The Sims Megathread - Come on in! The house is on fire but it's ok. Have you seen my basement?
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So I bought the Sims 3 on sale and it was working OK. Then I got a string of crashes, tried the 4gb patch, which didn't work. I tried turning on all the .exe files for the expansions and base game onto compatibility mode with admin rights and then all of my saves disappeared.
Puzzled I reinstalled the game and saw that my saves still were not being detected, even though they were in the default documents/user/username/electronic arts/sims3/saves.
I decided to check the public documents folder just in case, and there the files are and a new save game that I made to find where it was saving it.
Now this normally wouldn't be an issue, but now the game produces a "The saved game *name here* has encountered a serious error, its strongly recommended that you restart the game" every time I try to load a game, even if the saved game is new.
For example I'll start a new save, save the new town. I can play fine. I save and quit, restart and try to re-load, the error happens. Happens with all games, even games with no sims.
Is there a way to reset the default save location? I tried searching but can't come up with anything to actually solve the problem.
[QUOTE=EagleEye;51439193]So I bought the Sims 3 on sale and it was working OK. Then I got a string of crashes, tried the 4gb patch, which didn't work. I tried turning on all the .exe files for the expansions and base game onto compatibility mode with admin rights and then all of my saves disappeared.
Puzzled I reinstalled the game and saw that my saves still were not being detected, even though they were in the default documents/user/username/electronic arts/sims3/saves.
I decided to check the public documents folder just in case, and there the files are and a new save game that I made to find where it was saving it.
Now this normally wouldn't be an issue, but now the game produces a "The saved game *name here* has encountered a serious error, its strongly recommended that you restart the game" every time I try to load a game, even if the saved game is new.
For example I'll start a new save, save the new town. I can play fine. I save and quit, restart and try to re-load, the error happens. Happens with all games, even games with no sims.
Is there a way to reset the default save location? I tried searching but can't come up with anything to actually solve the problem.[/QUOTE]
There is a guide or two here or there regarding saves that one can try..
[URL]http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_Load_Issues#A_Serious_Error_has_occurred_error[/URL]
[URL]http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:A_Serious_Error_Has_Occurred[/URL]
Good luck!
I tried so many solutions but Sims kept saving shit to the public documents, had to reinstall windows 10 and nuke my drives to get it to work again. damn this game is volatile
For some reason The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection is no longer in my library, anyone else had this problem?
[QUOTE=TDocter;51493341]For some reason The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection is no longer in my library, anyone else had this problem?[/QUOTE]
Could it be hidden or something perhaps?
[editline]7th December 2016[/editline]
i've still got mine though
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;51493735]Could it be hidden or something perhaps?
[editline]7th December 2016[/editline]
i've still got mine though[/QUOTE]
Checked, definitely not hidden. I'll try support another time.
It's pretty funny, for some reason the game did show up on another laptop, now I'm back on the other, it's not there, tried searching for it, selected hidden games, it's gone if I'm on this system.
Edit: And I know why, for some reason the game won't show if I use my native language Dutch for Origin, setting it to English (which I normally do) makes the game show up. That's so weird. :v:
There used to be a mod for the sims 3 that made it so sims wouldn't automatically try and put out a fire if they saw one. This stopped your neighbours running over to your BBQ fire, pulling an extinguisher from their ass and then proceed to burn to death.
Anyone remember what site it was on? Or what the mod was called? I've googled "No fire reaction sims 3" and all that.
Ta
Also what the fuck is with The Sims 3's performance in general.
I5 6500, 16 gig of DDR4 RAM, and a NVIDIA GTX 1070 and I'm getting horrendous stuttering whenever I move the camera. I tried googling ways to fix it but they're all a few years old and don't work.
I was under the impression that the sims 3 with all those expansion packs on top of it just made the game a slow, bloated mess regardless of specs. Add CC on top of that and load times are horrendous.
Under other circumstances, a game from 2009 shouldn't be stuttering on a 1070.
[QUOTE=Holt!;51519046]Also what the fuck is with The Sims 3's performance in general.
I5 6500, 16 gig of DDR4 RAM, and a NVIDIA GTX 1070 and I'm getting horrendous stuttering whenever I move the camera. I tried googling ways to fix it but they're all a few years old and don't work.[/QUOTE]
Turn off memories and make sure you don't have a ton of stuff in your sims inventories. I had 900 scrap in one of my guys inventories, literally made the game unplayable.
I've been playing on my current save 20 hours with a loaded 200K house and no frame rate issues since I did those two things mentioned above.
I remember that by the time the resort Xpack came out, the game would hitch for 30 seconds every couple of minutes.
Anyone still happen to play Sims 2?
