Seasons & lot corruption
jsalemi:
Quote from: katenigma on 2007 March 27, 21:58:38
I'm having problems with Parties and a HUGE memory leak. The game will increasingly use more RAM as it goes along anyway, but I tried having a party twice yesterday.
Huh -- that may explain my recent crash. I had a toga party going on a greek lot with 7 or 8 sims participating, and it was going pretty well. Then it started snowing, and seconds later I got the stuttering sound, tiny blue screen, and a complete crash to reboot. The greek house was fine when I went back in (fortunately I had saved not long before the party) and played out the rest of the day without the party ok. But a memory leak would explain the crash.
kryptmoon:
This may seem crazy but I had the same problem with a lot that never gave me problems before. I had only 3 orchard trees and about 12 garden plants. I could'nt understand why my lot was dragging during the day and I could barely move across the lot at night when they were asleep.(fast mode) It was summer, no snow, no rain nothing out of the usual. I thought maybe I had a build up of invisible characters on the lot as I just tried for garden club membership which brought a host of members to inspect.(maybe they did'nt leave properly, I thought). I tried lowering my graphics options etc. and could'nt figure it out. It was'nt until the fall season was almost over and I had already harvested my garden plants I started to remove the LADYBUGS from the lot and put it into my inventory.(after all I did'nt need any more until I replanted in the spring again. Altogether I had 15 on the lot.3 for each orchard and the rest in the garden.I did'nt get pests at all during the spring and summer season)
It seriously stopped lagging after I removed 6 of them(from the garden)I guess with all the bugs flying busily around put more strain on the cpu. 15+ was overkill. I have a very high end computer and handle huge lots no problem with all options, so as you can imagine I was very worried why all of a sudden the huge lag on an ordinary lot.
You never said you had any ladybug houses so this may not even be it for you, but you did mention that the only thing that had changed was that you had added some orchard trees etc. Sometimes it's the stupid little things and not your comp. so I just thought I'd mention that I had this problem and it was solved by removing some. :)
sewinglady:
After installing seasons, I had my whole neighborhood go 'bad' on me.
Could not get any lots to open - if I clicked on them, the game crashed to the desktop.
This was a custom neighborhood that I had been working on for well over a year. I also had a lot of custom content...around 10,000 files.
My solution was to delete it all and start over. Neighborhood is gone, the custom content is gone and so far, so good...
Obviously, whatever was corrupting the lots was something that was on every single lot... and the only two things I can say for certain that I put on every single lot are Merola's Multi Painting and TwoJeff's College Adjuster. Since I can't play without them, I reinstalled both and neither have caused any problems on lots in my new neighborhoods...so it wasn't them...and I have an idea about what it might have been and where I got it from - not a hack either - possibly was a cloned plant or tree object.
Liss:
Thanks for the link to that memory optimizer thing, definitely going to try it. Since installing Seasons I've had a lot of spontaneous reboots and it's only while playing the game so I know that's the problem. Didn't I hear someplace that Windows XP reboots when it's had too much, as opposed to the Blue Screen of Death of old?
aussieone:
I've noticed that my game zooms along at triple speed just fine, UNTIL bugs start buzzing aroung the plants in the greenhouse, then it slows to a crawl.
As soon as I send a sim out to 'spray' or 'spray many' and the bugs are gone, then triple speed zooms along ata fast pace again.
Very strange!
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