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BlooBoo
15th Mar 2012, 1:54 AM
My Sims 3 game (running Late Night) downloaded a new update tonight. Everything seemed to be running just fine until I noticed that when I clicked on the sim panel, I couldn't see any of the mood meters. It clicks but nothing slides out. It's gone. I thought perhaps there was a glitch somewhere (hey, it happens!) so I restarted the game. Same thing again. No mood meters on any active sim. Other clickables in the game seemed to work just fine.

Thought maybe if I traveled or went somewhere it would fix its self. Found that when I left my home lot, the active sim didn't even show up on the menu, nothing was clickable and I didn't seem to be able to use the exit, save or save & quit options on the control panel.

Restarted the game several more times after rebooting the computer and still had this same problem.

Anyone else having this problem? Is there a fix for it?

I really think it's associated with the update that just downloaded tonight. I haven't had this problem prior and I just played the game the other day without issue. Haven't added any custom content or changed anything since the last time I played.

BlooBoo
16th Mar 2012, 10:04 PM
I've made some screen shots of what I'm talking about.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/RegionalGirl137/th_screenie1TS3CreateSim.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v42/RegionalGirl137/?action=view&current=screenie1TS3CreateSim.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/RegionalGirl137/th_screenie1TS3InGame.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v42/RegionalGirl137/?action=view&current=screenie1TS3InGame.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v42/RegionalGirl137/th_screenie2TS3CreateSim.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v42/RegionalGirl137/?action=view&current=screenie2TS3CreateSim.jpg)

In game, I found that opening the fridge seems to make the mood meter come back however, I've found no work arounds for create a sim mode and the missing lifetime achievements.

katya_stevens
17th Mar 2012, 1:38 PM
You're better off going to the Sims 3 Help (http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=551) section and getting advice there (and make sure you read what to do before posting a help thread (http://www.modthesims.info/announcement.php?f=551&announcementid=146).

BlooBoo
18th Mar 2012, 5:17 PM
Thanks for posting that link. For some reason, I COULD NOT find it the other night whenever I was trying to post this somewhere. Appreciated! A side note, I've looked around ALL OVER the internet for a solution to this problem and I haven't been able to find anything. Went to Live Chat with EA Games and was told to make sure all patches were installed (and they are) and that was about the extent of assistance I got over there. It seems that this is really an unusual thing that's happened in my game.

LemonJelly86
18th Mar 2012, 5:29 PM
Do you run any mods? If so have you tried taking them out and rebooting the game. I have seen this thing before and it turned out to be an outdated mod.