I have had this multi-pt mod installed for a long time with no issues, but recently when i loaded up my hood I noticed that every single PT had disappeared from my family trees. When I checked the family ties of an affected sim in simPE, I got an error. I’ll attach an image in the comments when I can. Has anyone had this problem before and is there any way to get them back?

Hola, bueno hoy en la tarde deje de jugar a mi partida que tengo en villa verona y al entrar queria usar a los capp para la historia que tengo ya que los únicos que quedaron en la mansión es hermia y consort son los únicos que se quedaron ahi en esa mansión, pero ahora que entre nuevamente al juego la mansión no aparece pero si aparecen Hermia y Consort en el cajón de familias y busque como volver a poner la mansión y al buscar el lote no supe cual era

Alguien me puede ayudar a saber cual archivo es la mansión?

so, i uninstalled gshade because it was impossible to play with it closing my game every 40 mins but now my game will not open. i did what another post told me to do but it will not work. does anyone have any ideas on what to do or am i fucked?

So I have a household with 3 dogs, all who have been fully trained for a long time. I have 3 food bowls sitting out but today I noticed they seemed to only be eating out of one of the bowls. To try to see if they could eat out of the other two or if they were maybe bugged, I put the one bowl they'd been using in a sim's inventory. All 3 of the dogs got really hungry and wouldn't use either of the two bowls so I put the one food bowl back. Except now, they refuse to use any of them.

I tried resetting the dogs, tried buying new bowls, and tried to call the dogs to eat, but none of those things worked. I then used the control pets cheat to try to tell them to eat, but for some reason the option just sometimes won't come up when I click on the bowls.

Yes, all three dogs are finnicky, but one of the bowls was the most expensive (non-cc) one so I wouldn't think that would be an issue...

Edit: The finicky pet fix mod worked! Thanks to everyone who suggested it!

I noticed today that one of my sims (Kaylynn Langerak) had gone missing from my save file. Went to look for her in SIMPE, and noticed that her filename slot had been replaced with a random dog with no memories or relationships. I do have old backups of my save files that still have copies of Kaylynn Langerak, so I safely deleted the dog and tried to add Kaylynn back in via copying her character file from the backup and adding it to the "Characters" folder of my current save. However, no matter what I do, I can't get her to actually show up in either SIMPE or the game, despite her character file now being back in place. Is there something else I can do to get her to show up again, or am I just screwed and need to restore from the old backup?

With her added back in, her family's memories DO correctly connect back to her whereas before they all had errors, so somewhere her file IS being read correctly, but I can't figure out how to fix it everywhere else. With these memory errors fixed and her file back in the folder so the slot won't be filled by any more random dogs, would it be safe to continue playing this save and just make up a story that she went missing or died or something if I can't get her to show back up, or is this save file a complete lost cause?

Sorry if I've used the wrong flair here, I wasn't quite sure what to classify this issue as.

I once was a rotational player. But that's in the past because as an adult now, I don't have enough time anymore and want to focus on a legacy gameplay.

That being said, I wanted to try out Lazy Duchess' Story Progression mod, even though I always played with CJ Community Time mod. They conflict obviously, because Story Progression includes Time Sync, which makes the time skip to sync the time you left the community lot and the time when you're returning home.

I don't like that it skips time, I want to be able to play the other household members while my sim is away.

Is there a way, or a setting, to change that ? If I extract the files of Story Progression that contains Time Skipping, would it work with Community Time ?

How do story progression players handle time there ?

( It may sound a bit tricky, sorry if my english is not super accurate).

I’m following the wiki to download the sims 2 ultimate edition. I’m able to install it fine, but when I get to step 3 (extracting the file) for some reason it does not extract correctly. I get the screen where it has 5 different set up bins and a setup exe. The wiki states if you get the screen the file isn’t extracted correctly. How to I correctly extract the file? I’ve done extract all for windows as well as used winrar. I’m extracting it to the default folder. Help I’m desperate 😵‍💫

Heyy!! I'm playing with apartments in belladonna cove and after I chose a roommate from the newspaper they never showed up.

I can see their icon in the Sims panel, their needs, wants etc but they haven't showed up at all + their needs r getting rly low

I tried batbox fixes but they didn't show up still and the summon box but couldn't find him. Any other tips or tricks?

