Nightlife made Homecrafter go 'splodie - and it did a number on BodyShop, too!

[Syera]

Yes, I agree that this should go in JM's list.  So far, everything has pointed to the lack of Uni being the problem, and nothing has pointed against it.  I've asked around a bit on the BBS, read other peoples' posts, checked their profiles to see which EPs they have, and... well, here we are.

[veilchen]

Haven't tried using Homecrafter yet, but BodyShop doesn't work for me either after I got Nightlife. It crashes during the loading screen. Quite annoying.

Have you tried taking the 'savedSims' file out of the ea games folder, and then load Body-shop? Often body shop crashes are caused by a corrupt sim in the saved sims folder. If it works after taking out the folder, try putting your saved sims back a few at the time, see if body shop loads and keep adding until it crashes again. Then you'll know that the corrupt skin(s) was in the latest batch of skins that you put back into the game (via the saved sims folder).

It's a pain in the neck (at least for me, body shop takes ages to load and close up), but it usually solves my crashing problem. If this is redundant, sorry :D

[cwykes]

Post from Loflyh on the old sims board - might help someone.  The suggestion that installation order matters sounds plausible to me given what we know about Homecrafter not working NL unless you have Uni.  Wonder if it works with OFB and no other EPs which is where I will be in a couple of weeks.

"Well for those of you still having problems with Homecrafter, I finally got mine to work.

How you ask, I had to it the hard way, won't go there but I figure the easy way would be to uninstall TS2 and all expansions you have, then re-install everything in it's proper order.

I don't know if a patch may have had something to with the messed up Homecrafter but I haven't done a patch on my installs and Homecrafter is working fine. Later, I'll patch my install and see if anything changes.

I do know the order of installation seems to be important, because I got Nightlife before getting University and Homecrafter took a nose dive after that but installing things in there proper ordr seems to cleared thing up, even starts a little faster now."

[cwykes]

stumbled over this today - some people have got homecrafter working with NL but not Uni.  Read the whole thing..  hope it helps   http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=107222

[cwykes]

Snooty says there's a new homecrafter out.  Hope this fixes the problem for you.
http://thesims2.ea.com/getcoolstuff/homecrafter.php