I spent a few weeks on this monstrosity...
[IMG]https://gyazo.com/c6fef0076562f360f9f7d224934989f3[/IMG]
[IMG]https://gyazo.com/9893e63402c3a40f995df967928f2c5e[/IMG]
[IMG]https://gyazo.com/4105f9ebcd667ebe27bd154304d2cb4a[/IMG]
(These images have better loaded up and not appeared just as links or blank icons, sharing images by url boggles the hell out of me)
(4 weeks of building this... Why won't this work)
[QUOTE=ZorakiHusky;51581776](These images have better loaded up and not appeared just as links or blank icons, sharing images by url boggles the hell out of me)[/QUOTE]
You're using the wrong link. And might i recommend you try some bigger screenshots? It's a tad hard making out what's going on in your pics.
[QUOTE=Zeos;51522235]I remember that by the time the resort Xpack came out, the game would hitch for 30 seconds every couple of minutes.[/QUOTE]
Island Paradise's Town is an unplayable mess. Not in an aesthetic sense but that even with all the steps at hand to make it stable ( i.e. turning off the fog that conceals the islands, moving out families in problematic houseboats, even using a modified version of the same map with better routing edits ) Isla Paradiso still froze.
The Sims 3 engine ( I feel ) is just not built to take the heavy workload of multiple expansions, especially for a technically busy city like Isla Paradiso with resorts, underwater interlopers and explorers, houseboats, and especially that fog that hide the hidden lots.
Adding to the fact that the game has to, as well manage the needs and relationships of the other sims in the town and you've got yourself a very busy town. Great in concept, but horrific in its execution considering the reputation of the engine up until this point.
Even with cleaning and optimization mods like Nraas, Isla Paradiso is a laggy mess.
[video=youtube;oNvqfjOQPsY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvqfjOQPsY[/video]
Vampires n' stuff BLYAAA!!
Source(s) - [URL]https://www.thesims.com/news/sims-4-vampires-announce[/URL]
[URL]http://www.pcgamer.com/vampires-are-coming-to-the-sims-4-later-this-month/[/URL]
- Honestly would've preferred a zombie pack instead, for the shear idea of playing sims in a more serious survival setting
[B]edited
[/B]Before it's said, it's a Game Pack not a Stuff Pack
Sims 3 is one of the worst games ever made in terms of performace
[QUOTE=jp_rsardeto;51656160]Sims 3 is one of the worst games ever made in terms of performace[/QUOTE]
What happened to tank performance so bad? I played years ago when Island Paradise first came out, had that and every expansion installed, and I had little performance issues (some terrible load times, but that was really it).
Ended up buying a bunch of expansions and stuff packs during the Steam sale, reinstalled them all via Origin, and now the game's borderline unplayable. Constant stuttering and Sims locking up (the world runs perfectly, Sims just lock up and freeze, as does the clock) even with Overwatch and Errortrap.
[url]https://www.thesims.com/news/sims-4-adds-toddlers[/url]
They just added toddlers to Sims 4. It's about time!
Peek a Boo! ( The Toddler Video )
[video=youtube;gkUYyaXBscs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkUYyaXBscs[/video]
- Bonus Tweet -
[media]http://twitter.com/SimGuruEmory/status/819614473522556928[/media]
- Vampire Toddlers!
o shit its free too
[QUOTE=cdr248;51661542]o shit its free too[/QUOTE]
Lol they could suck my dick if they made it paid dlc, something that was in all other previous games
Honestly, who cares or has the patience for Sims 4 nowadays. Things like free toddlers and stuff are neat, but when you consider they've been in the last two games at launch makes it irrelevant. Then you've got the underwelming expansions and 'stuff/game packs' that they shit out whenever they can.
Sims 3 has abysmal performance but I'd take it anyday over Sims 4. There's no way for Sims 4 to recover from this.
[editline]21st January 2017[/editline]
Hell, Sims 2 even holds up nowadays.
[QUOTE=TechnoSandwic;51703223]Honestly, who cares or has the patience for Sims 4 nowadays. Things like free toddlers and stuff are neat, but when you consider they've been in the last two games at launch makes it irrelevant. Then you've got the underwelming expansions and 'stuff/game packs' that they shit out whenever they can.
Sims 3 has abysmal performance but I'd take it anyday over Sims 4. There's no way for Sims 4 to recover from this.
[editline]21st January 2017[/editline]
Hell, Sims 2 even holds up nowadays.[/QUOTE]
Conversely, I've put way more hours into Sims 4 compared to Sims 3 because i like to actually be able to play the game without it running like ass.
The other day, I decided to start another Sims 2 Legacy clean slate, as always. It...did not go well.
