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minnamaarit
30th Aug 2005, 11:05 AM
OK, I have a whole bunch of problems. I noticed the first two already a while ago but haven't found a way to fix them. The latter occured today.

1. After getting UNI, sound seems to disappear occasionally. I've noticed this only in Univercity part of the game; neighbourhoods don't seem to have problems. By disappearing I don't mean all sounds, but for example if someone is playing piano and phone is rinning, I hear only the piano. (sims seem to hear it though...) And if two sims are playing instruments in the dorm but not together, only one instrument's sound is working. Immeadiately when the other stops playing, the other instrument's sound work again. Any clue why is this happening?

2. When I started UNI, every dorm had to pay their bills and for the served food as well. But, when I got my "next generation" of sims to study, I noticed that 1) served food was for free 2) mail delivery NPC stops on the lot but never delivers any bills. So, everything is absolutely free! (yippeee...?) Dorms don't get any newspaper either, and haven't seen the NPC at all. This seem to affect only dorms; greek houses and rental houses get their bills, newspaper and everyday life seems to be "normal" (meaning objects actually broke sometimes, which isn't happening in dorms).

3. This nasty thing hit me today. I was playing a family which was expecting a new family member in any minute. When the delivery started, everything went normal until the moment where you get to give the name for the baby. I never got the name giving box, instead the baby "hanged" a while in front of the mother's belly, after which she put the baby on the floor. The unnamed baby boy is unselectable...:( And which is even nastier, after this "happening" all other but play options are unselectable, so I had to force quit the game.

Someone please help me!:(

AngelFrouk
30th Aug 2005, 11:43 AM
1. i have this happen too. When there are two radios on different floors you can only hear one. I think it's not a bug, it's just how the game works.

2. In my dorms i don't have to pay anything. I'm not sure why you had to pay the bills and the meals in the first dorms you've played. Was it a downloaded dorm? Or a MAXIS one?

3. What you are experiencing (i think) is a bad birth bug. http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=83217&highlight=bad+birth go here and follow the link in post 6. This is a fix for it.

eddief66
30th Aug 2005, 12:04 PM
The sound problem is a bug. If you open the cheat box then type "expand", you can scroll up and see a lot of sound errors. You can also look in the error files. Before I had University I had speakers outside and there was music coming out of them when the stereo was on inside but I don't have that anymore.

anelca
30th Aug 2005, 12:26 PM
my dorm sims paid bills the first time i played them
i don't play them as dorms any more and use other houses reassigned as residential....i have noticed these get no bills, but do get newspapers
i don't know why this happens as i am sure they are supposed to pay, but i'm not going to complain. just hope they don't get stung with a huge student loan bill after they graduate :D

the only sound problem i have noticed is a slight jump in university and regular neighbourhood music when placing a largeish lot

minnamaarit
30th Aug 2005, 12:31 PM
3. What you are experiencing (i think) is a bad birth bug. http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=83217&highlight=bad+birth go here and follow the link in post 6. This is a fix for it.

Thanks angel, that fix worked like a charm (and my computer didn't even explode! :P)!

About the bills and food payment, I remember that every time the students got food, there was a cashing sound and they lost abput 3 simoleons every time so they clearly had to pay for the food. And every time when the delivery NPC comes, I get the popup window like when receiving bills. Why would there be a popup if the NPC wouldn't do anything?

Is there any solution/fix available fot that sound bug, btw?

eddief66
30th Aug 2005, 01:01 PM
Thanks angel, that fix worked like a charm (and my computer didn't even explode! :P)!

About the bills and food payment, I remember that every time the students got food, there was a cashing sound and they lost abput 3 simoleons every time so they clearly had to pay for the food. And every time when the delivery NPC comes, I get the popup window like when receiving bills. Why would there be a popup if the NPC wouldn't do anything?

Is there any solution/fix available fot that sound bug, btw?

Not that I know of and besides this site I regular check variousimmers.net, simlogical.com, and morawsomethanyou.com for new hacks. If there isn't one at any of those sites than it probably doesn't exist.