"grab hand" in Sims 3 glitching
BattyCoda:
Have any of you tried hitting Escape when this happens?
Gastfyr:
I have been having this problem and it keeps comming back. I closed and re-opened the game and that "fixed" it for a little bit until it got stuck again. I also went back to main menu and came back in and that worked once, but when I tried the same thing again when the grab hand got stuck again, it was stil broken when I came back in to my lot.
I am also playing on the largest SV lot. My sims had been sleeping in a tent with a small shower/toilet outhouse, a fridge/counter/stove out door kitchen, and a one-sprinkler sized garden. I had decided it was time to build them thier dream house since the mrs was expecting their first child, so I stuck pretty nearly everything in fam inv and prodeded to build them a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom mansion with a massive basement and a large courtyard. It was when I had started taking items back out of fam inv to furnish thier new house that the grab hand started glitching. It would look like I'd placed the item, for exaple the crib, but the crib would still be showing in the fam inv as well.
I actually managed to get everything out of the fav inv to the point where it wasn't showing in the fam inv anymore, but I neglected to save before I started placing some of thier relics that had been stored in the treasure chest. That was a bad idea. The vases, bouls, etc that I had already placed litterally started dissappearing! They weren't in either sim's inv, the fam inv, or the treasure chest. I quit without saving and havn't tried loading the game up since (this was late last night, and I just went to bed). another example of intentional coding? When the total itmes gets too much, simply start deleting some at random? nice.
Rhumba:
Quote from: BattyCoda on 2009 December 16, 15:45:48
Have any of you tried hitting Escape when this happens?
I did. Actually I tried every key on the keyboard because I wanted to save and bail out, but since I was locked into buy mode, the save function was not available.
Esc didn't help. The grab-fist would briefly disappear if I right clicked instead of left clicked, but the moment I tried to do something else, it went back into a fist.
I am playing a pretty big lot containing a house, converted barn, a shed and two farm fields plus a pond. Since most of the adults were in on the gardening, there was a lot of groceries in four sims' inventories. I sold about §13k in groceries and fish at the store, saved and left the game.
Today my grab hand is just a grab hand. I sold more groceries, threw some in the fridge and it has not yet reoccurred, but perhaps it's not long enough to tell.
I have to replace the fridges on the lot anyway every time I load the game to stop it from allowing food to spoil overnight.
That seemed to start right after I installed the last pre-WA patch.
Erry:
I managed to somewhat fix this with deleting a bad file, at least I think it's a bad file, since ProcMon showed that it was being loaded over and over.
coconnor:
Yes, I have experienced this as well. The hand becomes a clenched fist and it's difficult to get it to let go of the imaginary object ~ either by using the ESC key, or by right or left clicking. I tried it all. Eventually I was able to get back to live mode. But it's a pain!
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