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hound562
25th Oct 2007, 10:18 PM
Intro:

I don't know why this is, but up until recently my game has really been pretty screwy. At first the game froze and crashed when I got to the loading neighborhood screen. Well I ended up fixing that by deleting some of my CC and reinstalling the game. That problem with the loading has finally been solved, the game runs normally with one exception.

After getting the game fixed, (And this may still have been a problem with the game was not working, because when I loaded bodyshop this occured). It's really bugging me because in CAS, bodyshop and some of the in-game poses, don't come out correctly. (Idle poses such as the ones in JD's photobooth pose hack).

Problem:

For whatever reason my Sim will appear invisible at first when I'm in CAS.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m30/harvenhigh/invisiblecas.jpg

I have to load a premade Sim from bodyshop to finally get the Sim to appear, but when I do so their arms are up in air like helicopter or a windmill. It does the same thing in bodyshop as well with the arms up like that (they don't disappear though); I can't even get the arms down when I push one of those F buttons. Also the Sims in CAS remain static and do not move at all, even when you pick the different personalities.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m30/harvenhigh/helicopterarms.jpg

Then when I'm finished and save the Sim, when I reach the other room with the backdrop, there are no Sims appearing there at all. They remain invisible.

When I go to make another Sim, the previous Sims gets blacked out and stays there. While the new one appears over it in place. When I got back to amke a new Sim it blacks out and then it sorta forms this totem poles almost. It gets even more funny and messed up when you make a handful of Sims all different ages.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m30/harvenhigh/eeek.jpg

I have no clue what could be causing it. I keep thinking it's bad custom content, but I cleaned out a lot of things and took out any un-necessary hacks. I reinstalled previously and that didn't seem to be an issue either. I didn't install any new hacks recently either and when my game did work I did not have this problem.

Some sorta glitch is affecting all the idle CAS/bodyshop poses. Even the icons of the Sims or on the family loading screen have the arms up in the arm like a helicopter.

EP's Installed:

Uni
NL
OFB
Glamour Life
Pets

Hacks installed:

Pose hacks (Decorgal's, JD's, Hula Hack, etc).
Gunmod's Lighting Hack
inTeen (Pet's Version)
Gunmod's Camera Hack
Ghost hack (pie bar turns you into it)
Werewolf hack (pie bar turns you into it)
Sneak here hack
Christianlov's Boutique Hack
Merola's hacks (Energizer, Mind Control, Aspiration)

Computer Specs:

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ ~2.4 GHZ
Memory: 894 MB
Card: ATI Raedon Xpress 200 series
DAC Type: Internal DAC (400 MHZ)
Aprox. Total Memory: 128 MB

The card itself doesn't really seem to be an issue. I've been playing it in the past with no problems this seems like more of a game issue than the graphics itself.

Sidenote (Another Issue):

For whatever reason also Glamorous Lounge (http://www.glamorouslounge.net) meshes appear corrupt in my game. As you can see in the CAS screen (look at the other outfits), the meshes appear disproportional and also very edgey. They appear spikey especially at the left leg. The neck is often twisted and so is the left ankle. I don't know why that is. Someone said it might be my card, but this site I have problems with meshes. It sucks sucks too because a lot of sites are skinning on their meshes.

julianarosalia
26th Oct 2007, 02:22 AM
Have you gone through all the steps in this faq (http://www.modthesims2.com/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Game_Problem)?

hound562
26th Oct 2007, 07:14 PM
Have you gone through all the steps in this faq (http://www.modthesims2.com/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Game_Problem)?

Yes I followed the steps. I even took out all my user data. Basically everything out of MY DOCUMENTS>EA GAMES>THE SIMS 2. Still had the same problem. Well at least I know it has nothing to do with my custom content or hacks. I even downloaded the Pets patch. Still didn't help.

I'm thinking I might try reinstalling again. Last time I just Pets EP, I'll take it all out this time. I don't know, I'm still unsure of what's causing it, because this has never happened to me before.

HystericalParoxysm
26th Oct 2007, 08:02 PM
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

I've never seen ANYTHING like that before. Nothing even close. It's like the skeletal data is lost for all of those items... That... :wtf: And the other thing...

... if it's still persisting and you've already tried everything in Game Problems... here's what I'd try:

1. Update your graphics drivers. Probably not this but... hell, it's good to do anyway: http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Graphics_Cards
2. Try restoring Objects.package and the rest of your game files: http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Corrupted_Objects.package

#2 has a fairly decent chance of working - somehow if the game data that has the CRES stuff (skeletal data) got corrupted it might fix it without having to reinstall. Other than that, I would probably advise a full back up, uninstall, reinstall - not something I recommend often but... :wtf: That's freaking weird.

hound562
27th Oct 2007, 05:36 AM
Ahhh thank you so much! :D You don't know how much stress not to mention time you just relieved from y life. Anyways it's working normally now. Arms are at the side, Sims are appearing, etc. The objects.package didn't really do anything, but I followed the second part to that tutorial for the #2 that you gave me. I replaced the 3D files and that seemed to help. Somehow they got corrupted.

Well it's fixed now. :D You wouldn't happen to know why these dang Glamorous Lounge meshes are corrupting would you?