90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.
Inge:
Khate, you had cc in before didn't you? Then you took it out after you got blue lots?
aspinL:
Quote from: Grimma on 2009 December 04, 06:37:58
4.) Interesting titbit but possibly a red herring, since I could be very wrong: I seem to remember that at first it was only the Museum of Art that was affected. I zoomed in, went huh?, and after I saved my game most of the lots in my hood were affected. Now I could be remembering it wrong (although I don't think so), but could this maybe have something to do with the "riddler fix" that the patch was supposed to do? When I get back home I'll test that and report back.
I just loaded up an old save from before the 1.7 patch. First thing I noticed was my sims' icons weren't on the left side all lined in a row of 8. All the needs were full green(though no sims to have needs), no lifetime wish, no moodlets, no trace of living sims. So obviously my game was fubar. And as with the above quote I went to map view and the art museum was blue lot and the goth house was blue lot. The negihborhood was Sunset Valley. Which last time I played with said game, both the goth house and art museum were completely covered in riddler tiles. Now since some people are saying they have blue lots with no cc, I am a little inclined to believe the blue lots are in fact EA's fault. Not to mention I have been playing with a new neighborhood started after WA was installed and have gona on vacation and haven't got a blue lot.
Kkate:
Quote from: Inge on 2009 December 07, 20:51:33
Khate, you had cc in before didn't you? Then you took it out after you got blue lots?
Nope. I had blue lots with CC in game. So I just uninstalled WA and base game, deleted all EA folder (from Documents AND //:C) Install game and EP1 again, patched, played a few days and one day, after my Sim returned from Egypt, there were blue lots in Sunset Valley. Someone noticed EA staff about this problem, but they also arenīt sure what causes it :-\
mizzroyalty:
I think i found a possible solution to the blue lots problem.
Apparently this is a problem is affecting pc's especially one's using Vista because i myself own a macbook and never had this problem. Anyways here's what i noticed....
To get the game to work if its already experiencing blue lots
1. Delete the saved game folder (yes you'll lose any lots and families in the neighbourhood so if you could package these, do so)
2. Hold the windows flag key and hit R (The "Run" box will appear)
3. Type misconfig and click continue
4. A system configuration window will appear
5. Click the startup TAB (not the start up in the General Tab)
6. Click Disable ALL then click apply
7. Click the Services TAB, YOU MUST CLICK "Hide All microsoft sevices" option at the bottom (You'll See a Check mark in the box)
8. THEN click disable all (the disable all option would be faded out after you click it)
9. Click Apply
10. Restart the computer for the effects to take place
At this point your game would work perfectly.
Now this is what i noticed, the game would work fine because i started and quit the game about 10 times without the blue lots occurring, even after visiting the world locations
What i did notice however is when you turn off or restart the computer the blue lots would come back.
SO every time you restart or turn off the computer you must do steps 1 -10 mentioned above. If you are like me and never turn off you laptop but only make it sleep you are fine because the settings are saved and only reset when you take the pc off or restart the pc.
So Long story short do step 1-10 if you take the pc off or restart BEFORE opening the game other wise the blue lots would come back so i stress... Do steps 1-10 BEFORE opening the game. Hopefully by now the system configuration is pinned to your start menu to elimate steps 1-4. You know if the settings are saved because in the Start up tab would have noting checked off and the systems tab would have disable all faded out.
Good Luck Guys.... I wish you luck
Sigmund:
Quote from: mizzroyalty on 2009 December 09, 00:48:32
Apparently this is a problem is affecting pc's especially one's using Vista because i myself own a macbook and never had this problem. Anyways here's what i noticed....
Nope. I'm playing mine on a Macbook under OSX and I've gotten blue lots.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page