so as i sed in another post elsewhere, i just got stuck with the horror that is windows 7, after hrs & hrs & hrs, i got my custom content to show up in game, but now i have no idea what idiotic win 7 directory i need to put my mp3s in so they play in game, there isn't even a nice, simple, logical music folder like when i had xp...will someone pretty pretty pretty please tell me where i need to stick the mp3s...& did i say please yet?

ok, so i begin again with saying that after installing free time, i finally fixed it so my mods work, my cc shows up again, & i stop blue screening..

then i added the patch & had to fix all that stuff all over again, tho it is now thankfully fixed yet again...

however, 1 more small problem remains, i mean, yeah, i can still play the game, it's mainly just an annoyance, (since i hate all the townies/npcs anyway):
but what's happening is that the townies in the dorm keep fading away into nothingness, going invisible, which i've seen happen 1 other time, & it was in a 14 room dorm...now i'm playin in a 30 room dorm (i'm tryin to make it realistic, since my dorm in real life had 350 rooms, not 6 or 8 or whatever other numbers come with the game)...& now it's even affecting the cafeteria worker...u can see the dishes when she's cookin/servin/cleanin up food, but she herself is invisible..it's very weird...is this mainly because of the game only bein able to have a certain number of sims on a lot, so it's just invis'ing the others to remain within it's own preset maxis parameters, or is there another reason i might be missing?...anyone else have this happen or know how to fix it?

so, i finally had all my problems fixed, even the blue screening problem, & all my mods worked & everything: life was peachy....then i downloaded the so-called "patch" for free time....& now everything is destroyed!!!!

the custom content (including any insim options) won't show up in the catalogs, no matter how many times i recopy the folder into the game (which was always what fixed it before)...& all the custom content that i already had in the game is now blinking blue, even AFTER adding the newest CEP...

so is there any way at all to de-patch the game (though i seriously doubt that) or is my only choice to uninstall & reinstall free time, without patching it, & therefore lose each & every one of my neighborhoods....someone tell me there's some other solution!

ok, so i have all the xps & none of the stuff packs, & i've had the evil horrid godawful blue screen thing happening ever since nightlife, however, before it used to blue screen me every few hours, which was annoying, but the game was still playable.....but NOW, ever since installing free time, it blue screens an hour after starting the game, then like every 20 mins thereafter (not to mention the fact that the blue screen itself lasts for anywhere from 3-12 mins)....& now an even newer hell has begun on at least 1 of my lots: 1 hr-blue screen, 20 mins blue screen again, 15 mins, blue screen again, 10 mins, blue screen again, 5 mins, blue screen again, 2 mins, blue screen again...THEN as if i'm not already ready to kill by this point, on this final blue screen the (2 week old) monitor starts flashing from blue screen to black screen & won't even let me get back into the game at all, so i have to completely restart the computer & lose everything that happened since the last save!!!!

anyone at all know how to fix this?? (& yes i just updated my video drivers yesterday to fix the error msg problem i had just posted about last)

i mentioned this in the edit of my last post, but since it's a new prob, i figured i should mention it in a new thread....
i got some weird error msg about a "direct 3d error 3derr not found" or somthing like that, & it crashed my whole game, therefore making me lose everything that had happened in the last hr, so i'd really like to know what is causing this cause i really don't wanna have to save every 5 seconds just to play the game, the blue-screening wastes enough time as it is...someone help please!

...except in the CAS screen...no custom content at all shows up in the game (it won't show in buy mode....nor will the spawn option for the insim & it's parts show up, nor will the insim & it's pieces show up in the catalogs)

-yes, i removed the dls folder & loaded the game once without it like you always have to do with the new xps, then put it back (& spent another 1/2 hr to load the game again), & still no custom content shows anywhere but in CAS
-yes i turned on the "enable custom content" & "custom content shows in catalogs" options

anyone have a clue what's causing this, cause i refuse to play the game without my custom content. after all, i refused 2 even install it til the new insim, inteen & lizz's waterbed were updated, so yeah, i won't play it at all if i can't have my CC & mods, period, so please help

