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Decorative/Misc menu makes game crash - SOLVED
« on: 2008 November 28, 17:42:23 »
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Help needed! In buy mode, whenever I click on the misc menu under decorations, the game crashes to desktop. The other menus work fine. It's not CC-related; I tried with the entire DL folder moved to the desktop. I've also tried deleting groups.cache, but that's where my expertise ends. :/

This is probably the same issue as I had a while back with one of the towel hangers ("The Towel on a Wooden Hanger by DecorCorp" - came with OFB), where the game would similarly crash with no error messages, whenever I tried to clone one of these hangers. At the time I only noticed it in one household, but I tried it with another family just now and it's definitely not just gone away magically on its own like I'd hoped. Sims can view the hanger and I can recolour it, but the eyedropper tool causes a crash. I "solved" this problem before by, heh, deleting the towel hanger in the household where I first noticed the problem - which also caused a crash unless I quickly saved and exited the household - but I haven't been furnishing any houses since then and forgot all about it. Until today.

Can it really be about the one towel hanger or is there a problem with all the items in the misc menu? I don't think I've ever had a problem with the game that didn't trace back to custom content and this is kinda scary.

I have all the expansions until Seasons, which I installed in September, plus one or two stuff packs. The crashing definitely started after Seasons, but everything's been just fine otherwise. I haven't installed any new hacks, and anyway as removing the DL folder made no difference, I don't think it's that either. I'm assuming the crash log I need to attach is the one called "Sims2Exception[date]"? Tell me if you need something else instead ... I have plenty ...

Any help at all would be really welcome. I have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it.  Sad
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Re: Decorative/Misc menu makes game crash
« Reply #1 on: 2008 November 28, 18:40:45 »
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If you have CEP and a Mac follow this advice given by Numenor:

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If you have a Mac, then I'm afraid I have given insufficient instructions The "Garden Rocks" extra must meet some compatibility requirements, that I'm going to explain for all the Mac users (Minty: your case is #2, of course).

   1. If you have both Seasons and Bon Voyage, then you don't need to do anything.
   2. If you have Seasons but NOT Bon Voyage, you must delete the files "CEP-EXTRA_GardenRocksBV.package" from both Extras folders.
   3. If you have Bon Voyage but NOT Seasons, you must delete the files "CEP-EXTRA_GardenRocks.package" from both Extras folders.
   4. If you don't have neither Seasons nor Bon Voyage, delete all the files "CEP-EXTRA_GardenRocks.package" and "CEP-EXTRA_GardenRocksBV.package" from both Extras folders.
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Re: Decorative/Misc menu makes game crash
« Reply #2 on: 2008 November 28, 18:54:34 »
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I'm on Windows Vista, but that still did it! Cheesy I deleted a file called CEP-EXTRA_GardenRocks, although I don't know what is meant by "both" Extras folders, since I only have the one. Anyway, thank you so much! I was dreading a reinstall.  Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: 2008 November 28, 19:51:57 »
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The other one is in Program Files\ EA GAMES\ The Sims 2\ TSData\ Res\ Catalog\ zCEP-EXTRA.
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« Reply #4 on: 2008 November 28, 21:25:12 »
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Oh, I see. I'll remove that one too. Thanks!
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