ATTENTION! New Body Shop Bug!!!!111!1eleven
BeosBoxBoy:
I have been experiencing all manner of problems with my game in the past few weeks, and I finally discovered what the problem is.
Body Shop is including a whole copy of the Sims06.package from the base game with Sims packaged with some version of Body Shop.
I checked random Sims on the Exchange, TSR, MTS2, and InSIM. It appears to be a wide-spread post Bon Voyage bug. *oh joy! more evidence they did not one god damned test of this software before they shipped it to market*
You will need to use Sims2Pack Clean Installer to locate the "no category" files with junk-code name (e.g., b18484e15a91c5a039d61f635d15d7c3.package), the file size will be about 6.8 MB, double check the file in SimPE, and you will easily see that this is indeed the Sims06.package.
Delphy's Download Organiser -- an otherwise relable and useful tool -- was of no benefit in identifying these files, however it did give false positives on a wide number of "duplicates" that weren't duplicates, no doubt because of the freak occurance of 41 copies of the Sims06.package file being in the mix.
I just deleted 41 copies of this file! The presence of 41 un-needed copies of the Sims06.package did NOT help my game play better! *way to go you dullards at EA/Maxis*
I also ended up deleting over 300 redundant copies of meshes *a joy of the post-Pets Body Shop - EA/Maxis retards at work again* (which was made more problematic by the junk-code renaming and JFade's compression thing changing the checksum number) - this is insane and wasteful! The presence of 328 un-needed copies of custom meshes I already had installed did NOT help my game play better! *way to go you dullards at EA/Maxis*
SO after 28 cumulative hours of crawling through 1000s of files, my game is sane again.
Someone needs to slap the development team at EA toothless. Death to EA/Maxis! Hanging's too good for 'em! Burning's to good for 'em! We need to just kill them to death a lot even! :rant:
Edit - Marvine points out that 1) i need more sleep and 2) the file I keep calling Sims05.package is actually Sims06.package -- I cannot fault here data on either.... talk about error propagation.
SkeleBear:
You have suddenly made me VERY HAPPY that I do not yet have 'Bon Voyage.'
Thanks for the warning.
Tenshii~Akari:
:jaw:
I second what Cocytus said. My game has bad enough issues with all the content I have. :oogle:
CynaraBlade:
Wow, what a blow to the head this is, on top of the SecuROM fiasco at that! Now, while I do have BV installed and am yet to experience any issues, this is certainly making me consider uninstalling...And here I was, thinking that EA games had cleaned up their act after the Pets EP BodyShop backwards-compatability disaster...
fftamfan:
Wow what a pain in the ass. I too noticed the Sims05.package file/files while sorting and organizing my files but thought nothing of it, thought it was something added when installing the pre-order items?. EAxis really screwed up big time, with this and the respawning and lousy anti-piracy software securom. Thanks for pointing them out, now i know its safe to delete them.
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