Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
Zazazu:
Quote from: MutantBunny on 2007 September 08, 04:34:51
Control your vacation friends with the pet cheats. Friends are pets you know....
The entire problem is that she's not on the UI. Otherwise I could use the petcheat. From what I'm reading, friends you take on vacation show up in the pet spot on the UI. Houseguests aren't.
Invisigoth:
Quote from: skandelouslala on 2007 September 08, 01:40:39
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'm using the actually free one. I don't have money to burn spending 65 bucks at the gap to get a "free" firewall.
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 September 08, 04:21:54
Lag: Just an observation. I was playing with my firewall settings. I noticed that the Sims 2, each EP, Bodyshop, Homecrafter, and a couple Sims-related sub programs were set to always allow (no entry for EP6...just the launcher, which I'd blocked before and the game worked). Well, there's no reason that anything but EALink needed the 'net, right? So I blocked 'em all. Game wouldn't load. I just got a never-ending black screen. Putting all back to allow fixed it.
Now why would it not work unless one of the EPs or the basegame is trying to dial home and it's getting pissed at my firewall blocking it?
Strange, mine isn't throwing a fit about being blocked.
Another note: Since I added most of my 1 gig of CC the lag has increased, but it's not too bad. Another thing to help with the lag is to go into your processes and set TS2ep6.exe to high priority. Don't do this for a ton of different programs or you might crash your computer, but one or two (depending on your RAM and how much RAM each program you set to high uses) at a time is safe. With 512 MB of RAM I only set TS2 to high priority.
skandelouslala:
So can anyone tell me how many access attempts they normally get with this EP trying to access the net? B/c umm...I have been playing for like an hour and a half...NOTHING else running that should be trying to connect. And I have nearly 400 attempts. You've got to be kidding me if this is all coming from the game. Insanity. But of course since it is blocked, my game seems to be running now at normal speed. And at a home lot, it is almost running flawlessly like it does with almost no CC.
Right now, I can't say if I am thrilled or not with my purchase of this EP. The whole "The Sims phone home" thing seriously has put a huge damper on the game for me.
Of course I was expecting with this EP as well that there would be a lot of waiting while lots load, but it is a tad more annoying than I expected. But I do enjoy all the things there are for sims to do, so that's a plus.
I really adore the beach lots. Hell that was almost worth the 30 bucks for me. I have long been improvising in creating beach lots and now I don't have too.
Karen:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but....how exactly do you bypass the launcher? I won't have the game for a couple more days and I would really like to not have to bother with the launcher from the beginning.
dusty:
Karen: you just create a shortcut to the EP6.exe, and launch the game from there.
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