What Bugs/glitches do you have?

[LadyAwesome]

SO....

After a doing a bit of research and testing, I was wondering

What kind of silly things does your game do.

So Far I have had a job bug. Where my job performance wont go up, only down.
- I have narrowed it down to mods and custom worlds.

Once sims are married, their relationship went back for friends. No woohoooing for them.
- After I re-installed my game this went back to normal.

Once my daughters game had floating hair, But that fixed when I changed the hair.

Just thought it would be interesting to find out what issues other people have been having.

[BenC0722]

SO....

After a doing a bit of research and testing, I was wondering

What kind of silly things does your game do.

So Far I have had a job bug. Where my job performance wont go up, only down.
- I have narrowed it down to mods and custom worlds.

Once sims are married, their relationship went back for friends. No woohoooing for them.
- After I re-installed my game this went back to normal.

Once my daughters game had floating hair, But that fixed when I changed the hair.

Just thought it would be interesting to find out what issues other people have been having.

I must have been very lucky so far. Aside from occasional lag, my game pretty much behaves the way you expect it too.

The WA board doesn't work perfectly ever since I installed LN though. You might have to try using it something like 10 times in a row before an opportunity comes up. Yes, it should say "Nothing more posted today," but it doesn't always do this. This issue has yet to be fixed in the two patch levels since LN came out.

Another alternative is to use Twallan's Master Controller, which allows you to arbitrarily select what opportunity you want your sim to do. Every opportunity they "qualify" for, will show up in the list. This includes adventures, if your sim is on vacation.

I know you've spoken to me about the sim relationship problem, which seems odd (not sure what caused that), but I don't remember the job performance problem.

I have many mods installed, and none prevent job performance from increasing. In fact, when I play job performance always increases unless the sim is running late for work.

Also, I'm curious as to why you posted this in the LN forum. Do you think LN can be the cause of this? I doubt it's a custom world. I've installed half a dozen or so worlds, and haven't observed this behavior in any of them.

Another point of confusion is this. Are you hoping for help for your problem, or is this just a curiosity thread, where you're just wondering what other glitches/bugs/problems/issues others have experienced?

[LadyAwesome]

I made it clear that I was wondering about what other players have experienced . . . or did I lol.

Also, it has only happened since I got LN.

[SpookyOkyBatGirl]

My only bug/glitch right now is that no matter what, no vampire will bite my Sims. Maxed out relationship, all alone in my penthouse and the option won't show.

And this isn't really a glitch or a bug, but all of the townies are producing the most fugly toddlers and children I've ever seen.

[LadyAwesome]

Good old fugly sims :)

Have you got mods/cc ect?

[secretsim]

My Sims have a problem with aging. Some Sims in non-active households jump a whole age group. I had a Sim who was supposed to become an adult, but when I was playing another household, she aged into an elder. And my Sim children frequently age up out of turn (the youngest suddenly becoming the oldest, etc).

I really don't want to add mods to my game because I've been trying to stay CC and mod free so I guess I'm stuck with the frustration. This is the biggest problem I have besides the occasional disappearing UI when I switch households.

[LadyAwesome]

That actually seems real strange. Also has this been since LN??

[SpookyOkyBatGirl]

I don't have any mods that should conflict with that. Only mods I really have is Dexter the Bear, teen woohoo and pregnant, same-sex pregnancy and this cheat to max out traits instantly. They never caused a problem, but it was just in the last two weeks, long after I installed all of these mods, that it started getting freaky on me.

[LadyAwesome]

I was starting to think it was late night - I wish I had an answer for you spook, but I do not. And I use none of those mods.

[SpookyOkyBatGirl]

It's alright. If I want a vampire, I can easily take temporarily take control of a vampire, make it bit my sim, then send it on it's way.

[Jennuh]

I have a ton of glitches..

