I'd nearly bet my farm that it this bug has to do solely with the new stalker love letters with Seasons, interacting with...something.  Since I've installed all the KT store fixes, the problem is gone and hasn't come back however, no idea if this was voodoo or had something to do with how the stalker mail interacted with a store object somehow.

You fixed it all right...Personality Adjuster potions, both normal and potent versions, no longer have any effect.  When ordered to drink or throw at another sim, the target just does a little jump-bug thing and nothing happens.  No potion gets used up and no traits get changed.  I haven't been able to test "reverse personality" yet, though I don't think that would be affected, as the traits aren't randomly drawn in that case.  All other potions still work just fine.

That would be #1 Misc Electronics for 5$, and already accounted for.

Really, nobody could be arsed to peak in their game catalogue?

Its showing me as having about 75% of what I actually have, even with the backup folder search checked.


Nope, Regal Living Set is 100% already accounted for, and the prices are different for these entries in the patch code - the costs match up to my missing items though.
Store/CatalogObjects/Name:toiletEdwardian_batch38
Store/CatalogObjects/Name:sinkPedestalEdwardian_batch38
Store/CatalogObjects/Name:hamperEdwardian_batch38
Store/CatalogObjects/Name:bathtubShowerEdwardian_batch38

Seriously, nobody else has missing items in their buy catalogue?

My issue is going through and removing all the fucking plants they seem to love to spam everywhere.  I realize you need to cover up the flawed crap, but please NO MOAR WEEDS!  Do not want.  They must have the master beefy computer if they can play with an entire hood comprising of 3 beds and 400,000 plants.

I've spent the better part of my vacation satisfying my OCD by ensuring my content collection is complete.  However, I'm still left with infuriating gaping holes in a few categories.  I tried to use tools and various helpful websites before attempting to ask here.  The tool developed for this purpose (S3SBrowser) is very spotty, only detecting half my crap.  Catalogue sites are also incomplete.

I'm left missing 3 beds and a toilet that I can't account for, if any fellow OCD folks would like to take a peek in their catalogue and let me know the following Jeapardy questions:

#2 Sink for 400!  (second one from the left at that price)
#1 Sink for 500!
#2 Toilet for 800!
#1 Shower for 1800!
#2 Misc Appliance for 50!
#1 Misc Appliance for 200!
#1 Bed for 1600!
#4 Bed for 1700!
#1 Misc Electronics for 1!

There's also a few deco and light items I'm missing, but if I can ID the set that the above came from, the rest should fall into place.  My bet is a bad install on a pack that's causing me to miss a few things.

I'll be overjoyed to reciprocate, especially when it comes to your own gaping.  Thank you in advance for looking at mine.

Update:
I dug through the patch .package by hand and came up with a few things, namely an Edwardian bathroom set that they haven't released yet (forgot?).  Still digging for the beds and a random sink.

Update 2:
Found a random bed that was never released, maybe, or was just promotional.  Modern Asian Double-Bed for 1600.  Nowhere to be had, everything else that looks like it is different price.  Maybe they just fucked up the price in the patch though.

I just fixed the issue today with Twallan's Overwatch.  Yes, some features are redundant with Awesome and are redundant, however, it works like a charm and seems to be playing nice with Awesome.

Using the Potent Personality Adjuster potion, my sim received "Radar Tagged" as one of his 5 new traits.  Any way to prevent this from happening?

Removing the tracking removes the trait, leaving the sim with 4 traits.  Yes, its easy enough to correct with cheats, just wonderin' though.

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My sim also received the "Backstabber" trait, also a hidden trait - though I'm not sure the source.

This is a work around for when something *IS* in your mailbox and the flag is down = "Don't check your mail when there is something in your mailbox and the flag is down."

Nothing will happen in your game if you check the mail when there is no mail, as there is no bad mail to lock up your game.  Did I miss some obvious thing here with your observation?

Happened with me as well.  However, I have no gardening skill.

The only thing clogging the box is creepy stalker gifts, and not very many of them.

Awesomemod is the only mod installed.

If the game freeze happens, it will happen consistently.  Reverting to an earlier autosave and getting the mail then usually works, and it generally a love letter which seems to be completely meaningless to the gameplay anyways.

Can we have an Awesome Option for "No Moar Stalker Mail"?


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I did find a work-around that can be reproduced reliably.  While you may always select "Get Mail", if you do so when the little flag is down the game will hard freeze.  If you do so while the flag is up, everything is kosher and the mail clears out nicely.  Wait for the flag to go up before taking the goodies.

When you say no swap file, does that mean none on your gaming drive, or none whatsoever?  Just asking, because Sims 3 is horrible at memory management, happily ignoring 10 extra gigs of ram in favor of HD thrashing.  There's also some utilities that will actively periodically free up RAM that is no longer in use, such as the monitor with PowerPack 2.3.2+, which can help with some memory leaks depending on the timer setting. 

Another utility that I found helped quite well is RAMdisk, create a 4GB vHDD at 32bit and then have Windows 7 use the whole small thing as virtual memory.  Sims 3 will happily chew on that, and it also helps use that extra RAM you paid for

Back in the day, I used to bench my tech support guys that did this or advised this as a solution to anyone.  Defrag hasn't been a real solution for anything since Win95/98.  Basically, its irrelevant on an NTFS system, especially one that has good built-in background defrag.  Its still a good litmus test to tell the men from the boys though when it comes to sysadmins that have a clue what they're doing...if they use the word "defrag" seriously, then they're fit to be sacked, or, in my case, keep requisitioning techs from PERSCOM until you have a shop with 10 retards and 2 actual useful people.


This, though if he was troubleshooting well, he already has all his CC out.

