Anything that reloads the lot will do it, not just going on vacation. I first started with playing with an Awesomized neighborhood, and I don't think I added any of my CC. I was playing with the Supercomputer and screwed something up, so I went back to the main menu and restarted, and blue lots. I started a completely new game, and I'm taking care to use save as into a new file every time I save. Been playing for a few RL days now and no trouble, but I haven't tried placing any CC yet, either. What I have is mostly cloned clutter; I really need to sift through it.

I usually download stuff I want into my Downloads folder, shut off the internet, then bring up the launcher to install things. But I'm a little particular about having those little icons next to my CC.

Do you have any mods? If they're not WA compatible yet, they could be causing it. If you use AM, you need to patch up to 2.2 because it's not compatible with 2.0. Try pulling out your mods folder and then run it. If it starts, add things back one at a time so you can see what works and what doesn't.

If you don't use mods, I have no idea. Might need to uninstall everything including previous saves and just start from scratch.

Move your framework out of the base folder and into the WA folder. If it's already in the WA folder, move it back. It seems to be pure voodoo which way will actually work.

There's a theory floating around that the .backups are what cause blue lot syndrome. You can read through the 90% of Sunset Valley is Gone thread for details. As for the .legacys, no idea. Move them to your desktop, and if it seems to have affected your save game, just put them back.

But don't you understand? With fake names and web-based emails, EA can put a stop to piracy for good! We're all doomed! DOOMED, I say!

Pretty sure it's useless now if you're not running the latest patch.

AM has it's own story engine. You can try using the configuration to disable it, but it's probably just that Twallan's story progression isn't compatible.

If you're running Awesomemod, you can try bringing up the console and typing fixall. If that doesn't work, try removing all your custom content and mods and see if that brings them back.

If your problem is just that you don't have cribs, you can use the search bar to find the Awesomized neighborhoods someone posted. Cribs in every house for Riverview and Sunset Valley, I think.

Is your framework in the base game folder or the WA folder? And did you make sure to download the most current patch? I think we're at 2.2 now, if you have WA.

...in the topic that say Awesomemod Beta Testing maybe?

It does, doesn't it? Let's see how badly I can screw up my computer by moving everything in my C:\ to pretty alphabetized folders. Those programmers didn't know what they were doing since they didn't do that in the first place anyway, right?

If you move your Saves folder, you'll lose your saves. Not in any permanent way, mind you. Putting it back will restore them. But it won't help with your Error Codes.

Storymode popups. I'm getting things like "Initializing romance preferences for Linda", only instead of a picture of Linda, I get that triangle caution sign looking thing.

The AM download isn't in the usual place since it's in beta. If you're trying to download from AWESOMEMOD! SHINY! WIP - Download & Announcements, then that's your problem. If you want to help testing, check out the Beta thread.

Is anyone else having a problem with fixall not clearing phantom butts? I have a few around town, but I'm not getting the popup that says it did anything. AM is the 11/23 5:39PM version.

I read somewhere, think it was Twallan's board, that doubling up doesn't seem to hurt anything yet, but that as time passes it could cause the game to become cluttered up and laggy.

AM in the WA folder (it just doesn't load in the base folder, sorry), I'm only getting a few hours in before it crashes. Maybe half a day? On a fresh save game, I have time to move a sim into a house, get a job, and skill at the library for a little while. If I play in 3X speed, it crashes in a couple minutes, but I get roughly the same amount of gameplay.

Is it spoiling after just a few hours, like if you had left it out? And are you using the top level fridge? Food is meant to spoil in the fridge after a while (as it does in real life) and then you have to clean it out. The most expensive fridge doesn't do that.

Okay, after a few hours of trying to get this to work, I have discovered that AM does not work unless I move the framework into the WA folder. I am legal base game and Reloaded EP, latest patch. No other CC or mods yet. Before I moved the framework, it just got to the loading screen and stopped. Not froze, just sort of stopped. It's loading okay now, though.

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Yeah, this. It was hanging. Lady Moiraine, try moving your framework into your WA folder.

Same. I downloaded from here and did not have to edit the registry at all.

Is AM the only thing you've got? If you've got other mods, make sure they're not also core mods.

Ah, sweet, thanks.

Newbie to arr'ing here. Can I someone recommend a good, freeware/shareware virtual drive creator? Yeah, I know, Daemon Tools (Google is my abusive butoccasionally helpful friend), but I can't afford it. Don't get me wrong; I've figured out how to find them. I just want to know which ones are actually good and won't cause my drive to stop working after the 30-day trials ends or something.

I told myself after Spore that I wasn't giving EA one more cent, and this time, I mean it.

Yes, please stop abusing the poor ellipses. It makes you sound like William Shatner, among other things.

On your grass blurring, does it tend to resolve itself after a while if you just watch it? When you scroll away from something, the game goes into low detail. I guess to save memory? And sometimes, when you scroll back to it, it takes a while for the game to finish its sandwich and notice that you need the high detail back. I think I heard in one of the other threads that WA is especially laggy at the moment, so that could be why you've never noticed before. I have entirely too much CC, so even in my base game, it happens all the time.