well, it seems that my happiness at that time were way too early. decrapify the stuff still won't let me what the Toyota Prius looks like in this game and it made some objects that were installed "perfectly" before decrapifying process, were gone. the nazsa klasza thingy are still nowhere to be seen. ugh.

anyway, my 7 y.o. now can play Riverview without anymore "mommmmmyyyyy.... helppppp" scream. saves me a lot of sweat from having to climb up and down the stairs

edit: why EA or Maxis have to name the car PriusV? mislead me to toyota prius and it made me wrote it all over this thread and it was wrong! ...btw, just something I thought of while cycling through the new buy catalog yesterday. why they made objects that's below the "best" in each category? like the car, why don't they made a car comparable to the most expensive (because it's the fastest) but lower the price and make it look different? weird. people want the best, or they force us to be satisfied with the so-so quality? geezzz...

edit 2: forgot to ask, I updated to version 1.7.9 from 1.3.24 (just to try and I want to reinstall that PriusV thing!) but launcher was dead. is that supposed to happen? so I uninstall and reinstall. now with version 1.4. something. hopefully it works.........

I'm happy to report that pussy's suggestion of running decrapify on riverview.sims3pack works perfectly. my riverview now looks normal, no /world/riverview/blabla before anything yaaayyy.... on top of that, I decrapify all the store packages I got and the game is a lot faster in loading. usually it took about 3-4 times replaying of the main menu theme before I get into the which file to load or new game, now it doesn't even take one full song to get in there. yyaaayyyy again... and it is also much faster to go into the saved game, usually it takes about 5-8 minutes, now it takes about 2 minutes.. maybe less. thank God for whoever think of creating that decrapify program. finally, from my happy report, I finally get the Riverview, toyota prius, fanta fridge, and the nazsa klasza (sp.?) package installed! all thanks to that decrapify! I'll recommend that to everyone I know. now I'm going to go back, messing up Riverview's citizen life, because all the "missing" buildings are back, and their names don't start with /world/riverview/ anymore.... ^_^

thank you google for finding MATY for me, thank you MATY dot com for allowing me to be member, thank you pussy for keep giving this thread very useful tricks to fix riverview, and thank you all who've read, think, and responding to this thread (although it isn't mine), and hail all the creator of decrapify.....

pussy

in my case decrapify won't take more than 5 files at a time. first I tried all riverview packages, the whole 92MB, the program tells me that something is too short for something data, can't remember exactly. so I put decrapify and s3rc in riverview folder, dragging 3 files to the exe at a time, then 4, then 5. when I tried 6 files at a time the message comes up again. strange. I read your thread so fast that I don't realize that I should have the other file to put the package back together after being "cleaned". huh. no wonder there's nothing improving with my game. 

just to add my experience, my first sims are always "stuck" holding the door when trying walking out the bedroom when I told one of them to feed the fish that I had neatly arranged on both sides over 3 xtra long dining table and 1 small wooden dining table. maybe too much animation or too much movement in one view? I miss the big aquarium that I used a lot in the 1st sims game. shrinkable fish bowl, yeah, good idea, but I want to minimize animation to speed up the game.

hello from a newbie to this forum

I experienced quite the same problem mentioned in previous post (every single place & people in Riverview is described to the detail plus the file path). and some of the buildings are not showing up (City Hall, Day Spa, Business, Hospital, Science, Military). there's one lot next to the criminal career place, it's named "small warehouse" but the icon is actually one of a community swimming pool. weird!

is it caused by the steps in the thread "insane fix to make riverview working"? I don't install any expansion packs. my base game is from razor1911 and only updated to version 1.3.24 (although I intended to update through the latest, 1.10 if not mistaken?) the only 2 not-made-by-EA things in the directory of my Sims3 is this forum's framework and the noCDpatch I found somewhere via a link somewhere in a thread I read last week (not remember for sure). I run the game on 32bit Vista(sucks) Home Premium on an almost 1 y.o. laptop.

btw, on main menu, my riverview world description is **some long numbers don't remember exactly and won't take note either**. is this normal?

please advise. thank you. and I must say this is a very nice forum. more than enough information for everyone looking to solve something or just trying to fill up the brain