Help! My game's screwed up
ShortyBoo:
I think my game's fucked up and I'm not sure how it happened or why. I just went to start up my game and it looked like this:
I thought it was strange, but just figured the thumbnails didn't load or something and tried to load the game. Then I got this message:
I tried restarting the game like it said, but the same thing happened again. Is my neighborhood completely lost now? I really don't want to lose the two families I had.
The last time I played, I was moving the camera around to take a pic of one of my sims when the graphics suddenly looked really bad and the game froze. I couldn't minimize the game or anything, so I did a manual restart. I had been getting random CTDs, so I tried disabling Data Execution Prevention by following the instructions posted on MTS. The first time I tried the game, I was able to play six hours with no crashing. The time after that, it froze and I had to manually restart, then I tried again, and after several hours, the same thing happened. The CTDs I was getting at first all had the same Exception info. The first time it froze, there was no xcpt file, but the second time, there was, only it was showing a way different exception. I don't understand what all it means, but it might be helpful.
This is what it normally says when I get the CTDs:
[Exception info]
date: 2009-12-07
time: 18.01.10
type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000014
address: 0x005c98a1 "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\Game\Bin\TS3EP01.exe":0x0001:0x001c88a1
And this is what showed when the game froze, the last time I played before getting the current error:
[Exception info]
date: 2009-12-09
time: 14.25.02
type: INT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO
address: 0x007da1d4 "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\Game\Bin\TS3EP01.exe":0x0001:0x003d91d4
J. M. Pescado:
I think you have experienced a save corruption error. Try rolling back to the .backup version of your .sims3 save.
ShortyBoo:
I copied all the files from the folder Sunset Valley.sims3.backup into Sunset Valley.sims3 in the Saves folder in My Docs and tried loading the game. The same thing happened. Is there anything else I can try, or is my game lost?
dolldrms:
Quote from: ShortyBoo on 2009 December 11, 15:25:32
I copied all the files from the folder Sunset Valley.sims3.backup into Sunset Valley.sims3 in the Saves folder in My Docs and tried loading the game. The same thing happened. Is there anything else I can try, or is my game lost?
You don't copy the files to the .sims3. Delete the bad save and rename the backup to .sims3 by deleting .backup from the file name.
ShortyBoo:
Quote from: dolldrms on 2009 December 11, 18:32:40
Quote from: ShortyBoo on 2009 December 11, 15:25:32
I copied all the files from the folder Sunset Valley.sims3.backup into Sunset Valley.sims3 in the Saves folder in My Docs and tried loading the game. The same thing happened. Is there anything else I can try, or is my game lost?
You don't copy the files to the .sims3. Delete the bad save and rename the backup to .sims3 by deleting .backup from the file name.
I'll try that, but won't it have the same effect? What's the third folder for, the one that has .bad on the end of it?
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