Hey folks, I stumbled upon this useful app that automagically fixes the "your gpu isn't supported by this game" error whilst searching for a solution to it as I've just experienced this annoyance after I changed out my aging GTX 750 Ti GPU for a GTX 1660 Ti recently...

https://www.nexusmods.com/thesims3/mods/106

You can actually fix this minor annoyance thanks to these guides...

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=26753.0

...and...

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=4782510&posted=1#post4782510

But having a tool that does the job faster is still worthwhile.

Too bad the author didn't even upload his tool on MTS or even here on MATY where more SIMmers go more frequently though

Yes.

I tried two versions of the item. One from the standalone sims3pack of the spellbook and the other from the Gothique library set, both won't show the effects. But as I also said on my edit to my post above, the accursed thing works correctly when I extracted the decrapified sims3pack of the standalone file with Delphy's multi-installer. And I think I'll just use that extracted .package file since it is working.

Also I had to resort to redownloading those two sims3pack files from other sites because the old links here no longer work. I did expect that though seeing as most of the links here are old now.

Anyhoo, back to my small corner of shame for having troubled you folk

Whelp, my copy of the item must be broken then. Most likely due to PEBKAC to boot too heh.

RFE: Addendum

Argh~! 

How come when I extract the item using Delphy's Multi-installer the thing works perfectly, but when I install the sims3pack the thing has it's effects missing.

And here I was expecting a snarky remark from jezzer or any of the other members of the welcoming committee. Thanks though

I know the thread is essentially done with since there are no longer any new store content for TS3. And that every broken thing with Decrapified store stuff has been fixed. "So why the heck am I posting here then?", you might snarkily respond... to which I would be eternally grateful.

Anyhoo, I just dropped back in because I seem to be experiencing a weird issue with the Lady Ravendancer Gothic Spellbook.

"There is a fix for that dumbass!", you might again reply. And my response is, "Yes I know about that but my issue is something entirely different".

I do know that the fix makes it so SIMs will be able to use the thing and not reset, and yes that works as intended. However, the issue I'm having now is that the thing doesn't produce those "moons and ghosts" effects the thing is supposed to be making when your SIM is using it. My SIM can use the thing, however said effect doesn't show. Also those flashy effects your SIM generates when you cast the spells your SIM learns from the thing also doesn't show. The SIM will perform the associated animations but won't have the visual effects except for the visual effect for the Summon spell, which I think the item calls from resources already in the game.

So yeah TL;DR version...

The fix for the interactions for the item DOES work as intended however the flashy effects aren't.

This video shows these effects I'm talking about...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDvzyui7_M4&t=59s

I can actually live without the lot as most of the stuff used in it are also available on other store sets, but the new wallpapers that come with it are something my OCD is itching to have... for completion's sake that is 

Didn't you try looking over at G4TW as it is hosted there?

http://games4theworlddownloads.org/ts3/neighbourhoods.html

Anyhoo, I'm still looking for the "Sandy Shoals Sea Shanty" lot.

Here ya go:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg605427.html#msg605427

Not exactly what you were looking for, but Shimrod has one that makes venues open for 23 hours:

http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/topic/2762-23-hour-bars-and-clubs/

Now as for a WCIF request, does anybody have the "Sandy Shoals Sea Shanty" lot as package files?

http://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:72943&categoryId=11488

I'm also looking for the Seasons Festival lots for the Store Worlds/towns made by the SIM Gurus, as well as the "Old Mill" lot. kammy's version of the "Old Mill" lot doesn't work properly unless you also include his "old mill objects fix" file on your mods folder. However, doing so also adds un-necessary duplicates of the items from the "Brunch at the Old Mill" set.

Ditto plus kammy's last fix would cause the game to be eternally "in processing", "in loading" or "in saving" unless you manually terminate TS3's process so I'd rather stick with Capitaine Marie's version instead.

Woah~! 

The Legendary Kissing_Toast is back

Even though I am fairly new on this forum & I know you folk dislike being thanked, still I thank you for making EA's store items decent and playable. Of course this thanks also extends to everyone on this forum like no_touching, levini & of course  Capitaine Marie

Speaking of borked up Store stuff that EA themselves made broken like the "Mother Russia" set, does anyone have a working link to alexpilgrim's fix for the Mansard roofs from the "Century Now & Then Manor" set?

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18888.msg604780.html#msg604780

The download link on his post is no longer valid it seems.

Why do people want single fix files when there is one Mega fix file for everything? Is it because they only use/have one particular Premium Store item/s? Wouldn't Capitaine Marie's "DecrapFixes_all" file affect just that one item as well as it would everything else?

"Going for a ride with..." & "Give a ride to.." are two different actions. "Giving a ride to.." means, your chosen Active SIM will be the boatman, and "Go for a ride with..." means that your chosen active SIM will ride the boat with whomever you chose your SIM to ride with, meaning the game will generate a random boatman for you.

Here are both as pictures:

"Give a ride to..."


"Go for a ride with..."


As you can see on the first picture, my Active SIM (the SIM with the hat) is giving a ride to of all people the Mascot. And on the second picture, he is riding on the Gondola with the mascot and the game generated a random boatman for us

All this was possible thanks to nona's updated ccmerged and Capitaine Marie's fixes

So with Nona's updated ccmerged and your (Capitaine Marie) "DecrapFixes_all", my overrides folder now just has two files in it, so coolio with saved space 

As for asking inactive SIMs for a Gondola ride, it does work albeit you have to be at a high enough relationship to get some action going 

Also I know my system is just mid range, but I never experienced any lag in game before even on a large world like MySIMRealty's "Evansdale County Expanded". But inside this venue, I get some lag spikes.

