Insane Fix to make Riverview work.
coyote:
Ok I have worked on this for 6 hours. Gave up and drank 2 pitchers of beer. On my third pitcher I found a solution. I joined just to tell you all and give something back. Been a guest lurker for some time. It is not a pretty one but here it is.
First I am patched arr'ed style up to current 1.8/2.3 (DVD drive is broke in the lappy. Too poor to fix)
This solution might work with some adjustments to just a straight TS3 without WA. I am not going to test it because I am a bit too drunk and need to tell you all the solution first before last call.
1. In the user doc folder,
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\
go to the "InstalledWorlds" folder you will see a file "Riverview.world".
Move it to the folder,
C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds\
2. Next I deleted a folder "WorldCaches". You might just delete the files in it for it to work.
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\WorldCaches\
Warning I am not sure what CAW will do or where. This folder might be used by it.
The two files I found in it is.
Riverview_objects.package
Riverview_sims.package
Edit: These will be remade after running sims. However, they do have to be deleted the first time. It must have info on where the world file is located and sims is too stupid to fix the files itself.
Edit: Skip step 3 if you have a dbc file with riverview included.
3. Use Delphy Sims3Pack Multi Installer to extract the packages from the Riverview.Sims3Pack
The addy is http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364038
I put the .packages in
C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\Mods\Packages\Riverview\
Make sure you have framework. If you don't have it, how do you run AwesomeMod?? Look up that mod for more info.
Make sure your Resource.cfg is correct right mine looks like this. There is many other flavors of this file.
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Priority 500
DirectoryFiles Mods/Files/... autoupdate
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Mods/DCC/*.dbc
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So far I can save a game and then load it again. No crashing. or anything. Works like a dream. Like it is supposed to.
I am sure someone will come up with a better solution but then again I couldn't come up with anything that worked to replace the dbc solution for other CC.
I don't even play the game I just got into it to make my sisters game better :D
But I have modded other games and this was the same old freakout patch crap.
Peace.
I will watch for info if it works for other people. However, in a little bit I will be too pissed to walk.
coconnor:
Good for you! Hope you are having a wonderful time of it! If you want to fix your sister's custom content not showing up, go to the thread on the new patch in "The Horror, The Horror" and try some of the solutions there. It's working for most of us with the cc issue.
coyote:
Did the CC fix using the .dbc solution a while ago. I had that fix asap as posted and tested all the content. Santa hats and all.
Arrg'ed content for christmas. The patch came out the day I finished a lovely sorted of sim3packs and a index.htm to view the images of the packages. It brought a tear to my eye. Then EA broke christmas for me. F-ing grinches.
Edited: due to beer
EndlessSims:
Well I followed exactly what you said, and now I will try this and I will be back to let you know one way or another! Thank you!
Good News On My Computer it worked and all the downloads that were instaled except the santa hats and the braided pig tails will not get instaled! I hope to have those 2 items to get installed!
;D ;D ;D I am happy you did very good! Thank you for this insane way to fix things lol
You are the best I guess drinking all that beer did it? lol Just kidding ;D ;D
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