U_Dog_U
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Just finished installing it. For the amount of bugs it fixed it didn't take long at all, 10 seconds at the most.
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Motoki
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Gynarchy: When you try and patch and get the message, if you move the bar with the error message without hitting ok and closing it out, it should show you what file it's getting hung up on. If you have to, you can try and patch a second time. I did and it's still getting hung on the same file, Graphics Rules.sgr
*edit: Okay THANKFULLY when I messed with that file, I made a backup of it and so I moved the tinkered with version out of the way and restored the backup and tried to patch for a 3rd time and this time it worked *hugh sigh of relief*
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I haven't tried yet, I can't see the point as I'm still waiting for NL (stupid me ordered it from Amazon on Sunday and forgot to update the expiry date on my Maestro card, so they had to contact me and now it'll take at least two more days!) Since I'll have to mess with my files then and start backing up, moving around and what have you, I think I'll wait and do the whole lot at once.
Ten seconds for something that takes five minutes to download? Wow!
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Sita
Titlights
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I YAM what I YAM
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ack - installed patch and now my game crashes on loading...
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U_Dog_U
Horrible Halfwit
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I just launched my game and when I went into a lot all the sims needs were maxed out. Other than that everything seems normal.
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gynarchy
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Gynarchy: When you try and patch and get the message, if you move the bar with the error message without hitting ok and closing it out, it should show you what file it's getting hung up on. If you have to, you can try and patch a second time. I did and it's still getting hung on the same file, Graphics Rules.sgr
I did mess with that file, refresh my memory though - what folder is it in again? EDIT: nm, found it. Thank goodness I'm a backup freak! |
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Opera loving chickens. Can't eat them. Can't vote for them. Can't wear them as a hat.
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ZephyrZodiac
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Sita, did you back up all your files and neighbourhoods first?
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Trubble
Ferret Impersonator
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MaxoidHunter has said in one of Twain's threads that the final exam bug should be fixed.
Link.
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nectere
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well one good thing, I didn't see no smart milk stuckage and the exploitation cheat of canceling potty training queue in the list of fixes. Sadly I didn't see the homework/desk issue on the list though. I freaking hate that, what is the point of buying desks if only one can be used. Minor I know.
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striker
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What is being changed in the graphicrules.sgr file?
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gynarchy
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*sigh* even replacing the Graphic Rules.sgr file with a clean one from the NL CD didn't work. I removed my downloads, stood on my head, did a jig, would have drank a fifth of whiskey if I weren't pregnant and I still can't install the patch. It's a shame about the whiskey too, it would have made this funny.
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Opera loving chickens. Can't eat them. Can't vote for them. Can't wear them as a hat.
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Andygal
Deformed Freak
Nitwitted Nuisance
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OmG they are saying the fixed Sudden Pregnancy Death Syndrome!
Along with a boatload of other annoying bugs.
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RabidAngel
Blathering Buffoon
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Troubled Child, Breaking like waves at Malibou
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Motoki, You can just return the graphic config file by searching for "useshaders", changing it to false, and "vertexdata" back to true... It worked for me...I had the same error.  Hope that helps! PS, I only had to edit the Nightlife version from EAGames/Sims2Nightlife/TsData/Res/Config....I left the other rules alone, so i guess it was only looking in the Nightlife folder... |
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ZephyrZodiac
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*sigh* even replacing the Graphic Rules.sgr file with a clean one from the NL CD didn't work. I removed my downloads, stood on my head, did a jig, would have drank a fifth of whiskey if I weren't pregnant and I still can't install the patch. It's a shame about the whiskey too, it would have made this funny.
