Oh, thanks. Got it working... Only one of the 3 mods came up broken which I pretty much guessed anyway, only I'm not sure how broken it really is. This is what it says...

Thanks MissDoh for posting the hack diff but 3 mods that I'm really worried about weren't in your list. So if someone could please please please check them for me I'd be very grateful. I'd check them myself but I don't actually have a copy of BV in my possession. I'll upload them in case no one else has a copy themselves. I have a feeling, since these are ones I really want, they will be incompatible...


Edit: Removed hack zip file.

What I do when I want outfits enabled for YA and A I use the scan folder option in SimPE and scan where the outfits are (usually in a separate folder before I actually put them into my downloads) then I select the outfits I want to change and part way down under the "operations tab" at the bottom you can check boxes for what ages you want it available for, I select YA or A whatever is not ticked off, then you click "set" above the boxes. You can also change the category of outfits this way and its really simple to do.

I invited the crashing sim over to see what she was wearing, it turns out she's wearing one of these tops:http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=237871

I'm curious if these shirts are having the same mesh problem then, if thats the case I'll just remove them...

I've removed that mesh from my game, but don't recall even using it... and it's very strange that the sim's icon showed up in the top left hand corner no problem, I'd assume if generating the thumbnail was really the problem it would have crashed when it showed up there, no?

Either way I still haven't received a phone call from that sim to check if its actually still broken or not.

Ok, wasn't sure if it was useful at all. I've got all expansions up to Seasons and the thumbnails shows up fight, the game crashes part way into the phone call which makes me wonder if it was one of them "do you want to go downtown" calls or something.

I'm almost positive its the phone call, I made sure the other sim was off the lot and at class before the phone was answered, crashed then too. As far as I know nothing was happening, and if it was someone coming onto the lot it still would have crashed when he didn't pick the phone up.

The phone is a maxis phone, I don't use any custom phones in my game.

Yes, I'm just not sure why the phone call with her crashed my game. I was playing the family she's part of before I started playing the one that my game crashed on. Yet they've had phone calls from that sim's brother and other members of the family with no problems.

Well I'm not sure what the problem was, but I just made sure the phone call wasn't answered and every other phone call after that worked fine. I've been waiting for the sim that was part of the screwed up call to call back but she hasn't yet. If it happens again when she calls I'll know what the problem is but it hasn't crashed since anyway.

I've tested this twice in my game, the same situation occurs at the exact same moment twice and with the same scenario. I have two brothers living on a lot, ones leaving for college class and the other is answering the phone to talk to another controllable sim on another lot. Both times I've played this log the exact same thing has happened where the game just freezes and I get an application error. The second time I ran the game in testing cheats mode and no errors came up in the game but both times I did get a sims2exception error. I'll upload the second one here if anyone can understand it and help me figure out what seems to be crashing my game.

This was the only part I didn't understand. How do you get to that screen? Do you open the character file or find it through the neighbourhood file? I couldn't find anything that looked like that in old or new simpe. Forgive me if I'm being stupid and over looked something, I'd really like to know how to get there exactly so I can do this properly.

Bah, sorry, uploaded log...

When the social worker comes to take my kids away I get a stupid error and I'm not sure why or whats causing it... if someone could help I'd really appreciate it.

This mod is already in testing and can be downloaded here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/seasons/test/

I'm using it and it seems to work probably 90% of the time, I still get some sims looking up at the sky but it doesn't cancel out any interaction they are already doing.

That was another thing I tried. I've got it working now, was able to play it for a few hours today. I'm pretty sure the problem ended up being a messed up modularstairs file that I had edited to allow custom stairs. I ended up recreating that file and now the game runs smoothly.

would it be possible to get the family fun stuff dragon costumes for kids and the teddy bear outfits that came with open for business for toddlers made into outerwear? Maybe I will actually use the outfits if only to keep my sim kiddies warm in the winter time.

I know, double posting is baaad. I figured I'd post here since I caved and reinstalled EVERYTHING. (damnit) Now things seem to be working fine, still haven't gotten a chance to actually play the damn game. I ran it in 800x600 windowed no sound mode to test after reinstalling everything and worked fine so tomorrow I shall test 1440x900 and non windowed sound mode. Too tired to try it tonight, especially if it decides to crash again.

I was using the driver off the cd before I decided to update to new ones today to see if that fixed the problem, so older drivers don't work either. I'm just going to assume this isn't a driver problem and has to be something else since 2 different drivers (stable and unstable) did not work... The drivers off the cd were the only ones I could use for pets, already had the driver issues with that ep...

Well I got seasons and haven't even had the chance to play it yet. I installed it and went to play it and it gets about 4/5 of the way through the loading screen and then crashes.

I have no custom content in my game, I'm running on a fresh reinstall (reinstalled from scratch yesterday due to a bug with disappearing uni clothes). I've updated my drivers, using nvidia 8800 gs video card. My system is almost twice as powerful as what they recommend.  I've tried just about everything, reinstalled seasons a couple times, even went so far to run a minimal boot using msconfig to make sure no other apps were screwing up the install process. No such luck.

I'm at a total loss as to what to do aside from reinstalling all expansion packs all over again (god forbid I have to). Anyone else have other suggestions before I cave to that option?

I kind of thought it might be a maxis bug. It's a good thing they fixed all the bugs with the pets patch! {/sarcasm}

Is this even possible? Google search results turned up "pets can be resurrected but not as a zombie" How am I supposed to make the pet a zombie? What price needs to be paid? i tried 1,000 and the dog got resurrected but the want wasn't activated.

I got a Nvidia card before I knew there was such a problem with them. I have the 8800 GTS and when I installed the drivers for it off the website everything was horribly blurry. All my fonts and a lot of smaller graphics were hard to see. I uninstalled the drivers from the website and installed the ones that came on the disc I got with my card and perfect crystal clear images and font. Apparently most problems with Nvidia cards right now are all in the latest drivers that have been released and rolling back your drivers to an older version (before the problems started happening in the September drivers I believe) usually does the trick. Hopefully Nvidia will get their asses in gear and make drivers that actually work from now on...

I've never had any problems at all moving my mailbox. I keep it by the door so if the house is far back from the road my sims don't have to walk very far to pay the bills. I've never noticed anything wonky in doing so...

About the roof slope cheat... they didn't explain how to use it very well. I've got it working in the patched version of the game and this is how I had to do it.

Make sure you have placed the roof that you want. Type in the cheat (individualroofslopeangle [#15-75]) then you hold alt and ctrl and click the roof you want to change the angle of. It should work since thats how I got it working in my game.

My thoughts too, but wasn't sure. I'll try updating it again with the new version and see if that fixes it. Thanks