Devoured but not injured? You mean like in the Jonah & the whale story? Does the bear vomit out the child after three days and three nights and what does the child do then?

I most often get a NEP/freeze when taking a screenshot which involves a lot of quick camera moves;  a fast changing and complicated background certainly adds to the probability of a freeze which, however, only occurs after I had taken the screenshot and not while I am moving the camera. (It is almost guaranteed in one of the "star" villas in Bridgeport which has big windows with great vistas of the city and the landscape.)  Sometimes I also get it, as already pointed out in this thread, with a lot of concurrent commands/events. On the other hand, I never got it with a family that does not have at least three generations.

At least in my case it seems to be a memory problem. Anyway, I hope this helps.

Everybody knows that pregnant women are unclean. It's just Eaxis giving its due to the Peranakan belief.

Not quite sure who or what Brady Bunch are but Darlene sure gets lovely descendants.



Her daughter after she became a teen. Curiously, now that she is a YA in my game she's looking almost exactly like Scarlett Johansson. (The lips do the trick, methinks.)

:lol:

Anyway, when I had my first artistic Sim I was quite pleased with her early efforts but as she supposedly got better and better she actually became worse and worse. I kept all of her early work and sold all her later paintings.

I'd love to see the stuff EAxis people keep at home (if any). Must be quite a sight.

My Sim seducing Bella.

Wait a minute ... Bella?

How the beautiful have fallen ...

I could say that, in a way, this game was built for me. I did not like rotating in TS2 so from the very beginning I was looking forward to "one family only" play. I hated loading screens and there are none now. There are many new elements that do enrich gameplay; there are also some bugs and some stupid - though mostly understandable - design flaws (like the "immaculate conception" problem) but on the whole, I can't say anything really bad about TS3. I don't even miss hacks - cheats that came with the game are quite enough for me ATM.

So why do I prefer lurking on forums (which I have been doing for a long time here)
instead of just catching the most important news and hurrying back to the game? Like some other people in this thread I don't know for sure. I'll just say that it does not feel sexy like TS2 did, and I am not talking about skins or interactions from adult sites. I guess it's a lot of small signals that one "reads" mostly on subconscious level and that all add up in the end, making the game unattractive for some of us.

First, hello to you all.

Next, my problem. In an hour or so, my game crashed twice yesterday - just vanished. I remembered my TS2 experience and removed most cache files. Game regenerated them and crashing stopped.

There are four cache files in the game now; I only removed three - I did not want to touch the script one and obviously it was not the one that caused crashes. All are marked as DBPF packages:

CASPartCache
compositorCache
scriptCache - this is the one I did not remove
simCompositorCache

I can guess what they do from their names but still, I'd like to have another opinion. Also, I don't think that it is necessary to remove the three - probably removing just one should do the trick. But which one?