Preparing for post-NL expansion packs
Yimmit:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 September 04, 03:10:31
I have both the college adjuster and the college clock in my game - the HCDU shows no conflicts, and since they are both lot specific objects, you just pick one of them for your lot.
Well that's good to know if I don't decide to go backwards. I feel like the installation of this EP has frakked up my game and was a mistake (as you have surely already guessed and I believe I have already said so). I see other people reading this topic, does no one have anything to add?
ZephyrZodiac:
I think they have a Mac section at TSR's forum, so it might be worth nipping over and having a look to see if there's been any discussion about the problem there.
Yimmit:
No discussion of the problem there. Various other problems. Tried all the solutions I could.
1) made games folder on hard drive to hold the sims2
2) repaired all disc permissions using utility program (none of the problem files involved the Sims anyway)
3) deleted all preference files relating to the sims (oh! the painful things that did to my graphics! it burns!)
4) deleted groups.cache (something I do periodically anyway)
I am truly an island. No one has ever had the problems I have been having. I guess I'll try Aspyr. From what I've experienced and from what I've read at TSR, they will not be helpful. At least this time I have a computer that can more than handle the game.
But I'm pretty convinced un-installing and demanding my money back is the best solution.
ZephyrZodiac:
It would seem so, although it seems a pity, there are some good things come with OFB, but if you can't play your game the way you want, then I guess there's no alternative.
Just one thought, have you tried playing it in an ordinary neighbourhood. If the problem is just Uni, then I think there is a way you could run a Uni/NL installation and an NL/OFB installation on the same computer and I've a feeling there's a tutorial on how to do it over at MTS2.
Yimmit:
Well the whole story is that I was happily zooming along with just NL, when I downloaded something that completely borked my game and I, in a fit of frustration, deleted my entire main neighborhood and everything I couldn't identify in my downloads folder. I couldn't figure out what the problem file was, because I was on a downloading rampage that day and we on mac don't have simPE (I resolve not to do that again, but NL on mac doesn't allow subfolders in the dl folder). So I tried starting from scratch. This lead to a problem Pescado was able to fix with one suggestion (sshack). But then Mom called and asked if I'd be able to come over and stay while she was recovering from surgery and it turned out I could.
So, I decided, maybe now is the time to upgrade to OFB, seeing as I'll have a couple of days off to fool around with things. I downloaded the OFB Directors cut and made sure I had the most up-to-date (OFB-wise) versions of Crammyboy and 2J's hacks as well as Ste's Risky Woohoo from MS2 before I left my house. Stopped by the Apple store on my way there and picked up OFB. I haven't played the new neighborhood long enough to be TOO attached. I feel like I've been testing the last couple of days. And it obviously hasn't gone well. Well, it was going just fine (with the exception of the phone hack) until I hit the soph/jun year threshold for the pioneers founding my new neighborhood. I didn't put in the whole DC, just the ones I had been using before.
But, as I said, I took everything out and tested vanilla and the game crashed. Stupid game.
[ETA: And I did register and start a new thread over at TSR to see if other people have had this. I'll update if there's any word]
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