Bubble, bubble, toil & trouble...
I finally got the pc mostly reinstalled & running. It's still missing MS Office (coz I can't find the damned disk) & a couple of games, including Fallout 3, Battlefield 2 (coz pete's borrowed my copy as he can't find his) & Overlord. I've been a weee bit distracted with Left 4 Dead... which has me itching to play the Zombie Survival challenge with Fightclub & the zombie hack. That's a story thats been sitting in the pipeline since 2 EP releases ago.
But I finally got the game running & placed Carrie & her husband (who is a Maxis ST playable that will remain unnamed until the story reaches that point). Aside from realising that I had missed a couple of my more favoured downloads (like Anva's Lashes For All Races) & my hair (Zombiejill's alpha edit of Nouk's pigtails which is my hairstyle) I suddenly noticed there was a rather large issue.... I hadn't noticed at first because I didn't have testingcheats enabled.
The error from before was still happening.
In a fresh install with fresh 'hoods.
The moment it finished an action, a sim would flip from west facing to north facing. It's profile picture would change. Each time it tried to act on it's own free will, or it finished something I told it to do, the same would happen. If left to its own devices, the sim would stand in the same spot, jumping around & with its portrait changing constantly.
Even on PAUSE.
I immediately went through all my hacks, chucking out the 'new' ones & whittling away at what I might live without. Still happened. So I took them all out. Still happened. So, not a hack issue then.
My DL folder is nicely subfoldered. So pedantically subfoldered, in fact, that it's close to anally retentive. For instance, hair is broken into female & male. Then inside those is websites & then further into creators. Further still into each individual hairstyle (My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\body shop\hair\female\GoS\steerpike\chopchop). It never used to be like this, but after what happened to my last install I wasn't going to have the same mess I had before.
It paid off though.
Instead of doing the 50/50 method, I took out everything except hacks, default replacements & bodyshop stuff (makeup, clothes, hair). No issue.
So I put the Buy Mode folder back in. Loaded, & BAM. Flick flick flick flick flick goes the sim. Closed the game, took out everything from that folder that wasn't separated into specific creators with more than one item (so bathroom, nursery etc). Loaded & it still happened.
Then I went through my creators, three at a time (adele, ats-sandy, blakeboy). I got all the way to the last three; Targas, Windkeeper & Wood for Sims. Knowing that wfs was a large folder, I just placed Targas & Windkeeper. Lo & Behold - the issue occurred.
Long story short: the bad files were by Targas. There is somethng very bad with the antique camera & the backdrop screens. [sigh]
I can live without them, but I hadn't wanted to.
But at least my game is now working again.
But I finally got the game running & placed Carrie & her husband (who is a Maxis ST playable that will remain unnamed until the story reaches that point). Aside from realising that I had missed a couple of my more favoured downloads (like Anva's Lashes For All Races) & my hair (Zombiejill's alpha edit of Nouk's pigtails which is my hairstyle) I suddenly noticed there was a rather large issue.... I hadn't noticed at first because I didn't have testingcheats enabled.
The error from before was still happening.
In a fresh install with fresh 'hoods.
The moment it finished an action, a sim would flip from west facing to north facing. It's profile picture would change. Each time it tried to act on it's own free will, or it finished something I told it to do, the same would happen. If left to its own devices, the sim would stand in the same spot, jumping around & with its portrait changing constantly.
Even on PAUSE.
I immediately went through all my hacks, chucking out the 'new' ones & whittling away at what I might live without. Still happened. So I took them all out. Still happened. So, not a hack issue then.
My DL folder is nicely subfoldered. So pedantically subfoldered, in fact, that it's close to anally retentive. For instance, hair is broken into female & male. Then inside those is websites & then further into creators. Further still into each individual hairstyle (My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\body shop\hair\female\GoS\steerpike\chopchop). It never used to be like this, but after what happened to my last install I wasn't going to have the same mess I had before.
It paid off though.
Instead of doing the 50/50 method, I took out everything except hacks, default replacements & bodyshop stuff (makeup, clothes, hair). No issue.
So I put the Buy Mode folder back in. Loaded, & BAM. Flick flick flick flick flick goes the sim. Closed the game, took out everything from that folder that wasn't separated into specific creators with more than one item (so bathroom, nursery etc). Loaded & it still happened.
Then I went through my creators, three at a time (adele, ats-sandy, blakeboy). I got all the way to the last three; Targas, Windkeeper & Wood for Sims. Knowing that wfs was a large folder, I just placed Targas & Windkeeper. Lo & Behold - the issue occurred.
Long story short: the bad files were by Targas. There is somethng very bad with the antique camera & the backdrop screens. [sigh]
I can live without them, but I hadn't wanted to.
But at least my game is now working again.