First the founder got a job, lost it due to a chance card the next day, and thanks to living in a desert, couldn't find a new job due to heat stroke draining his motives.
[t]http://a.pomf.cat/vpktrm.png[/t]
Eventually I decided 'screw it' and used the genie lamp he inexplicably got despite low as hell hobby levels. But, of course, this wasnt without another bout of heatstroke.
[t]http://a.pomf.cat/gloiyg.jpg[/t]
Then before I could even get a new job, surprise surprise, a burglar came not even five seconds after I bought an alarm which made me feel smart
[t]http://a.pomf.cat/nriavh.jpg[/t]
Well, right up until
[t]http://a.pomf.cat/hyxnvr.png[/t]
Yeah. The cop lost the guy. Which lead to the understatement of the century
[t]http://a.pomf.cat/sghold.png[/t]
Unfortunately, somehow he then proceeded to get heatstroke AGAIN from just taking a shower
[t]http://a.pomf.cat/lzuqbg.png[/t]
And believe it or not, it was fatal. After three successful apocalypse challenges, I finally lost the sims
[t]http://i.imgur.com/EfxKy3i.jpg[/t]
(If you don't know/haven't tried an apocalypse challenge, you're seriously missing out. [URL="http://apocalypsechallenge.kaleiope.com/"]Try it, you won't regret it.[/URL])
((I've actually contemplated doing a forum LP of sorts with an apocalypse challenge sometime lol. Dunno if that's something you guys would be interested in))
I think the problem is that the development of The Sims 4 is relatively slow compared to the previous iterations.
Mostly due in part of The Sims 4 not originally being built as another mainline title, and the majority of the post development being consolidated into playing catch up with its own predecessors. That major feats like detailed family play, seasons and pets are just being turned down for simpler features like Parties, Groups / Clubs, Running a business and Just creating 1 new world to mess about.
I cannot imagine how much time and resources they spent making toddlers, considering the time needed to make new animations for a new age group, and to design interactions for what to do with them. All of this would've been done had the game not been designed as an online game and just started off as a new Sims game.
At this rate i'm just sticking to Sims 2 not just because it's a finished game, but because it's the most developed and well thought out game that has been developed from the ground up as a life simulator.
[QUOTE=coolgame8013;51703448]I think the problem is that the development of The Sims 4 is relatively slow compared to the previous iterations.
Mostly due in part of The Sims 4 not originally being built as another mainline title, and the majority of the post development being consolidated into playing catch up with its own predecessors. That major feats like detailed family play, seasons and pets are just being turned down for simpler features like Parties, Groups / Clubs, Running a business and Just creating 1 new world to mess about.
I cannot imagine how much time and resources they spent making toddlers, considering the time needed to make new animations for a new age group, and to design interactions for what to do with them. All of this would've been done had the game had not been designed as an online game and just started off as a new Sims game.
At this rate i'm just sticking to Sims 2 not just because it's a finished game, but because it's the most developed and well thought out game that has been developed from the ground up as a life simulator.[/QUOTE]Oh man that's right.
I only just recently found out about Olympus, holy fuck. I know it's a mockup but
[t]http://i.imgur.com/I1iqGHC.png[/t]
What the hell was EAxis thinking? Even TSO had a better UI in fucking [I]2003[/I]
[IMG]https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8642/16483287117_1c7632d5aa_n.jpg[/IMG]
I guess consider this me shamelessly shilling for [URL="http://freeso.org/"]Freeso[/URL] out of my love for what TSO was lol. Taken almost ten years, but they've managed to completely reverse-engineer the game and are on track for a full release soon. They've also done some substantial improvements, like completely editing cities and adding roads to the map view (Something only seen in pre-release pictures)
[t]https://i.gyazo.com/0fc9f101c039da20fd229414c00b5d56.gif[/t]
Once it's out I'd recommend checking it out, even if you never played TSO when it was out. It was always a weird, niche game, but it might be up your alley.
EDIT: [quote=The Sims Wiki]Olympus was said to be in development since 2008.[/quote]
Woah hold up a fucking second. That was the [i]year[/i] TSO went under. A dev I had been talking to (Parazaid. tl;dr I was in charge of a dev lot for a while to give away rares in the final days) mentioned them working on a game with online features. I always thought she meant The Sims 3 and stuff like the exchange and shit. But...maybe it was Olympus?
Speaking of The Sims 3, what lenght do you set your Sims lifespans? I always make them live quite long because I'm too attached to let them grow old, but that also means that playing a family for multiple generations is a pain in the ass.
The Sims Megathread - Come on in! The house is on fire but it's ok. Have you seen my basement?
