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Sunset Valley Bugged?
DivinylsFan
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Hello
So this is the second time I've played a family in Sunset Valley to the third generation. It's starting to get buggy, objects getting stuck, error code 12's and the other one 'a .... error occured' extreme or something, when travelling to and from university, toddlers disappearing up into the stratosphere upon return, and the oval rugs beginning to appear ... These sorts of things started happening in Sunset Valley for another family I played there years ago and I haven't played there again until now because it's weird seeing Mortimer while he went with my original family, with his parents' graves in his pocket! Ha! to another world, Aurora Skies, and got played with them there until he was old and died and had daughters and all kinds of shenanigans ...
I am thinking Sunset Valley might be buggy to begin with? If so, is there any tried and tested routine fixes for it? Or should I give up and play a different world? What about Barnacle Bay? That is the same as Sunset but without the characters, so does it have the same bugs? Or has nobody else had glitchy crashy sticky problems every time they play Sunset?
Thanks
So this is the second time I've played a family in Sunset Valley to the third generation. It's starting to get buggy, objects getting stuck, error code 12's and the other one 'a .... error occured' extreme or something, when travelling to and from university, toddlers disappearing up into the stratosphere upon return, and the oval rugs beginning to appear ... These sorts of things started happening in Sunset Valley for another family I played there years ago and I haven't played there again until now because it's weird seeing Mortimer while he went with my original family, with his parents' graves in his pocket! Ha! to another world, Aurora Skies, and got played with them there until he was old and died and had daughters and all kinds of shenanigans ...
I am thinking Sunset Valley might be buggy to begin with? If so, is there any tried and tested routine fixes for it? Or should I give up and play a different world? What about Barnacle Bay? That is the same as Sunset but without the characters, so does it have the same bugs? Or has nobody else had glitchy crashy sticky problems every time they play Sunset?
Thanks
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Have a look through https://www.nraas.net/community/TIPS-FOR-BETTER-GAME-PERFORMANCE for some ideas. I don't do everything suggested but there are several things I do religiously and the only thing I can complain about it is the time it takes to load and save after I have played several generations (I play a slightly modified normal lifespan so after about 150 sim days saving and loading becomes a little tiresome).
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- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.Does Lunar Lakes have more aliens than other worlds? Is it a store world or part of Into the Future? I've just got that world and haven't fully checked it out yet. What are the pre-made residents like?
- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.Lunar Lakes is a store world, and the amount of alien you will get is the same as other world when you have seasons installed, most of the premades are descendant from premades that are in EA's world such as Wolff, Sekemoto, Loveland etc.
I've just had a look at it and actually quite like the look of it, slightly unrealistic enough to be a distraction but realistic enough to be not totally silly, given Emirates have landed on Mars! Go humans!
I just had a thought ... I could package the Bunch household in their original and plonk them into it - or are the Bunch's the buggy one's? I say Bunch because I liked having Darlene marry into my CAS family.
Do you recommend anything else? You seem a good bet.
- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.I think if i remembered correctly I played with Lunar Lakes for 10th generation around 8 years ago, it is a beautiful world with only a downside is that most of the rabbithole except the science rabbit hole all look the same (portal), I dont think there is a buggy household in the game, buggy lot? perhaps.
What i can recommend is that for your sims' house not to be really standing out from the rest of the lot, you ought to decorate your house based on lunar lakes aesthetic, well not every premade lot is a futuristic, the one in the caldera looks like a regular cabin (Amelia Loveland's lot)
- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Adventureland
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P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
There's really only one mod I know of but can't name, with which it is really incompatible, but I somehow doubt you use that one.
Anyway, my sim has gone to university and when she arrived at the town view, only the houses were available, none of the vacant lots, and the houses were pretty cheap, even the large one's. The absence of the vacant lots is not normal, but I can't remember how much the larger houses were to know what is normal for those. I looked at the Traveller and Mover, Traveller, @Coriandre, has 'treat as vacation' yes. I switched it to no but then the into the furture portal landed, and going into build or buy brings up lot info of simolean worth, not rent. I can't remember if the latter is normal or not. I can't see anything in Mover that sounds like it's affecting it. Also, the diner at the university is ownable - that's not normal.
Have I been given bad advice about getting Traveller? It feels like my sim is cheating by living in the large house straight off the bat. Is this why when I started at Lunar Lakes, the vacant lots weren't showing up there? I had to go into town edit and change the lot type of them all to ownable, which put a flag on them like on vacation, so then I tried back to regular and then they were available normal. I don't like it.
What's going on and how do I fix it? What settings do I need to put in Traveller or Mover to make the worlds normal, just better for avoiding errors and bugs? Or should I remove them entirely? I got mover because I'm sick of having full house dramas.
Luckily I haven't gone very far into it and can start again with the new sim I created for it, because a copy of her is in the sim bin, and I haven't built anything on the lot in LL yet.
- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.For Uniworld, if you already own a house there (or want to own a house), you first have to rent a house or a dorm and then purchase a house or move to it if you already had purchased one.
To best way to get specific or pro info on nraas mods is to write a question on their forum or page/tag Igazor on this one.
I've never noticed any issues with Sunset Valley.
If you are having problems there you probably will have the same problems elsewhere unless you find out what is causing your problems and fix it.
I have problems wherever I play due to having 20 or more sims in a household. I recently decided to stop allowing my game to change seasons as I really only have huge, game breaking, issues when it is in Autumn, Winter or Spring. So I've now got it staying permanently in Summer.
In order to avoid getting Error 12 I notice how many times I've saved since I launched. I can usually get 2 or 3 saves before I get and Error 12. So when I have saved twice I think about if I dare try for a third save as it's time to shut down and relaunch. Going for that 3rd save sometimes means I lose a bit of game play as there is Error 12. My other option would be to reduce the number of sims in my household to close to 8, and reduce graphic settings.
If you want to move your entire world population to a new empty world you could use NRAAS Porter mod. I think the amount of memory your computer has is what controls the number of sims you can move with that mod. The most I've ever successfully moved is over 300.
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