Application quits with NL director's cut installed
Chafe:
Hey guys. Got a new machine so I figured I'd install the sims 2 again and see how it ran. The only expansions I own are Uni and NL (everything is patched as well). Installed everything and patched and things were fine. Found the Director's Cut for NL here:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/nl/
I used moreawesomethanyou-nl.zip. Created a downloads folder and extracted everything to it. Enabled custom content and when I try to play I get the application crashed and has gotta quit error. From reading the boards I thought this might be a driver issue (nvidia 7600 GT) but when I tried to roll back to 77.77 I get told that it's not the right driver for my hardware, so I went back to the latest one. After uninstalling and reinstalling everything and testing a bit at a time I started to suspect the hacks. Sure enough, as soon as I delete the downloads folder everything is running fine again. Just wondering if anyone has run into this issue and knows which file might be causing this to happen. I'll likely start putting things in one at a time tomorrow to see if I can find which one is the culprit. Either that or it's entirely possible I'm doing something wrong with the extraction (just tossing everything into the downloads folder).
Oh yeah for test purposes I was using Pleasentville, with the standard Downtown and Sim State Uni attached to it. I was using a create a sim at Sim State when the issues started popping up. When I uninstalled and reinstalled and tested things one at a time I was just using Don Lothario. I'd just play for a few minutes and made sure he could safely nail one of his ladies and then would move on to the next install. If there's any other information I can provide please let me know. It's 1:40 AM so I apologize for how disorganized this post might be.
J. M. Pescado:
There have been reported CTD issues due to NL engine bugs with some items, so nothing's probably unusually wrong with your game. Try to isolate exactly which items are doing this, as I can't seem to find a dedicated NL tester. At what point does it crash?
witch:
My son's machine is still only NL & Uni. Unfortunately my big PC dumped it's registry last week and I've been re-installing all weekend. I was going to check the sleepclock this weekend, now it'll be next. When testing, do you want the game to be patched? Forgot to do that when I installed.
Chafe; I found sleepclock crashed the game to the desktop, but JM has since updated that.
J. M. Pescado:
Go ahead and patch, yes. Run the full Director's Cut piece by piece and let me know which ones produce crashage and where.
Lana B:
I have only Uni and NL. I have had to remove 4 or 5 DC hacks which caused various crashes.
dramafix and woohooltwfix being the worst for me with instant crash to desktop. I had a list for a while of other hacks which caused problems with specific actions but seem to have deleted it.
I am quite happy to help out with NL issues.
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