90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.
Inge:
Mizzroyalty, presumably you mean after deleting the CC that originally caused the blue lots?
nanacake:
Quote from: mizzroyalty on 2009 December 09, 00:48:32
What i did notice however is when you turn off or restart the computer the blue lots would come back.
That's because what you're suggesting is pure voodoo in connection to the blue lots. MSCONFIG is for diagnostic startup and while turning off services/startup not in use can help your game performance, turning off certain services your computer needs will cause some computers to not function correctly. It's not the permanent way to turn off services/startup so that's why when you restart they open again. But this experiment kind of tells me it's correct what Inge said about blue lots being connected to bad loading process. You probably have too many services running to have enough CPU/RAM to load your game properly - resulting in lot corruption.
It's better to adjust your startup services through services.msc. I don't think peasants should try this if they don't understand what it means. (Probably would end up disabling your printer, audio, who knows what else and not know how to fix it) http://theeldergeek.com has a nice service search to tell you what most common services do though and if it's safe or not to disable.
Krib:
Quote from: mizzroyalty on 2009 December 09, 00:48:32
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
This is really poor advice. You're mistaking a unique situation with your machine for a fix for everyone. All you're saying they should do is disable all the non-microsoft services on their machines. But you don't even mention which one you were running. So what are you saying, "don't run any non-microsoft services and you won't get blue lots?" Sorry, but that's retarded.
Inge:
If you have bluelots, tell the creators of your CC objects to read this thread: http://forums.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=381540
socurious:
Inge, thanks for your part for figuring out that cc cloned from particular objects were causing the blue lots. This information (and the information in the thread at MTS) was the only thing that helped eliminate the blue lots in my game.
I'm always impressed with the responsiveness of modders and cc'ers in this community who respond to issues quickly, and do their best to resolve them.
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