Well, here's one of the logs... not quite sure how to read it to find out what's wrong. If anyone can give me a hand, I'd appreciate it.

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Tell me about it.  Even if the error popup would give me a clue, that'd be a big help.    

An ATI Diamond Viper Radeon x1600 Pro with the latest drivers.   I don't have quite enough RAM to make Sims 2  perfectly happy, but 512 is okay as long as my lots aren't too big and I don't cram them too full of pointless crap.

I'm doing everything exactly the same as I have been while playing the game for the last six months or so.  But just for the sake of argument, I tried it anyway: no change.  I even updated my video drivers.  No change. Well, after wrestling with the goddamn things for three hours because my computer didn't want to recognize them.    I updated DirectX, too.  I've got plenty of resources, and everything was working fine up until Seasons. I think if it was a resource problem it would actually say something to that effect on the error message instead of giving me a blank one, and would make at least an attempt at loading the game itself.

Yeah, installed Seasons just fine... worked great.  Go to open the game, the opening movie shows up, plays through, and when it ends and the load screen pops up I get a blank error message with 'okay' to click.  I click, it crashes to desktop.  I try again, in both windowed and fullscreen.  I uninstall my entire game and all the packs, reinstall just the base game and Seasons.  Same thing happens.

Anybody got a clue? This doesn't sound like a driver issue... nothing's loading enough for the drivers to get put to work yet.

How do I go about de-corruptificating SWAFs?

Nah, that's just a generic 'woohoo in bed' want. I'm going to be having him cheat on his lady-friend soon.  She's a Fortune Sim, he's a Romance Sim... it can only end in tears. Or cow plants.

Huh.  I'm getting an "INF Error: Video driver not found" popup.

<i>Although if the ones it shipped with work, you may want to hold off. Brand new ones usually come out on the 20th of the month. </i>

That would be great... if I could get DirectX to work at *all* without them.  X-P  Thus the desperate hunt. :-)  No DirectX compatibility=no Simsage.

I recently upgraded my computer... and I mean recently as in "I've only gotten it to work in the last 24 hours or so"... and I can't find any drivers for the Diamond Viper x1600 Pro.

I've checked driverguide.com and the company website.  Anybody else got any ideas?

Yeah, I read up on it and kept all the sets.  Though, the thought just occurred to me... I have a seperate folder for skins (default and not)... I wonder if that might be causing the problem....



Nah, I keep my skin files nicely segregated, and the only new defaults I have are these, an alien, and a vampire.  I'm pretty careful about that sort of thing.

I used SimPE in the approved manor with that little engine that makes default skins out of customs for you.  Now I'm getting two-tone Sims with neck-lines and invisible lower halves (which is actually kind of amusing when a Sim that's glitching is streaking).  Sometimes the skins will behave as they should, other times they won't, and I can't seem to figure out a rhyme or reason to why they decide to act as they do.  Is there anything I can check to see what part's screwing up?

(In other words... HELLLLLLLLLLP!   )

Is a mini-image different from an .mdf file?  Cause I had DTools 3-something and the .mds and .mdf file, *and* the hider, and it still wouldn't work.

I found out what was causing my stuck grade-bar issue!  It was the damn no-cd patch for OFB!  As soon as I got rid of that, everything went back to normal!

Now I just have to find a no-cd patch for OFB that *works*.

Tried all of the above.  :-) I've actually played it for a while now, and it turns out he *is* getting the grades, they're just not showing up. So it seems, at least. He's still gotten B's a couple of times when I *know* he did everything needed for an A+, though.

*sigh* You ain't the only one.  I've got a horrible suspicion that this is gonna last until my next full reinstall, since I even *created an entirely new neighborhood and sims* to check it out, and it still happened with the new guy. So... yeah.  Grr.

Yeah, that's what I'll probably end up doing.  Did it ever resolve itself, or are you still stuck guessing where your Sims are at?

Like I said, I tried it. It still didn't work.

Yeah, I mentioned trying that in the original post...  Either I wasn't doing it right, or it just wasn't working.  *shrug*  I tried click-drag, ctrl-click-drag, and shift-click-drag. Nada.

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Toss them on a newly placed lot (empty - not previously in the hood) and see if that helps. I remember reading someone having a problem like yours and it went away as soon as they moved them onto a uni lot that WASN'T built by Maxis.
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*tries it*

Nope.  Still stuck the exact same way. 

Okay, I have a second-generation Sim that shuffled off to Uni.  I merged his household with that cute half-alien chick and moved them into a dorm, where all the trouble started.

My little Sim-Guy has eight points in everything, and is stuck down at the lowest grade-level bubble.  Likewise my little alien cutie.  I took all my hacks out.  He got the full bar, but she stayed stuck. I tried moving them out and back in elsewhere.  They were both stuck. I've tried the college adjuster, and it did nothing. I've patched, uninstalled, reinstalled, boolprop force-errored, reloaded and they're *still* stuck.  All the lots I've been loading them in have been Maxis-standard lots.

I've even tried boolprop-dragging the grade levels, and I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or what, but they wouldn't drag.  These stuck grade bars are really really stuck.

This seems to be a pattern with me.  Either everything works smoothly the first time and I never see an problem... or there are HORRIBLE EARTH SHATTERING ISSUES that can't be fixed with a wrench and a blowtorch.

I've done everything I could think of, and a few things I didn't figure would help just because they were *possible*.  Nothin'.

Anybody got any ideas?

I'm almost positive the swingers global hack doesn't do the same things as the bed... she mentioned when she posted the bed that she wasn't planning on making a global mod for it, because she was worried about conflicts with other mods.  I just really like my Sims woohooing without my intervention. :-)  Plus, in a house with several unrelated people, it can definitely cause some interesting interpersonal dynamics.

So I've got that absolutely wonderful Autonomous Bed (LizLove's, I believe) that I downloaded from MTS2.  And I *know* I'm being picky and unreasonable and all that... but as pretty as that bed is I get sick of using the same one all the time.  Is there any way to take the programming attached to the bed and make it a global?

I am a modding neophyte. I can barely handle DatGen's hair-binning... so putting it in the simplest terms possible would be greatly appreciated.   

Not an issue.     On advice of the techsupport guy, I tried installing it to my laptop, just to see if it'd work.  It won't *run* it, mind, but the install went through...  I'll be looking into repairing my Windows installation, or just backing up everything I need to keep and wiping C: to start over.