Funny Ha Ha or Funny Peculiar? |
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Zephyr Zodiac
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Motoki
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Okay, my game runs okay now. Only weird thing I noticed is a sim who was bathing ran out of the tub naked and upstairs to stow a baby away, all the while still naked, the nanny got to her first and he's still standing around naked and didn't change lol. I have Pescado's baby eyeball thingy though so it may be that or just some wierd combination of things. I didn't back up anything or take anything out, in fact I added a bunch more downloads I just got today, and the game seems to be running fine. However, I'm kind of ambivalent about this patch as none of the stuff on the lists (that wasn't already fixed with NL; ie the cheering, lvl 6 greek pledge etc) was ever any annoyance or issue for me and the one thing I wanted fixed above all else and considered very serious was that damned custom terrain paint lot crashing bug.  But anyway, I would just give the following advice: Don't remove anything from downloads but if it it will make you feel better, make a backup of your neighborhood. If you modified ANY files in the Program Files/EA Games/... etc folders in any way shape or form you'd better restore them to their original versions before you patch. Any files added or modified in the My Documents/EA Games/.. folders should be fine though. |
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RabidAngel
Blathering Buffoon
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Troubled Child, Breaking like waves at Malibou
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It's around 17 mbs, nectere
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Athena
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Anyone know if the bug that caused your lot to become corrupted if you had Sims on the cell phone when you saved has been fixed or not? Or was that something fixed with Nightlife? I looked over the list, the only kind of similar thing I could see was "Squashed a rare scripting error that occurred when hanging up a cell phone," but I'm not sure if that's related or not...
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It's over 20 MB! (That's the Uni one, anyway.)
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Bangelnuts
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Sita, did you back up all your files and neighbourhoods first?
thank god I decided to read this thread. I have Sim PE creating backups to my custom neighborhoods while I download the NL Patch. I dont play the maxis neighborhoods so nothing to back up there.I moved my DL folder to my desk top just to be safe. |
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I have joined the ranks of many herre and have been banned from Brynnes forum.I must say the pleasure is all mine in having been banned from there .Self absorbed bragging is tiring after awhile.
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JenW
Irritating Ignoramus
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I got it to install fine, no problems (I didn't modify any game files). Haven't tried the game yet. I'll be ticked if my YAs still can't have dates or visitors in dorms or community lots after this patch I didn't see that listed, unless it was hidden in some programmerese I didn't recognize. Jen |
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<Pescado> With ninja throwing breadsticks, YOU are the dipping sauce! | The Literate Sim |
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daysies
Asinine Airhead
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But anyway, I would just give the following advice: Don't remove anything from downloads but if it it will make you feel better, make a backup of your neighborhood. If you modified ANY files in the Program Files/EA Games/... etc folders in any way shape or form you'd better restore them to their original versions before you patch. Any files added or modified in the My Documents/EA Games/.. folders should be fine though. If anything I would remove any global mods, if you know what they are. Since the patch has fixed a bunch of stuff, even hacks that Pescado have created, it's best to remove those as you don't know what will happen once you run with those hacks still in place. I also agree to reverting any files in Program Files that were previously modified. |
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gynarchy
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Funny Ha Ha or Funny Peculiar?
Isn't everything hilarious after having too much whiskey? :-P Is it possible to just uninstall NL and reinstall it without having to start from the beginning? I'm not at all anxious to do it, but I'm running out of ideas. |
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Opera loving chickens. Can't eat them. Can't vote for them. Can't wear them as a hat.
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Motoki
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If anything I would remove any global mods, if you know what they are. Since the patch has fixed a bunch of stuff, even hacks that Pescado have created, it's best to remove those as you don't know what will happen once you run with those hacks still in place. Well I'm running the game patched without having removed anything and so far so good. I generally tend to remove stuff that patched or expansion packs fix and make redundant (chatbug fix, no cheering, greek level 6 fix etc) but I didn't see much in these patches that fixes something a hack already fixed except maybe the final exam bug fix, but I am keeping that one because I use an old version from Two Jeffs were they don't meet the professors. I can't stand how they always insist on being friends with them.  If anyone knows of any specific Pescado or TwoJeffs hacks that this patch makes redundant though, please let us know. Otherwise so far so good and I really am not going to go back to that taking everything out and putting them back in one by one stuff again. |
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Motoki
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Oh and I have no idea if the patch caused this or its just some odd coincidence, but I just had the cow mascot barge into a home in my regular neighborhood and I've never had that happen before. Could very well be some totally unrelated fluke, but if anyone else has this happen after patching please post and let me know.
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