You got a sexy-like system, but load times are primarily dependant on HD speed.  Theres a program called HDTach you can get to test this.  You might want to think about setting up a soft RAID 0 if you have multiple HDs, or investing in 1 or 2 (for RAID) SSD's.  There's a few other solutions (in the $100 to $600 range), but I think if you check on that stuff first, you'll see the issue.  HDD read speed on a mid-range gaming rig like yours should hit in the 250 - 280 range, anything less and you're really bottlenecking your system.

Image below is from mine when I was testing out my 2 X WD1TB 6gb drives, but putting them on the Intel controller instead of the Marvel.  Tomorrow I put my second SSD in there to see if I can top it.  My saves are about 90mb and the load times stay under a minute on a 930 (OC'd to 3.6), 12gb, 2xGTX470 SLI (SLI does nothing for this game, btw), and RAID 0.

Where was this in the patch notes?

Quick mod request...

Replace the hot tub water with the well water from WA.  The idea is to make it so that the water itself can change color when you click the wheel, not just the obscured lights.  I want my vamps tubbing in plasma, dangit.

Anyone else notice that Hot Tub Time Machines do not actually change the water color when you click the wheel?  Its like the darkening knob on the toaster, only less effective.

Also, no time travel.

I'll do some further testing then, but the 5 or so that I randomly tried built just fine.  I already cut 3 because of some issues, but it looks like I may need to do some more trimming or tweaking for the LOD issue.

I may also need to look into enabling the mailbox and call boxes, but I assumed they were already accessible in the debug catalogue.

*Update*

I just did a thorough testing of LOD and build issues.  Of 23 buildings I found the following:

4 in total default to their lame gray colors in map view mode, tolerable. - I'll look into the texture issue, but my belief is that they don't exist.
1 completely crapped out in map view, the basic shape was there but the textures were wocker-jawed. - Set to be eliminated.
1 was a total duplicate of another building - set to be eliminated.

I also tested elevator compatibility, building floors and walls, etc, and found no bugs this way.  I think the really nasty bugged shells were the ones I already weeded out.

To respond to the original post, I found the OBJD files for the remaining shells and changed the catalogue placement.  Works beautifully in my game for 23 of the 26 other shells.  I posted the modified .package to MTS and it should be up in a day or two once it gets by their moderators.

There were two others with a strange catalogue placement "preset" to Children's Wall Art, which I didn't touch for now, no real time to test.

There is another with the tag "Hero Building" that crashes the game when you set the flags to show up in game.  I think it may be beyond resurrection.

Anyways, a day or two more it will be up on MTS.  Pretty simple hack actually, surprised no one has done it already.

I raptured my neighborhood and replanted my seed famblies and found the issue.  Every time one of my sims gets a job, a random fambly is also moved in to be his/her boss.  This may also happen if they happen to get promoted, the game moves in more sims instead of promoting or drafting someone that already exists.  Theoretically, these sims should be "non-instanced", but they are indeed physically living in my hood.  I would rather have the game draft or promote non-sacred unemployed sims for this purpose.

My two cash registers (consignment and nectary) were manned by draftees from my original gene pool.  This also resulted in a string of "XXX wants to get a job in YYYY" messages popping up that wouldn't quit until I nuked the nectary register.

I'm having a similar issue, I created 8 famblies of 6 sims each for genetic seeding and moved them in.  The storymode still insisted on creating another 7 famiblies of various sizes over the course of the next 3 game days, pretty much trashing my carefully crafted gene pool.  Is there any way to block immigration or at least limit it to when its really needed.  Smashing these illegal immigrants does nothing, the game just makes new ones almost immediately.

The fire engine is always available in the buydebug catalog regardless of ownership of the lot.  You can even place one in home lots for kicks, though I don't think it functions as a standard vehicle (haven't tested).

That's the magic dsmx86dll.dll not found error.  There isn't a whole lot you can do about it and there are a few threads around to help fix it.  I just downloaded a copy of the .dll and threw it in my ...windows/system folder and haven't had another crash, but its probably just voodoo.

Not sure if its the brand new Nvidia drivers (257.XX) or latest AM, or a combination, but high-speed actually works in high speed and game is freeze-free (where I was getting frozen about every 15 minutes two AM versions ago).

Did get a crash because of an overloaded lot though, drilling at night is bad, mmm'kay?  51 sims rushing a 15x10 lot does bad things.

Queue stomping for the robot reactions is also just plain stupid, it just forces you to make 5 tries before using registers and turns any lot into a fracas when a robot visits.

Other than that, nicely bug free.

I had it set to Chinese Garden from before installing Ambitions, for me its always been a Chinese garden.  This was not changed to small park, but it did disable the school.  I believe you could also set the "small park" to "chinese garden" yourself and it will stick.

My school lot was always has been set to "Chinese Garden" and stayed that way.  I attempted to replace the school on that lot and ended up disappearing it, now I can't place another so I'll wait to test it each build.

This bug is quite different though, its related to text strings.  Lot names don't disappear, they get replaced with computer code crap like "String:0000_12345_sunset.valley.lot.name_b435dsdr"

It just happens to a handful of lots with each load, I've saved and reloaded several times and fixed what I found each time, now it seems not to happen any more.  

A similar bug (nuisance level) - Lot types appear in parentheses under the lot name, i.e.:

Sunnyside Strand Beach House
(Beach Lot)

The parentheses with lot type disappears any time you make a name change and must be reset to appear again.  This doesn't seem to effect the actual lot functioning though.

As for custom content, I don't have anything at all except AM and official EAxis store content in .dbc's.  Nothing was added recently, only AM was changed and scriptcache was deleted.