.
Coincidence? Maybe. I guess only time will tell.
edalbformat:
You should update your Windows. Do you have a link for this Advanced System Care? I run a comp. without internet and cannot install any of those Anti Whatever because they pop up revisions and updates at every minute.
I cannot install anything that requires internet connection AND I DON'T want to connect my comp in anyway. Have group motives for this decision.
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