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Good_n_Best
30th Oct 2011, 12:06 PM
Hello !

Since I installed the Sims 3 Pets, I have sort of encountered a few very annoying bugs..

The 1rst one I noticed:
My selfsim once met a guy at the bar, they got along very well. The next day, she invites him to the movies and thus sets off to meet him there. When she arrives to the venue, the sim is nowhere to be seen. And then I see her starting to talk to thin air. Her queue action showed the picture of the sim and then I noticed thoughts bubbles coming from the ground right in front of her ... Then the guy supposedly picked up a call for I saw a cellphone lying on the ground right where the thought bubbles were coming from ... I have noticed quite a few sims having the same nonexistence problem afterwards.

The 2nd one:
My kitty turned adult today ...Well at least she was supposed to ! At the beginning of the sim day I had had the notification that says it's my kitten's birthday and that she'll certainly enjoy a present etc. And in the evening, she was standing there in the middle of the kitchen meowing while my sim was cheering her. Next thing you, she grew up !
Well no, 2 or 3 sim hours later (...) the action dropped and she returned to what ever she was doing just as if nothing happened. Her age bar still says 0 days to go since two days ..

The 3rd one:
Sims don't change clothes ... They don't wear their uniforms to go to work, they don't wear their pjs to go to sleep and they even won't get naked to have a shower.
Even worse, they won't change in any outfit you planned for them. They're like stuck in that same one outfit. They do the twirl animation but the outfit doesn't change.

I don't know where any of these problems can come from ..
The only mods I have are Twallan's and they are all up to date ! I removed all the outdated mods prior to running pets for the first time.

I'd really appreciate your help !
Thanks for reading !

ohayitstiffanay
31st Oct 2011, 04:27 AM
It sounds like your graphics card might need some upgrading... what kind of graphics card do you have?

alexheal
31st Oct 2011, 09:26 AM
It sounds like your graphics card might need some upgrading... what kind of graphics card do you have?

I really don't think it's the graphics card; I have exactly the same problems, kittens not aging, sims not changing clothes and invisible sims, and I'm using a Radeon 5850 card which is way above the recommended specs for running the game.

I do however, have a lot of custom content, including the most recent Twallan scripts and Cmar's XCAS core (which are up to date), so I'll try disabling some CC and seeing what has an effect on these glitches.

Good_n_Best
3rd Nov 2011, 12:30 AM
I'm pretty sure it's not graphic card related, mine is a Radeon HD 3650 and it is listed as recommended by MTS. It can't be that...

I really don't think it's the graphics card; I have exactly the same problems, kittens not aging, sims not changing clothes and invisible sims, and I'm using a Radeon 5850 card which is way above the recommended specs for running the game.

I do however, have a lot of custom content, including the most recent Twallan scripts and Cmar's XCAS core (which are up to date), so I'll try disabling some CC and seeing what has an effect on these glitches.

I don't have much custom content, most of it are hairs or clothes from the store ....
Please keep me updated if you find a fix :)

alexheal
7th Nov 2011, 07:03 PM
Well I managed to find out what was making my installation of the Sims 3 misbehave: I was running an old version of Shimrod's No Martial Arts or Career clothes mod, that was made when Ambitions came out last year. Updating to more recent mods that stop Martial Arts clothes and Career clothes showing now work with my copy of pets.

I don't think it would have made a large difference to the end result, but in diagnosing the fault I ended up uninstalling all of the .simspack files through the installer, then renaming the mods/packages folder, and then started adding mods back in to see which one broke the game.