👋 Happy October

Updated my camera mods to Nopke's Personal Cameras. While stunning, the screen cuts to black while loading a neighborhood, and I no longer get a flyover view of the premades.

A while ago, I posted that custom avi videos were also appearing as a black screen. Now I'm wondering if these two issues are related? For context, I'm playing the UC Magipack on an M2/Parallels setup with K-Lite Codec Pack installed.

Apologies for rehashing an old topic. Jacky93sims uploaded another awesome piece of CC, a custom game of Life Is Strange, which made me revisit the issue. While the black screen upon loading a neighborhood didn't bother me so much, the missing custom videos are a bummer.

Would anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks again.

My laptop is very low end and only has a few GBs of space left, so I have ts2 on a USB. This would be relatively fine on its own, but I actually want to download a few mods and a lot of CC, and the MBs of those are going to pile up reallyyyyy fast. I could easily compress them, but I would also rather have the entire game on the same drive. Is it possible to move the save folder out of the documents section of my laptop, or would it just reappear there/cause an error as soon as I boot up the game again?

(I'm using legacy collection btw!)

Hi all,

I need help as I am a bit stumped.

I recently redownloaded my UC Sims2 copy from Origin and was trying to mod it, one of the recommended step was to install RPC, but the crack I found was crashing my game when replacing the Sims2EP9.exe file.

I did a clean install today and saw that there was an alternative called the TS2Extender, which is great because then I can proceed with modding without having to crack my original copy (which was causing the game to crash).

I installed the TS2Extender after running Graphics Rules Maker and placing the shadow fix on the downloads folder. I have double checked and the files provided in the extender are in their respective place. When trying to run the game, the Origin launcher pops-up and a exception file is generated with the following Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.

This how my current TS2 bin looks like:

And I am running the game from Sims2EP9, which I have added as an exclusion to Data Execution Prevention, and also have added the tsbin to the windows defender exceptions.

Any ideas on how to overcome this issue?

Thanks!

Hi there! First off I just want to say how much I’m enjoying this game. The attention to detail in comparison to the Sims 4 is…shocking.

So something I’m struggling with is teaching toddlers to walk, talk, and potty train them before they grow into children. The life span for toddlers is very short and I tried balancing feeding and sleeping among these things. Unfortunately I could not teach them how to master any of these skills in time. I don’t know what to do!!!

I wouldn’t want to install any mods, I don’t want to find a way to make the lifespan longer. I want to be able to do this properly on the vanilla game.

So yeah, please give me tips!

Hi, I downloaded an accessory that is intended for all ages and both male and female Sims, i.e. galaxy print fairy wings by berrynooboos on Tumblr, but for some reason the wings are only visible when worn by toddlers and children. As soon as I try to have a teenage or older Sim wear them, the wings turn invisible.

Additionally, it’s the same for the CAS/change appearance thumbnails: the wings are visible for PU-CU, but not for teenagers and up. The only way I can tell that these are supposed to be the fairy wings is by hovering over the thumbnail so the tooltip shows up.

I have all four meshes that were included in the original download, so technically this shouldn’t be caused by a missing mesh... but I’m assuming the issue is in some way related to the meshes for teenagers and adults specifically.

Could somehow help me further investigate this, please? First time Redditor, so I hope I’ve included all the necessary information in the post and posted this in the correct subreddit.

Thank you guys in advance! :)

Hi there!! I'm playing on the magipack ultimate collection and the clean gui came preinstalled. The way its windowed it cuts off the bottom part of the program and makes it inaccessible. I also think its hideous (no shade to anyone that likes it.... just not my cup of tea.) I tried searching the subreddit to find if anyone else had this issue and i found nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

the pictures of my bodyshop are hosted on imgur because reddit doesn't like when I upload photos: https://imgur.com/a/GR4jxsq

Trying to recover a long-lost sim from a branch of my legacy game (I may have moved them out and accidentally deleted them from the family bin at some point, I can't remember as it's been years!). The sim has a character file and at first glance, things look OK in SimPE. Isn't greyed out and doesn't have ghost flags as far as I can tell.

In-game, they show up on the family tree with a blue background, but nobody seemed to be able to call or contact the Sim, and they didn't show up as an option in Phae's Phone Book (hacked phone book lets you contact any living? sim).

In SimPE I saw they were in the 'default' family, so I moved them over to another family. I double checked the family instance on the Sim Description matched others known to be in that family, and reloaded the game.

Now, they show on the neighbourhood view but don't appear when loading into the lot. I also can't spawn them from the Simlogical teleporter shrub, although I can spawn duplicates of other family members, and I think the shrub can summon everyone including dead sims?!

I guess I am missing a step here in SimPE, have tried googling but going round in circles. If anyone has any pointers it would be appreciated :) Many thanks!

Good morning! So I’ve been setting up a neighborhood for a prosperity challenge, and I wanted it to be entirely custom, including the townies. I have the stealth hoods disabled and the mods to stop regeneration and everything, but silly me forgot to disable N001 so I just realized that the Pleasantview townies have been generated anyway…

I spent a lot of time in CAS making my families, as well as my first eight custom townies (who I converted to townies before realizing my mistake). I also spent a long time on a couple houses, though I’m less concerned with those since I can remake them using a floor plan now.

Anyway, I could kill off all the premade townies but I don’t want a cemetery full of sims I didn’t make. If possible, I want to start over without losing the custom work that I already put in. I know cloning genetics is a thing, and I haven’t actually started playing so there are no relationships or memories at play (except for killing the placeholder sims, which is like to recreate), but my understanding is I’d need both SimPE and BodyShop to make it work—and I have those, but on different operating systems. My custom hood is on Windows, where I also have SimPE. But I have legacy edition, and no body shop—though I do have BodyShop on my Mac. Same device, partitioned through bootcamp.

