What plugins (if any) are you using? I have the relax plugin with the base mod and have never had a problem with the leaf pile. I'm pretty sure I have the most current version for AL. "Seems to" seems like the best way to say it, indeed.

Like many here, I never saw a good reason to downgrade to pudding. Why have pudding when you can have pie, specially prepared just for you with mods, cc, and hacks?

I don't know why Pescado is pudding-pushing so much, because even despite the ululations that Sims 3 has everything Sims 2 had and moar! (well, at least minus drunkenness effects and actual dominant/recessive genetics), it's just not a mature pudding. It might be someday. Heck, I didn't switch from Sims 1 to Sims 2 until Seasons had just come out.

I think the traits and moodlets are too transparent and take a lot of the "surprise" out of the game. With Sims 2, knowing how the code works might allay some of the surprise, but I still am encountering issues that I've never encountered before in Sims 2 that I've never had need to know how worked. Even if you know how the code works, such as with personality points, you can get surprised just because you might not have that in the forefront of your mind while immersed in play.

For instance, for the first time, I had a child catch his father cheating the other day and he just started sobbing uncontrollably. I didn't know that this was in the game code. I couldn't get it to happen again. He was also my first runaway teen. That may be 2006 to some people, but  I was completely surprised and amused by it. I'm a slow player like so many here, and I don't get a lot of chances to sink hours into playing anymore, so perhaps that's part of it.

The Sims 2 community is still alive, but mostly it's over as GOS now. And it's, in many ways, better than ever.

Those are just normal audio errors and mean nothing. There is no really helpful evidence here.

Wowie. Twice as much as me. Congratulations. 


And ooo-- this sounds familiar. This is where my game will usually crash, too. I can hardly ever download other people's lots because they inevitably crash my game, except for a few blessed ones from Witch and Emma. I suspect it is some sort of timing out, but that is just speculation on my part.

It seems to me you probably have the same problem I do. Most of those downloads are being used. My neighbourhood has probably-- frig-- 250 user-created Sims using custom cc, and my lots are built without maxis objects-- I would have to ditch the neighbourhood and start anew if I changed my download configuration. My neighbourhood spans an entire fantasy world with eclectic cultures all needing that different cc. I'm thinking I'll be playing Sims 2 again when I make a better, more awesome computer. By then, everyone else will be playing Sims 4. 

This suggests that you have a lot of files in a single folder. If you haven't already, subfolder and move chunks slowly.

Groups.cache always crashes the game after the process is showing.

ritaxis, have you tried replacing your .exe with a no-cd version? If so, does the .exe disappear yet again?

This accessory reminds me of a 'spooky' story that circulated when I was younger, The Yellow Ribbon

You are currently that suck of a different colour of which you are speaking.
Read the FAQs.

You may have another hack conflict. Seeing your past issues, I would not be surprised. Have you used Paladin's Sims 2 Hack Conflict Detection Utility? It can be found at http://www.simwardrobe.com/ under Sims 2, programs. It will spit out a conflict report, and but is up to you to take out conflicting files.

If no one else wants to tell you this, then I will: you're probably screwed. If you have a boot CD or recovery partition, perhaps you can restore a working version of Windows from it. If this was a store-bought box, you should have one on hand somewhere. It seems to me recovering files in this manner would be the smartest thing to do, because this computer sounds very screwed up.

How did a user get partially deleted?  Why are you missing core Windows files? What do you mean by the motherboard not being able to read the 'VGA?' The VGA connector is a port that connects to your monitor. If you have a monitor attached, it is working. Do you mean AGP? If so, there could be a multitude of software-related reasons that happened, especially with the other problems you are having.

Find that boot CD, pronto. That's my advice.

I am wondering if you mean that you:
a) downloaded a completely new (to you) hair mesh and are having problems with it,
b) redownloaded an old hair mesh that worked previously, and find it is not working now,
c) redownloaded a file that was causing you errors and you thought a fresh copy would fix it.

