Sims can't cook

[Bangelnuts]

 Help! my sims can't cook,they keep erroring out and the food disappears.

[Count Four]

Do they jump and hey, presto no food, or do you get an error message? Have you tried replacing the fridge, stove or anything else they're trying to cook with?

Is it only in one house, or gamewide? If it's only one house, you've probably checked for stuck tiles and stuff like that.

[Bangelnuts]

I can't get my sims to cook, because they error, and the food disappears

[Kyna]

Try attaching an error log.  The awesome ones around here can't tell you what is happening in your game without the error log.

[Gwill]

2k posts and you still don't know how to report a bug?

[Inge]

Have you downloaded and used the staythings shrub?  If so, buy a new fridge.

[Bangelnuts]

Gwill,This is the first time I have had an error in my game that actually generated an error log.

Kyna,Thank you for the reminder about the error log ,I will grab the error log when I am using the pc that I game on

Inge, I did buy a new fridge after updating the stay things  shrub.

The error being generated is an enthusiasm tracking error

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[Ryslin]

custom fridge?

[talysman]

I'm not sure how this is connected to the food, but the error in your log is "Missing Effect Name" coming from the Enthusiasm Tracker's Headline Effects subroutine. I wasn't sure what this was, at first, until I noticed that your error log also reports that you have ShowHeadlines set to "false". Then it hit me: the error you are having is because the game is trying to display a thought balloon and doesn't have an image for that thought... and probably doesn't even have a *name* for that thought. That sounds like a corrupt memory to me.

But then, I'm not sure why this affects food prep, because the sim getting the error is listed as Zach Griffin, a child. He shouldn't be the one preparing food, anyways.

[talysman]

Never mind the no zzZZ, it's more likely to be the interestlosshack mentioned in this other thread. That error log has the same error as you do. Check for that hack and remove it, then see if your sims can eat.

[Bangelnuts]

I removed the hack nointerestloss and my sims still can't cook

[talysman]

I removed the hack nointerestloss and my sims still can't cook

What about interestlosshack?

Also, what happens when you remove EVERYTHING?

[purplehaze]

Just as an aside, using showheadlines off can cause issues if it is in your user startup cheat file. Works fine if entered in game..but can cause some headaches in the startup file. Probably has absolutely nothing to do with your problem. 

ETA: You don't have finishcustomfood hack made by Cathair2005? Makes food disappear. Again..I can't imagine you would have non-awesomeness in your folders. Just a thought.

[Eva Aisling]

I have all expansions and stuff packs through Free Time and am running on a fresh install, fully patched. I just downloaded all my mods last night, so they are the most recent ones. Now that that is out of the way...on to the details!

I was receiving this error every time an action ended that required enthusiasm gain. The errors I experienced were after cooking, playing catch, dancing together and playing piano. I googled the error and was led to the other thread mentioned previously. Removing  interestlosshack.package did not fix the error. So begins the long, tedious process of locating my problem file.

Since this site was accused for the error twice, I first tried removing my MATY hack folder. This did fix the problem, but since these hacks are awesome, I assumed there was a conflict with one of them from another non-awesome hack. As always, I had used simwardrobe's hack scan before loading the game. Since I remembered the teen pregnancy hack from sims2living.com had multiple errors, and I had never tried the hack before, that is where I began my search. Sure enough, I still got the errors with only Teen Pregnancy and MATY hack folders installed. I ran hack scan again with only these two folders installed. Amongst the multiple errors, I noticed that asprechargetweak.package was shown as a possible conflict. Remembering that this file also showed conflict with the InTeenimator, I decided to load the game after only removing that one package. Eureka! That was it!

So if anyone is using the teen pregnancy hack from sims2living.com, either remove JM Pescado's asprechargetweak.package file, or remove the teen pregnancy hack. Both of these options work. The choice is up to you. I hope this helps others! Good luck!

I'm posting one of my many error logs. It was the same error for all of them (enthusiasm), so I don't feel any need to post them all.

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[talysman]

A-ha! So what's happening is that, with both conflicting hacks installed, the game doesn't know what to display above the sims' heads to show they gained enthusiasm? Weird.

[Bangelnuts]

I am not sure if this will resolve your problem, but after not finding a resolution to the error here or anywhere else.
I removed my downloads folder to my desktop and started my game up.
I loaded to the neighborhood view, which in my case is Pleasant view and then exited.
I then exited the game and moved the downloads folder back to its original place in the Sims2 folder.
I then restarted the game making sure custom content was properly enabled and my error has not reoccurred.

[talysman]

Good job! Maybe the OP will take your advice!

[Zazazu]

Bangelnuts! Take your advice!
 

[Eva Aisling]

It looks like different hacks are causing the problems for different players. I blame EAxis! We are clearly the victims of bad programming! 
I played a different household and got the errors again for different hobbies...Gonna try Bangelnuts' method. It's worth a shot. I read a post of another player only loading their game partially, and then deciding to close it and reload with all CC installed again before the neighborhood had loaded. He apparently started gaining enthusiasm again without errors.