New graphical glitches
SaraMK:
Lorelei, have you made sure that this problem is happening in all neighborhoods, not just that particular one?
NeighborhoodManager appears to be safe to delete, and will regenerate itself, but I don't think that file does very much, so I doubt it would help the problem. I assume you already tried purging the usual suspects, like groups.cache?
As far as keeping the families, I would clone the sims rather than attempt to extract them. Even if you extracted them, you would have to sever ties with other sims they know, wipe their memories, probably wipe out their family tree... so you might as well just extract them and rebuild them from scratch.
As for the houses, I don't know. How big is the neighborhood? Maybe you could zip it up, upload it, and ask someone to package up the houses for you. What happens when you randomly click around your black screen -- do any houses become highlighted or pop up a description of the house?
Lorelei:
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 March 13, 03:16:52
Lorelei, have you made sure that this problem is happening in all neighborhoods, not just that particular one?
Yep! A custom lot showed (with no flyover panoramic) but was slooooow to update and then froze and went black screen. Other lots were black from the get-go. Some of the custom lots did black screen while loading prior to this glitch, but resolved themselves within a few seconds.
NeighborhoodManager appears to be safe to delete, and will regenerate itself, but I don't think that file does very much, so I doubt it would help the problem. I assume you already tried purging the usual suspects, like groups.cache?
Yep. And just uninstalled / reinstalled and replaced 0002 and 0003 dna fix files.
As far as keeping the families, I would clone the sims rather than attempt to extract them. Even if you extracted them, you would have to sever ties with other sims they know, wipe their memories, probably wipe out their family tree... so you might as well just extract them and rebuild them from scratch.
I'd be okay with that, but I can't package what I can't see. Hoping reinstall will fix glitches, though.
As for the houses, I don't know. How big is the neighborhood? Maybe you could zip it up, upload it, and ask someone to package up the houses for you. What happens when you randomly click around your black screen -- do any houses become highlighted or pop up a description of the house?
Pretty big, actually. Yep, a description pops up, but then an graphical artifact sticks on the screen. Couldn't enter lot.
cwykes:
Quote from: KGDebus on 2007 March 12, 22:01:12
To save your sims, try packaging the lots...then when you reinstall them, only choose the lot and the family. BE CERTAIN you don't load in any of the extra people who might be along for the ride, though. (I borked a favorite lot because my Sim had invisibile friends.)
Just to say - that's bad advice KGDeBus - you need to clean up in SimPE after that. Just deleting the character files for the friends with cleaninstaller, just means your sims have relations with unknowns instead and unlinked memories - taking those into the new hood is a VBT.
Lorelei - I really feel for you and I think you need awesome advice, rather than anything I can contribute. But here goes anyway - treat with caution!
Don't start deleting your neighborhoods etc before you're sure the problem is actually in there! If you move your whole Sims2 folder to desktop and start the game, the game will generate a whole new set of files. If the black screen is still happening after that, you can conclude that the problem is not your neighborhoods. If you are sure the black screen is NOT happening then, the problem is somewhere in your Sims 2 folder. Put the sub-folders back bit by bit and see when the problem comes back.
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