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Title: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: DoomPuppy on 2006 October 20, 00:54:29 What a wonderful thing to have a new expansion pack! I already have one family so fubar I can't play with them at all.
I have Angela Pleasant and Dustin Broke married and living together. Angela was pregnant but hadn't "popped" for the first time when I installed the Pets pack. I moved in the Crittur family to see how pets worked. I found some errors and fixed them by removing non-updated hacks and hacked itmes which may have affected the interactions with pets. But when Angela "popped" for the first time things got interesting. I wish I had a screen shot to show you, but I can no longer access the family at all. Angela's head is fine, but everything below the waist is black silouette, the only thing you can see clearly below the neck is her wedding ring. I left the lot and this morning when I tried to enter the lot it crashed immediately. Moving them out and moving them back in changes nothing. Moving them to a different lot changes nothing. I can warp them into other lots but they repeatedly jump away from the Sims on the lot and do not appear in the relationship panel of those Sims. It's as if they're not even there. I thought the problem might be related to the pets, but I can't separate them to figure it out. An error report is attached. Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2006 October 20, 00:56:03 That is not an objecterror log and tells us nothing. Simsexception logs can only be effectively analyzed with source code, which we don't have. You're basically SOL and can only try to progress by randomly mashing buttons until something unjams.
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: DoomPuppy on 2006 October 20, 00:58:50 That was extremely helpful Pes :P
edit--Think I might have solved the problem..no kaboom yet. :o Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: idtaminger on 2006 October 20, 01:23:58 I had that same thing happen to me...kinda. Lots of crashing and whatnot. http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5920.0.html Pescado was no help at all.
The crashing was always preceded by major graphics fubaring. I.e. bodies going black, disappearing, things turning into white blocks, yada, yada. I think it may have something to do w/ the graphics card. Really sucks b/c my graphics card is supposed to be pretty good. Took all my downloads out and it stopped happening. Since no object errors turned up w/ testingcheats I'm assuming I just have too much CC...I checked my d/ls folder the other day and it's 7.5Gbs. A couple of months ago it was still at 2.5! Argh. It really ballooned after certain...outlets for content....popped up. Damn you Pescado. :P Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: Brynne on 2006 October 20, 02:12:53 I had the black bodies thing happen a while back right after doing a video, and the lots began flashing red in the neighborhood screen. I thought it was the new omega drivers I'd just installed, because when I rolled them back, everything went back to normal. Then my graphics card melted, my laptop was in the shop for a few weeks, got a new motherboard and now everything's just peachy. :P
I did take pics. You can see hats and wedding bands. (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/glitch2.jpg) (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/glitch3.jpg) (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/glitch.jpg) Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: idtaminger on 2006 October 20, 02:35:28 May I ask what type of card you have? I do think I might have installed new drivers sometime prior...not sure though...
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: Brynne on 2006 October 20, 02:47:54 Ati Radeon Mobility 9700.
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: idtaminger on 2006 October 20, 03:30:24 I have ATI too! I just downloaded the latest drivers yesterday to try to fix it, and the problem got worse, not better.
Which driver are you using now? Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: Brynne on 2006 October 20, 03:36:42 I *think* it was the Catalyst 6.8 that was so f'ed up. I'm back to using the drivers that came with my card, now. I just checked and Cat 6.9 is out, but I don't know how good they are.
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: idtaminger on 2006 October 20, 03:46:26 Dxdiag tells me my version is 6.14?? Although it says the DDI Version is 9...what does your's say?
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: Brynne on 2006 October 20, 03:49:56 Yep, same here.
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: KatEnigma on 2006 October 20, 03:52:04 I've been using 6.9 with no problems, but I don't have a mobility card. A new driver should be out tomorrow, though, if you want to wait and try that one.
Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: ZiggyDoodle on 2006 October 20, 13:43:05 Last night I read the read.me file after I installed EP4 and think it may have listed some issues regarding mobility cards. Not positive, but you may want to check that.
I'm running an ATI Radeon X850XT with the latest catalyst software/driver and have had no problems in the short time I played last night. Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: idtaminger on 2006 October 20, 16:39:26 I have your same card...not a mobility, and it works fine w/out the CC, but w/ my CC in it's worse than before. W/ the new drivers the thing's now crashing at neighborhood view.
I've yet to try older drivers...I'm gonna try that later. Trying to clean out my CC has been a nightmare. I spent all afternoon on it and I only managed to organize 1/5 of the Hairs folder. Ahh!!! Title: Re: Horribly UnPleasant.... Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2006 October 21, 08:28:17 I never update drivers until something requires me to. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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