Thanks a million for that witch, it works fine *sheepie button*

What's worrying me is that my winrar keeps throwing corrupted file errors at me. I've redownloaded it and reinstalled it, but it even gives corrupt files on the AL director's cut zip. And I *know* that one should work, cause otherwise there'd be a lot of moaning going on.

Solutions? H4xorz? Wisdom?

I've tried both that one and gameburn thingie, one has mirrors that lead to 'file not found', the other has a corrupt archive for me. (don't remember which is which atm.) I'm getting a lot of 'corrupt archive' errors with winrar lately though, so it's possible that the problem is on my end, but I've no clue how to even begin fixing it and too tired atm to do research on it.


I would love to, but I can't seem to get the original no-cd downloaded. That's why I was asking if any of you could share a confirmed-to-work one.

Thanks Mootilda, I've had a really shitty day but you've just shone a bit of light into it  I'll figure out how to install the dizzy thing in the morning when I've got a clear head.

Right, I've got a problem.

I got AL today, and obviously don't want Suckurom. However:

- I can't download patch 1 (since EA replaced it with patch 2) and apply a no cd to it
- The archives for the no cd of the basegame I've found, are all corrupt, or the download mirrors don't work (none of them)

So basically, I can't play until a no cd for patch 2 comes out. Is there anyone who can:

- Zip up patch 1 for me and post a download link or
- Do the same with a working patch 1 no cd archive?

Cheers...

boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true
floatProp tvVolume 0.2
setHighestAllowedLevel 8
boolProp carsOnRight false

alias constrain "boolprop constrainfloorelevation true" "ConstrainElevation On" "ConstrainElevation On"
alias noconstrain "boolprop constrainfloorelevation false" "ConstrainElevation Off" "ConstrainElevation Off"

alias snap "boolprop snapobjectstogrid true" "Snap Objects On" "Snap Objects to grid On"
alias nosnap "boolprop snapobjectstogrid false" "Snap Objects Off" "Snap Objects to grid Off"

alias move "moveobjects on" "Move Objects On" "Move Unmovable Objects On"
alias nomove "moveobjects off" "Move Objects Off" "Move Unmovable Objects Off"

alias debug "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" "debugon" "debugon"
alias nodebug "boolprop testingcheatsenabled false" "debugoff" "debugoff"

alias 50k "motherlode" "motherlode" "motherlode"

alias zoneres "changelotzoning residential"
alias zonecom "changelotzoning community"
alias zonedorm "changeLotZoning dorm"
alias zonegreek "changeLotZoning greek"
alias zoness "changelotzoning secretsociety"

alias 1roof "individualRoofSlopeAngle" "individualRoofSlopeAngle [15-75] - ctrl+alt" "individualRoofSlopeAngle [15-75]"
alias allroof "roofSlopeAngle" "RoofSlopeAngle [15-75]" "RoofSlopeAngle [15-75]"

Anyone found a no-cd yet for the new patch?

Oh thanks, that really put me at ease

I'm contemplating getting Apartment Life, but a bit concerned about the witch familiars. I don't have Pets installed as part of my expansion set up (and would really rather not, the constant barking at night is only one of the things that drives me mad).

Would this cause problems with the witch familiars? Or is everything needed to get those included in AL?

 I've had this occur a couple of times in my latest attempts to reinstall the game. In my case simply restarting the game fixed the problem, though uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of times might not be a bad idea either. Don't assume that reinstalling the game doesn't fix it after having it tried once, try at least a couple of times before giving up on it.

As Papercut said, a lot of errors i got with the game and patches seem random, and after the third try it might work as if nothing happened. (it did for me anyway)

You could try using Inge's 'stuff stays while moving out' shrub (can't remember the correct name atm) to quickly see if evicting and moving back in fixes the problem, I suppose. That should at least keep all your hard work on the furnishings intact.

I am not awesome however, so you might want to wait till someone else suggests something

I don't know what generation I am... At 23 years old (in non-pescadian years, that is), what would I be? X? Y? Something in between?

Thank you Birman, those work just fine

I get a corrupt archive on the clean and fixed basegame 'hoods download. (CleanAndFixed_PSV_All3.rar)
Anyone got a different link?

The problem with running the game before patching it is Suckurom - I don't want to have to change all the exe's and then patch again. 

For future reference: (if anyone ever gets so unlucky to have the same amount of trouble with this as I had)

The problems I had with patching was NOT the result of something that went wrong during the installation of my game.

