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This is the save.  Sim who lives alone is sleeping through the night.  If I hop him back into bed after he is awakened by the message that the carpool will arrive in an hour, I can sometimes replicate the freeze.  It seems to always happen at 7:26 am, whether he's still sleeping or running out of the house while the carpool honks in front of the house.

You mentioned a memory issue.  I have only 2 GB of memory installed on this XP 32-bit system, if that could be an issue.

Finally replicated the freeze.  Sleep until message appears saying the carpool will arrive in an hour and game gets sim out of bed.  Order sim back into bed, and force an awakening to get into the carpool when it starts honking.  Game froze again at exactly 7:26 am as I walked to the carpool.  If this is indeed a known EAxian bug, my apologies.  I just never saw it until I started testing awesomemod, but that may be coincidental.

Three or four of us responded to your post yesterday where you brought up the freezing.  See page 6.  I am sure JM is looking into it.  The hard part is replicating the problem to find out why it's happening.  I have gotten the freezing once but can't seem to make it recur by repeating my actions.

Just wanted to report the same bug here.  Started a fresh game, and on the second day when the carpool arrived control was lost in this manner. Sim had hopped back into bed to sleep until he left for work.  Time stopped as the carpool arrived (the clock no longer advanced) but the green diamond over my sim happily spun as he perfomed the sleeping animation and the foliage waved in the breeze.  Time seemed to have stopped but the rest of the world kept animating as if it had not... and all control of the game was lost.  

Was forced to exit the application like others.  Behaved like an infinite loop triggered somewhere in the code, but that's just a guess.

Ambitions and most recent test version of awesomemod installed (June 16 8:52 AM).

EDIT: Went back into the game, but have been unable to replicate this freeze so far, even though I am trying.  Might be hard to track down.

My experience as well.  Permaplat as adult - now an elder and still chugging along fine on platinum aspiration.

You explained the problem wonderfully, Sarimar.  I have the same problem.  When creating Tourists I get the same result  I have my copy installed directly in the downloads folder, so I doubt changing where you installed it will help.

Perhaps Argon's fix is not playing nicely with something else in our downloads folder.  I get no reported conflicts when I check (involving this download, at any rate).

Regardless, it seems to work properly - I just pick one of the 10 offered copies of the name and it seems to turn them into tourists properly.  I just wanted to chime in and say you're not alone.  Maybe there are others experiencing the same problem or it's a well known glitch that neither of us know about.