I just started on the fifth generation in my custom 'hood - which I started just after NL came out. So I guess... never?

I found it wasn't a hard problem to solve in my existing houses - delete the roof walls, replace them with regular walls, then re-roof the space. I use dormers extensively when building, proabbly because I usually build sim houses to look somewhat like my house  , and I was abe to fix them with no problem. No temp warnings, no snow in weird places.

I remember SimCity 2000! Loved that game. I wonder if I still have that anywhere... 

 The problem hasn't repeated itself since I posted the first time, so I am going with the "game was running too long" theory. Before BV I used to leave it running for hours on end, mostly because it takes nearly fifteen minutes to load completely. I'd start it up, go do other things, come back and play for a while, and repeat. I guess I won't be doing that anymore.

I had a few maxis beds flashing blue or just looking somehow odd after installing BV. A qucik click with the design tool brought everything back to normal. Annoying, but not a big deal.

No, not yet, I was hoping to avoid that...

But I'm leaning towards the "it was running too long" theory, because after restarting (both the computer and the game) I was able to get back into that family with no problems. I went through about another sim day with them, and everything was fine. I've played another family also, and everything checked out ok.

So I'm baffled, too. We'll see if it happens again.

Was playing BV tonight with a family I hadn't played with since installing. All was going quite nicely, my sim had her baby, and everyone was happy - until the game just kind of... froze.
 
By froze, I mean that my sim who was eating just kept repeating the same motion, even after I hit pause. It was almost as if the graphics weren't keeping up with my inputs. I was able to get to the controls (save, etc.) and after a few minutes, all was fine again. I payed for another minute or two, and the problem resurfaced, at which point I gave up and quit. So, while my computer is busy making backups of all my neighborhoods and downloads, I thought I'd come here and ask some questions.

1. The game had been running for nearly seven hours by the time this happened (not all of it continuously playing, but it was up and running) so could this be related to the memory leak problem I've read about on other threads?

2. Or is it an actual graphics problem? I do have an Nvidia 5500 card (I know, I know) but I have been playing with no problems whatsoever since I got the game, even with graphics turned all the way up, and I've been figuring "If it ain't broke..."

 I have 1 gig of ram on a 2.4 processor and the aforementioned Nvidia card. Any other info needed please let me know.

I noticed this too, I thought it was a bit odd - but I've been playing families with pets quite a bit, and it doesn't seem to actually hurt anything. The only annoyance is you have to click on the pet to see it's mood, rather than going by the thumbnail background.

I think you're okay - my custom hood has 672 right now with all three BV destinations attached (and a downtown, business district and university) and I've been playing it since NL came out. (I play slow, I know)

Just for reference sake, though - I keep a plain vanilla, never been played Pleasantview on my computer (for testing new EP's before I add my downloads back - (I never save, so it's still frozen right at the EAxis beginning) and, as of right now, it has 634 character files.

Yes, I had the same problem - a maple tree growing in my sim's garage. The problem was caused, apparently, by a maple tree in the neighbor's yard - I went into the next door lot, moved the tree, and the problem was solved.

I haven't even had an accidental death in two years of playing the game - mine have all been from old age. I had a close call once - a sim set herself on fire while cooking (The stove didn't burn, but she did. It was sort of odd.) in a house without a fire alarm. She survived in the end, which is good because she's a favorite.  I wish some of my less favored sims would catch themselves on fire - shrink the neighborhood a little - but I'm a big softie. I can't kill them off deliberately.

My custom hood is N004, and it's fine. 

I don't know if the wants panel being empty is something to seriously worry about - I had that with a family right after installing NL - the little girl's wants kept coming up empty. She is now an elder, and as far as I can tell, she's fine - and I've been playing that neighborhood for over a year now. Her mother later developed a problem with screwy wants showing up, but she was permaplat -I left her alone, and she died not long after, quite uneventfully of old age.

Anyhow, my point is, that may not be anything to worry too much about.

Well, according to our vet's charts, our cats are Princess (our last name), Natasha (our last name), etc. I'm sure they just do that so they know which pet goes with which owner, but it's still kind of funny to see that on their paperwork.

I have had sims in three different lots adopt either puppies or kittens - and in each case, the sim was able to pick the kitty/puppy up and carry it into the house or around the house, just by clicking "pick up" and then "go here." Although, unlike with toddlers, I had to click on the puppy/kitten itself to get the sim to put it down.

And of course, my goofy sims would proceed to pick the puppy back up again and play with it. Six sims in one family and all of them wanted to play with the puppy at the same time. Including the toddlers!

I've had this too - in a few different houses. I couldn't get it to stop, either, and even though it is really irritating, I just try to ignore it.

(Although if someone knows how to fix it, I'd love to get rid of it!)

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one... (I think?) 

Tried that, and it worked! - for all the other sims, anyway. They now have their wants panels nicely filled. Still didn't fix poor old Amelia, though. I don't so much mind her being a little bugged, as she is only a few days away from the end. I'm just hoping whatever is bugging her won't spread to the rest of the neighborhood.

If it does, well, that's what we make backups for, right?

Well, I took a look, and there were only 343 SWAF files listed, which is really odd. I went through all those relations, deleted the unknowns,  and I tried deleting Amelia's SWAF file, but when I started the game up, nothing had changed. Which either means I did it wrong (entirely possible) or I managed to create one big huge ugly BFBVFS.
I created a backup before all this started happening, at least, which means that the neighborhood isn't a total loss. I was just hoping to avoid that, as several of my sims have had weddings and babies since I made that backup.
Oh, well.

Okay, my first post, because this has me completely and totally freaked out.

A while back, right before installing NL, I started a new neighborhood. (I did not use DeleteAllCharacters in doing so) I set up one family, and then installed NL. Right after installing NL, this family showed up with blank want slots. Blank as in just plain blue, that is.
The problem seemed to resolve itself pretty quickly, though, so I kept on building my new neighborhood. Installed OFB after it came out, no new problems. The blank wants would pop up once in a while on members of that original family, but again, it always resolved itself.

But... the other day I opened SimPE just to nose around, and I browsed through the SWAF files. I thought I was being careful. I didn't hit anything. All I thought I did was look.
But the next time I opened the game, every sim that I had looked at (and only those who's SWAF files I had looked at) had blank want slots, and all the uni graduates had reverted to four instead of six. I used TJ's college adjuster to restore the missing slots and the new slots were also blank. Each sim had maybe one want - to go on a date, something like that - and several blank slots.
And each one of them had a completely new LTW, which I used the FFS lot debugger to reroll back to the original.
The weirdest problem, however, popped up in my oldest sim, the first one I created, who is now an elder about 6 or 7 days away from kissing simlife goodbye. Her panel included wants for a sim she has never met to become an overachiever, and three fears of townies (who are not dead) becoming zombies. I sent her to sleep for several sim hours, I had her check out her husband, I even fulfilled one of her normal wants by getting her son engaged, nothing.

So what do I do? Is this a sign that my neighborhood on it's way to becoming a BFBVFS?  Or will this weird problem resolve itself on it's own eventually?

I have no hacks, other than awesome ones (critical fixes and the lot debugger, and TJ's college adjuster) and the 'hood only has 353 sim character files in the folder.

I'm praying it's not a BFBVFS, because I am very attached to this neighborhood. And if I have to send Amelia (the elder sim with the wacky wants) to an early sim-grave, then I'll do it. She has already fulfilled two LTW's, she's permaplat, she can die happy.