BV patch is out

[Eletro DJ]

I received the notice that patch of the BV is causing some errors. I asked if somebody has knowledge of them.



PS. "EDJ" is as my friends call me.
Sorry for my poor english.

[KatEnigma]

And now it's back. But I took the screenshot to prove I wasn't nuts when it went missing. LOL

[Tigerlilley]

EDJ - No I was rude, sorry.  I think there are error messages saying the game cannot load, please reinstall.  This has only been reported by a few people.

[Eletro DJ]

Thanks, Tigerlilley.

[Solowren]

I'm definitely going to pass on this one. I haven't had the misfortune of suffering from any of these bugs yet, and I've got a no-CD crack keeping SecuROM at bay.

No thank you mister patch.

[morriganrant]

Hmmm.... unless I've gone blind, the patch seems to have gone missing from the downloads page. 

Not unless it's blinking in and out, t's still there last I check, which was 1 second before attempting this post.

[Xuriel]

Not unless it's blinking in and out, t's still there last I check, which was 1 second before attempting this post.

It is blinking in and out and it has been doing that since they uploaded. I had to clear my cache a few times to make it appear again on the page.

[KatEnigma]

When I'd noted it, I didn't even have a cache to clear. I'd switched to another user account for something, one that had never had a browser launched, ever, yet. I think they are messing with something.

[Ness]

Correcting the spelling mistakes?  I think they got one, but they've still missed another.

[MissDoh]

Hmmm.... unless I've gone blind, the patch seems to have gone missing from the downloads page. 

The same thing just happened to me but I refresh the page and it appeared.  The site is probably overfload with request to download the patch.

ETA:  And considering the launcher will probably make a notice to all player a patch is out when they start their game, there are probably a lot of people trying to download it at the same time.

[LFox]

I think i'm going to wait a few days to see what they broke with the patch.  My game is working fine as it is, i got less chance of it exploding if i don't patch it.

[prattle]

The same thing just happened to me but I refresh the page and it appeared.  The site is probably overfload with request to download the patch.

ETA:  And considering the launcher will probably make a notice to all player a patch is out when they start their game, there are probably a lot of people trying to download it at the same time.

There's a link to download the new patch on the launcher, yes.

[morriganrant]

Well the ones that are left probably think that it's going to solve their SecuRom issues. That seemed to be the general mind set of some of them, that EA was going to "Patch" Securom. Turns out that most of them can't even get it installed. Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turns out the SecuRom is causing that to?

[Sarahsuke]

Eesh, thank goodness I didn't choose to download the patch right away. I'm sticking with antiredundancy until it's rendered obsolete.

[squish]

Well the ones that are left probably think that it's going to solve their SecuRom issues. That seemed to be the general mind set of some of them, that EA was going to "Patch" Securom. Turns out that most of them can't even get it installed. Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turns out the SecuRom is causing that to?

I saw a post on the BBS with someone asking how they install the patch, and does it matter where they download it too 

[Zazazu]

Dumb dumb dumb dumb. Yeah.

I patched, then promptly put my no-CD crack back in. Seems to be running fine, but it hasn't decreased the lag that I get on my business beach lot. I didn't expect it to be gone...it is a 3x5, beach, level 10 business, fairly small home. But it's at the level where it's annoying. I get none of that on the level 10 retail business with four employees, or on my other residentials (one of which is another beach lot).

[NothingToSee]

Yes, I know someone already pointed it out, but as they say, screenshots or it didn't happen.



Hardly instils confidence, does it? I'm sitting this one out for now to see how it messes up other people's games first.

[KnowitallSim]

That's ALL they fixed? There's many more glitches they'll have to fix. I'm sitting this one out for a little bit.

And they should have just quickly released an anti-tour guide creation patch like a day after they realized it was a problem.

Pescado basically did it, why not the developers of the game?

[Argon]

Do you tihink EA is using SecuROm for the patch also? That may explain some of the problems people are having besides the usual patch problems.  I remember the Seasons patch problems.

Nope, still RTPatch according to Resource Hacker.

[J. M. Pescado]

THE OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION IS NOT TO INSTALL THE PATCH DUE TO MORE SECUROM SPYWARE!
This patch offers practically nothing of value except MORE SPYWARE. AVOID!

[Havelock]

Game will no longer create new vacation NPCs each time a lot is visited which was causing many issues due to character file overload. Any existing extra NPCs will be unlinked and their character files greatly reduced in size.

How great the patch produces tons of unlinked Character Data Files how nice of EAxis. I think this if of value.

[J. M. Pescado]

Other than that the Tour Guides will actually get HARDER to Deleted 2 that way, yeah.

[sirnh]

Just why takes it so long for 6 thing to get ...well... fixed (or at least they claim it's fixed)? Did they forgot how they made it?
I'm not planning to install that patch for:
1) my hacks are fixing the bugs perfectly.
2) They can't even write the word 'download' (see screenshot by Atom_Bunny) and then they are supposed to be able to write complete code (without 'spelling'-mistakes) to fix the bugs? Why do I not believe that?

[Lord Darcy]

And they should have just quickly released an anti-tour guide creation patch like a day after they realized it was a problem.

Pescado basically did it, why not the developers of the game?

Indeed, and screw their usual bullshit about proper testing blah blah. If they just have to take months to patch after each EP's initial release, at least they should have decency to get it done right, not to break it MOAR.

Unlike other games, new NoCDs for patched Sims EPs don't seem to get released. I couldn't find NoCD for patched Pets and Seasons. Perhaps the Sceners don't feel the need to bother with the .exe which will surely be superceded by new EP after half a year anyway. I don't feel it's worth to inflict Securom spyware on my machine for handful of changes, and I won't install the next patch if I can't find updated NoCD either.

[J. M. Pescado]

Part of the reason the "scene" doesn't notice Sims patches is because EAxis does nothing to make them apparent. Other games have patches with clear version numbers on them. The Sims doesn't. There's ONE patch, older patches are not available, and the information that the patch even exists is never publicized.