See, that's how the MAC appears to me. I think this may be more a case of familiarity with one's own system. To me, the MAC gave away a lot of instant functionality so as to look good. One of the things I dislike about Windoze 7 is the increased likeness to the MAC and how getting in to do real tweaking is now buried several layers deeper than in XP. It feels like being wrapped in rainbow cottonwool and being protected from my own hardware.

Thank god for that. Now go away.

I have Moryrie's packages, I am updated to 1.29, and have no issues.

No more from you Claeric, I will allow these two posts to stay, but please remember you are still domed. If you have an issue with your cc, post about that rather than blame something that is working.

I could do that, if I used Twallan's mods. However, it's not a major for me.

I 'Save As' a new game every time I save, I just change the number on the end of the filename. When it gets to about 30, I delete 75% of the games in between first and last. It gives me a chance to go back to a save before corruption, if I notice some. I save every 12-24 hours game time. I am sick to death of replaying sims so I just have to wear the long save times. I usually have a wee Flash game going on the laptop for when sims is saving.

Ah but in this case, it's all about the 'P'.

I am pleased to perceive the patronising patriarch promulgating palpitations and perpetuating prevarications amongst the pews.

Once again, for emphasis, the OLD WAY^TM works just fine. I use it. YOU DID IT WRONG.

From the audience: OH NO YOU DIDN'T!

See, the 'old' way works just fine, I use it myself. So you're twice, or thrice, a fool?

I never knew you could do that. I have the family as active, go to the map view, pull up the command prompt and type 'Bless'.

TS3 is also vicious about fragmenting hard drives. I defrag at least weekly.

Sometimes a game reinstall works. Maybe some files have got a bit corrupt or something, who knows, but as a last resort this can sometimes help. I have also recently downloaded a small custom world to see if that makes a difference. I've had CTDs with that, but knew some of them were my fault. e.g. I deleted the science rabbithole by accident, didn't realise what it was.

I save at least every 24 sim hours, more often if I've introduced or changed something significant. This is a pain in the ass with the long save times, but hey, better than Groundhog Day.

Nah Jezzer, OP posted in wrong place, Jeebus whinged, OP posted in correct place but did not delete original. I then merged the two.

There is also the bicycle lag as an outsider chance. MTS has a mod for that.

clearmemories
fixall
towderelicts

Those are the first three things I try when I encounter the deathlag.

Word.

Had the issue. Previously, I had managed to move the sim and unicorn from one instance of Appaloosa plains to another, and the unicorn kept its horn. When I moved sim and 'corn to a custom world, it did not. I don't know if the unicorn kept its other unicornly attributes, after it kept running through the house I decided to leave horses out of the world.

That only happens in the Whine with your Cheese thread, do try to keep up.

Just fucking google it, for fuck's sake, I'm done with the hand holding.

This post is back here because you are not experiencing an awesomemod bug. You are experiencing PEBKAC.

This would be a decrapped sims3pack. I haven't seen a new Moryrie release.

Yeah, I often wondered if TJ missed the intelligent people and conversation here and regretted leaving. I don't think he did anything remarkable hackwise once he left here, instead he drowned in a sea of emoties. I'm surprised he kept the site going as long as he did, although going by his post count he wasn't that involved. Still he was so nice and polite he probably did it for the Brynnistas.

We shall have to post watches nearer the time, don't want people sneaking back here.

Capital letters are made by the shift key. MATYans have a fondness for seeing capital letters both at the beginning of sentences and of proper nouns.

With the framework, the method changed a while back. Initially the framework went in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3. Then it was moved to the 'My Documents' folder. Sometimes people get confused and end up with a half-arsed implementation between the two. All content packages should go in the packages folder, wherever you put your framework.

Personally I still use the original method, no need to change, it works fine. With the method I use, I do have to drop the d3dx9_31.dll into the ...\Game\Bin folder for the basegame and each EP.

Your resource.cfg file should have enough levels that it can see content within sub-folders e.g.

And so on.

This is the content of my root folder. You will note the Mods folder.

This park is dedicated to Soozel because I offered to make a lot for her new hood and she said she sucked at parks. It was going to be quite a formal park for a fairly middle-class area, but instead it turned into a bit of a Kiwi park, although there is a more formal sunken area near the front. It was also going to have just black and white flowers, but this is the sims and I forgot you can't change the colour of the plants. So I thought maybe blue and white, but no, there aren't many blue flowers. So finally it became a green, white and purple garden; with teal accents to match the fence.

The lot is 30x20, with the short edge aligned to the road. Only the entrance is fenced, it would be easy enough to put on a larger lot and expand and I kept all the edges free for that reason. There is a children's playground, a chess table, a barbecue area, toilets and fishing. There are two fishing spawners; one rare and one common. Two also of butterfly spawners; one Monarchs, one other. The terrain paint around the edges has been blended into the normal terrain, so it shouldn't stand out too much as a green rectangle.

The pictures were taken near dawn, I should have waited for a bit more light, but meh.













Had to rejig this area as the chess table and chairs needed so much room.


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ETA: A couple more pictures.

I downloaded a custom world this week and placed a pre-made ranch on it. One horse keeps running straight through the house on its exercise loop. I presume the world was updated and intended for Pets because it has the Pet adoption lot.