Create-A-World Tips, Tricks, and Annoyances
Zazazu:
Awesome, I've been complaining of this very thing. Have tried a few small 'hoods out there but two have horrible routing issues and one is so full of rocks and trees it Error12's on saving.
Mekare:
I'm having some major crashing issues with generations and EIG now.
Every time I try to save, it will begin saving, and 30-40 minutes later I will get that lovely "Sims 3 has encountered a problem and must close" error report screen. What confuses me most is my last world I made pre-generations was over twice the size of the one I'm working on, and very rarely crashed. Now out of the 5 hours straight I've been redo-ing and attempting to save, it has only actually completed saving one time.
I've tried using task manager to give the exe more memory access, but that doesn't seem to work either. It also doesn't seem to matter if I add 1 or 20 sims, it's always the same result. I've followed every MTS post about clearing caches, removing cc, closing CAW in the background while I work.. still no luck. I'm guessing its a new generations memory leak, because it's a windows error screen and not a sims one, although I never alt-tab or defocus the EIG window while working on it.
Anyone know of any way to fix this? My world is so close to finished, I'm just on the final steps of using EIG to add the townies. Would hate to give up now. :/
rosess:
Quote from: Mekare on 2011 September 04, 00:47:54
I've tried using task manager to give the exe more memory access, but that doesn't seem to work either.
Did you follow the LAA instructions for the CAW executable? I have a feeling you may have thought setting priority would do it; not so much.
Also, try leaving EIG open and in focus when saving, if you aren't already. Alt-tabbing to a browser or such inevitably makes my saves fail.
Mekare:
Hmm, yea I just set priority... I always keep the window focused, but I didn't do the LAA stuff. I'll try that and see ^^;
ETA:
Well... I followed all the steps, including the one for 32bit OS (I'm on XP, but have 4 gigs of ram installed).
Using LAA seems to cause CAW to crash before even loading up my world. It gives me this error: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
Moments later I got a blue screen crash. Now even though I've reinstalled CAW I'm getting that error, though the blue screen hasn't re-appeared.
My boot.ini looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /3GB
Monty:
I was busy planning my New York/Los Angeles/New Jersey/San Diego/Brooklyn/Beverly Hills uber-city, and I got to a stage where I had to EIG to add some parks, apartments and subways.
I added a few apartments, saved successfully, exited, then when I tried opening the world in CAW, I kept getting "Unable to load file" errors. Then I tried opening the backups. Unable to load file. Then I tried opening my manual backups. Unable to load file. Unable to load file. Unable to load file. Unable to load file. Lost a SHITLOAD of urban planning. I've got the latest version of the game, and I have the Generations version of CAW (It's the only version that doesn't constantly tell me that my game needs to be updated, when it is, whenever I try starting it)
I have a feeling that as soon as I solve this problem somehow it'll come back again because of the sodding shovelware expansions and shitty updates every 5 minutes.
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