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I recently had problems with my game after patching it with the second seasons patch that has come out. I did everything i was supposed to do like take out cc, hacks, and even uninstalled the program that lets me looks at stuff im putting in my game before installing the patch but once i patched the game didnt want to play at all. So i was wondering if anyone else has had similiar problems with this patch. I weighing how much i want to patch at this point. I had to uninstall my game to fix the problem last time. now my game is playing fine no patch.

yes, I had that too. After installing the patch, it just didn't read the disk anymore. I gave up an and are now playing a patchfree game.
Patches, downloads and upgrades are dangerous for big neighbourhoods. On top of that I lost all my saved games as well, making me start from scratch for the millionth time. The bugs are really minor. My sims do fine as they are now.
I know I am hooked, but at a certain moment a person just has to stop improving the game.

thanks Im sorry your having trouble with the patches too.

Okay...that makes me even more apprehensive about downloading the patch, now that you've mentioned it!

Man i'm glad i didn't patch it this time around.

The patch has not caused me any problems personally, I strongly suggest people install it.

I haven't had any problems with the patch either.

My game is doing fine without it. What exactly does it do?

There is a list of about 50 bugs it is fixing.  All the fixes are listed on the Sims 2 sites.

You might think your game is running fine without it but sooner or later, you will be face to face with some bugs the patch fixes.

There seem to be a lot of people having problems with the second patch, the first one I never heard so many problems in the forums but this second one I've been reading problems everywhere about people having to uninstall and reinstall their game going back to get the second patch and same thing again. I downloaded both patches they seem to be working ok for me. Knocking, no make that pounding on wood. lol

PegasusDiana: I love your signature. It's a great idea. Wonder why people didn't think about it before.

I found if my game won't start I delete the cache files and it will then start no problem.

I was just about to cry for help about this very problem & am going to try your advise first! (I have been playing just swell with all-packs-up-to Seasons/Celebrations + the "3rd" Seasons patch untill my PC just quit reading my disk! )

So..er...where do I find the cache files?

-ZW

no problems here with it

It's me, It's ME!

I had "starting game" problems since I installed the second Seasons patch. The only way to start the game was deleting .cache files in my The Sims 2 folder.

And still I have to delete them almost any time I start the game. Otherwise it doesn't start.

I've read about similar problems in many TS2 forums around the net, and many of them are very recent topics. I can not help thinking that latest Seasons patch is somehow related.

The cache files are in your : mydocuments/eagames/thesims2/(groups.cache ,accessories.cache, there is one other cache file but I cannot remember the name of it but it has to do with pets).

There's also the "cigen.package" file that may also need to be deleted.  It's basically the thumbnail file for Bodyshop, but there are some times where that particular file will get corrupted.  :angel:

Definitively, my .cache files seem they can not last more than a couple of starts... After that they get inexorably corrupted and make my game to not start.

Waiting and hoping for Bon Voyage to solve this irritating problem...

I have experienced 3 "not-starting game" (since last year) and I needed to desinstall and reinstall all the game with loosing my neighborhoods because if I reinstalled them the game refused again to start... :(

Too bad I'm not at home now to test with the cache files deletion (sorry for the english) but... my favourite neighboorhoods are saved so... maybe I will be able to replay with them. Rah ! It's a great news !! :blob6:

:happy3:

Yep!, I have problems with the cache files too - especially 'Groups.cache' if you're in & out of Bodyshop, and the game itself a lot - this is the one that seems to corrupt the most. So make a back-up!, it'll save ya a lot of time - not having to re-install the game and all your packs again!. ;)

I find simply renaming it to 'oldGroups.cache' so that the game ignores it & creates a new one is quite useful - just in case there's a problem with the new content, and your game crashes on exit!... :O

I just go ahead and delete them altogether.  The game and Bodyshop will regenerate those files just fine... unless your game is freaky and doesn't do that.  :shock:  Then a backup would probably be best.  :lol:

I delete mine regularly as I am always deleting custom content and adding custom content to my game. I have never had trouble with the game deleting them as they just regenerate after you restart the game.

For me, with both the first and second patches, after installing it my university neighborhoods would not work. It would pull up but run so slow that even just moving the mouse took it ten minutes to process, all the rest of the game was find just not university. For both patches, I uninstalled and reinstalled the entire game leaving out custom content and all downloads and it still did not work with the patch. Doing the same thing, it works fine without the patch. Being as last time I apparently forgot to backup my game, I lost everything and will NOT be trying the patch again.
~dizi