Guess all that talk about Seasons being the next expansion wasn't simply a rumor.

Anyways, in my game gourmet pet food is not an option if my pre-existing sim is maxed out. However if I create a new sim or have a sim level up their cooking the option will appear on the fridge.  This seems to be the case for others on the official forums.

I have a similar bug except on my horse.  When I switch to another sim, the exercise bar arbitrarily goes red despite the fact she ran most of the day.  It does NOT correct itself unless I have it run or exercise.

Dog origami was a feature in the demo.  Have not seen it yet in pets.

Narrowed down the bug to having to do with one of twallan's most recent mods (either overwatch, no-cd or master controller).  Neither awesomemod or other mods were used with his when testing this.

Vanilla sims without cc or mods at all loaded lots without issue but had an issue rendering hair. 

With only awesomemod all works well.

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Just noticed that when I move a pre-existing family without pets to say... App plains there are no problems.

However, if I take that same family add pets and try to move that family to another location it freezes.

If I have more time I will test more to see if this can be replicated, if it was just a fluke, or if it has to do with the inclusion of pets.

Haven't played since ambitions and just got the missing ui/sim/naked sim issue when playing in bridgeport.  Though I saved often and under different names, about half of them were borked.  Found out the hard way I have to double check my save files as well as use fixall.

On that note, decided to play around with fixing an old working save file and your mod found 300+ bad skill modifiers along with 3 bad butts (lul).

First time saving after fix, the game borked and did an immediate CTD.  Tried again and it seems ok though I expect it will CTD again.

Anyways, the game must be allergic to working code.  It never CTDed when it saved 5 thoroughly f*ed up files....

Think a log file will help a lot with debugging but ditto on the error code 9.  Tested this on a properly patched Sims 3 with 3booter and fpslimiter on a Win 7 64 bit Ultimate installation.  It prompts me that there is a new update (uhhh...there shouldn't be) then borks out with the error when I press option 2 to continue.  Option 1 spits out a paragraph of text including an update.zip not found then self closes even when I run the bat file via cmd /k.

Den of sharks > Den of emo cutters

Mmm gravy.  Almost as tasty as bbq noob.

The data logging was enabled by default on my game as well though it doesn't matter as it's blocked from the net.  Why people allow games like this to access the net is beyond me.  The only real excuse is if the game is an online mmo.

Terr, did you rename the Sims 3 folder in my documents?  Profile does not specify anything specific to me.  But any old pre Ambitions crap in that directory needs to be destroyed (or prevented from being read) so ambitions can regenerate it's own data.  Simply bringing in old saves can be buggy as hell, so imagine the CTD fun in store if an old my documents folder was used.

If that's not the problem and you've done both CFF explorer and DEP, a full reinstall is all I can recommend.  Again put mods, sims my documents folders and other crap you want into another directory and reinstall the whole thing fresh.

I LOLed.

EA just owned everyone here with the ultimate in phail "photoshops".

The premise would be stupid if the masses who use the exchange were 12s who vote up their friends' flood-fills.

No. 

I patch up because I do not want my game to bork due to running old patches with new content.  I would not be surprised if EA failed to enforce dependencies correctly therefore I take matters into my own hands and make sure the game is updated to the latest patch based on my version and SKU.

As for the bugs and phailpatches, I heed the whining and made sure to back up all my crap. 

More often than not I don't experience even documented issues yet when I do I have options and lost nothing.

This.

Also see if the same issues happen on a friend's PC.

Not exclusive to the Sims I have seen weird shit happen to my friends' systems.  Could have been a myriad of reasons, including hardware, but it's not CC as they had none.