I have all the EP and SP for The Sims 3.
The problem began after I downloaded and installed Generations.
For some reason, when I travel and come back, my sims icon disappeared, the sims disappeared or frozen. I am unable to do anything (not to mention the stuffs I bought in World Adventures vacation did not show up in family inventory)
I have:
* Uninstalled all CC's - the only things that are left are the store contents.
* Delete World Cache and restore the save to its previous state - it got normal then messes up again.
* Use the cheat resetSim but did not resolve anything.
* Installed the update for the individual EP and SP (even though after the Generations patch, no longer needed)
I have not:
* uninstalled and re-installed everything (my internet is slow, and with all the EP and SP, it takes a really long time!)
I have noticed:
* The sims 3 launcher auto update does not work properly - my Origin is the latest...
Anybody has a solution or if there are any EA team member on this forum. Please review this issue because I've notice a lot of people have encountered this.
Thank you,
Ken
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any techies out there>?
i had to move my family out with the house included and saved it into the household library, copied the family and deleted the one on the clipboard, moved the family back in from my one i saved in the library, then it was back to normal
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help?
I started an entire new computer user, and reinstalled, just to get the same problem again. My game would then not even open to the launcher page after installing the new update.
I have now reinstalled 4 times on 4 users, and I am getting glitches that i have never got before, with only the sims 3 and world adventures installed, i am scared to install anymore. the sims will not stay in bed, they are exhausted, and just suddenly appear elsewhere on the lot! and will just not stay in the bed. Or my families duplicate after going to world adventures. I have played for so many years, and i have never had so many glitches!!
I have replaced the memory in my computer completely, trying to establish a hardware, or software problem and still glitches,
I am getting so angry with the bad help on the sims website, i have now been going in circles for an hour and a half. I just can not get help from a nice person, who knows a anything about the game at all. They have been useful in the past, but you have to get the right people, its down to luck!
After returning from China, my family has shrunk from seven to four sims (only one of three daughters shows up in the green box even though I can see all three, the father disappeared, the mother is invisible but she's the active sim and she's stuck, and the names of my sims changed to something I assume is the name of pre-made sims (for example one is now named Felicia Booker, but I've certainly never named a sim that) even though the faces in the green boxes are the same. I did the reset sim-cheat, tried to teleport them, nothing works. I can't move the family out either like NINjahawks did as half of them are gone and some of them are born in the game.
In the end I deleted the most recent saves and I'm hoping this will work, but I think the same thing will happen after returning home from China, just as it did when I sent them to Egypt. I have the latest updates. I'm considering to uninstall Adventures, I think the problem lies there. It's really incredibly annoying.
This issue seems connected to Clones that you get when you come back from vacation (same goes for boarding school and travel opp). You now have to Sims with the Same ID in your town and that screws it up.
Read here for more info: http://crinrict-help.blogspot.com/2011/06/bug-sims-missing-from-portrait-panel.html
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THIS WORKED! I was having the same issue (but with university after graduation), finally got back to my home and there were no icons and the sim was immovable. After doing exactly this, then selecting "Return to Game Setup" you select household (the one you just placed) and the sim now moves and can select actions (they also still have inventory as well). THANK YOU SO MUCH, this is the only advice (and working at that) that I have gotten, no thanks to EA...
I found somewhat of a solution. I waited until you had to travel home and it hit the loading screen to go home. When they arrived back, their. Pictures were there and everything. The clicked on sim from before had the option to upload her resume and everything. The un clickable sim didn't have the moodlet or extra trait, but it still says she got the degree.
It still sucks that she didn't get everything she was supposed to, but at least the sims were still there and still playable. And had their degrees.
This worked!
Will lose:
Friendships
Progress on Lifetime Reward
Will Keep:
Money
Skills
Job Level
All the other good stuff