Hmm, come to think of it, no chimes. I just ASSumed he was pregnant.

I plead ignorance. This was the first alien abduction I have ever seen in my game other than the scripted one in Strangetown.



Edited to get rid of extraneous letters.

I had to restart my Asylum Challenge this week due to the original neighborhood I had becoming a BFBVS.

So in Matyhood Redux last night,  just after maximizing the logic skill while looking through the telescope, JM was abducted by aliens. Due to there being eight sims on the lot, of course he won't be able to give birth (nor has he produced even a pregnancy bump).

The problem I have is this: Should I install a hack (such as Lotfullo'sims, although I can no longer find it on MTS2) that allows JM to pop out his alien spawn (even though the challenge clearly states that babies are NOT allowed and of course, hacks aren't allowed in the challenge either) or should I let him suffer in his pregnant state and not allow him to spring forth his progeny until the end of the challenge?

Either way it seems that the Asylum Challenge has been ruined (although obviously alien abduction is completely out of my control).

Ideas and/or opinions, please.

Thank you, Most Awesome One. I will download the newest updates and try to figure out what other mods I'm using are giving me grief.

Okay I made a thread about this on Saturday but it seems to have disappeared , so I'm making a new thread.

Since installing TSS on Friday night, I have sims jumping out of actions and rolling blank want and fear slots. I haven't downloaded anything new prior to installing TSS and my game was running fine before the new stuffit pack.

Attached errror logs.

I'm glad someone asked this. I had just dropped both files into my downloads file and forgot about it. That's right, I didn't even look for it while I was playing (which I guess is a good thing, since obviously I wouldn't have found it anyway!).

Actually MD, I downloaded a copy from somewhere (don't remember where but I'm sure someone posted the link here on maty) and I have the file but I don't know how to attach it here or where I could upload it so you could download it.

Wow, I'm loads of helpful, aren't I?

eta: Nevermind, Invisigoth FTW!

I also asked for the QA version of SimPe about 3 to 4 weeks ago. Have never heard a word back.

All About Style did some nice elder clothing for BV: http://www.all-about-style.com/senior_feca7.html and http://www.all-about-style.com/senior_maca3.html.

Well I have to take back what I said in my previous post. My game crashed last night after playing for about 2.5 hours, for no reason that I can figure out. Just black screen, blink blue, black, blink blink blue, black...until I reached down and hit the button. Fucking thing. I am so sick of this.

Excessive punctuation much?!!!

Feeling frustrated? Feeling out of sorts? Not able to use the "Search" function at the top of the page? Not able to ask for help nicely? Feel like getting poked with sharp pointy sticks?

Come to maty, we've got your sharp pointy sticks right here.

I have a new Nvidia 7600 GT and started experiencing crashing shortly after I installed H&M. Like you, I had only had the card about a week so I wasn't sure if it was the card or the game.

I fought with this issue for several weeks until this last weekend when I finally uninstalled H&M and BV. So far *knock wood* my game hasn't crashed since then. Maybe you could uninstall BV and/or H&M and see what happens? I would be interested to see what your results are.

Sorry I don't have anything more helpful then that. Oh, and I am assuming you have updated the drivers for your card and ruled that out.

Hee! Well, at least it was easily fixed.

The sad part is that I found that even with years of research before installing, the actual program experience ended up being disappointing, frustrating and insanity inducing. After two different installations, I will not reinstall again.

You have invoked The Ultimate Parenting Curse! Behold the power of, "I hope you have kids and they act just like you!"

(I know it works, my parents used it on me and well, yeah.)

I know, I know. It's just like fighting with my ex-husband, it's all my own fault.

Well I uninstalled BV and H&M this last weekend and my game has been running fine ever since. Until they address the Nvidia issue, I don't see reinstalling BV or H&M. Something is definitely screwy with either the stuff pack or the EP and I don't see that they have a"fix" in their patch list about Nvidia. You know, the card that is on their spec list.

I found it condescending because apparently you didn't read my post very closely (which you admit) and were working off of your own assumptions, which seemed to be that I am an idiot. I did mention the tone but ignored it by way of giving a civil answer instead of just telling you to fuck off. I will also admit (this thread seems to be turning into a confessional ) that I was in an extremely foul mood when I read your post and more then likely took it much more personally then I should have.

Okay, so yesterday I took out all my CC except for JM's hacks and tried to play again. Playing Pleasantview, all went well (except for all the butt-ugly Maxis crap my poor sims reverted into ), no crashing, no errors. That is until I tried to enter the Pleasant's lot, loading screen  for forever, game crash. Tried again, again and again. Gave up, moved the Pleasants into the family bin and tried to enter to the lot in build mode. No dice, game crashes again. Moved the Pleasants into a different vacant (and never used) lot, no problem with loading that lot and playing it, which leads me to believe the problem is obviously with the lot and not the sims.

Moving onto the Calliente's house, same exact thing. Lot crashes the game upon loading. Same with the Dreamer household. These are all the original lots that the sims come with in the base game. No custom lots at all.

While I am looking through the lot catalog I start noticing that I have 2, 3, sometimes more then 4 duplicates of the same Eaxis lots. This includes the occupied lots that came with Pets, I actually had 3 of each one of those.

