Game freezing!

BlogpostPublished: Apr 30, 2010Views: 1104

Last night I and my mum had intention to go and continue decorating our huge project: Summer Estate, which is our entry to the Super-Mansion Challenge. We have been building it in Garden Valley, where Asparagus Garden and his descendants live, which proved to be our not-so-best idea. At first everything goes well and we play the Gardens for a while but then the game starts shutting down. It has happened quite a few times before so I wasn't worried, I just relaunched the game and went back to the Gardens. The same thing happens, not just once but every time I try to go to the Edit Town mode or after couple minutes play. At that point I started to reach a nearly panicking state, because I thought that maybe the entire game was bugging, but after what I found out I hoped out that it had been that easy...

It seems like the whole Garden Valley has become some what corrupted for some very strange reason, since I don't use any .package CC or mods. The other neighborhoods work perfectly smoothly so I have been thinking that maybe I should move the Gardens to a new, clean neighborhood. But then I realized that it will be a lot harder than I thought. How can I move them if I can't go to the Edit Town mode?! One possibility is of course that I go and save the current heiress'(we are in the C generation already, I write slower than we play) looks and personality, write some kind of disaster that kills off her entire family and destroys the whole Garden Valley(how convenient that the Ambitions EP will give us the earthquakes) and recreate her in a whole new neighborhood after reinstalling the game.

We have spent this entire day to redownload all the CC we want to have after the big reinstall, because I fear to launch the game since I don't know how buggy it will be today...

I have couple things I could try before removing the entire Garden Valley so there is a still some hope left... But you shouldn't be afraid, the Gardener's Dream will be continued(I'm currently working on the chapter 11, should be out this weekend)

Hugs,

Senja

cadiva ∙ May 2, 2010

Hi Senja, you could try moving them into a new house and see if that helps, sometimes it can be the lot itself which becomes corrupted rather than the Sims or the neighbourhood.
You can also make a Sims3Pack of the whole house to transfer into a new neighbourhood, Siims 3 doesn't have the same problems with transfering files that Sims 2 does so it's safe to save to the bin or to make a pack file. I hope you can sort out your game.
 