Open for Business's neigherboorhood and majority of items from expansion do not show up

[magic08]

Vie suggestion Re-posting in correct forum.

Not only do I have a disappearing neighborhood(more like never loaded in the first place),but the majority of items that come from OFB do not exist or are messed up looking if they do.

I have a brand new store brought computer that I haven't had for a month yet. Uploaded the Sims up to Seasons only last week. business

Specs-

OP-Windows 7 Home Premium Service pack 1 64 bit
Computer manufacturer- Lenovo
Processor-Intel R Core i5-2320 CPU 3.00GHZ(4CPU's)
Ram 8192MB Ram(2010 used)-14068 MB available
Graphics Card:Intel(R)HD Graphics Family
DAC-Internal
Approx Total Memory 1760MB

Expansions Uploaded-Base Game,Uni, Nightlife,OFB,Pets,Seasons. Holiday Stuff pack. No patches.

Problem-Everything was smooth sailing until I installed OFB. First it would not install the regular way no matter what I did. I cleaned it about 7 times. Still Nothing. It has scratches on it sure,but Seasons has wayyy more and it uploaded perfectly. No matter how many times I tried to install OFB it would stop at 3% with this error message:

A problem occurred when trying to transfer the file TSData/Res/Sound/Voice3.package from the media. Cancel or Retry.

So after some searching I found how to manuel install from this site. Everything was going good until a error message came up that said that one file could not be copied do you want to skip? So I skipped. I did not launch though. I then loaded Pets and Seasons and then began to play.

First thing I noticed was the neighborhood for OFB(Bluewater Village) is nowhere to be found. Instead the game told me to build a custom district. This was the only option available. The only neighborhoods listed are Riverblossom,Pleasantview,Strangetown, Veronaville and of course a nightlife district if that counts as a neighborhood.

Next problem I noticed was when I actually started to play. All items in the buy menu that come from the open for business pack say no pic and are invisible if I click the no pic and try to place it in my house. The food from OFB is the same way. The descriptions for these items are there though.

Some items that do show up, like some trees and the the devices that you can make things like the toy maker etc, are visible and can be placed in my house or lot,but they have no color to them. Just words scribbled all over them. Like it's incomplete.

There are a few things from the OFB pack that do show up though. Color and all.
-Talent Badges
-Regular Cash register
-Turn-ons/Offs
-Shopping Cart icon to hold items until you pay
-The ability to make many items like food at a time
-Sims personal inventory
-The ability to make a home business. Haven't seen if it will work yet since the majority of things for OFB don't.



Note- Have since upgraded my drivers vie Intel's website. Will see if problems below don't happen again. Or if I still need to patch. Problems above concerning OFB still need fix if can.

Don't know if these have to do with the problems of OFB or just because I haven't patched,but I'll list them anyway.

-Sometimes pets get stuck. This happened to my dog while washing him in the tub. I couldn't move him. So the social worker came and took him away.

-The Sims shake sometimes. I've only seen it done in cutscenes like marriage or woohooing in the hot tub.

-Once on the load screen I wanted to skip the intro so I clicked on it and it froze. I waited a few moments, and then went to task manger and reloaded.

-When entering my house part of the screen stays black for a few seconds before everything loads into view.

Also if patching is something that will have to be done do any of them, up to Seasons, come with Securom on them? I really don't want to go though having that infected back on my computer.


Overall how can I fix OFB. If it even can be fixed? Thanks :)

[Whiterudder]

I'd be strongly inclined to blame the OfB problems on that uncopiable file. if you have to skip a file, then manual installation didn't work :p . Uninstall OfB, then continue on down the list of potential installation fixes - if it comes to it, EA will usually give you a digital download of the game if you can provide them with your serial key. Unfortunately, although the OfB disk may not be the most scratched, all it takes is one scratch in the wrong place to screw things up severely - best solution, don't let your disks get scratched at all. ;)

As far as I know, none of the patches come with SecuROM - only the EPs themselves. You should patch all the EPs you have installed, as the patches fix some pretty serious bugs.

The black screen is normal. You will probably experience other graphical oddities too, since you don't have a graphics card; this particular one, though, isn't a sign of any problems and shouldn't impact your gameplay. Sims do shake in some animations - I'm not totally sure why, just seems to happen. I don't know of any solution to that. The other two problems could be caused by any number of things, including CC. If they're once-off occurrences, I wouldn't worry about them.

[magic08]

So if I uninstall just OFB will the base game, and all the other uploaded expansions, be okay? Or will uninstalling just one expansion(OFB) uninstall all expansions plus base game?

[Peni Griffin]

If you have compilation packs, they don't like to let you uninstall only one EP, even if the EP has nothing to do with the compilation pack. I have Deluxe, and every time I screwed up installing one EP I had to back out of all of them and start over.

If you've got all the EPs in single form, you should be able to uninstall selectively.

[Mootilda]

However, be sure to backup your save game first, since EA may decide to delete everything as a part of the uninstall.

[magic08]

I uninstalled OFB. All my save games are still there. Just the OFB things are gone. Not like they were really there to begin with. I patched all the remaining packs. I tried manueling installing OFB again, and all files copied perfectly except one. It's a compressed file that's number 5 out of the 17 items OFB has on its disk. No matter what I do it want copy. Is there some way I can install a fresh file? :(

[Mootilda]

If you can't repair the disk, then your options are to buy a new disk or to get a digital download of OFB.

[Ghost sdoj]

If it's recent enough and you still have your receipt you might be able to exchange the defective disc for a working one.

[Mootilda]

Also, EA may be willing to give you the digital download for free, if you can prove that you have a legal broken disk.