OK...over the weekend, I decided to do a test.  I was on the desktop without downloads.  With 20K and moveout fix, I was able to move out.  After adding agetransitionfixes, censor, college clock captainhero and bublebathfun, I was unable to move out.  Luckily without downloads and people it takes hardly anytime to relead the game.  I tried many combos of these fixes and hacks.  None worked, except 20K and moveout fixes alone.

So...In order to move out in my base neighborhood, I just removed all hacks.  We'll be getting around the 20K by just buying all the household stuff before leaving the lot they are moving from.  Granted, they will now get 20K for free, but oh well.

As for the BFBVFS, Bobb decided to just start a new neighborhood.

Thanks for your help, everyone.

Jenn

OK, I think I get it.

First of all, I was wrong.  After talking to roommate, he actually moved people from the original lot onto an empty lot in N005.  He then moved each into the lot bin from there.  Finally, he moved them all into N003 from the lot bin.

Also, I have not downloaded any lots from the exchange or elsewhere.  (Mostly because I have dial-up!)

So:
1.  Can we redo this the right way?  Or, is there a right way to do this?

2.  How long does it take for the BFBVFS to explode?

3.  Should he just scrap and start over?

4.  How does this effect my neighborhood N002 and why can't I move my sims out?  They were created in N002.

5.  I'm thinking that I have to uninstall Celebrations, so that means that I have to reinstall everything else. 

Sorry if this didn't make much sense.  I just got a call from my cousin who had to put her Persian kitty to sleep.

Thanks,
Jenn

  BFBVFS.  Please define.  Because I was away from Sims so long and even stopped running around the forums, I am not up to date on all of the abbreviations.

The longer explanation of what happened to our neighborhoods, as short as I can make it.  We share the Sims desktop, so that I don't have to duplicate the downloads folder.  We share the same game, then, but with different 'hoods.  Originally, I had N004 and he had N005.  N004 was my neighborhood.  In the end, the game accidentally allowed 9 Sims on the lot after cheesecake incident.  I hurriedly moved one adult off of the lot.  I saved and exited.  The adult got her own lot, but I did not build.  It was about a week before I played again.  I went to another lot.  A sim was looking though the expensive telescope when I had major graphics errors, although I still had control.  Since I hadn't saved for a while, I saved and exited.  My roommates neighborhood was fine all this time.  The next time I played, I went into an older house.  A created teen who was now an Elder and also grandparent of the sim who was stargazing earlier was nowhere to be found.  In fact, she had disappeared from the Family tree.  I sent the youngest of the family off to college, saved and exited.  I then decided to build a house for the earlier moved out adult.  She was also missing.  I went into a house where she was related, she was also gone from that Family tree.  A little bit of thought later, realized that Justin (the stargazer) was the grandson of Auel (disappearing Elder) and the father of Alilbit's (adult) twins that caused the 9 sims.

I trashed the neighborhood and started from scratch, with a SC4 created terrain after installing Pets.  I also uninstalled the 3 Maxis neighbohoods, so I now had/have N001.

Around this time, the roommate realized that his ever-expanding family trees would overfill the neighborhood.  He also created his own hood in SC4.  He started moving out people who would not make the tranisition to a new hood from N005.

When the card started glitching badly, I just trashed my new neighborhood and made another one.  After uninstalling Pets, I again trashed and restarted.

So, after a few weeks, all of his Sims were in the Sim bin and I wan't playing.  I was downloading after totally forgetting to backup the download folder when uninstalling/reinstalling.  He didn't use the lots and houses bin at all.  I knew of the other way...packaging sims and lots, but figured it would take longer than what he was doing.  He began the slow process of moving his previous N005 sims into N003.  When he was done, he asked me to trash his neighborhood.  By the way, these are the 3rd and 4th generation Sims of his originally created sims! 

From what you guys are saying, especially J.M., is that the roommate's N003 is or will always be problematic because of the moving from N005?  He said he doesn't care if a toddler wants to who hoo with 20 sims, just so the toddler can move out with the appropriate person.

Thanks again for the enlightenment!
Jenn

I can't.  It was...he got some good reading done while doing it too!  He actually left all of his "ugly" sims and most of the elders in th old neighborhood.  I trashed the old one about three weeks ago.  Is this what's causing a problem?

