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I bought AL the first day it came out put it in and forgot about my mods and hacks turned them all on and... they all work. I have the inteen, the insim, and various other hacks from diffrent sites.

I'd be very weary of saying they all work. While the InSIM does indeed work there are a few options missing until Eric releases the updated version. Ancienthighway said that the InTeen isn't working either.

I had to turn off all my CC - the games started up fine but then took over an hour & a half to load any of my sims families that I had been playing.  What am I saying - it wouldn't load any of my families - computer just kept running & running till I gave up.  I was going to remove everything from my download file & just add back Insim - do you think that's an idea?

Wow thats slow lol.. Yeah it def sounds like you have something conflicting. I would try running clean installer first and removing all your mods first and then seeing if the game will load. If it still doesnt load then I would go through the tedious pain of removing all of your dowloads and adding back in batches to see what is causing your load problem.

its worth a try or you could gradually staart adding little by little back starting with the stuff you used the most and retry it after adding a little more back and see if it runs quicker and at least you would have the stuff you used.

That's the way I add mods back in after a new EP/SP comes out.  Of course if you don't turn the testing cheats on, you won't know there's a problem (boolprop testingcheatsenabled true).  Just be prepared to remove something, even if it's your favorite mod, if you get an error.

I used of worded it diffrent they bsically are working to the extent of not causing an big problems.

Actually, it probably is causing big problems with the code of your game, and you just don't know because it's not manifesting itself--yet.

Agreed. I took everything out. Then I played with things that were tested.  The times I've left them in and played in the past... it always shows it's ugly face of incompatibility.  For instance, when Vacations came out, I didn't uninstall ACR, well, everytime I tried to leave a vacation spot or a community lot (walking or taxi), my game would cycle until I had to turn it off and start over losing all the time and progress I made.

with cc turned off my game seems to work fine - but I hate to admit it - its just not fun.  what I love about the sims is that I can have countless hous creating clothes/houses/characters I love watching them interact & it is trully annoying when they have to sleep when I want them reading, or they keep running to the bathroom etc.  My sim just had the worst outing ever because there was not enough time for everyone in the group to start having fun.  If I remove all the hack but INSIM - will I lose my SLIMMER BODY BUILDER mesh and all the clothes I have created?

For the most part, CC is not a problem in any new EP.  The potential problem is with the mods and hacked objects.  If you can separate those from the other CC, pull them out.  Check back to where you got your mods and see if the creator has made any comments on whether it's AL compatible or not.

When you load your game and you come to the initial screen where your CC is listed and the option to turn it on or off is listed are there any yellow triangles listed next to your CC??

I had several and after removing them (9 in all) My families now load. Before I tried to load them and it ran ALL NIGHT and still did NOT load. Below is what I removed. It would be interesting to see which ones you have that are the same if you do. Maybe we can find out the culprit.:D

CEP-Extra_AtomicAgeLamps.package
CEP-Extra_ClubTableLamp.package
CEP-Extra_Phones.package
CEP-Extra_TeddyBears.package
CEP-Extra_VideoGameConsole.package
PerfectGardens.package
PregnancyWearAnyOutfit.package
d1cb0b87b2e68b6d11643cefa10e076_0001.package
d1cb0b87b2e68b6d11643cefa10e076_0003.package

The CEP files aren't in the downloads folder, they are listed in a folder labeled zCEP-Extra with all the other folders.

the ones that are bold are the ones that show up on my CC too. i guess they were there since i installed the CEP? does anything happen if i delete them out??

The only thing that will happen is custom recolors of those items won't show up.  Probably not a problem.

the ones that are bold are the ones that show up on my CC too. i guess they were there since i installed the CEP? does anything happen if i delete them out??


As far as problems removing the CEP-Extra files,not that I can tell. I must not really use them much, because I don't notice which ones are actually missing. I wouldn't delete them though, just move them to your desktop and see if that is your problem.

