New SimPE w/gender pref
SimsHost:
This is not good. It appears that the latest rev of SimPE might corrupt character files.
I just did a test: I edited Meadow Thayer's number of semesters at college in the latest rev of SimPE. It previously said "2" and I changed it to "8" with hopes of getting Meadow and her twins back to town right away so the kids could grow up.
I reloaded the game. Clicked on the button to see Meadow's current skill levels. The game crashed, hard. The Windows notice popped up: "The application has crashed and will now terminate." Repeated twice; this is consistent. (Silver lining: It makes for a very fast way to exit the game!)
Restoring from the backup restored the game to normal operation, so the smoking gun is clearly in SimPE's guilty paw. The only question is whether the corrupted file was the result of a software bug or an inept user; or perhaps both.
RainbowTigress:
Eww, not good. Below is what happened to me, which I posted at Quaxi's forum with nary a reply yet. The thread was started by Zythe, who had a question about not being able to edit characters with no character data. Quaxi responded a few times but didn't really understand the question I don't think. Zythe's final question has not been answered by Quaxi and neither has the post by me describing the same problem. And let me say that in the whole time I have been playing Sims, I have never had it crash my computer to the point where I had to do a hard reset. Not even a nice little informative message like SimsHost described dumping you back to the desktop. Nope, I was forced to wait through the whole computer bootup process as well after I finally realized that my computer was locked up nice and tight. At least I was able to isolate the problem.
"I am having the same problem. I even had a problem with my computer locking up during the game, not just the Sims program, but my whole computer and I had to hit the reset button. I was making changes to Ripp Grunt's memories, and I accidentally changed the subject of his Potty trained by memory. I am sure it was Lyla Grunt, but it just says Unknown. So I used the hex number from his other memories for walking and talking, thinking this would fix it. Well, everything seemed ok until I loaded up the game and played for a bit, and my computer locked up solid. I wasn't sure at the time, but I think he had been caught cheating, and the game was trying to write a memory for it. After booting up my PC and the game and trying again, he was making out with a girl, so I think this must have been a memory marker too, and my computer locked up tight. So after resetting this time, I thought about what I had recently done, and I remembered what I described above. I went in SimPE and changed the three memories for potty, talk, and walk to General Buzz instead, and I had no further problems. However, I would like it to correctly show Lyla Grunt as the one who taught him. This is just one example of the problems I've encountered with not being able to see the names of the dead characters."
dizzy:
Quote from: gillies on 2005 August 15, 06:06:37
Old versions back to 0.28 are available at sf.net -> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133134
If you get the newest one off sourceforge, you'll notice that the archive contains both "SimPe" and "SimPe Classic". I use Classic all the time, myself. Same old UI, but with newer functionality.
gali:
rainbow, the file was "returned to sender" (Elvis, lol) - it is 2 mega, and perhaps your server doesn't pass such big files.
Better go to the URL above and download it, or send me an Yahoo e-mail (they pass big files).
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: dizzy-two on 2005 August 15, 08:24:10
If you get the newest one off sourceforge, you'll notice that the archive contains both "SimPe" and "SimPe Classic". I use Classic all the time, myself. Same old UI, but with newer functionality.
I happen to favor the classic, myself. Because I'm old, and I have a long beard.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page