They were in a hurry to ditch TS3's store that they've left it for the modding community (that's you guys ) to clean up their messes for them

Okay, I'm currently testing out your mega fix pack and so far every other fixes work fine.

As for the fix for the Gondola, my SIM did leave the ride at one point, but as you said, this was apparent to the item in general. As for woohoo!, still have to get my SIM into a high enough relationship with someone to test this out.

RFE: Addendum:

I couldn't wait any longer so I used "testingcheatenabled true" and dragged my SIM's current friend's relationship bar to max so they can "get it on". And boy was the woohoo in the Gondola scene very amusing. While they were doing their thing the boat person was sighing & looking at his watch the whole time.

@Capitaine Marie: 666kb for your fix!?

Awesome 

Whilst I was scouring this thread for all of the necessary (up to date) fixes, I came across this post:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg604855.html#msg604855

Should I include those two fixes, or has the reported crashing already been fixed?

Also has anyone figured out what this Store "Buydebug" plant is supposed to be?


Not only does it not have a name nor any description, but if placed on the ground it just appears as a lump of soil. This unknown/missing plant was also like this with Kammy's store fix 11 file. On the catalog it is the one in between the "purple eggplant" and the "Pear Tree".

Okay for now here are the files I've got:

KT's StoreFix Fixes - http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg589144.html#msg589144
notouching's updated KT's Store Fixes - http://notouchingfixes.tumblr.com/post/78441756383/notouching-decrap-fixes-for-the-sims-3-store
notouching's fixes for the Bohemian Gardens & the Deliciously Indulgent Bakery - http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg604125.html#msg604125
Capitaine Marie's Fixes for both the World of Wonders & Brunch at the Old Mill - http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg605036.html#msg605036
Nona's ccmerged - http://nonasims.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dcbackup-ccmerged-package-and-your-premium-content-items/

Anything else I'd need?

RFE: How could I forget Nona's ccmerged D'oh~! *facedesk*

I guess I was half asleep when I asked this stupid question:

So let me try to rectify by rephrasing my question:


In my case, the stalling only occurs when I absent mindedly forget to remove "Kammy's Store Fix 11" file when I edit a lot on "Edit Town" mode. But in "Live" mode I can edit my SIM's house and save my game fine & it hasn't stalled on me yet.

I'm no modder like you folk are and quite frankly I only happened to have found my way here because the fixes I could find on games4theworld aren't quite up to date, they don't even have fixes for the "World of Wonders" set yet.

So okay instead of asking for links, I guess I should ask which Premium item that Store fix 11 is supposed to fix, isn't working? This way I can just back track to where the fixes for that item are and download everything else up to or before that item.

Incidentally it is a bit weird how "Store fix 11" causes stalling on "Edit Town" mode and not on "Live" mode.

RFE: Addendum:

Okay, never mind. I finally experienced the game stalling on "Live" mode. So yeah, time to get those other fixes it seems

Any links to those separate fixes?

Will this new "Final" Store set require new fixes?

OK this is somewhat of an odd question but please bare with me...

I have & use both kammy's store fix 11.package & nona's ccmerged.package files and this combination does work for my game because my system & the game's language is set to English. Everything works fine as it should including the corn & cucumber plants. The "Eat Jam with toast" option also works fine as I also have the bakery set.

Now the odd part is when I do renovations (Editing a home or community lot).

If I renovate a lot "with the Store fix 11 file still in my mods folder" the game would stall when I leave "Edit Town" mode and it will be stuck on the "processing" (or loading) screen indefinitely unless I close the game by "Ending its process" on task manager. This action doesn't corrupt my saves at least and doesn't seem to harm the game in general.

But if I take out the Store fix 11 file out, then do some renovations the game doesn't stall ever.

So I'm guessing that's normal right? 

@Levini: Thank you for pointing me in the right direction

I was able to find the fixes for all four outfits and thankfully they were all from one user, Clara

Her fix for the Athletic Dress -> http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg603975.html#msg603975
Her fix for the wetsuit, the Sporty Skirt & two others I didn't notice were also broken -> http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21330.msg603450.html#msg603450
Her fix for the Baseball outfit -> http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18888.msg588471.html#msg588471

BTW, could you please re-upload your packaged version of Villa Paraiso as your earlier provided links seems to be broken now?

@tia: Yes that dress does come with the Bohemian Garden Set:

http://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:72093&categoryId=11488

Also it took me a day & a half but I finally pegged down which two other sets in my stash are also suffering from this "missing mesh after decrafipication" issue:

Aside from the two I've earlier noted which are the "Sporty Skirt" dress from the "Boardwalk Attire" set (or the one from the full on Roaring Heights Gold package) & the "Athletic dress" from the "Bohemian Garden" set, it seems that the "Female wetsuit" from the "Surf's Up Sun and Fun Collection" set also suffers from this issue.

This is what it's supposed to look like:


But as I said once the sims3pack is decrapified, the mesh disappears and we're left with a female SIM with an invisible body.

And finally, the last item is definitely a rarity as I only got it from games4theworld and it is the rare Target exclusive True Champions Sportswear set found here:
http://www.games4theworlddownloads.org/ts3/store-2012/march2012.html

So yeah, no untouched version I'm afraid. And here's what it's supposed to look like: