Sims freezing to death in CAS

[Sandpiper]

I also have something strange. In my female hair bin there is a picture of a nude skin but when you click on it installs a hair style on the Sim.

[DecoraChroi]

I also have something strange. In my female hair bin there is a picture of a nude skin but when you click on it installs a hair style on the Sim.

Sandpiper, that could mean the creator of the hair has an EP you dont have,
clothes can show up as a nude icon as well.

[Sam the T-man]

@Decora: for the second one at least, it sounds like you need to delete the contents of your Thumbnails folder - I have to do that sometimes when CAS thumbnails get screwy

@Sandpiper: Sounds like you don't have Pets, but the creator used an unpatched Pets Bodyshop - that's a known bug.

I had spooky's bug in Pets a few times, most notably after trying to fix the appearance (doing it again fixed it). But with Seasons in a pre-seasons custom CAS, fortunately I was able to create sims as normal

[Anguis6]

I had werewolves in CAS (custom CAS) showing up, but since I got the Pets Patch nothing of that sort happened again. Even with Seasons now installed they do not freeze to death or something. I once even went away from the computer while in CAS and returned an hour or so later. The Sim was still okay... so, it might be a bug or a hack conflict *no idea*

[Tenshii~Akari]

...The second picture is from the male bin although, some have female icons with me unable to know where particular sims are.

I've always had that happen.  A simple Ctrl + Right Click will solve that problem.  :angel:

[boeketjebloemen]

My sims started freezing as well after my first attempt to make my own CAS. Very discouraging... And a wolf showed up as well. It didn't do this when I changed it back to the original CAS.
I double-checked my selfmade CAS, and it was indoors, and had a roof; the game still registers as outdoors apparantly.

[Wednesday17]

My CAS chrashes, too. Bot not from freezing. At least I never saw a sim doing weird freezing animations. It started when both BS and CAS wouldn't start at all. After deleting the SavedSims, BS worked again, yay.

But with CAS it's very wierd: I can go in now, but after a couple of minutes, the game just terminates (yes, that infamous error). When I'm really fast, take a premade sim and just give them a name and personality and save and go back to the neighbourhood, I may be lucky and have a new sim or pet.

But when I try to go back into CAS to make another "quick sim", game crashes immediately. What I tried:

Deleting groups.cache, accessory.cache and cigen.package
SavedSims were already deleted aside from a few I want to get into the game.
Seeing that I had a writing protection on some folders, I reset all attributes for the whole downloads folder.
I took out ALL of my hacks and mods.
I didn't take out clothes and makeup and stuff, because that's just the stuff I need in CAS. Also, it didn't make a difference when I took out the whole downloads folder when even BS wouldn't start anymore.

Now I run out of ideas.
Do I just have to wait for a patch that may mess up other things again?


Edit: game also terminates while playing, but only once in a while. I save often...

My specs: I have all EP's, no stuff packs.
Computer: Athlon XP 3200+ 2,2 GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce 6800, drivers up to date.

[Katheryne]

The second picture is from the male bin although, some have female icons with me unable to know where particular sims are.

Oh, thank you, hon! I thought it was just my setup that was doing that! I've been having strange CAS thumbnail issues for a while now - I almost never know just who I'm going to get when I click on a thumbnail to select a premade sim!
 
Is there any way to force-reset the CAS thumbnails?

[Tenshii~Akari]

I've always had that happen.  A simple Ctrl + Right Click will solve that problem.  :angel:

:smile bi: It has to be done for each individual thumbnail you want to refresh, though...

[ApricotstarP]

I've never had that problem, I hve had the wrong picture in the bin hing though. Wow, this is my 300th post.

[Katheryne]

:smile bi: It has to be done for each individual thumbnail you want to refresh, though...

I missed that -- thanks! :oops:

I've always had that happen. A simple Ctrl + Right Click will solve that problem. :angel:

Tenshii, I love you! It worked!

[Corinne]

I've never had that problem, I hve had the wrong picture in the bin hing though. Wow, this is my 300th post.

You do know this has nothing to do with this topic, right?

[kere]

If anyone else has experienced this please post it in this thread so we can see if a pattern evoloves.

I have a custom CAS, but have only experienced the sim freezing in a CAS that I edited with seasons. In all my other CAS, whether custom or not, this does not happen - they were made prior to the seasons EP - I hope it can be fixed, because I am ready for a change

NB: My sim freezing entails: turning blue, falling over. gets up - face stuck blue. Repeat.

Edit: Note folks, this is NOT a general CAS help thread. It is specifically to record instances, or find solutions for the sims freezing problem in CAS post-seasons EP. It's important that bugs and help threads remain very much ON-TOPIC and related to specific problems (namely those outlined in the first post), or they become jumbled, and therefore, harder to address. I don't mind if you elaborate on other weirdness you've noticed also, but I do see some horrible bugs in this thread as well as other glitches that were addressed long before this thread was posted, so I think some of these problems certainly warrant (or may already have) more suitable threads of their own.
Thanks

[Squinge]

It's not ?

[simfreakkristen]

This happened to me too. My favorite Sim froze to death. (*cry*)