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ashmonster:
I've decided to come out of lurking, mostly due to angst. Since this latest bout of patches (1.10 and whatnot) my Sims 3 has been royally screwed. I can't install any of my downloads to my game, and the game won't even start. I get the EA logo spinning and then the game shuts down and goes back to my desktop. TS3 worked fine before the patches, everything installed fine, the game ran perfectly. I have legit copies of TS3, WA and Loft Stuff. What happened to my TS3?
EA, you suck. Your patches are like viruses.
Slymenstra:
Well first, can you start the game with no Mods or CC? If yes, then it is a You fail not a Sims Patch fail.
Make sure your framework is in the right place. Don't forget the d3dx9_31.dll needs to be moved.
I installed HEL, patched, moved my framework, updated Awesome Mod, and I can play just fine. All of my DLs are there and if I really wanted to, I could install with the launcher. So you must be doing something wrong somewhere. Start by looking at your framework and mods. And get the latest Awesome Mod.
Lots of people already talked about this in previous posts as well. Scroll down and READ!
Ellatrue:
Is it necessary to move the framework if you are just patching, and not installing High End Loft Stuff?
Easier:
I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem: If I am in full screen mode and I try to alt-tab out or push the windows key the game freezes and I have to reboot the computer because I cannot access task manager. If I'm in windowed mode and I attempt to open another application or merely click on a blank spot on the task bar the game becomes unresponsive and has to be ended via task manager. This is happening on both my desktop and laptop, which both run windows 7 and have nvidia graphics cards.
I foolishly updated to the latest EA patches 1.10/2.5/3.1. Prior to updating with the launcher I removed all framework, mods, 3booter and fpslimiter. I also deleted my *cache.package files and removed my saved games. The update went okay, with no errors. The game loads fine and appears okay with or without cc and mods if I do not try to leave the screen or click on anything other than the sims window.
There's one more odd thing occuring since this update. I normally direct the nvidia control panel to force alternate frame rendering so both my graphics cards are used. When I update TS3 I change it back to the default TS3 setting of single gpu, mostly so I can make sure CAS is working (CAS doesn't work well when I use both my graphics cards). Anyway, Nvidia control panel is telling me that the default is still a single gpu for ts3sp01.exe, however both cards are being used, even if I manually set it to use only one. My graphic card drivers are up to date. Nvidia control panel is up to date as well.
If I run with the base game and WA patched up to 1.10/2.5 the game runs fine and the screen does not freeze. I only began to have problems when I installed HELS updated to 3.1. Previously HELS ran with no problems.
Update: Installing HELS and the HELS patch without using EADM or the launcher corrected the problem with the screen freezing.
Slymenstra:
Quote from: Ellatrue on 2010 February 11, 22:00:20
Is it necessary to move the framework if you are just patching, and not installing High End Loft Stuff?
You only need to move anything if the patch created a new directory and exe like HELS does. This HELS stuff pack acts like an expansion pack. I have no idea about just patching because I installed HELS before patching. So if you are just patching and no new directory is created, then it stays put, I would assume.
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