ohmonroe
11th Mar 2012, 07:45 PM
I've somehow just created a problem in my game - on installing fresh custom content (mostly clothes/bodyshop stuff, about 6 sims, poseboxes and, my prime suspect, a few atmosphere items and lighting mods.)
These are:
GunMod's Radiance Light System 2.4 for all EP/SP by dDefinder
Chris997's New Weather deco sky for lots
Psychosim's Neighborhood Water and Neighbourhood version of Chris997's lot sky, w/ her Apocalyptic recolours
Nimi's horizonless recols of Psychosim's Neighbourhood sky
and also Jasper's Maelstrom Skies recol of Chris997's sky (although I've just reread and found out this allegedly might not work without DaniCast's version, which I don't have.)
Anyway, I know I installed all of these hacks properly, but I'm inclined to suspect that it's a conflict between these which has generated an issue.
I loaded the game after installing the new content, and it loaded as normal up to the neighborhood load screen. It plays the loading graphic (the flashing squares) completely normally, but as soon as the loading screen itself loads, the curser turns to the egg timer and the whole thing stalls once the nhood is 'loaded'. So, I removed everything but the new hacks from my downloads - problem persisted. Tried going back through all my 'res' files and restoring the maxis 'lights' folders (to remove the RLS), and completely removing the userstartup.cheat file from my 'config' file. Problem still persisted. Then I removed the other hacks in groups by creator and tried loading each time, nothing changed. I then removed all the hacks, and because I'd read that incompatible sims2pack files can create issues in the teleport folder, I checked and my teleport folder was totally empty. I also removed the savedsims folder for the sake of a totally clean test-load. So now I'm loading my with absolutely nothing but the game files installed, with a few edits to the modularstairs file which I have already successfully run without this issue.
So, here I am in the hopes that someone knows something I don't. Any help is greatly appreciated ! Thanks :)
*ETA: The problem is only affecting my custom neighbourhood. I can load Riverblossom Hills fine :/
**ETA2: Okay, I've done some testing with creating new neighbourhoods with just the atmosphere hacks installed, and played the neighbourhood fine, and then with copying my old neighbourhood's files into a brand new one - this time it stalls. So I've obviously managed to download something which is has corrupted my existing neighbourhood files without me actually ever entering the neighbourhood and placing/changing anything. Anybody got any idea what kind of file/corruption might do this ? Thanks again.
These are:
GunMod's Radiance Light System 2.4 for all EP/SP by dDefinder
Chris997's New Weather deco sky for lots
Psychosim's Neighborhood Water and Neighbourhood version of Chris997's lot sky, w/ her Apocalyptic recolours
Nimi's horizonless recols of Psychosim's Neighbourhood sky
and also Jasper's Maelstrom Skies recol of Chris997's sky (although I've just reread and found out this allegedly might not work without DaniCast's version, which I don't have.)
Anyway, I know I installed all of these hacks properly, but I'm inclined to suspect that it's a conflict between these which has generated an issue.
I loaded the game after installing the new content, and it loaded as normal up to the neighborhood load screen. It plays the loading graphic (the flashing squares) completely normally, but as soon as the loading screen itself loads, the curser turns to the egg timer and the whole thing stalls once the nhood is 'loaded'. So, I removed everything but the new hacks from my downloads - problem persisted. Tried going back through all my 'res' files and restoring the maxis 'lights' folders (to remove the RLS), and completely removing the userstartup.cheat file from my 'config' file. Problem still persisted. Then I removed the other hacks in groups by creator and tried loading each time, nothing changed. I then removed all the hacks, and because I'd read that incompatible sims2pack files can create issues in the teleport folder, I checked and my teleport folder was totally empty. I also removed the savedsims folder for the sake of a totally clean test-load. So now I'm loading my with absolutely nothing but the game files installed, with a few edits to the modularstairs file which I have already successfully run without this issue.
So, here I am in the hopes that someone knows something I don't. Any help is greatly appreciated ! Thanks :)
*ETA: The problem is only affecting my custom neighbourhood. I can load Riverblossom Hills fine :/
**ETA2: Okay, I've done some testing with creating new neighbourhoods with just the atmosphere hacks installed, and played the neighbourhood fine, and then with copying my old neighbourhood's files into a brand new one - this time it stalls. So I've obviously managed to download something which is has corrupted my existing neighbourhood files without me actually ever entering the neighbourhood and placing/changing anything. Anybody got any idea what kind of file/corruption might do this ? Thanks again.