I'm really not sure if there's a way to lock the camera.  I couldn't find anything about it by googling, just something about angle presets that don't seem to involve actually locking the camera in place, just allowing you to find a previously used angle quickly.  It's possible I might have hit a button to cause it to happen, but I have no idea what that could be and since I haven't been able to find anybody else with the same issue whose gotten it fixed, I'm at a loss.

ETA: Actually, I was wrong, the angle preset info my googling found refers to a Sims 3 camera function, not Sims 2.  I can't find anything to indicate that this might be some kind of feature I accidentally triggered.

This is an ongoing issue with my Sims 2 game and I've yet to find a solution. Basically, my game and camera will be perfectly fine and then, for what seems to be absolutely no reason, both zoom and rotate camera will stop working. If I try to rotate using the buttons in the UI, it will rotate while I hold the little curved arrow button but when I release it the camera will jump back to its original starting position every single time. When I try to zoom in, whether with my mouse wheel or the keyboard shortcuts or the buttons in the bottom left of the UI, it will zoom in a tiny bit and then jump back to the original starting point every single time. It does this in both Neighborhood view and in the lot.

I've been playing all day and have done nothing different nor added any CC, changed any settings etc. I had closed my game for about an hour and when I loaded it for the second time today, the zoom/rotate were borked. In the past when this has happened, my only solution has been to uninstall and reinstall. However, I JUST did that two weeks ago (for this very reason) and I really don't want to do it again, especially since it seems it will just reoccur at some random moment for no apparent reason.

Has anyone got any knowledge of a glitch like this? In my googling for every combination of the words "sims 2" "camera" "zoom" "rotate" "problem" "glitch" "won't work" etc, I found several posts of people with the same issue but none of those posts had replies. I've tried everything I can think of - I pulled out my CC, it still did it. Pulled out my entire Sims 2 folder and let the game regenerate it, it still did it. Tried using the keyboard shortcuts, it still does it. I have no camera mods, so it's not that. I even changed my mouse out and it still does it.

Please, please, does anyone know what could make this happen? My computer is high-end enough and so is the graphics card/processor/ram so it's not that my computer can't run the game, because it can and at full graphics/detail etc without issue. I just don't know what else to do.

I understand I can shut off testingcheats manually, as I said above, but it has to be done every time the game is loaded.  I was looking for a way to permanently shut them off, like the other features can be in the configuration tool.  If there is none, that's fine, I'll deal.  I just wasn't even aware Awesomemod turned them on, since as far as I can see there's no mention of it doing so in the list of things it does.  Hence my confusion with the use of the term 'debug' in the configuration tool, since it was my understanding that testingcheats mode *was* debug mode.  

Alright, then, to clarify, what exactly are debug interactions?  What enables them and what do they do?  If it's not testingcheatsenabled true (which is the way I always understood it, that debug mode was another term for testingcheats enabled), what is it?  And it matters because it's not how I prefer to play my game.  Just like a lot of the options in Awesomemod, it's a personal preference and there's nothing wrong with that.

I'm having a problem that I'm not sure is a bug with Awesomemod or a feature.  I have debug commands disabled using the comfiguration tool, and yet when I'm in the game, I still have the debug commands available.  I can shift click on a Sim and get all the options, I can drag up and down their mood bars etc.  I know I didn't enable debug in the configuration, since I don't want this stuff, it makes it too easy to cheat if it's just...there.  Does anyone know why this stuff would still be enabled and how to shut it off permanently?  I can do it manually with the cheat console code, but I have to do it every time I load the game and it's a pain.

I tried redoing the config tool and replacing the file, just in case I accidentally enabled it and forgot, but no, it's still happening.  Am I the only one, which would indicate I borked myself, or is this happening to anyone else?

Help, please?

I think we may have the same computer, my specs are exactly the same except I've upgraded to 3 gigs of RAM and just a couple weeks ago upgraded my power supply and installed a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card.  But previously it was the integrated 7100 that came with the comp.  My partner has the same computer, without my upgrades, and the game runs fine.  A wee bit laggy and the graphics aren't maxed out, but it's perfectly playable and looks fine.  Hope that helps!