When I first installed AL I went into my vampire family and noticed the post box and garbage bin flashing blue so I came out of the game and then loaded the game again realizing that my CC was not enabled so I corrected it and tried to load my family again but it just froze!!!!
did some research on the web and found out to back up my downloads folder before installing any expansion packs so I went to my  C / my documents/ea  games/downloads folder to back everything up and found that my downloads folder had disappeared,(all other folders and files were there)I even tried system restore to get it back but to no avail

so now I am in the process of finding and downloading everything again
   :doh::doh:

Over @ MTS2 there was a thread about the CEP, that causes certain (re)colours to disappear, like with the Ergo window. So its advised to choose whether you want colour options installed for CC, or play only with EA-Created stuff (no CEP) to get the missing colours back. Clicky (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=299492)

Also, InSim. Yes, as stated it does work alright - but the SIM edition gave me hassles with teleportation & the new teleport spell. With the SIM edition you cant use it. Not that you'll need to, since InSim teleported sims around way before EA did. :)

The OBJ edition is cool tho. Im (contently) using that until a update becomes available.

Yip me too

  got warnings with all the above Cep files

have backed everything up but was just gonna try and put stuff back bit by bit but if can do it faster by just removing these files then will try that first

 I just removed all my hacks and mods first but when went into Belladonna cove and moved my test sim into an appartment she just stood there and refused to do any commands at all.

 So you guys reckon if I just remove these should be ok ?

When went into my old neighbourhoods lots of my cc was flashing blue and cant understand why as all meshes are there - is this to do with the Cep files too ?

Anyways here goes nothing - will report back if any luck

I'm playing with all my mods, hacks & CC, have not had AL long yet, so I haven't discovered "all" my probs yet, I don't think.
However, I cannot enter Aubrey Manor at all, when playing with my CC enabled. Game immediately crashes. I entered with all custom content disabled, to see what is included that might be new.
 
So I saw the humungous aquarium. Is this a buyable object? I have not yet seen it in my Buyable items, and was wondering if I had something that is conflicting with it.
 
Had a second crashing problem, after changing a lot back with the changelotzoning cheat - game crashed upon saving after having rezoned back to apartmentbase. This seems to be fixed now that I have uninstalled and reinstalled AL.
 
Something else that I noticed when I tested without CC, is that on the interaction pie menu KISS, there are new options, namely suck face and dance. These disappear with CC enabled. Funny, that!
 
Oh, my mailboxes also seem to be the usual ones, not the new apartment multimailboxes, when playing with CC.
 
Will have to fiddle with my mods and hacks when I have loads of time, which, unfortunately, I am very short of at the moment :(

Yay - game works perfectly now I've taken out those pesky jobbies ^^^

  saved me a lot of hassle - thanks fer the great advice

hmm i keeped all the cep extras since i installed the game and no problems as far as crashes i did add a few hacked objects one could be causeing a problem though taht it wasnt causeing previously (i had them in and played fine before problem showed up) my kids and teen seem to not have to go to school any more its not to bad actually since their grades stay put and teen can wotk with out having to worry about grades too   or atleast on apartment lots anyways since i had the pleasnts one their original lot for a bit and they did got to school but once i moved them out to an apartment  the bus quite showing up so if anyone has that problem let me know   i might have another hack that slipped though i cant find, i normally keep em all in a hacks folder but you never know

I'm having trouble with the Decorgal Modelling Hack since I installed AL

Aw no - say it isn't so! :sad5:

I deleted a couple mods and hacks before loading AL for the first time (namely - ones I didn't use or wanted removed anyway) and it seems to run just fine, even with plenty of hacks.

The only thing I'm confused about is why I can't find the "brush teeth" option anywhere.

I put the swinger bed and the mind control mirror in after playing A L for a few days and my game crashed so I took both out and I don't know which one caused it or if it was something else but the only other hack I have is  the merola painting that I put in right after installing A L and it has not caused any problems does anyone else have these hacks with no problems?

I re-installed it and it's working fine now :)