Game Crashing, Sims 2 Exception Log attached
nikita:
I can't load any lots in my custom neighborhood. It's not really a custom neighborhood but I've removed all the Sims that used to live in it and populated it with my own Sims.
I just installed Pets, all went fine. I loaded Pleasantview and played around with the Pleasants. Then I closed out and put in my own neighborhood and tried to load a lot and it crashed. I've run the neighborhood through CPI and there are no irregularities. I don't know what it is. I've used a backup neighborhood to see if the same thing happened and it did.
Worst off, there's no error log. Well there is one but the .txt file is empty and the other file is a .mdmp file, whatever that is.
So I pretty much cannot play my game unless I'm going to start completely from scratch which would suck ass and make me very mad.
edited: I uninstalled and reinstalled and the same thing happened but this time there was an error log (attached).
J. M. Pescado:
Sims exception logs are of no use, they are hardcode problems that cannot be fixed.
V:
That is the same problem that I have had since I installed Glamour Life. I routinely package new lots or new families created in CAS after they have moved onto their new lots since I have no idea of any other way of saving CAS sim families.
After I installed Glamour Life I installed some of my old lots and they did not work and they shut down my city. After trying many different things I finally just uninstalled Glamour Life and then reinstalled it... but before I let the game launch the first time I went in and moved all my backed-up neighborhoods into the ea games\sims 2\neighborhoods folder (folder names are paraphrased here - and I followed the standard "moving files" protocol, etc). That solved my problem and the packaged lots that I had placed in my game worked fine at that point. It did not solve the problem of not being able to install packaged lots, though. For some reason they did not seem to be updated.
So I still have a problem. Maybe someone awesome could help me. I have not yet launched Pets after installing it because I don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall as soon as I want to use some of my packaged lots. So I moved all my packaged lots from all over my computer and have put them in the ea games\sims 2\packagedlots folder. Do I need to "install" them all before I start my game? or will they work simply by dint of being in that file? I mean are they auto updated along with my neighborhood files? And if I install them, should I first move them to a different folder from "packagedlots"? I seem to remember someone saying that.
I have been all over the internet since yesterday looking for the answer to this question. I don't remember having a problem like this way back when I installed OFB. But that was a while ago, so I may have forgotten.
Thanks for any help you can pass along. I am obviously confused, but I hope I explained myself well enough.
cwykes:
Quote from: nikita on 2006 October 20, 02:47:37
I just installed Pets, all went fine. I loaded Pleasantview and played around with the Pleasants. Then I closed out and put in my own neighborhood and tried to load a lot and it crashed. I've run the neighborhood through CPI and there are no irregularities. I don't know what it is. I've used a backup neighborhood to see if the same thing happened and it did.
After OFB there was a long techie thread about the correct way to add EPs and patches etc. A lot of it was over my head as I'm no techie, but I came out of it with this understanding:-
When you install an EP, you need to leave your hoods in place so the EP install can "fix" them if it wants to. Back them up of course, but leave them in place. If you have backups you have nothing to lose by doing that and everything to gain. I'm not clear if that's what you did in the uninstall/re-install. If not, uninstall again, make sure they are in place, re-install and try again. If that doesn't work, that really sucks!
Quote from: vtuggle on 2006 October 20, 16:16:20
After I installed Glamour Life I installed some of my old lots and they did not work and they shut down my city. ..... I don't remember having a problem like this way back when I installed OFB. But that was a while ago, so I may have forgotten.
If they were made with old EPs and won't load in your current game, I think you are basically stuffed though I hope somebody awesome knows otherwise. I can't answer the question about package lots though I want to know the answer too!
However, I had two packaged lots from base game that wouldn't install after I added OFB. I forget if they crashed or what, but I managed to salvage them because it turned out to be a custom content issue not a game problem. Here's how in case you want to see if it's a CC issue... I opened the lotpackage with cleaninstaller and tried to save it with another name, leaving out old hacks or whatever. This kept failing. I worked out from the message where CI had got to in the list of content. Then I opened CI again, unchecked the offending bit of CC from the package and tried to save again. After about 4-5 go's (incompetence), I'd identified 2 bits of CC that CI didn't like any more. When I saved the lotpackage without those offending items and things like old hacks, it installed in the game fine.
nikita:
My problem is a lot more severe than that. I uninstalled Pets and put a backup of my neighborhood in the game and the same thing happened. I just played the game a few days ago before installing Pets with no problems at all. So now even with OfB, my lots still crash. >:(
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