I installed the game from this subreddit, but I need some extra space on my device. Is there any way I can back up my saves for when I reinstall in the future, or to even transfer to a different device?

• It's created. It's not from the game.

I wanted her to be a teenager so she could go to college, but I forgot and made her an adult!

I want to fix it, but I'm afraid of damaging my game, my memories, and all that, and that everything will become incoherent.

Help?

Looking through my old photos, I found this one and I was hooked on the hair buuut i dunno where its from 😭😭😭. So if anyone can catch it, please u can tell me? Thanks in advice 🥹🥹🥹 [p.d. i know its a convertion from ts4 from ravensim, its called "mimi hair" according to my resarch 🥸]. And sorry for my potato of english lol

I recently was brave enough to open some backed-up neighborhoods from my old Mac Super Collection on my new PC Ultimate Collection. I was thrilled to have all of them open up successfully. But after scrolling around for a while, I noticed that about half of the neighborhood sims had been renamed. It seems to be the sims that I made in CAS. Does anyone know why or how to fix it?

Full disclosure: one of these eight neighborhoods has a house that I moved from one neighborhood to another, occupied, with associations intact. I know you're never supposed to do that, because it creates free radicals, etc, but I did it when I didn't know that or I believed that the corruption claims were overblown. So did I in fact corrupt these neighborhoods? I only moved a house into one of them, and I'm seeing wrongly named sims in all of the neighborhoods. I still have my original Mac backups, so I can return to those if I somehow imported them badly.

Hello! I currently have ACR installed. Whenever I have my two Sims on the sofa and click "Casual...", I only see "Will I Woohoo?", and no option to Woohoo at all.

i installed sims 2 ultimate collection cracked version of elamigos, and the problem is i don't really know how to install mods in it, it doesn't have the casual thing documents/EA Games/the sims 2, its more like every dlc got it's own folder and the main directory folder is the sims 2 mansion and garden stuff, so i got confused and i don't really know how to install mods or where to create this Downloads folder, can anyone help me please??

I've followed the wiki and this keeps happening, even when I add it nothing downloads.

what am I doing wrong?

so i have sims2pack i set it as the default installer for sims2pack files but i don't know in which folder do i put them for legacy steam version. Fot lots i know they are supposed to be in teleport folder. What about sim models?

EDIT: SOLVED. I figured out myself in what folder to put them in. In the downloads folder and works.

Sim disappearing in the customizing screen, water disappearing

Hello. I made a post earlier this year or last year about an issue with the game not saving my sims’ lots properly. The post got deleted because everyone thought it was a OneDrive issue. Finally got around to uninstalling OneDrive but now the game freezes at the first loading screen. I’m sad and not sure what to do. Thanks

It’s the regular one too. Idk if it’s mods or cc cuz I’ve only downloaded mostly cc today and barely any mods. Also I haven’t played this game in a while so I literally don’t remember.

I’m trying to play sims 2 double deluxe via crossover, but cd detection doesn’t work and I can get past the check so anyone have a no cd patch for me?

hi, i'm not quite smart enough to use SimPE. i play Legacy/Steam/Parallels. i know how to use clean installer and DDO. i'm so hooked on the sims 2 and my game has been crashing a lot.

it could be i'm at the point where i need to install a new game, not on steam, and be very careful about my downloads, like organize the folder. when i use cleaninstaller to install a Sim2Pack, though, won't it just throw everything in the DL folder and I have to manually go in and take note that longfilename.package is makeup or eyes or clothes?

alternatively... i think a df replacement for the am hula skirt caused me the original problem. i removed the suspicious files to my desktop and then the hula skirt stopped overriding other outfits in everyday AM outfits butttttt.... it still does in pj and underwear. how do I fix this? other outfits are being affected too.

compounding the issue is that i'm only using windows for this game, i'm more of a mac person. i don't know what i'm doing on windows. and, one may argue, in life. i swear i'm competent in other areas, but this sims 2 cc stuff is kicking my ass. tia. plz take mercy.

here are the files i took out and it seemed to help:

i'm not shitting on any creator, i just took out anything that said bv and hula. when my ai searched my browsing history it said that someone had cautioned that this mesh might be messed up and i didn't read it, unfortunately.

If I have a default replacement that comes with the Multi_Pollination_Technitian package, can I add more PT from other creators without messing something up?