I have a broken family tree. When I click the family tree button it just doesn't show up. My sims age bar no longer moves and I don't think anyone else in the town is aging either. Even when I age them manually to the next stage the bar still never increases. It's frustrating because it happened to my 5 generation legacy family. The whole thing is completely messed up. I tried MasterController, Story Progression Mod, Overwatch and ErrorTrap mods to fix my issues and none of them have worked at all. I'm about to just give up. I don't have all my discs with me presently to try to re-install and I can't imagine what kind of nightmare it would be to backup and reinstall my game.

[LadyAwesome]

lol do you have aging turned off in options???? most easy options are sometimes the most forgotten. do you have mods/cc Jen?

[Jennuh]

lol do you have aging turned off in options???? most easy options are sometimes the most forgotten. do you have mods/cc Jen?

It's all turned on. "/ I didn't have any mods/cc until this problem started and then I tried to fix it with mods. So originally, no.

[LadyAwesome]

Oh and anybody did this start a while after installing LN?? or had it been a while. Maybe they are performance glitches - like our computers can't handle the game

[Jennuh]

My problems started happening right when I installed Outdoor Living weirdly enough.

[LadyAwesome]

Oh I don't have that, I have the strangest feeling ea just don't want us to have CC, but then I don't exactly have the brains to last a century - I just want to see how many other people are having these silly glitches.

[Joshie196]

I have an annoying glitch where every time i try and moonlight, my Sim will take over, but when he starts to work, he teleports a few squares away. This happens at any club on any bar, and it makes moonlighting impossible.

[LadyAwesome]

Oh never heard of that one. Good luck with figuring it out though hahaha. I suggest deleting caches and removing cc files to desk top and testing game.

[IChoseThisName]

Not a bug, per se, but as something that's been bothering me since day 1 I wanted to find out if they've ever fixed that lack of audio when men go to the bathroom? It's just awkward, that silence.. no expansions and/or patches to fix that yet?

[clynnc19]

I thought I had the no bartender bug but I just found out it was one of my mods causing it.

[BartholomewMaximillion]

Same as clynnc19, only I don't have bouncers either. I'm a hundred percent sure its one of my mods causing it, but its not worth sorting through my mods. It's temporarily fixed when I replace the mixologist/bouncer though.

[Nadinne89]

My only glitch is that the children and teen are bathing with their clothes on. What is annoying is that the children in the bath or shower have adult clothes....Maybe bad cc?

Edit:

oh... I forgot one, with my first butler, after I fired her, she was there, but... invisible, she continued cooking and all the stuff... So funny to see how the food is prepared by itself...

[Johnny_Bravo]

My Sims keep dying!











:hehe, obvious insider::heyhey:

[Volvenom]

oh... I forgot one, with my first butler, after I fired her, she was there, but... invisible, she continued cooking and all the stuff... So funny to see how the food is prepared by itself...

Oh yea the butler. I had a big lot I was working on when the Butler first arrived. Firstly it couldn't find it's bed ... well It still has trouble's finding it's bed on big lots, but he find's it eventually.

In the beginning I had all those wacky strange things happening I haven't had since TS2 lol. Like butler just sitting there stuck to the chair, between floors, mmo deleted but still walking around with no body
:rofl:

Another problem I have is with nabourhood, if I use them over and over again it all vanishes into a big blue ocean. I save a lot when I build now.

[LadyAwesome]

I had the bartender thing too - I removed awesome mod and it seemed to fix it. And invisible butler hahaha awesome


I try saving alot anyway - because I always get code 12 (which saves as a bad file and doesn't save) So annoying when I was 'trying' to write a story.

[Greenlea]

I have a glitch going on with the stage tool at one point it worked fine but now if i try to play one it's like the floor tile that should be on it isn't there, yet it "floats" for lack of a better word above the actual stage and slightly to the side. It irritates me because I want to use stages in lots and can't.

[LadyAwesome]

Oh that is odd.

So I have learnt how to fix my game YAY - remember to keep your mods updated people!!

[candyapplegirl]

My sims have started getting stuck and disappearing. They won't respond when I try to control them. I thought it had to do with CC, and I reinstalled my whole game. Now I have no CC at all, and it's still doing it. I just started over again in Twinbrook, so we'll see if I have the same problem there that I had in Sunset Valley.

[Foxen]

I've lately had a bu where my game will go silent and lag like hell. I've narrowed it down to a faulty EA patch which I think is the latest. : / Annoying, but all I have to do is pause the game for a while, wait until the sound returns (it'll play several sounds very fast and close together) and proceed as normal.

[kennyinbmore]

I must have been very lucky so far. Aside from occasional lag, my game pretty much behaves the way you expect it too.



I guess we're both the lucky ones. I haven't noticed anything amiss in my game either

[MiniMimi]

Me three. I guess when you patch all your EPs/SPs and update your mods there's no major glitch. Well except a sound problem and a lightning problem since the last patch :) Oy.

But frankly it's minor glitches, not game breaking or anything. I keep reading so many horror stories of games being literally nuked by sinister bugs *shivers* Full towns of sims all stuck, sims disappearing into oblivion that I'm happy with my small glitches. *knocks on wood*

[fairycake89]

It's all turned on. "/ I didn't have any mods/cc until this problem started and then I tried to fix it with mods. So originally, no.

I sometimes wonder if the ageing up in LN is nerfed due to the non aging of vampires - just throwing a wild theory out there .. no proof, just musing here ...

My probs with LN have been sims congregating in strange places, en masse for a-g-e-s .. Issues with parties or rather where my sims end up when I send them to a party (such as the party holder's garage, in the lobby of their appartment, or getting on down by their mail box .. Hawt? Not! I then have to micro manage their entrance to the party *proper* ... only to find that everyone else is still by the mailbox/garage .... ) Butlers going AWOL. Not being able to tell Paparazzi to bugger off - I think we should at least be able to start a fist fight with the more intrusive ones, just like a real uphimself celeb would .. :)

[iDysfunctional]

I don't know if this has been said already, but I'm having trouble with random gathering of sims.


Suddenly the whole town decides that they should go hang out at the same spot.. for a very long time. This includes my cleaner, and if I have guest on a party, they too will go there.

I can temporarily fix this by clicking on buildmode on the lot they are on, and it will send them all back home. But this is only temporarily, and they will all eventually end up at the lot again. (Until now it has been the same lot, but I don't know the lot's name in English.)

http://i52.tinypic.com/209m4c3.jpg
Really annoys me sooo much!

Installed mods:
- NoIntro
- NoAgeStaggering
- Daysoff (No days off for preggers)

I think it started after I downloaded the no AgeStaggering, but it would be irrelevant and I'm not sure either.

It sure did happen AFTER I installed late night.

[heartbreak]

I don't know if this has been said already, but I'm having trouble with random gathering of sims.

Other users were experiencing this and I believe they mentioned the only solution was to use Twallan's Overwatch mod.

I tried finding the thread with their comments but I cannot locate it :faceslap:

edit : http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=424396

[FlamingoKicker]

I have noticed no mixologists at alot of clubs.

And once my sims were using the hot tubs in a club and couldn't get out of the tub and the club closed and everyone left them in the hot tub. Fotunately was able to resetsim to send them back home safely.

And the wife had the desire to "move in" with her husband of many years who she's also had children with. That was odd.

[babele44]

My vampires suddenly began losing their teeth and skins (they're still young, so that's not it ;)). While the visual override is still there I had to manually add their teeth and the vampire mark back.

[shaaaii]

Maybe I'm lucky, but I haven't actually experienced any, apart from a strange horse costume that my Sims occasionally walk around town wearing which is clearly due to an issue with some sort of clothing I downloaded :| wish I knew how to fix that...

[babele44]

Maybe I'm lucky, but I haven't actually experienced any, apart from a strange horse costume that my Sims occasionally walk around town wearing which is clearly due to an issue with some sort of clothing I downloaded :| wish I knew how to fix that...It's a dress from rosesims. You should be able to see it in your Launcher under installed content. Here's crinrict's blog that can help you in tracking down bad cc.
http://crinrict-help.blogspot.com/search/label/Bad%20CC

The horse body should look like this:

[clsin]

This EP runs pretty well except I do have the nobody in hot spot problem. But, I'd say it's because my computer is slow.

[LadyAwesome]

I had that when I only had awesome mod installed. - Anyone else looked into fixing their issues? All I can do is say this- update mods - monthly (yes that should be enough) and use delphys custard and dashboard to help pick out all the baddies that infiltrate your game :D

[fairycake89]

My problems started happening right when I installed Outdoor Living weirdly enough.

I got wierd floating hair after installing OL ... I wish I'd taken a screenie - It was a child with adult hair floating at adult height above his head O_o

[LadyAwesome]

lol I did have that once

[Dappybint]

My Sim can no longer go to the Prosper Room as every time they get into the elevator, they are teleported back to their home lot. I wouldn't mind but I have an opportunity at the Prosper Room and won't get any others of that sort until I can complete it. The elevator worked fine for a while in this game and I didn't download anything new before it became bugged. I don't have any mods but may need to look into running something in order to fix this issue.

[Dappybint]

My Sim can no longer go to the Prosper Room as every time they get into the elevator, they are teleported back to their home lot. I wouldn't mind but I have an opportunity at the Prosper Room and won't get any others of that sort until I can complete it. The elevator worked fine for a while in this game and I didn't download anything new before it became bugged. I don't have any mods but may need to look into running something in order to fix this issue.

Ok, so have stopped being an idiot and deleted the opportunity - which seems to have also fixed the elevator issue :-)

[Hockeygirl9118]

After patching, I keep hearing this weird music whenever my sim enters a club. It's really annoying cause the speakers play on top of it, so they mix together and it just... ugh. It's some kind of brass instrument. I don't know where it came from. Turned off EVERYTHING in the lots (yes multiple) and it still played. Grrr

[Willow's Tara]

I've lately had a bu where my game will go silent and lag like hell. I've narrowed it down to a faulty EA patch which I think is the latest. : / Annoying, but all I have to do is pause the game for a while, wait until the sound returns (it'll play several sounds very fast and close together) and proceed as normal.

I had a similar bug last night. I had two of my sims at a party and in a hotub, I told them to Woohoo so once shooing some others away I waited for them to do it but it's like the game froze. The thing the petals or bubbles or whatever was still moving from the hottub but my sims wouldn't move, I couldn't move the screen along (And now I am beginning to remember why, I used my mouse like you do with Sims 2 rather then the keys), but my sims weren't moving and I think I clicked on my other sims and I couldn't move to them.

Only thing is, at the time of playing it I did not have the internet, and I do not have Generations so I don't know if that is related to any patch since the last one I have I think is from Late Night.

[silverandcold65]

Well, I just installed LN last night (patched everything), and while playing tonight I believe I've already found a bug. My sim went to a club for the night, and when it closed and shoos everyone out, a bunch of sims got stuck waiting for the elevator. It went on for many sim days, even when the club was open. I finally got fed up and used cheats to teleport her out. And that only worked when the club was open. I loved LN at the beginning, but I'm beginning to hate it. And as far as I know, I'm mod/CC free, except for official stuff.

[~aureza]

I don't know if this is a glitch or what, but the Sims and NPCs are acting strangely whenever they go to my building. I live in the Bridgeport Armory and whenever I click the "Go home" option they go to the lot but just stay in the garden that's available there. I have to manually click inside their house just to get them to take up the elevator... same with my maid.

I fixed the first part of the problem by locking the fence gate for everyone, but my maid is still missing in action. Anyone have the same problem?

[LadyAwesome]

Ummmm I am not a fan of elevators in rl so I dont like them in game life either lol.

[RadicalWonderWorm]

I don't know if it's all Late Night-related, but I have one saved game in Bridgeport and it has all kinds of issues. The worst being insane lag. No matter what speed I use, the frame rate is crazy slow. It'll stop on a frame for a few seconds, then go through a few more, then stop again. I really like playing this family, so I do something else and occasionally look at the game to queue actions. And I have to pause the game to do that, because if I don't, I usually don't get the menu for what I'm clicking on. I get the menu from a nearby spot. Also, when I was running it on fast forward and not pausing when the hard disk got loud, the computer would just power off in the middle of the game. Not sure if the game caused it (or if software can cause that), but it was really annoying.
I've had the "no bartender on duty" problem. I eventually just sent the mixologist from my household so I could finish the opportunity. (That's almost the only reason I ever use those venues. So annoying to try to get a Sim into it and do something before it closes.)
In that save file only, my hometown opportunities break when I go on vacation (and sometimes when I don't?). I'll push the button to send them somewhere, and when it comes up in their queue, it cancels and they don't go. So I look at the map, and the opportunity isn't on it. I've had to cancel about half my opportunities because they become undoable. This includes opportunities that are part of the Investigator profession. Between canceled jobs and jobs I couldn't figure out how to do ("Talk to 3 family members. I hope you remembered which Sim I'm talking about here."), that profession frustrated not just me, but also the Ambitious Sim who was trying to do it.
That's not the only profession problem I had. I also had problems with Firefighting. Some of them were probably user errors, but I did have one fire where "put out fire" never got checked off, but there were no fires left. So eventually (well into the night) I just had to leave and get an F.
Also, I keep getting opportunities from the Little Corsican Bistro. I do them and then go to turn it in, only to find that there is no Little Corsican Bistro in Bridgeport. This last time, I really wanted the opportunity, so I went to add it, and it wasn't in the lots in edit town. So I guess I'm stuck with orphaned opportunities for the rest of my game. Eventually I'll just learn not to accept them.
Incidentally, I think the lag may be related to having too many Sims. There were 6 in the household (including a vamire and a Simbot), and it's been a little better since one died. Three more of them are at least a week beyond their lifespan (by chance, nothing I did), so I'm hoping their deaths will fix my game. (But my 8-Sim household pre-Late Night never had problems, and I've played it since Late Night with 6 Sims and no problems. So I don't know if it's Bridgeport or just the one file.)

[birdyfly]

RadicalWonderWorm,
I had this same problem with the lag, and these are the things that helped me out.
1) Make sure that if you use the Launcher that you delete all the files in the downloads file tab.
2) If you are still lagging or already did that, then use the Multi Extractor Tool (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364038) and turn your Sim3packs into Package files. I don't do this for lots or Sims that I download though.
3) If you are still lagging, then follow this tutorial (http://club-crimsyn.dreamwidth.org/28336.html#cutid1) from club_crimsyn.
4) If you are still having lag issues, it might be due to the spawn of cars. I would recommend you get the Overwatch (http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?PHPSESSID=d27a0ff8853fe75594b2ab9a816c9578&topic=935.0) mod in order to fix that.

[jezz]

I bought an alarm clock and all of sudden it was my new SIMS birthday. She aged from young adult to an elder!

[LadyAwesome]

Really Jez? that seems rather strange

[tiffyandthewall]

it's a minor one, but my sims keep rolling the want to "move in with (other sim)" when they already live together. i have a couple who live together and have always lived together, no one else shares the house with them, and they've moved into two different houses together, yet they still want to move in with each other.

[LadyAwesome]

lol stupid game.

[coffeebreak]

What's the deal with the wall speakers? Is everybody having this issue or is it just a few people? My sims can't change the music genre played by the wall speakers, and it feels really silly to have classical music playing in a dance club. Is there ANY work-around at all? Or are my sims stuck listening to the stereo?

This is seriously massively annoying, and yet how pleasant that non-working speakers are my most pressing problem with the game. Yay.