I'm kind of baffled on why I would have so many duplicates of premade lots and some of the lots would be crashing the game w/out any CC being in the game but others (Goth, Lothario) don't.

Once again, any ideas?

eevilcat, he said the same thing to me when I brought it up in #grah one day. I still think their needs are dropping faster then before.

I did download JM's BV director's cut as well as TJ'S. I never really worry about their mods truthfully as they both are so good about updating them and giving a list of what isn't compatible. I also went to Inge's site and updated her mods as well. Basically that's why I chose to leave in their hacks when playing the test hood last night.

I will download (if I haven't already done so and tucked it away somewhere) the hack conflict tool and run it tonight. I think I will also just pull all CC (clothes, hair, furniture, etc.,) out of my Sims file and see if I can enter any other neighborhoods beside the test one. If that fails, I will have to uninstall BV (possibly H&M as well) and see what happens.

The bolded part of your post is what I'm really considering doing. I'm so frustrated with this whole thing although I really can't put the blame squarely on BV as I started having oddities (blue screen, monitor going to sleep during gameplay) prior to installing BV.

I'm sure I enabled custom content. I recall checking the box to enable it and then exiting the game. All of my CC shows up just fine. I have mainly hair and clothes but yes, skins, objects, recolors, building items, etc., You name it, I probably have at least a recolor of it.

I have the  4 EA neighborhoods (never have played Veronaville), 1 custom neighborhood and now a new test neighborhood. I cannot even enter a lot in Pleasantview before the game crashes and I believe it has the most character files. In Strangetown I can enter and play a lot, if it's a lot I have not played before, a few times before the game starts crashing. I haven't played RiverBlossom in a month or so. My favorite hood, the custom one, I can enter the neighborhood, enter a lot but it crashes within seconds of a selecting a sim (any sim, any lot). As I said earlier, the new testhood played fine last night, no crashing.

For mods I have all of JM's, a lot of TJ's (took out ACR last night though, just to check if it might be having some kind of problem), a few of Inge's, a few of Squinge's (antiprank, wear any clothes pregnancy mod thing), Monique (visitors stay later and fastershopping), Ste's apologize mod, and Crammyboy's portal monitor. I did have Inteen and Insim but of course I took those out before installing BV. I reinstalled Insim when it was updated for BV. When I played last night the only mods I had in were JM's, TJ's (minus ACR) and Inge's.

Default replacements are eyes only and I'm using SarahMK's hood templates.

I have all EPs and all stuff packs except for the Holidays/Christmas one.

The only editing I have done in SimPe was to clone some sims and to change the skintone of one sim (that was prior to installing BV though). I really don't know how to do more then that in SimPe.

I hope this wasn't TL;DR.

I wish that was the case, then at least I could pinpoint the problem, but no, it appears totally random. Any neighborhood, any lot, any sim (if I even make it far enough to be able to click on a sim).

Khaki, I'll ignore the condescending tone of your post to say that, yes, I know I have the latest drivers because I did check both Nvidia and XFX's website to be sure. In my reply to KhanofWorms, I specifically stated that I had gone to XFX's website and downloaded drivers per his suggestion rather then Nvidia's because that seems to work for him. I have even downloaded beta drivers from Nvidia to see if that might work, no joy there either.

eevilcat, if a specific lot was the cause of this, would the lot have to actually be placed in every neighborhood or would just being in the lot catalog be enough to cause the game to crash?

Per eevilcat's suggestion (during a conversation on #grah), I made a testhood this evening to see if I could play it. Worked perfectly (other then minor freeze ups) for hours. No blue screens, no error messages, no crashing. I also had downloaded the drivers from XFX's website and installed them. The only mods I had in my downloads folder were JM's and TJ's. I thought, at last, it works!

WRONG. The interesting discovery I made was that if I try to enter any other neighborhood but my new testhood, I got a blue screen, followed with the error message, Internal error blah blah blah. This is consistent with the fact that I hadn't played Strangetown prior to installing BV, was able to play it a five to ten times after installing BV, before it also started crashing.

I checked my character files and each neighborhood that crashes; I have between 300 to 400 character files. I don't know if that means anything. I use SarahMK's cleaned up templates but didn't update them for BV. I believe that's twice as many character files as what I had before installing BV.

Any (and I mean any) other ideas on why this is happening?

New driver didn't help me out at all; within seconds of a lot loading, I got the blue screen.

So I have haven't played TS2 in almost two weeks due to the game freezing with a blank blue screen. No error logs have been generated so I haven't had a clue (other then installing BV ) what might be causing it. Thanks to Hook's suggestion today, I tried playing tonight in windowed mode to see if I could see any kind of error message.

Within seconds of loading a lot, the screen turned blue and popped up this message: The graphics adapter in this system experienced an internal error. Please contact your graphics adapter manufacturer for technical support. The applicaiton will now terminate.

I googled the message but didn't find any help other then the ever-popular "Update your drivers". My drivers are up to date so this is non-helpful.

The other thing I noticed when I was searching through TS2 logs trying to find an error log was this puzzling bit of information in the config-log: Name (database): NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>>

Any ideas?