You can add screen size on the command line (details in the readme that comes with the game), but it's easier (and permanent) to do it within the game.  Go to the graphics options and pick the size that's the same as your widescreen.  If that size doesn't exist, then you have to edit the graphicsrules.scr file in your games ...TSDATA/RES/CONFIG folder to add the proper settings.  Do a search on 'graphicrules.scr' here to find older messages with complete details on how to do this.

If she doesn't come anymore, you probably have some version of TJ's Visitor Controller in your game -- that bans the Gypsy by default. In order to get the Genie lamp, one of the sims on the lot has to max their enthusiasm in a hobby.  She'll then show up sometime in the next couple of days to drop the lamp off. The VC lets her drop it off and then chases her away.

I've seen a lot more instances of sims going off to 'stuff face' since FT. No problems with regular foods, but I haven't seen so much face stuffing in ages, maybe ever.

That happened with a bad crack, I think -- try getting a new version from gamecopyworld and see if that fixes the problem.  Also, make sure you start the game from the no-cd.exe, and not from the launcher.

I played them almost 10 days and Louis was still hanging around, so I used Inge's 'days left' shrub to find out what's going on.  He may not have ever-lasting life, but at that point he still had 12 days left, which would make him something like 140 by the time he actually died.  I used TJ's blender to knock 9 days off his lifespan, and after 3 more days he did  die normally.

I'm beginning to think that FT broke the comfort stuff at some point -- I've noticed that no matter the comfort rating of a chair, a sim's comfort level doesn't rise if they're sitting in the chair sewing.  Same chair by a desk or table and their comfort goes up.  At the sewing machine, it stays static.  Weird.

Yea, the power outages were really caused by the fire-breathing toddlers...

Turn on the testing cheats (if you don't know how, see the FAQ here), and when the sim jumps the game will generate an error log.  Post it here for the awesome folks to examine and help pinpoint your problem.

No problems with either in later games. As you said, stuff gets carried forward through later expansions -- it's just not active if it doesn't find the earlier expansion present.  Any post-Uni EP has the resurrection code in it, and FT even includes an alternate resurrection method through the Genie.

Um, that's what THIS fix (first message in this thread) is for -- making the IKEA stuff FT-compatible.

FYI, jfade has a nice little hack over on DJS that silences the alarms, and just pops up a box telling you the alarm has gone off and the police/fire dept. has been called. 

The skillinator for dancing already exists, since sims can get a scholarship out of high dancing skill. It may only be active for teens (and maybe kids) though.

Actually, that 'cat' looks like Inge's teleporter cat.


(Edited to correct a brain fart...)

Also, Monique's original computers have not been updated for FT, as she has vanished from the modding community -- if you're using the BV (or earlier) versions, they're known to cause a bunch of problems.  You can find FT versions updated by other folks here in the Peasantry forum.

Go to simwardrobe, and get the Hack Conflict Detection Utility. Run it to see if you have conflicting hacks in your game.

Yea, I see it just fine, right there in the list of ceiling lamps.

Huh -- that may explain why I haven't had any dormie deaths since installing FT, in spite of some going full red on everything.

Nice!  I'll have to yoink it when I get home...

Yea, that would work.

The stuck object remover is part of the Awesomeware hacks found a few forums down. Also, the odds are that it's a bad hack or mod causing the problem -- I'd suspect some other hack related to refrigerators perhaps, since you said you removed the ones that change the dinnerware and cans. Could also be a hack conflict, so you should go to www.simwardrobe.com and get the Hack Conflict Detection Utility (HCDU), a very valuable tool to have if you're going to put custom content and hacks in your game.

If no conflicts show up, then you should remove all your CC, and see if the problem still exists.  If it does, you'll probably have to reinstall something.  If it doesn't, then you know a hack/mod/other cc is causing the issue, and you should do a binary search to narrow down the culprit.

That's the standard error log you get when you force an error on an object; it doesn't usually tell anything about why the object is borked.  I'm not familiar with what the wiki says, but turning 'moveobjects on' in the cheat box usually lets you delete stuck plates and the like.

The statue is big, but there's usually enough room on the existing comm lots to put it somewhere.  Like the lot you talked about (the pagoda lot with the food stand and the wall) -- the ninja statute fits on the right-hand side of the entrance gate right in front, not far from the phone booth.  On the Lucky Shrine lot, you can stick it between the bathroom and the gift shop.  On the 'tea party' lot (with the two tea pavilions and food stand and zen garden), the only place it really fits is at the back of the lot, and then you have to remove one of the park benches. 

The only lot I haven't found a good place for it is the hot springs one.

I'm alarmed by the butterfly/bug jar -- that thing is HUGE!

Just FYI, but if you're using TwoJeffs' Visitor Controller, I believe its default is to prevent strays on community lots. So if that loads after this, the VC will override it and still prevent the strays.

If you're not using the VC, never mind....

"NO UNSETTING ROUTEBLOCK FLAGS", found about a third of the way down on this page: http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Doors.htm