BV wont run & additional problems........!

[dwarf1010]

Hope that somebody has some advice, had problems with walkby's & postman/deliveryperson not leaving the lot but haf that more or less solved with the no delivery hack from modthesims, than the baby's where very scary coz they had another baby & a 3rd eye in their head, but that goes when they change into tods. But now the whole game just wont run, the launcher comes up and when i press play, poof gone. I have read about re-installing but that seems to have his own problems, bar from chucking the lot through maxis's windows i am out of ideas, does anybody have any ideas?

[MissDoh]

Did you try to play without any of your downloads (totally remove the folder) to see if the game would run without it?

If so, something in there is causing all this mess.

[Tenshii~Akari]

The "baby with the third eye" is a borked skin made through the downloaded "demo" Bodyshop.  You might want to consider getting rid of that one.  :?

[dwarf1010]

Thanks, dont know what a borked skin is coz am a total ignorandus & due to lack of time (exams) have not really had the time to start tinkering, did however fix the non-starting problem by deleting the cache file, know was taking a chance, but building relaxes my mind & badly needed my fix. Anyroad how do i go about deleting that skin thing?

[Mihura]

Yes the deleting of cache files have resolved a lot of blocked games for me. It's a wonderful (mirifique) idea !

But for the corrupted skintone, you have to find it. Use the Sims 2 Pack Clean Installer (here) and run it to find all skintones. Try to place them elsewhere and to put them again one after one to find the culprit (or remove all skintones if you want to go fast).

[MissDoh]

Look at the date of the file, it should help you find it, the demo bodyshop version was out in 2004 so the file should normally be dated of that year.

[TheCelt]

Clear out cache files?  How do you do this or what files do I delete?  I installed BV, ran it, worked great.  Then closed it and from that one first time playing it, it will not load.  The disk whirls to life in the drive, but that is all.  What do I need to do?

[Mihura]

The cache files are in : My Documents / EA Games / The Sims 2. Now, after each exit of the game, I always delete them, just in case.

[TheCelt]

Drat.  I was hoping there was other cache files you were referring to.  I've tried deleting them.  I've tried closing all running programs that can be closed.  I've tried playing without my downloads.  When I install the game, it runs one time.  Then after that, nothing.  The disk whirrs to life.  I can even see the program listed in the running programs.  But it never loads.

[Tenshii~Akari]

So, deleting the Groups.cache, Accessory.cache, and the cigen.package files don't help in getting your game started again?  :scratch:

[TheCelt]

Nope.  All I want is to be able to access my houses and my Sims so I can package them and start all over.  I'm so frustrated now.  I even uninstalled my disk burning software hoping that anti theft software would know I have no intentions of stealing this seemingly crappy edition to the Sims family.

[willisj]

Thanks for your tip dwarf1010, I was having the same no-run problem with BV. I deleted the cache as you suggested and it has worked everytime.

Wish I had read this thread before I re-installed BV (4 times, grrrrrr...), anyway thanks again, you've saved me a lot of angst and re-loading!