Jump bug, even with the fix
ZephyrZodiac:
Do you get the jump bug when a particular, affected sim, sits at a table or on a sofa with another sim, tries to call a sim on the phone, or tries to relax on a bed with another sim or join another sim in the hot tub? If not, it doesn't sound like the jump bug so much as a screwy download.
Motoki:
It's likely it did modify that file as it's one of the main ones, though I can't say for certain.
Also, this may not be the same exact jump bug as the infamous one from a year ago as that one related specifically to chatting whether it be directly or while eating, relaxing on a bed, in the hottub etc. Basically, what caused it was sims who had a whole mess of memories and when the game would check them for the purpose of chatting it would run into the dreaded too many iterations and reset the sim. The game has a failsafe built in where anytime a sim runs into a serious problem it will reset that sim which is what causes the jumping. You can actually force this situation yourself by turning on boolprop testingcheatsenabled true and shift clicking on the sim, doing force error and then reset (it will not cause any major problems to do this, but it will make them jump out of any actions they may have been in and resets the sim).
There could really be any number of reasons why a sim or sims are jumping and it basically just means the game ran into some problem it couldn't handle for whatever reason and ended up reseting the sim. Having Pescado's chat fix should prevent the chat bug from ever happening, as should the Maxis patch, but that certainly doesn't mean that something else couldn't cause the jumping.
I guess you could turn on boolprop testingcheatsenabled true and have them do the action that normally makes them jump and then look through the log files or post them here and see if anyone can spot something that might be the cause.
ZephyrZodiac:
I know I definitely have downloads that cause jumping and resetting, often I know exactly which item it is that does it, and if it happens too often, that item has to go! I've got one or two chairs, for instance, which, when a sim finishes their meal, they jump from the chair and lose their queue, but unless it happens a lot I leave the chair until I'm ready to give them a new dining set.
(What I really hate is objects cloned from larger ones where most of the original is invisible but you can't click on things which are visible without doing a 90degree turn! And I've just installed a bed which doesn't just bleed through the wall - it sticks right out! OK in an enormous bedroom where you can stick it in the middle, I suppose!)
However, to return to the point, it might be worth replacing some of the downloaded objects in the house to see if the jumping stops (objects that you haven't used in any other house first). If your sims can't afford to replace things, I think this is a time when it's definitely ok to kaching!
uaintjak:
Thanks for the advice, folks.
Ok, well, in retrospect, it doesn't appear that it is the old, infamous Jump Bug. They aren't jumping out of bed or anything like that. Stuff is dropping out of their cues...I'll tell them to do some things, and they'll sort of "reset" and everything will fall out of their cues. I tell them to do it again, and they toddle off and do it just like they're supposed to. I thought it was the original infamous jump bug because the one time I actually SAW it happen was the time I described above, where I had three sims playing with the rabbit head, told two more to join them, and the ones playing with the rabbit all "jumped out" of the action.
I'll play with boolProp on, and see if that can shed any light on the subject to those of you more knowledgable than I (which I'm guessing is pretty much everyone, at this point).
Also, I should point out, I don't have ANY downloads, except hacks from this site, and the Maxis-released ones, and the teleporter painting, and the move-in-all hack. Oh, and the stuff stays in the house when you move out hack. But no recolors, no new meshes, no make-up, hair, skin, nothing like that.
ZephyrZodiac:
The alienware computer can cause odd things to happen. And maybe you just tried to get too many sims around the rabbit head - it may have a maximum.
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