Game crashing at loading screen
Aquarius:
Well I deleted my sims 2 folder, started the game up without my neighborhood or downloads folder. No problem. I put the folders back, it crashed, I took the Neighborhood folder out, the game works fine now. I guess there's somethin wrong with my neighborhood folder. No biggie, I'd been plannin to start my game over anyway. Thanks guys
ancienthighway:
A crash like you're having can happen because of meshes that are not compatible with your game. This may be what's happening in your game.
Unfortunately, many creators don't identify EP/SP requirements and the HCDU can't check meshes, so it's a trial and error process to find these meshes that are incompatible. Binary searches work best. Organized folders, to include a place where you put new downloads really help too.
Aquarius:
You sure it's a mesh problem? Cuz the game worked just fine with my downloads folder. The problem is something in my Neighborhoods
ancienthighway:
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This may be what's happening in your game.
Meshes are a different kind of animal. I've had a mesh in my game for months, maybe even years, that never caused problems because if was never used. I never scrolled far enough in CAS/BS for the thumbnail to be generated. The outfit was assigned to a townie, who never visited community lots. Then the game started to send this NPC with the incompatible mesh to the comm lots when I visited them and the lot would crash when loading.
Then I decided to scroll through all the CC in CAS, and when I got to the page that contained this outfut, the game would crash. It could have been custom hair, build mode item, or buy mode item, but I have already scrolled though all the CC there that have custom meshes.
So an incompatible mesh is always a possibility. One way to tell if it is a problem is to open up CAS and scroll though all the clothing and all the hair for all the genders and age groups. If the game crashes, you've got a bad mesh in that area. Open up Buy mode and scroll through everything, especially all the Decoration items. If the game crashes, again, you have a bad mesh. Same with the Build mode, especially the trees, and bushes.
Yes, a bad mesh is always a possibility, even if the game worked fine for as long as you remember. Yes, a bad Neighborhood is a possibility as you suspect.
Aquarius:
Ok, I got another question and thought it'd be a waste to make a new thread for it. I just used a flash drive to transfer my sims 2 files to anoter compuiter, I put all the folders for each expansion into the Program Files section of "My computer" but the game and all the epxansions still aren't installed. What do I do? Do I need the disks? If so then it's a lost cause :'( PLEEEASE TELL ME I DONT NEED THE DISKS!
EDIT: Bodyshop seems to work....
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