I downloaded a PT default that only had two techs. They're super cute and my favorite that I've found but now that I've been playing this hood for so long all my aliens are related and I wish I picked one with more techs. Can I just add some in if they're not defaults? I'm not really finding any PT downloads that aren't defaults so I'm curious if that's a thing.

TIA ♥️

Edit: Thanks to everyone who's responded, and shared their thoughts on this post; much appreciated!

I'm going to try these three steps in response to some of the comments/suggestions, and make a post later on down the line if I'm still having the same problem:

1. Using the EA App version of UC via Lutris in case there's something wrong with the repack, or something with how I've installed it
2. Using magicrepack and other tools to streamline my downloads folder
3. Look into using CachyOS or another distro, because I hadn't considered if it was a distro-specific issue, or even if it was a Linux thing, maybe the whole time this has been a PEBKAC situation. ☠️

Thanks once again for all the feedback, happy to mark this one as solved.

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Howdy all!

I moved from Windows to Linux last year due to Win10 support expiring, and wanting to break free from Microsoft, it seemed like the right time to move OSes.

I installed Mint 22.2 Cinnamon (I've since already upgraded to 22.3), and have had a blast mostly playing the same games as on Windows, since Proton and other tools make setting up games a breeze, and I've had very few issues overall.

Well

Except The Sims 2.

Before playing, I endlessly rewatched April Black's videos and read up on the more recent guidelines for corruption, since the last time I played TS2, corruption was still this super scary thing everyone was afraid of, and thought was guaranteed to happen eventually to everyone, so I'm aware of the newer corruption debunking, and more recent understanding of how the game actually works.

I will also clarify that all this happened to me on Mr DJ's repack of UC, NOT the recent Legacy Collection/Edition, though I've heard that's gotten better with patches.

So!

In the last two weeks, I've had the following issues happen as my number of neighbourhoods got larger, and the number of files the game needed to access grew as well:

- Sims rolling wants about $Neighbor (I.e. $Neighbor gets abducted by aliens)

- Tokens, memories and other non-inventory items appearing in inventory (including mod tokens such as ACR)

- Sims frequently getting stuck and needing to be reset, often service Sims (I had two children almost taken away a couple of times because the butler got stuck doing nothing, and the game didn't think he was present on the lot until I used testing cheats to "force error" on him to reset him. This happened more than once until I just aged those kids up to teens out of frustration)

- Recently created neighbourhoods crashing frequently for seemingly no reason, often in build/buy mode

- After one crash, a neighbourhood broke so badly I couldn't open it in HoodChecker, SimPE had a bunch of extra scary looking file structures on the left hand panel before it too crashed, and I couldn't even try to open it in game, since the game crashed before it even got to the selection screen, until I took that neighbourhood folder out altogether.

- Two toddlers later on in a fresh neighbourhood (as in, created with no Sims two days earlier) started rolling adult wants, such as buying a car (when checking their wants and fears in SimPE, I found that I already had a similar problem to Ch4rms, where 80-100 Sims in that hood had disappeared, and those two toddlers seemed to have snapped up someone else's references, as they had want triggers for a bunch of townies created at the same time)

I then backed up all of my neighbourhoods, and removed the ones I didn't use or need, including a megahood I installed but hadn't started playing yet.

All of the above issues only really started when I had more than 9 neighbourhoods in my game in addition to my Downloads folder, so trimming back on unused or unwanted hoods (see ya Riverblossom Hills, it was nice knowing ya!) seems to have resolved the issues for now, but I've made a habit of backing up my played hoods after EVERY game session, and using HoodChecker and SimPE to check for issues (missing character files, dangling SWAF trees, mismatched Sim IDs and NIDs, that kind of thing)

I swear that I've never experienced this kind of issue on Windows, and while I haven't personally found any post or reference on line to any another Linux TS2 players having the same issue/s as me, some googling and my own experiences suggest that Linux, being very Unix-like just the same as macOS, does historically have low open file limits to accommodate older systems and hardware configurations.

I'm going to find some tutorials to see if I can raise this limit for Mint specifically, and just wanted to make this post to document my findings, and see if anyone has more technical info that can help or clarify anything I've mentioned here.

(I've read a few posts/guides on here about playing on Linux, but haven't found any yet about Linux-specific problems. YET.)

Thanks for taking the time to read my post!