Thanks for the info!  I ran Sim Wardrobe's hack detector.  No conflicts were found.

Long story short.  I had finally bought Glamour, Famiily and Celebration while computer was in the hopsital.  After Best Buy said nothing was wrong with computer and nVidia replaced my 5500 graphics card with a working card, I brought the computer home.  I uninstalled Pets since the nVidia issue was driving me wacky and installed all three packs.

The roommate was in the process of moving all his sims into a new 'hood, having completed the move out process before the computer went to Best Buy.  He spent the next couple weeks moving in and building.  I have spent the last month or so creating a new neighborhood since mine bugged out just before the graphics issues.  So, it was not until this past weekend that we noticed the inablility to move out.

I guess if I have to, I can uninstall Celebrations and it can gather dust just like Pets.   

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who tried to help out!  Soon after I posted this, I had to go without my computer for a while.

Essentially, nVidia decided that it was a dead card and replaced it with the wrong type (AGP vs. PCI).  That didn't help either, so being frustrated to the max, I took the computer to Best Buy and activated my PSP.  They did nothing, except update to the latest driver which nVidia had told me not to do.  Finally, called back nVidia and they replaced the 5500 with the right type (AGP vs. PCI).  We  have not reinstalled Pets due to fear of having a bunch of problems all over again.  For the most part everything is working fine without Pets.

So, thanks again

Hummm...I don't have Inteen.  But, what do you mean by FFS clothing mod globals?  Do you mean that Family Fun stuff directly conflicts with find own place?  Or does FFS stand for something else?

Yesterday, I removed all of my hacks and annoyance fixes except for no20khandout.  My sim still could not use either computer or paper to find own place.  I nuked scenarios, re-enabled controls and killed stuck bills.  There might be some stuck homework somewhere though.  Teen came home from school in car the day before, caused a jump and then child also was home, thereby missing school.  Merola's mirror is on the lot, but I have never known that to cause conflicts.

I have all expansions though OFB installed and all stuff packs though Celebration.

Thanks,
Jenn

I used to have this written down.  Since I had no computer for a while and since I cn't find where I wrote it, I have to look idiotic in asking the question.

I know that one of the hacks/fixes for University disabled neighborhood move out for some players.  I thought it was the no class or final exam one, but removing that did not allow my neighborhood sims to move out.  I then tried removing the no finals at night.  Which one was it?  I'll write it down in a safer place this time!

Thanks!
Jenn

Hi, not sure if you can help me or not.  I am going though withdrawal, so I am willing to be made fun of!
See one of my problems here:  http://www.geocities.com/jenn_dossenko/Sims2/untitled2  ALSO  .../untitled1
(Getting screenshots of the other distortions is much harder!)


 Info:
Windows XP
Driver 93.71
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
41.2 GB of FreeSpace
Sims 2 + University + Nightlife + Open for Business - Pets + GLS
Official Maxis patches.
The only hacks and fixes that we have come from this site.
Windows Updates are up to date
Computer and Card fans have been cleaned twice in the last two months.

The game had a couple errors prior to purchasing and installing Pets.  I had two instances of graphics distortion, once causing a crash and loss of two Sims from game and family trees.  These distortions happened a few months apart.  After installing Pets, the game crashed more.  Pets sank into the floor, game play would freeze, screen would distort as picture above and with triangles.  We play on a "Sims only" desktop.  Also attempted playing on owner desktop where there are no downloads, only a "clean" game.  Graphics problems continued.

After looking around, found out that 6 & 7 series card was causing BSOD and other problems.  Tried Maxis' work around "boolprop useshaders false".  It didn't work.  Attemted to lower graphics settings in-game, this also did not work.

Uninstalled Pets since differential diagnosis at that point was that we may be having the same problems.  Installed Glamour Life Stuff.  Even without Pets, the graphics errors continue.  I even went back to the previous version of the driver which was 71.89.

My questions are:
1.  Is this the same problem as the 6 and 7 series users are having?
2.  If it is not, is there something wrong with my card?
3.  Will increasing the paging file help?
4.  If so, I need paging file increase instructions.
5.  Did Pets ruin my graphics card or was my card already "broken"?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Jenn