Stuck in buy/build mode?
seventhson:
So I have an interesting thing happening in one of my saved games. Every time I enter buy or build mode, even if I don't do anything at all, the game freezes when I try to return to live mode. The little circular 'computer is processing' animation happens with the mouse, but it will sit there happily for hours. Toggling between buy and build mode is fine. Toggling back to live mode is not fine. The game will respond only to a forced shut-down from the task manager. It is possible to build and buy things, but not to go back to live mode.
Tested with no mods or custom content in-game. Another saved game still allows me to exit buy/build with no trouble. No family in the first saved game, not even newly-created Sims plopped on a lot, can exit buy/build. If the save's completely borked, so be it, but if anyone knows why then I'd love to find out what the hell just happened.
The only mention of something like this I saw on my crawl through the boards in search of help involved the question mark walls, but there are no walls on my Sim's lot and I was not attempting to place or wallpaper walls when the freeze occurred, and have mostly not attempted to buy or place anything in testing since.
snowbawl:
Try Alt-Tab-Alting out of the game and return. I have had the game freeze in buy mode one time and this worked for me. I read about it in another thread somewhere that someone also tried this trick and it works.
seventhson:
Tried that, to no avail. The same 'processing' continues on returning to the game.
ZiggyDoodle:
How big are the four .cache files in your MyDocuments\Electronic Art\The Sims 3\ folder? If they're stuffed, you could delete them and see if that helps. They're called compositor.cache, simCompositor.cache, Script.cache - I can't recall the last one (I just deleted mine after I shut down the game).
aspinL:
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2009 August 22, 03:29:42
How big are the four .cache files in your MyDocuments\Electronic Art\The Sims 3\ folder? If they're stuffed, you could delete them and see if that helps. They're called compositor.cache, simCompositor.cache, Script.cache - I can't recall the last one (I just deleted mine after I shut down the game).
The fourth is CASPartCache.
You say this freeze only happens in one saved game but in others you're able to go back into live mode? Did you try saving the game by clicking "Save as" so that it changes the name and saves it as a new file, then restarting and selecting it? What if you made a completely new game and put a family on a lot does it let you exit buy mode then?
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