For some reason, the patches apparently do not always download properly. If a patch gives you trouble, redownload it. You might have to redownload several times (I had to redownload the University one 6 times before it worked), just keep trying until it works.

It really *is* the patch itself, as at one point I tried out the 3 different University patches again that I had downloaded. They consistently gave errors at the exact same place in the installation progress. (One threw an error message at the start, the other at the middle, the third one was fine.)

I've done some googling on the matter and it seems quite a few people had problems with the patches. Huzzah to EAxis for even managing to fuck up that one. 

Thanks, I've got a no cd one now. (Whew)

However, I've got some more problems. As you could have guessed I am attempting a complete reinstall. The game itself installs just fine, my problem is with the patches.

I have done a 'proper' reinstall, meaning I deleted all files, in program files and my documents, cleaned out my trashcan, went into regedit and deleted the registry keys. This installation is squeaky clean as far as I know.

Yet when I try and run a patch, I get the standard windows error going 'An error has occured in TheSims2_updater_exe. This programme will now close down'. No matter what I do (I tried uninstalling and installing again, switching off my firewall, small animal sacrifices, etc.) the damn patch just won't install. This is the official patch from the Sims2.com site, and not a single one works. It doesn't work either if I just install the basegame and try to patch that.

Hlep?

Edit:

I am now replacing MATY as my religion. As soon as I posted this, I clicked the updater again to check if there was anything else in the error message that could help me out, and lo and behold: it worked just fine.
Now to try the rest of the expansions, but damn you lot work fast. And even without replying!

Edit Edit:

Right, cancel that, the patch for University now throws the same wobbly, only further into the patching process. I have no idea what I am doing wrong, whether the patch just doesn't like me or what. Hopefully it will sort itself out as well after having tried it 20+ times... but in the meantime, anyone have experience with this sort of nonsense?

Yet another Edit:

Basegame, university, nightlife and open for business installed. All patches successful, except for the University one, which is still stuck right at the end of the update.
Is it necessary to install the university patch if I have newer expansions/patches installed?

I cannot download the Fairlight patched FT no cd crack. None of the download mirrors work for me, they all say the file has not been found.

Is there anyone who has a patched FT no cd crack laying around that they could share, or anyone with a link to a site where I can properly DL it? I fail at finding one myself.

My eternal thanks to anyone who can help me out.

I have a list of familynames and put a tick beside them for every week I've played them, to keep em on the same timeline. That's pretty much it :p

 I've reset Pleasantview (the only hood I play) so often I've lost count. I tend to lose interest in the game, uninstall it, then get back to it after a couple of months and reinstall.

Every time I play Pleasantview I tend to take a different route than I did the last time. Cassandra has been married to Don, to Dirk Dreamer, to some random townie and has remained a spinster... I like playing out different scenarios

Cheers guys, that's exactly what I was looking for.

And maxon, the point is to actually upload stuff so other people can have it in their game too, and they might have more neighbourhoods than me

Quick question:

I know that in order to safely get a new hood with lots included into other people's games, you need to rename the neighbourhood to N573 (or another random ridiculously high number), to avoid conflicts.

I'm assuming all files in that folder need to be changed to reflect the new neighbourhood number too. Is there a quick way to do this as opposed to slogging through all the files manually?

Thanks in advance, oh fount of wisdom

The Freetime loading screen and neighbourhood music irritates the crap out of me. Is there any way to set the EP music that plays while in those modes? (say for example I only want the base game and seasons music). Or is this impossible alltogether and will I have to grin and bear it?

Cheers in advance.

Seasons link no worky 

Necromancy is bad, mkay, but any chance of reuploading the seasons icons? I'd be much obliged.

Strange, the random factor in professors must have spouted only elders at me then. I don't recall seeing an adult one.

Thanks for the info tho )

Checked it out and it's indeed TwoJeffs, not Squinge (as was suggested in the thread I linked to).

Are all professors elders? They seem to be in my game, which annoys me. My professors at uni weren't all old guys. If they ARE all elders, is it okay to switch them to adults with SimPE, or would that be a VBT?

Have you tried deleting her and coming back in the lot? Seems like just a graph glitch to me that should be solved easily enough.

Nope, apparently it's a squinge one, in case anyone else is interested.

This thread seems to suggest that there is a SimPE way to check this, but unfortunately that's all I've been able to find.