My game crashes before it loads. help!

[WingedKitsune]

My game crashes before it finishes loading. I know there's a download that's making it do this but the thing is...The things i downloaded today didnt show up in the Downloads folder....Help me?

[Rayea]

first of all, did you just install the new freetime ep?
if yes, ohhhh boy.......

*hands you some hot chocolate and a big pillow to sniffle into and scream thru*

also... hm...have you any scriptorium items? part of those goes into your DL folder, but other parts go into your actual game, not into the My Documents / ea area.

you can check if its something you dl today by just taking out the downloads folder and booting the game. if it still crashes (and you dont have the scrip stuff ether) it might be sometihng else

[vanessa]

Go to My doc/EA games/Sims2 and delete group cache and accessory cache before playing the game.I have to do it every time I want to play,since BV,but I shouldn't complain,that's my only problem.
If it doesn't solves,take out your D/L folder and try again.
And if This doesn't solves,it could be the RAM or the graphic card.

[WingedKitsune]

I took out my DL folder and it worked fine...but I put it back and it crashed...I know the reason is because of an object i downloaded yesterday but it's not showing up...what do i do?

[geezy33]

try to remember what the last thing u downloaded, cuz this happen to me before.

[WingedKitsune]

I do remember it but it's not showing up in my folder. See i use sim file maid for all my downloads. It puts them in my downloads folder for me... But i dunno what happened...

[Me2]

Kaze .. what I did when I downloaded alot of CC at one time I had a differnet folder that I put my cc in on my Desktop and then i would leave it in there for a day or say just in case I plasyed the game and it crashed, I would search my files or folders on my computer and pull the things one by one I downloaded that day and take it out and rerun the game .. hope that helps

[WingedKitsune]

But the things i downloaded that day arent showing up....

[PegasusDiana]

Look in teleport see if they're there.
C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Teleport

[WingedKitsune]

They're not.

[Tenshii~Akari]

Did you try organizing all of the files in your Downloads folder by "Date Created" and moving the files out that were dated around the time your game started crashing?  (If it's not available when you right-click, go to View => Choose Details, and click on the Date Created check box, then press OK.)  This helps because it lists them by the date they were created on your computer, and not by when they were actually modified last... which can be very misleading at times.  :angel:

[WingedKitsune]

That option isnt available in either veiw or right click...it only says date modified.

[Tenshii~Akari]

What OS do you have?  XP or Vista?  Or do you have a Mac?

If you have XP (and I think it also works for Vista) you should've found where I was talking about (View => Choose Details)  right here:

And then this box should pop up:

[WingedKitsune]

OH! Heh...I know now. Thank you so much!

[Theraven]

and if your downloads doesn't show up ingame, you probably didn't enable CC. you have to click the "Enable custom content" in the blue box that pops up in the start of the game (before the choosing neighbourhood), and then you have to restart your game. then everything should be there.

I also advice you to put the files in the dl folder yourself. I use Clean installer, and of course zip/rar. organizing things in folders helps - I once had everything scrambled into the DL folder - and imagine sorting through about 10000 files... now, I use folders, and it's so much easier to control where things are. I don't have to sort through everything at least - even though I don't think the folder system I'm using is very good...:?