I just installed again, No main problems without mods but the basement tool, i have no idea how to use.


EDIT: ...and there goes my game. I can no longer save it.

The 1.5/1.6 patch is a way to get people to buy The Sims 3 World Adventures. The new EP is required for the game to function properly after installing the new patch. There are files generated by the patch that I have no idea what they are used for (sims3.bad or .legacy on the end of some saves) and there seems to be a TravelDB file or something similar if I remember (Just uninstalled because of the patch) that is useless until WA is installed. And one person has reported that the patch causes loading times of about 20 minutes which might be because of the EP requirement.

Post in this thread if you encountered any problems because you installed the patch without World Adventures.

Nice

Where did you find that price? If it was at EBGames, they overcharge in Australia a LOT (I would know, i live in Australia)

The Sims 2 Remastered is another attempt from EA to take our money.

I have an Nvidia card and I found the 3D Settings for multiple programs (Thats how I forced V-sync on) but there was nothing about the brightness.

Ok, i'll go through my display drivers. If I can't fix it, well i'll just play it in Windowed mode.

I play most of my games with the brightness/gamma lower then the default as I have a LCD screen (Dell E207WPF, A lot of people say it has dodgy colouring like blacks and greys are too bright) but with The Sims 3, just before the game starts up the screen brightens and then the game starts and all of my changes for the contrast and gamma and brightness have almost no effect. Can anyone help me because in Windowed mode The Sims 3 looks really good (colouring anyway) but in fullscreen it seems too bright.

The piano bit is what I'm interested in. Like i said before, anything about hottubs at all?

I'm really not surprised. EA are really making mistakes. Like with Mansion and Garden Stuff, a lot of people wanted the one last patch to fix the remaining issues in The Sims 2 (Most fixed from mods here anyway) but they didn't do that. With their latest Need for Speed game (Undercover), They rushed out the downloadable content onto Xbox Live and kept us waiting for a patch with stuffed up, laggy, freezing games. Also, since they had weather almost ready for the base game of The Sims 2 i was half expecting EA to do it again. Since someone found some Piano code in the game files, anyone find anything about hot-tubs? Or is EA about to overcharge us for something that was in the base game for all the other Sims games?

Hmm...i'll try to copy this error. You know like placing lots everywhere in the chance that it might freeze then i'll investigate a bit. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Oh crap. How long did you wait until you tried to ctrl-alt-delete out of the game?

Are you sure it's the game freezing? Sometimes when I am placing Lots on The Sims 3 the game seems freezes up BUT it is actually still processing. I can NEVER CTRL-ALT-DELETE out of The Sims 2 & 3 when it is doing something very Processor or Memory intensive such as loading screens or placing lots. Or is it that the mouse cursor has frozen completely and won't move at all? And don't worry about the Process of placing lots takes forever with me too.

I completely agree. I have not experienced ANY problems except for the stupid NPCs standing around doing nothing on community lots. Stupid lying patch notes...I risked my working game just for that one glitch and it didn't make a difference. At least my game works. People shouldn't blame the patch(es) or EA for their problems. It's possibly their computer or conflicting mods and stuff.

The legal version, although the first time I installed it the game wouldn't run due to some registry issue which made my computer think it was a pirated copy.