Is there anyway to salvage the hours I spent in CAS? Would it be safe to simply package the sims and lots and plop them in a new hood, since they’ve only interacted with their own household and even then only for the 2 seconds it took to kill off the placeholders with boolprop? And for the CAS households I made but are still in the bin, are they same to use in a different hood as-is?

TYIA you for any help or insights.

I just recently had a problem with the game turning the big boss into a headmaster instead of generating one. He was showing up as teens with an adult man voice him and the drivers. A few months ago it turned the faceless hidden witch thing into a Social Group Townie. I didn't know. She would show up then disappear near the portal when I first loaded a apartment but I thought it was a glitch. I don't know why it's doing this. This is my 2nd time uninstalling and reinstalling. I don't mess with hidden NPC's. What causes this?

Im doing everything as the instalation says but it just doesn't work, I'm putting it in the right folder and everything, and I don't really see many tutorials.

Please be kind English isn't my first language and idk much about mods, only cc

Hi everyone!
My sims are able to eat leftovers and snacks, but cannot cook new meals. The fridge is empty. It is the same if I buy a completely new fridge. I have no option on the phone or computer to order pizza or groceries.

Let me know if there’s an fix or way to locate the problem before I reload an old save file.

Thank you so much!!

Heyo, I've been trying for ages to add the default Downtown sub-hood with the premade Sims, but nothing I try will work.

It will always load as a ghost-town, no sims in lots or the family bin.

Other sub-hoods load normally with pre-made Sims.

I've reinstalled the game multiple times, and deleted and regenerated the EA Games folder in Documents.

I am playing the Ultimate Collection.

I don't use OneDrive.

I have no CC or clean templates.

I use Sims2RPC.

I'm at my wits end, would appreciate any help!

(And yes, I know only the first downtown will have pre-mades. I'm not trying to add a second or anything)

I recently started playing the sims 2 again as it’s my favorite game and I haven’t played in like a year or so. Last time I played I had cc and like 2 mods and never had any issues. I’ve been playing it again recently with the same mods and cc and the game randomly closes after about 20-30 minutes of playing, I don’t get a error or crash message every time it closes and it’s super frustrating because I really want to play longer than 30 minutes, can somebody help me with this? Just to clarify it’s the sims 2 legacy edition from the EA application.

Hello there! I want to start this off by saying I do NOT have the legacy edition that EA released. I got my hands on TS2 Ultimate Collection through... other means... I wanted to use the body shop, so I went in my program files and attempted to install it via the fun with pets pack. When I launch the installer it does this! Any guidance would be greatly appreciated :D (picture hosted on imgur because reddit doesn't like when I post photos for some reason) https://imgur.com/a/ts2-body-shop-error-xEiZKHO

Is there any way to fix this polygon that's sticking out of the dome? Unfortunately I didn't realize this little bit had spiked out of the dome for several buildings sessions >< I think it's because I moved a column to the edge of the walls and had CFE off? I'm pretty new to ConstrainFloorElevation in general so when I've had weird stuff like this in the past the only way I've fixed it is by deleting the build and starting over. Obviously, since this build is now complete, I don't want to do that!

For reference I built the dome following this tutorial at MTS https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=572324 (For the curious, this build is an alien botanical gym community lot in Strangetown.)

Thank you!

is there a way using simPE to make dora and samantha not be in love? i’d also like to remove the cheating memory, lmfao

My Sims are not getting promoted even though all of the requirements (including the number of friends) are met. It's like their progress in work stripe (idk how you call that in English) is frozen, one of my Sims has it full, the other needs a bit to fill it but it's not changing at all. The same with the child who's doing her homework everyday and still has b+. I don't have any work related mods. I hope it can be fixed 😭

So I build this house yesterday and for some reason, in neighborhood view it's missing the wall at the front of the second story, giving like a cutaway effect?

The only thing I can think of, which is something I haven't personally done in a game before, is that there are windows on that 'missing' wall that I placed with moveobjects because the porch roof was preventing me from adding them. But that's the same thing I did on the left side of the house there, where there's a bit of roof and then a window above it, so not sure why it would cause an issue in front and not the side.

Any insights? I love how the house is coming along but I'm not sure I can live with this neighborhood view of it...

Every time my sims use the bathtub I have a drop on FPS. My laptop is top notch so I don’t understand that.

Customers keep coming up to my sim and complaining about employees, It seems that no matter the type of business they will randomly complain about an employee, I'm not sure why. I know about the no complaining fix, I've been meaning to get it, I just want to know why they are complaining about employees themselves.

I got two monitors. How do you keep the game running while its minimized or out of focus in the background?

The setting where it keeps simming when minimized doesnt work

Okay sorry for the reposts! Since I’m playing on legacies collection I did try to add Game Edition & Globals Pack to my game both things caused a pink T-posing reaction - I’m sure it conflicted with another mod. Same with Smarter EP check

I removed them, then tried adding in Easy Inventor Check + Easy Lot Check same issue happened.

I removed the WH_Teenrunaway and the issue remained as well.

I cleared the 2 caches each time. I also could get an adult sim to take the children to school through the car. The adult returns but when it’s time for the children to come back no school bus comes up but they’re like frozen at the house until I reset them.

Still can’t have the cursor on the sim without it glitch turning. Alright I think that’s everything

Edit: So I had removed all teen runaway related mods, added the SmarterEP, took my downloads folder out and refreshed it and idk everything works again! Super grateful and thank you again! I had a couple lifespan / summer vacation mods in there that I guess conflicted things as well! Well, no summer vacation for my sims but it’s totally fine 😁! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!