Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
skandelouslala:
Quote from: Invisigoth on 2007 September 07, 17:55:54
Quote from: SnootCB on 2007 September 07, 17:46:24
How did you get your firewall to block it?
I disabled the launcher and I haven't had the game make any attempts to access the internet. However, if you want to use a firewall to prevent the game from accessing the net it is quite simple. I use Zone Alarm. Whenever a program tries to get online I get a little pop up that details which program is trying to use the internet and I can select "accept" or "deny". There is also a box to tick so that it will remember the selection and not ask you again (so I don't get a pop up every time my browser tries to use the internet). Zone Alarm has a very simple, user friendly interface. If you've managed to figure out how to get online you shouldn't have any problem figuring out how to use Zone Alarm, IMO.
Thanks I am going to try this, do you use the free one or the "free" one that you get if you sign up for one of their offers?
I am so disappointed by the lag I am getting. And I have never had any troubles. I seriously think it is the game trying to phone home b/c they'll be times when it seems to be up to speed and then like everything almost freezes. And I'm bummed that it appears that bypassing the launcher doesn't work.
From what little I have actually got to play.. the lots for the vacation hoods seemed really crowded with objects which could be something else causing some of my lag. I really never play with so much stuff community lots but then again, I've been known to cram my residential lots insanely full and haven't had problems, so I really don't wish to blame all this lag on my computer yet.
Keltobin:
Quote from: KLGFCG on 2007 September 07, 22:24:53
Is it just me or is weather in hyperdrive on vacation (I haven't actually played any "normal" lots so it may be there, too)?
I noticed this also. It seems as though the weather is much worse. I have almost constant hail on Twikki.
I have had another interesting "feature." Apparently, once you book a honeymoon, you get it with every marriage. After the traumatic death of his first wife, my sim remarried and immediately went off on the same Twikki honeymoon to the same hotel as he had with his first wife (I purposely hadn't booked one since the child was about to grow up the next night and I figured I would just take a vacation then). Next thing you know he'll be trying to get his new bride to wear his dead wife's clothing.
I've had less lag since redirecting the game to bypass the launcher, so thanks for that tip.
MutantBunny:
Just in case someone wants to look: I think the 'phonehome' is a rundll32.exe- -if you look at your taskmanage.
I booted up with the launcher (by mistake --my first try at changing the shortcut pointer failed for some reason) and saw that pop up on my taskmanager. Then I switched the shortcut (again and then applied this time and then saved and then checked it) to the EP6.exe and no rundll popped up. Those suffering the lag, might want to take a quick look at their taskmanager.
witch:
Well so much for that bright idea. I put BUY in all my hotel rooms. Works fine as long as witch is with a family on holiday and all the rooms are occupied by my playables, but as soon as she visits an hotel on her own, the BUY controller spazzes out* and spams the place with, 'you cannot use this if you haven't checked into the room' messages. It won't stop, even after the action to use the bathroom or BUY is cancelled.
So anyway, bathrooms aside, I decided to make witch a couple of nice young men to play with. She couldn't ring and invite them on holiday. So they bought a holiday home and went there. She can't ring them except to talk, she can't invite them over or on a date. (She can have dates but only with the locals). If she goes to a community lot it's chocka full with fugly Maxis sims, no sign of visiting spunks.
DISSATISFIED!
ETA: *Actually it won't be the BUY controller's problem, it'll be the townies occupying the rooms and making them unavailable. I'll try APO - maybe if I ban witch from all rooms except the one she chooses, the BUY will recognise this.
Angie:
I played BV for the first time last night and used the launcher. I noticed periodic lagginess; there was a tremendous lag when my first sim got a sun tan and the game regenerated her portrait.
I'll try bypassing the launcher, but for me lagginess is normal after installing a new EP. I just figured the game was spawning new townies or something.
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