Bon Voyage Patch #2: Now on thesims2.ea

[morriganrant]

That's what that whole "updating your game" thing is about when you install a new ep, that is a patch for the old one. It doesn't help when they release a patch for the old ep after the release of a new ep. You have to apply that one yourself.

[Process Denied]

Well, if you have nounlinkondelete, then suddenly vanishing tombstones are just a minor nuisance, and you can just spawn them back.

  Thanks to you, I can( I am really grateful) but the main annoyance is is that all my children will be in aspiration failure and all the Sim's wants and fears are littered with death garbage that is no longer relavent to them.  When the tombstone is respond it is like they died all over again.  I have about 50 graves.  I must have something that is causing this to happen to my game.

[cwykes]

That's what that whole "updating your game" thing is about when you install a new ep, that is a patch for the old one. It doesn't help when they release a patch for the old ep after the release of a new ep. You have to apply that one yourself.

Do you trust them to get the right patch in the new EP?  Remember how NL patch 2 fixes didn't all make it into OFB?

[morriganrant]

Do you trust them to get the right patch in the new EP?  Remember how NL patch 2 fixes didn't all make it into OFB?

Of course not. I patch my game right before adding a new ep. It cuts down on updating issues anyway. But, patching is what it's supposed to be doing ...what it actually does is anyones guess.

[Jelenedra]

Whenever I do my re-installs from base game up, it always says that my game is good to go, even though I know that there are patches.

[Ellatrue]

I always thought it was just a way to mess with you and make the game harder to pirate, because of the way it used to require that you insert the CD of your previous EP. I think maybe they just dropped that part of the installation process, or something.

[morriganrant]

I always thought it was just a way to mess with you and make the game harder to pirate, because of the way it used to require that you insert the CD of your previous EP. I think maybe they just dropped that part of the installation process, or something.

I can't even remember the last time I had to put in the previous eps disc. I would have remembered I'm sure, they are all on isos on my external, the legal copies are on a bookshelf, and it's a pain in the ass to get to them and get them to run.

[Ellatrue]

It recognizes the iso files as if they were the real disc.

[Jelenedra]

I don't think that I've ever had it ask for the previous EP's disc, but it always asks for the first disc again. I figured that was so you can play the EP once it was done installing. 

[morriganrant]

It recognizes the iso files as if they were the real disc.

No it's not that, we lost the power cord to something else sometime back so the externals power cord is never on it and for some reason I sometimes have problems with the iso being mounted from the external, I've had to move the files back over to the main computer a few times and it just takes so damn long. It would take less time to ransack the room looking for the cases.

[Soylent Sim]

Having game X ask for game X-1's disk would cause outrage from everyone who didn't care for a given pack.  What the updates looked like to me were asking for the base game discs.  How much of the update was for compatibility purposes and how much they were meant as an antipiracy method, I can't say.  (Although they suck at the latter, as they don't ask for base game discs if you've already patched it.)

And as someone who usually waits for the second patch before loading a game, I wonder what the BV final verdict is.  Have most of the bugs and instability been mostly ironed out, and are the features and stuff-style things really worth it?  Especially the bits that apply to the core 'hood, as the vacation features sounded very flat to me.

[cwykes]

The vacation hoods just blew me away to begin with.  They brought back so many memories of my own holidays.  I'm not sure if it's got staying power once the novelty has worn off though.  You make the vacation fun by visiting all the other lots and picking up the memories, but I find I'm spending a lot of time looking at loading screens.     Effects back in the main hood tend to be a bit annoying - like the spread of hula/slap dancing and tai chi.  You also have to find space for the souvenirs unless you junk them.  I haven't bothered with the special collections that give boosts or otherwise - don't need them.

I haven't found it particularly buggy, but I don't have a clue about techie stuff like stability.

[PlayLives]

So what is the verdict, do we install both patches before FreeTime or does it patch automatically?

[mitchellcjs]

BV second patch is apparently not in FreeTime.  I believe the recommendation is to patch, then install.

[PlayLives]

thank you...What about the 1st patch?

[morriganrant]

thank you...What about the 1st patch?

Possibly is, FT seemed to think my BV was up to date, I had installed the first patch and was using a patched no-cd.
Just patch BV and then install FT. It cuts down on the possibly that your install with decide to fuck up at the "update" and then uninstall FT again.

[Zazazu]

thank you...What about the 1st patch?

2nd patch includes the 1st patch.

[keirra]

I already installed Freetime without installing the BV Patch. Is it okay to install the patch now or should I uninstall freetime and then reinstall the patch?

[morriganrant]

I already installed Freetime without installing the BV Patch. Is it okay to install the patch now or should I uninstall freetime and then reinstall the patch?

It installed for me just fine. I had forgotten to install the 2nd patch before FT install. It game me a warning that I had a newer expansion installed and to revisit the website for its patch, it then scanned and updated BV.

[keirra]

Great news.  Thank you, morriganrant.

[Jelenedra]

Weird, it told me I was up to date. 

Apparently I need to update Direct X 9 or something. It keeps giving me error messages when I try to start my game.

[jsalemi]

Apparently I need to update Direct X 9 or something. It keeps giving me error messages when I try to start my game.

I discovered via a different application that MS slipstreamed a new version of DirectX 9 sometime mid-late last year.  Version 9c, I think it is. Windows updater doesn't automatically install it -- you have to go to the MS site and download the installer directly.

[Zazazu]

Jelenedra, did you put the crack in the right place? I kept getting that error when I put the crack in the wrong place on BV. Majorly annoying brain fart. It has to go in the ..../TSBin folder, if I recall correctly.

Seriously. I was screaming at Addison. "I have Direct X10, bitch!" didn't make him cooperate. Putting the crack elsewhere did.

[jolrei]

Jelenedra, did you put the crack in the right place? I kept getting that error when I put the crack in the wrong place on BV. Majorly annoying brain fart. It has to go in the ..../TSBin folder, if I recall correctly.

Seriously. I was screaming at Addison. "I have Direct X10, bitch!" didn't make him cooperate. Putting the crack elsewhere did.

Oh to be a fly on the wall at Fuzzy Pumpkin's house...

As a person who just downloaded a crack and arrred version, it pleases me to say "baaaaa" for this tip.

[Jelenedra]

Jelenedra, did you put the crack in the right place? I kept getting that error when I put the crack in the wrong place on BV. Majorly annoying brain fart. It has to go in the ..../TSBin folder, if I recall correctly.

Seriously. I was screaming at Addison. "I have Direct X10, bitch!" didn't make him cooperate. Putting the crack elsewhere did.

I believe this is the problem. Putting the crack in the correct place did not retifiy the error, but I was told at PMNN that I should reinstall and try it again the correct way. So I was going to try that tonight, after installing the second BV patch. I forgot the first time.