White loading screen and missing menu strings after patch 1.55
necromunchy:
After a couple of years, I've decided to stop the painful rehab and reinstall TS3.
Due to past mistakes, I have been installing one expansion at a time and testing if the game launches properly after each.
After all seemed fine, I've decided to make a leap of faith and patch to 1.55.
A mistake I will not repeat any time soon.
Mods I currently have installed (for testing purposes alone) are awesomemod and nointro. Removing them doesn't influence this issue the slightest.
Googling brought me to several similar problems, most of them including the uncanny white loading screen. However, most of them solved the issue by a clean reinstall.
As reverting to older patches is not that simple, I have tried reinstalling the last three expansion packs to see if it would make a difference. It didn't.
What I would love to know is whether a complete reinstall is absolutely necessary, or if there's perhaps something obvious that I'm missing.
[EDIT]
Well, this happens when all but the stuff packs remain
Juan Sfalcin:
Do you use a crack? Try leaving only the original files from the game in and moving your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 folder to a backup one. And then use a mini image.
necromunchy:
Thank you for the reply, Juan Sfalcin, however, the suggestion didn't help a bit.
Due to lack of nerves and the fact that I have already spent more than 20 hours installing the game, I have uninstalled everything and begun a clean install.
Hopefully it will be done around this time tomorrow.
Skoria_bay:
Also Do NOT install the latest patch (patch to 1.50) as Awesome Mod has not been updated yet. Do not patch to 1.55 until the All Clear has been given here.
necromunchy:
Here's an update. A discovery, if you will. After installing a newer stuff pack directly onto the base game (to avoid update times), the loading screen got messed up again, and the text on the menu was gone.
Uninstalling the stuff pack didn't fix the issue, so I need to reinstall the base game yet again.
Thank you for the reply, Skoria_bay, I will definitely do as you've suggested.
[Edit which i sure hope will be noticed]
Reinstalled everything and still no menu strings.
The loading screen is fine now though, the colour misbehaving could have been caused by the latest patch.
Not sure if this has anything to do with the base game complaining that it cannot recognize my graphics card. It didn't exist back when the base game had it's list of supported written, but it's supported.
First two times, I've set the resolution to native upon first launch, but this third time I've skipped that step and proceeded installing EP-s. Now, alongside menus being blank, I also have a stretched screen and blurry graphics. The joy.
What exactly does cause the text to disappear?
[Edit 2, though it seems pointless as it's unlikely anyone will bump into this topic again]
Tried uninstalling expansion by expansion, stuff pack by stuff pack. Got back to the base game, but the problem is still there.
Installed the 1.55 patch to see if there's any difference. There was none.
Now, for my lucky seventh time, I will try installing the base game (which alone works fine) and update it to 1.55 to see if the patch itself hates me, or just a certain combination of expansions I plan on having installed.
What a good way to waste a week.
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