[simsample]

What's the deal with the wall speakers? Is everybody having this issue or is it just a few people? My sims can't change the music genre played by the wall speakers, and it feels really silly to have classical music playing in a dance club. Is there ANY work-around at all? Or are my sims stuck listening to the stereo?
You need to enter the lot in build mode, turn on testing cheats and ctrl-shift click on the speaker to change the music.

[coffeebreak]

You need to enter the lot in build mode, turn on testing cheats and ctrl-shift click on the speaker to change the music.

No, I've tried that and it doesn't work. I always play with testingCheatsenabled true and the only option my sim gets is either "delete" object" or "skip song". Believe it or not, I even wrote down the exact steps required (found in another thread) and very carefully double-checked last night just to be sure. Doesn't work. Shft+click on the ground OR cntrl+shift+click on the ground, "buy here", yadda yadda. Doesn't work. Never has.

However, one thing I did do this morning was download an update for my Microsoft keyboard, maybe that has something to do with it....

[catrlgirl]

My sim won't age. I am doing a simple fun challenge and made Patty, Chambers. After a few days of workign hard and her starting to lose weight and meet sims about time I realized when I checked her page she wasn't aging. My other sims seem to be aging. I have aging on in my town. And I have no clue why she is frozen. She is a brand new made sim and I am having fun with her. I wonder if her aging will be back ot normal when I reload the game next time I play.

[Velve]

My sim won't age. I am doing a simple fun challenge and made Patty, Chambers. After a few days of workign hard and her starting to lose weight and meet sims about time I realized when I checked her page she wasn't aging. My other sims seem to be aging. I have aging on in my town. And I have no clue why she is frozen. She is a brand new made sim and I am having fun with her. I wonder if her aging will be back ot normal when I reload the game next time I play.

Have you used a tattoo artist or a dresser with that sim? Those are two things that I know of that have a tendency to bug out your sim's age.

[catrlgirl]

I used a dresser I believe.

[catrlgirl]

My aging still seems a bit borked. Any idea how to fix this

[LadyAwesome]

Save your sim into the bin and start again?

[simsample]

No, I've tried that and it doesn't work. I always play with testingCheatsenabled true and the only option my sim gets is either "delete" object" or "skip song".
You have to enter the lot in build or buy mode- it won't work in Live mode.

If it won't work in build/buy then there must be something in your game preventing this, or perhaps that mouse!?

[alicekuku]

well, despite there were no replies for 8 months...
i have this weird thing with all type of clubs/bars - where ever my sims go to any of them there are some weird sounds - like strings loop playing or whatever. i even switched off the wall speakers to be sure i'm not mistaken.i tried to delete bartender and some other sims and only then the sound was gone. this is so freaking annoying, can anyone please yell me why is this happening?

[nikkiforest99]

Bridgeport is a laggy sack of crap (in the words of HystericalParoxysm) but other than that, nothing seems to be wrong :)

[Insaneagram]

Once one of my sims thumbnails was invisible, and I couldn't use the user interface. This was on a particularly buggy lot I'd been playing for some time, the game would also freeze on processing when trying to move sims in so I could only move them in by shift clicking on them and moving them in that way.

Another glitch I had was when the sims couldn't feed or look after there baby without selecting 'hold' first which was odd.

Then there was the athletic skill bug which I get quite a lot with certain sims where there skill bar goes up incredibly slowly to the point where they could be exercising for like half a sim day, and you could barely notice any progress in the bar.

then there was the boarding school glitch where sims wouldn't come back when they should have, and in some cases the car never arrives though I found a way to get around this by deleting the sim using moveobjects on.

In what I assume is a glitch one of my sims was asked to the prom by his uncle who then asked him to go steady while at the prom which was a bit freaky :P

and then another time my sim child was visiting another child's house after school and there was a baby there and a pop up came up with the baby saying 'I have to leave soon and I think it's about time you did too.' lol, that one was funny.

and quite a few other bugs I'm sure though they're not coming to mind right now I've had a few sadly :P