Where is the autosecretdoor hack? I don't see it in the AL Director's Cut, and searching the site for "autosecretdoor" only produces this thread as a result.

I replaced those packages and it worked. I will definitely mark the game folders as read-only. Thank you again for your help.

I just tried replacing all the files in the 3D folder, and the mesh is still gone. (I have the DVD version of the original game, so the files weren't in compressed.zip, they were just in a folder within the disk. I copied all the Sims.packages and texture.package and put them into the original Sims 2 folder (in my C:/Program Files/EA Games/Sims 2/..../3D folder.) The only changes I noticed when I restarted the game were that my custom content was suddenly disabled, that it gave me an offer to restart Game Tips, and that the Riverblossom Hills neighborhood, which I'd deleted, was regenerated. I don't think I broke anything, but all the one-piece swimsuits are still gone.

What did I do wrong?

For future reference, is there any way to tell which package contains which meshes?

Being stupid, I accidentally deleted the Maxis adult female swimsuit mesh. For some reason, it showed up as starred custom content, so, being silly, I actually thought it was custom content, and, well...oops, I broke it. Having done a search on this topic, I know I need to go into the compressed.zip part of the Sims 2 disk (presumably the original disk, since the thing I deleted was the blue flowery one-piece) and extract some packages, but I don't know how to tell which packages I need to unzip and extract. (Also, I extract the package to C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\3D, right?)

I really don't want to have to do a full re-install, which I know would fix the problem, but would suck, so help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for clarifying. Part of my confusion was because of some confusion from reading the clean templates thread (confusion has since been rectified, but at the time of the above post I wasn't sure exactly how many character files the game was going to spawn if I installed only a clean V001 and not the other 3 clean BV templates, since I did want EAxis locals), but part of it was because I wasn't sure if actually linking that many subhoods was in any way bad. As previously noted, I do have antiredundancy installed.

*wanders off to hit "thanks" button*

Is adding 3 BV vacation subhoods a VBT? I play with clean templates and noregen/antiredundancy, and after installing BV last night I stupidly added all three vacation subhoods to one neighborhood (a clean, custom 'hood that's the only one I play). I only did this because EAxis gave me the "add all" button, and because I stupidly assumed they wouldn't have the "add all" option if it *would* screw up my game.

I haven't yet played the game since installing BV. Should I restore from backup (i.e. pre-BV install) and add only one instead? (If so, are there any recommendations as to which subhood I ought to install?) This neighborhood does have several hundred character files (I'd have to check with SimPE, but my guess is between 300-500 pre-BV install, and while I know you can theoretically have thousands of files without borking the game, I also don't want to mess up this 'hood, since I do have a lot of time invested in it.)

Found the problem. Enemiesaccumulate seems to be what's causing it. Thanks for the suggestions.

This problem was noted by someone over a month ago in the Podium but not resolved (at least not on that thread.) The problem is that, since I installed Pets, LTR doesn't change over time; it remains steadily at 0 (or whatever it's been initially set at.) Searching the BBS produces one person who claims it's a hack conflict, but doesn't list the hack (which isn't a lot of help; given the number of hacks I have, taking them out even using the halving method - take half out, then half of the half, etc) will take forever. I can provide a list of all the hacks in my system; however, if anyone has any suggestions/knows what may be causing this, I'd really appreciate it. This doesn't seem to produce an error log; therefore, I can't post one.

I have all EPs and SPs, although I haven't installed the Pets patch. Most of my hacks come from MATY, although I do have SimWardrobe's automatic bill payer, a few XPTL hacks (mostly relating to Pets), Smonaff's buyable potions, and Christianlov's kitten/puppy creator and pet age changer, as well as the kitten killer. I've already searched for hacks with the words 'rel' or 'decay' in them, figuring that they'd be the most likely culprits, but the only hacks I have with those words are the askrelstatuscontroller and askrelstatus. As far as I know, all my hacks are up to date.

Again, if anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Julie

Just a quick question. I read the article about the new Intel processor, and it says that it's for desktops. Does that mean that if I'm going to buy a new laptop, there's no reason to wait until July?

Thanks!