Create-A-World Tips, Tricks, and Annoyances
Daimon:
I've finally found the courage / gotten bored enough with regular play to try to create my own world. I keep bumping head first into one particular problem, though: After a while the world file refuses to open in Game Edit. The green bar goes all the way to the right except a last millimeter, and then the load screen simply halts there forever. As far as I can tell, the issue is related to having placed houses on empty lots in Game Edit previously, but even if I make sure that there are no such 'clones', it stalls on me eventually. Surely there must be a work-around or fix for this, or at least some sort of indication of what I am doing wrong.
I am using no CC in building my lots, so I highly doubt that this is a case of tight pants. All patches are up to date, and all EPs are installed.
rosess:
Quote from: Daimon on 2011 July 01, 10:49:36
I've finally found the courage / gotten bored enough with regular play to try to create my own world. I keep bumping head first into one particular problem, though: After a while the world file refuses to open in Game Edit. The green bar goes all the way to the right except a last millimeter, and then the load screen simply halts there forever. As far as I can tell, the issue is related to having placed houses on empty lots in Game Edit previously, but even if I make sure that there are no such 'clones', it stalls on me eventually. Surely there must be a work-around or fix for this, or at least some sort of indication of what I am doing wrong.
I am using no CC in building my lots, so I highly doubt that this is a case of tight pants. All patches are up to date, and all EPs are installed.
Check the MTS help section for DEP and LAA information, and make sure DEP settings are applied to both the current game executable and CAW. Saving the CAW file under another name every so often also seems to help things run smoothly.
Daimon:
Quote from: rosess on 2011 July 01, 15:18:24
Check the MTS help section for DEP and LAA information, and make sure DEP settings are applied to both the current game executable and CAW. Saving the CAW file under another name every so often also seems to help things run smoothly.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit so LAA shouldn't mean anything for me (feel free to correct me if mistaken). DEP does not seem to be the issue but I turned it on just case anyhows. I also checked every bit of road and sidewalk and finally reverted to an older save that did load in EIG. Considering that my world currently consists of four lots and a lot of flat terrain with large amounts of nothing, I am baffled. Anyhow, thanks for the tip -- it certainly can't -hurt-.
Skadi:
Even with 7x64 you still need to make CAW LAA. I had an issue with the game crashing until I patched CAW.exe. I second the advice to save under a new name every few saves, I number my saves and tend to make a new save number before using Edit In Game mode.
There is definitely something strange happening in your world, placing the same copy of a house shouldn't impact the world at all. I have placed 5 copies of several houses to start filling out the place without issue. However I am only using EPs, no CC or store stuff. Perhaps check you CC folders?
The only other thing I can think of is to use Process Monitor so you can see where it is getting stuck.
Skadi:
Double posting to add:
Over on MTS Kiritra discovered playing with the default.ini will make CAW work instead of giving you a version mismatch warning for no reason.
Thread: http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=450303
This just helped me since CAW refused to open despite my game being properly patched and having the latest version of CAW installed. Don't forget to backup your default.ini otherwise you might get a file error next patch.
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