EDIT:well i got the custom content/mods to work now, BUT then i got some crazy error that crashed the whole game: someting about direct 3d 3derrr not found or some such nonsense...i lost everything i hadn't saved, so if anyone knows what's doiung this, please tell me

ok, i just got bon voyage, & yes, it's playable, i suppose, but there are some very annoying problems happening:

no non-residents can leave my residential lots, which means we end up with a bunch of townies standing at the edge of the lot all day (including neighbors who were visiting and then attempting to leave) screaming about bathroom, hunger, fun, whatever, but they're just stuck there, everytime they get to the edge of the lot, they fade out like they're leaving, then just re-appear....because of this, the mailman never stops delivering the bills (as soon as you pay them, he reappears on the lot & delivers more, nevermind the time of day, or day of the week), & the paperboy, just endlessly redelivers the paper, since the game won't let him leave the lot (i'm not exaggerating when i say there were literally 50 papers in the yard, & he kept reappearing & delivering more)

yes, i can delete the extra sims & the papers by turning moveobjects on, but it still doesn't stop the problem from happening the next time someone walks by or the next time the mail's due or the paper's due, it just starts the loop all over again

any clues? anyone? please?

EDIT-ok, i just finished removing every single mod from the game except the insiminator & the seasons version of the inteenimater...it still glitched...then i forced myself to remove the inteen & everything worked again, so yes, the seasons version of the inteen is what was causing all the problems (it was my #1 suspect, anyway)...so yeah, problems gone, however so is my ability to stand playin the game WITHOUT the inteen....but i figured i'd let everyone know, just in case they had any of the same issues

a sim of mine died & i've directed several other sims to try & resurrect him with both the resurrect-o-nomitron as well as the insim's mortality adjustor, & he won't even appear in the list of "resurrectable" sims...even when his roommate (who watched him die) tried to resurrect him, i got the message "you don't know any sims who have died"....anyone have any clue what's causing this?

(& no, i didn't delete his tombstone, i tried resurrectiing him when his tombstone was on the same property as well as when it was moved to the comunity graveyard...it wouldn't work no matter where the grave was)

edit - yes, like i said above, the insimenator wouldn't give me this sim as even an option to be resurrected...but what i ended up having to do is use the resurrect-o-nomitron on the same lot that the dead sim had lived on, it wouldn't work no way no how on the lot that i wanted him to be resurrected on...course with the insim's family tree, my zombie is where he's supposed to be now, so it's all good

hey all, i guess i should be happy that other than an occasional blue screen this is the only problem i'm really having with seasons *knocks on wood* but i figured i'd post just in case someone does know how to fix it:

ok i occasionally buy a maxis object in the game rather than custom :rabbit: , & this never happened with any of them before-the object shows up in the catalog, i buy it, i put it in the house & the characters know it's there, but i can't see it at all..so far this has happened with a counter, a table, a set of chairs & an orchard tree..it's a little weird, it's like having invisible items sitting around the house...anyone know what might be causing this, or how to possibly make 'em show up in-game?

EDIT-ok, now this is starting to get annoying: any objects at all that were newly added with the seasons ep, if i buy ANY of them, they don't show up in the game..

also not showing up are :the ball they play catch with, the fish they catch, the fishing pool they use, the butterflies, the butterfly/lightning bug jars, the penguins, the snowmen, the snow angels, the snowballs they throw, whatever thoughts they are supposed to be having when going to fish show up as some square billboard thing above their heads,...also,  if it's winter i get big patches on the neighborhood screen of this same billboard thing on the landscape...and also, the second i tried to play a new family moving into riverblossom hills, the game crashed while i was waiting on the house to load

i'm getting a little beyond annoyed now, is anyone else having any of these problem?!?

hey there, this isn't as HUGE a problem as some of the others, it's just really annoying if you have a sim whose LT want is 20 pet best friends...problem being that no matter how high the STR & LTR are between a sim & a pet, it still only lists them in the relationships panel as 'acquaintances' even if you get the little best friends smilies over their heads in-game...anybody know what mod or anything may be causing this, the only pet-related hack i have is a pet career, not that hacks even have to be slightly related to the actual problem though. these days, anyway

ok, now yesterday, i had no problem like this at all...the ONLY thing i've changed was deleting a couple of custom outfits from the CAS screen, & deleting 1 of my mp3s...which have absolutely nothing to do with careers!

but NOW, i tried 4 times to do this, 2ce with the insiminator career adjustor, 1ce with the newspaper, & 1ce with the computer...every time, the same thing happened:

i pick a job for my sim, i click take job, & then when i'm waiting for the 'congratulations..your carpool..' msg, the game crashes!

wtf? is all i can say...someone please tell me if they had this problem, & how i can possibly fix it...thanx in advance