If you REALLY want to use Launcher to install Sims3Pack with 1.8/2.3
Capitaine Marie:
My game is running just fine, too; everything's showing up, no crashing. I think I'll wait and see if I can install new store content when it comes out.
Quote from: GnatGoSplat on 2010 January 29, 19:58:15
I've decrapified and reinstalled all the sims3packs and saved games on my wife's PC since her game is full of crap (random missing hair, random sims going invisible).
Did doing that break your wife's saved games? I'd really hate to start over. :-\
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: GnatGoSplat on 2010 January 29, 19:58:15
What does decrapify actually do? I've decrapified and reinstalled all the sims3packs and saved games on my wife's PC since her game is full of crap (random missing hair, random sims going invisible). Not sure yet if it's fixed anything. Mine has been fine so I haven't tried it. Decrapify and s3rc also doesn't like filenames with spaces. Thought I'd mention that in case it's an easy fix.
It's highly technical, but basically, EAxis changed something in the 1.8 patch that made certain resource IDs invalid. Decrapify fixes this in all the files, and corrects all the bad references. Current version should fix the spaces thing.
ksinclair:
Is this still working for all new patches or was it just 1.8/2.3? There are so many threads here, it's a little overwhelming. The patches don't seem to be helping anyone's game but they are needed for new store content right? Plus it seems most modders are keeping up with the patches. Did the launcher actually get fixed in any of the new patches?
markjs:
Quote from: GnatGoSplat on 2010 January 25, 19:17:03
Quote from: Capitaine Marie on 2010 January 24, 21:45:02
All store content is showing in the working Launcher; but when scrolling through it, the Launcher freezes repeatedly. Any suggestions?
It does unfreeze itself if you're patient enough, right? I did have the problem of it being pathetically slow, freezing at times, and unfreezing. It was an exercise in patience. It does that with 1.7/2.2 as well so I just wrote it off as Launcher is inefficient, slow, and just plain sucks.
The "freeze" is related with the specific routine that forces the Launcher to read each .package inside the .DBC file to show the thumbnail of the file, and it takes time if you have a big list.
If you find the files you want to remove and select them, and press to uinstall them, the Launcher will run TS3.exe/TS3EP01.exe/TS3SP01.exe in background ready to read the .DBC files and remove the specific files you want.
Still, if the Launcher's routine has not yet done with all the thumbnails you browsed through the list, it will stays running it.
Self-experience, I had 3.XGb of CC installed through the Launcher, and to browse that huge list was indeed a patience test, with so few categories to get what I look for, I had to browse the whole list, select all the items, that I did in about 15min just looking, Ihad to browse until the end to find those I wanted, when I finnaly put them to uinstall.
The problem was that I would have to wait until the Launcher read all the files, so if you were mad the way I was, just kill the Sims3Launcher.exe process and let the game .exe do the rest of the job.
Quote from: ksinclair on 2010 February 15, 08:03:04
Did the launcher actually get fixed in any of the new patches?
NO.
I agree with the conspiracy against this aspect. It may be proposital. I can't see where would be an so complex error related with a bad made patch that could do this and that they can't find a way to "fix" it.
Being proposital or no, EA has a very famous reputation with their bad programmer's. Really, I think they doesn't even pass their patches through QA before.. What kind of company do that, well I kind of get used to it anyway..
Tia:
I have High End stuff does this matter with trying to get the Launcher to install stuff? This is still a tad complicated.
Edi: I got it to work but I did things different I used my WA as the test working launcher. But I am still not sure what I do after I reinstall High End Stuff :-\
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