No Saving Post-EA Item Patch
J. M. Pescado:
Your guess is as good as mine. Can you see the saves in an unmodified game? If not, it would seem like the game is just plain broken. Honestly, your problems started when you allowed the game to talk to the Internet.
cobaltspectre:
I can see all of the saves up to the point I allowed the update for the store content in the Main Menu. I can see every save that I ever attempted in the Saves file.
As I said earlier, I'm not much of a technical wizard when it comes to this stuff-- I wouldn't even have any idea how to identify what I could read to teach myself how to prevent Sims 3 from communicating with the internet (and running), or otherwise operating the way that EA wants it to operate. The internet wasn't even generally available to the public for years after I graduated from law school.
I often wondered how so many people here could play this game for so long without their games breaking like mine always did; I suppose that knowing how to play without the game communicating with the internet is one reason. I reinstalled Sims 3 on Halloween after taking a year off due to bugs and constant needs to reinstall drove me to more stable games, and I'm already teetering on the fence about whether this is all just too much trouble. If an EA update can break my game this soon, my chances of getting to explore the full possibilities of the game seem well beyond remote. Is there anything like "Hiding Your Sims Game from EA for Dummies" out there? I know that I can't expect anyone to hold my hand; but, if someone without a B.S. in computer science can learn this stuff, I have to start somewhere, and I don't know where that is.
BattyCoda:
If you have an outbound-restrictive firewall, like ZoneAlarm, you can tell it to not let any Sims exes communicate outbound.
kissing_toast:
I have all EPs, SPs, and store content arr'd. I have never blocked any sims application from the internet and have never had any problems with saving or problems with the game in general. In my opinion most peoples problems here stem from trying to play on Macs, laptops, machines that don't meet the requirements, shitty graphic cards, or not enough RAM. Another thing I tend to see a lot of is that saves, after being played for so long, get bloated and corrupt. Least we forget the ever so popular "you're doing it wrong."
Capitaine Marie:
Quote from: kissing_toast on 2011 December 25, 17:50:36
Least we forget....
That's "lest" we forget.
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