Has anyone else broken their game as badly as this?
Keyan:
I was kinda upset because yesterday I just completed a really nice house, complete with a panic room to hopefully stop the annoying: "There is a fire in my house and instead of staying outside I'll run in, point at it and do my panic dance!" I'll try the repeated attempts, did you go completely out of the game every time?
Grimma:
My recent learnings through terrible hardship and copious testing, let me show you them.
Exactly the same borkenness commenced after patch 1.8, by a problem with the Riverview install. All vacation hoods plus Sunset Valley was affected by the Riverview shell-like blue overlay, only Riverview itself looked normal.
After copious testing, installing/re-installing, cursing and threats, I found out the following:
This problem is caused by
a. Installing Riverview through the launcher
b. Extracting Riverview packages and installing all of them in Mods\Packages
c. Extracting Riverview packages and including them all in an archive
d. Doing anything else that is stupid, retarded, idiotic or fail.
The source of the problem is the package 0xd535a1c25e231c854401ac15e7ae1bb2.package This seems to be the Riverview info-type file. When I delete this file (but leave the rest) or the archived .package containing that file, everything works fine except that Riverview has no description, just a series of numbers.
So, to get Riverview to work and all Riverview CC to show up in-game:
1.) Paste a copy of Riverview.world (either from an earlier game, "Installed worlds" folder or from the dbc store stuff thread) into [path where Sims 3 is installed on your PC]\The Sims 3\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds
2.) Extract files from Riverview.sims3pack with the Delphytool for that purpose
3.) Delete above-mentioned file
4.) Copy other .packages to Mods\Packages.
5.) In "My documents\Electronic arts\The Sims 3", delete the files in the folders DC Backup, Installed worlds and World Caches
6.) ???
7.) PROFIT!
Riverview won't have a description, but you'll have the rest of your neighbourhoods and vacation hoods (and saves) back. I'd say tentatively that including these files (without the BAD BAD FILE) in a package archive seems to work as well. IF YOU DIDN'T SAVE while in borked mode, your saved-games should be fine (mine was).
Edited to add forgotten infos.
mildlydisguised:
Quote from: Grimma on 2010 February 02, 10:25:27
The source of the problem is the package 0xd535a1c25e231c854401ac15e7ae1bb2.package This seems to be the Riverview info-type file. When I delete this file (but leave the rest) or the archived .package containing that file, everything works fine except that Riverview has no description, just a series of numbers.
I have encountered the same problem too. I would be interested if someone, whose Riverview displays normal info and doesn't overlay on their other hoods, would post their copy of the 0xd535a1c25e231c854401ac15e7ae1bb2.package for those of us who have the bork to try out. Not only do I have no descriptions in Riverview, but my sims are named World/Riverview/Sims:FirstName World/Riverview/Sims:Last Name, which irritates me no end.
Edit - Problem now solved for me by using the decrapifier. Riverview installed and descriptions intact.
Roobs:
Hm. I think the way I managed to fix this was by downloading the .world file from the .dbc torrent thread, and putting it in the same folder as the Riverview.sims3pack from the storeshit thread. There seems to be a decrapified version of it hovering out there anyway.
Writin_Reg:
According to a post by Inge Jones over on the Sims 3 site just a couple days ago, some tool she and her husband Peter made for I believe she said TSR is responsiblie for all the blue lot problems in the game. She said they notified EA and advised the Guru's to stop wasting their time in finding a solution as they have the answer already. Apparently anything bluelotted is a total phail and must be discarded. Anything that used that tool to create any items for the game will cause bluelots - so that all that CC also apparently must be discarded.
Other than that I know nothing else about the issue and suggest you speak with Inge or Peter.
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