That's why you should use Lord Darcy and Dizzy's batch file on the latest lot debugger! A daffodil in a vase is not so unpleasant, no?

I don't see this as a problem; I see it as a minor annoyance. I have 8 compressed gigs of downloads (26,000 packages). My groups.cache is consistently over a meg. If there was a problem with it being consistently huge and having to delete it every time, I would have probably seen it.

I always thought the newly-grown running child thing was a feature. How disappointing.

Do you have any abduction hacks or any hacked telescopes? This was a major issue when Freetime came out, and if you're running AL, you're running Freetime as well, whether you have the EP or not.

Edited out an atrocious abuse of apostrophes.

Is everyone absolutely certain they don't have old hacks from EPs of yon? Because the only time I ever had this problem was when I was trying to use some old Squinge hack that hadn't been updated (I think it was Feed Baby).

I see many errors, but nothing bothers me more than the non-word 'dont'.

Edit: Ha ha! I didn't remember that tomorrow was Grammar Day!

Thank you, empires, for using the apostrophe key in the future so that we can read your posts.

Well, hand deleting the folders in Program Files and deleting the keys in the registry would be your next step.



This sounds like standard Sims2 play.   

Do you know how long I have searched for this??? I have made my own recolours in stone and jet black because of my lack of knowledge in making invisible things, so this is ORSOME.

I do realize that this is the third time this has been entered, but this is the category in which it shines!
We have an entry for the Furrysims2 urinal by nanacake, thank you. Really take it all in. 

I had this happen when I only had Pets installed. I wish I could offer some better advice. I just bought Seasons and installed it and that fixed the problem. 

That most likely means you need a new power supply in that computer. It will probably die soon.

OM NOM NOM. Delishus spore creatures; I ate them. I like that piratey squid of yours, Faizah, and the Dracis. Also, Cerberus is teh awesome.
I love how easy it is to steal other people's creations. I just drag and drop, baby.
Now you can have a few splotchs of mine. I know-- you were just dying to have them.    All I have is Creature Creator right now, btw.

Dew Spider
Drakee The Pleader A Sarlacc (Star Wars)
Set o' Wyverns:

They do not override Havelock's conversions.

Thanks; I'll try again here. I only did that because the FT base game piano had these settings, so I mocked them. I couldn't find anything else to change, and being that most of these were fixed, then it is no wonder. 

Thanks for that-- I went and grabbed the Numerion version-- which is NORMAL. I'll test today, but I'm pretty confident in these.


Nine custom pianos updated for use with Argon's hack, UNTESTED Healthy and well: http://www.mediafire.com/?egdukyy4wnn
UPDATE! 5 additional pianos. Redownload.

I have alpha-edited these costumes to feature absolutely NO TATTOOS. Children do not have tattoos, so use Havelock's download above.  You still have to get the meshes from Havelock's download; these are simply recolours.

 Downloads here-- between 18- 36 clothing articles per download. Yeah. I feel Havelock's pain.

TM Everyday: http://www.mediafire.com/?vkiumguzx1g
AM Everyday: http://www.mediafire.com/?h0yzy2mo75x
EM Everyday: http://www.mediafire.com/?knxigdghpxf

TF Everyday: http://www.mediafire.com/?zctoirgyp2a
AF Everyday: http://www.mediafire.com/?dohljellfig
EF Everyday: http://www.mediafire.com/?nfeygq4zm7s

Male Formals: http://www.mediafire.com/?0p4zjnojtdf
Female Formals: http://www.mediafire.com/?w5mmcjz8uvu

Male Underwear: http://www.mediafire.com/?gjlietojukp
Female Underwear: http://www.mediafire.com/?vonqmq8ejwp

Male PJs: http://www.mediafire.com/?kntnvkx5glv
Female PJs: http://www.mediafire.com/?nhkdymwdbld

Male Loincloths: http://www.mediafire.com/?zgjrnnklmps
Female Loincloths: http://www.mediafire.com/?d7nh4mkjv3m