how the Sims has managed to be my favorite game franchise for the past 20 years I have no clue. especially being that I've been of adult age for every year of it. I really should work on finding a replacement.
hi cinebar... indeed yes, i did answer my own question. the new problem was when chosen, they wouldnt load into ingame create a family. as i mentioned to rflong7 above, i ended up giving up after wasting hours cause i just wanted to play the game. while making new sims in game i found the heads which luckily did load. just…
hi @Rflong7 Since i literally just woke up and not feeling very motivated atm, im just gonna use some googled photos to explain whats going on lol. when i go into create a family in university town, there will be a random sim. we will now call this photo "random sim". So i'll click the bin button next to the randomize…
there is a great program called sims 2 graphics rules maker, very easy to use and quick. i dont know if it will help all your problems, but it will definitely help. https://www.simsnetwork.com/tools/graphics-rules-maker. just used it myself today, and been using it on and off for years whenever i re-install.
that being said... i'm still (insert past tense 4 letter F word here) my sims were where i found them, i click them, they show up in CAS like they should. i then click the check mark to commit the change and... drum roll please... they revert back to the random sim i started with. happens with both my sims. -tries to pull…
If you came here like me looking for answers... Here is a list of things that i have done that will probably waste your time. -digs out the original very long sims 2 manual -flips thru the very long manual til finds the tiny section on Body shop -tiny section refers to readme file in a location that doesnt exist - finds…
@jillbg i went thru a laptop phase when they became a thing, ended up getting like 2-3 years each out of em, finally said screw it and dropped 2 grand+ on a desktop. its an HP too, thought i was taking a risk when i was looking at it, felt like i should go custom but this was a powerhouse compared to anything i seen at the…
@jillbg wouldnt be surprised... I lost tons of money spent on virtual items. really sucks when companies take all your money and then pull that crap. i lost alot when playstation home went down, as well as another site. imagine if a site like steam decided to pull the plug, you'd go from having 100s of games to none at the…
@Surreal yeah looks really cool so far, and thanks. just lost about an hour of gameplay on sims 3 cause my game ate my video card settings recently and i was to lazy to look up how to fix it back at the time and then forgot about it. was geting all kinds of long stretchy blocky things and then i tried going to the future…
thanks @SPARKY1922 @Karritz couldnt agree with you more, i bought the sims 4 base game and a few packs early on, but felt the same as you, to me there is just no hope for that game. the only thing great about that game aside from create a sim is the way they drum up excitement for each new pack, but what good is…
Thanks @Karritz I dont blame ya. with the sims 3 being such a pain in the plum like it is, makes me want to quit the sims franchise completely. yesterday i went on the sims 4 for the first time in months, decided to start off making a new sim, spent about 2 hours on that, loaded her into game and 10 minutes later i was…
hi guys so after starting Origin again to play sims 4, it found my sims 3 directory and tried to repair but download kept failing, so i re-installed Origin and the repair appears to have worked. so sometime soon i'll give things another try. :) btw did you guys see the new paralives video on twitter? click and drag lot…
seems by installing the disc version of the game i created even more trouble for myself cause i assumed it would be ok to install it while leaving my existing origin version also. figured if things didnt work out i could always easily switch back. just tried to start up the origin version which then told me i need to have…
@ZeeGee thanks for the heads up.... i went to that link and my head almost exploded. lol when i download thru download dashboard in game, i have about 300 files, downloading from purchase history it was only about 125, not sure how that happened but, i think id prefer the duplicate method, lol no offence. I have A.D.D. so…
I just learned something new today! DONT USE THE IN GAME DOWNLOAD DASHBOARD! lol so i just re-installed the sims 3 from disks, tired of being tied to Origin, i kept my current sims 3 documents folder, but when i started my game all my store content was gone. i started going thru the 1 by 1 download process that took me…
hi @igazor i removed that stuff only for troubleshooting, but i never saved the game during my tests, i just checked what i needed to and then moved out the "test edition" sims 3 directory and returned a backup of the sims 3 directory in its place. well anyway, strange thing just happened, and i have no clue how, but i…
ok... im thinking about re-installing, this time from discs, i dont like being leashed to origin anyway. there isnt much i really care about losing aside from my current household and a few sims around town that i added. im using legacy island III as my world, i just downloaded the world like 2 days ago. and aside from…
@Auroraskies not sure if i saw that link or not, i wanna say the thread i saw had a more in depth post if i remember right. but i did try the export with new folder and it did work. then went on to removing various folders as listed in post one and didnt have any luck with a successful export til i removed DCCache folder…
hi @Auroraskies thanks for response, i havent figured out problem yet cause i know nothing about dbc files. extent of my knowledge is just adding and removing c/c and clearing cache. dont understand anything beyond that. i just installed the game again for the first time in years a few weeks ago. normally at this point of…
TROUBLESHOOTING PHASE 2 So i found my problem location, it's DCCache folder, i still havent returned my old dcdb0.dbc file, so that rules that out. -tempted to run delphy's sims 3 dashboard on it, but not sure how that will affect my game. Just read in another post that doing this is meaningless. im out of ideas. :/
@StephSteb sure isnt, already had one storm today, luckily my power survived this round. what makes it most annoying is that the power doesnt even stay out. i guess thats a good thing, its just annoying in the way that it goes out for 1 second, comes right back on.. i try to reboot my pc and next thing i know another…
Just added into the future, supernatural and movie stuff to my collection. all i need now is university and i think 3 more stuff packs and i'll finally be done. :)