Unfortunately, the first solution didn't apply to me. (It's never that easy *sighs*) and I'm not entirely sure how to go about doing the second. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks so much for your help

Yeah, I heard it was messing things up and I read a few places that people had this problem after installing the patch so I mentioned it to say that I had the problem even though I had never touched the patch.

I did a few searches for this issue and found nothing specific so I'm hoping I can get some help. Sometime over the weekend, when I loaded my game, a lot of my female skins had turned black and by that I mean, that inside of the arms and chest being the skintone they'd been the last time I played, they were black or a combination of colors.

I went through my Downloads folder and removed some of the game mods that I had downloaded. Problem still there. I removed half of the folders, still there. I removed just my clothing folder and the problem disappeared. I thought it was solved -- a weird mesh or file had been included. Not a huge deal. Instead of worrying about narrowing it down any further, I went a head and just started my folder over. 

I downloaded a bunch of clothes just from SimChic, some Elder outfits, some Adult Female Designer, Celebrity and Everyday files and of course all their meshes and just like that the problem was created again. I can't imagine it's actually a SimChic file, but maybe a hack that's conflicting with the file as weird as that might sound. Does anyone have suggestions?

Edit: I should mention that I did not install the FreeTime patch.

I'm not sure that custom careers are actually broken but the reason people believe they may be is that whenever one of my sims went to search for a pet job, the only jobs that came up were  custom ones. I don't beleive that's the careers as this wasn't corrected after I disabled them. I'm not sure what it was since I just pretty much got tired of thinking about it and deleted all my objects and hair. That corrected the problem.  But as far as know, foods are fine. I'm using them without incident.

Oh thank God. People have been telling me forever that I can use SimPE to edit clothing categories but they'd never answer my follow up on exactly how to do that.

I'm sorry to post in a topic that hasn't been replied in for so long but I downloaded this hack and I can't find it anywhere in my game. I've searched every single category but no sign of it. I'm sure I'm just missing it but can someone possibly point me in the right direction?

So here's the steps I've taken (some rec'd at MTS2)

1. I took out the entire EA games folder from My Documents so the game could generate a new one.
2. I uninstalled and then reinstalled Open For Business.
3. I double checked to make sure I didn't that have the Radiance Lighting mod installed (I never installed it but the lines were in the lighting.txt file so I removed those)
4. I added the # in front of the boolprop UseShaders false in my startup cheat file.

And still, the houses are dark. I would really rather not reinstall the entire game but I'm starting to feel like that's my only option.

I'm having this problem too and I did all of the above except this:


I'm not entirely sure what that entails. I'm hoping someone can elaborate.

I looked on the forums but I couldn't find anything about it. It must have been a while go because I think older threads get cut off. I deleted them and everything works great now. Thanks again *g*

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll go try it out!

I've been lurking here for a while (a week, maybe two) and I was hoping you might be able to solve this problem for me. The meshes I download from SimChic show up in the game as outfits that are available to wear. They're bright and blinding white and they're really kind of distracting. Is there anything that I can do to them to make sure they don't show up anymore?