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Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 11, 2007, 10:19:21 am I have posted this before and it's still unresolved. It's a weird problem.
My bodyshop worked fine before I got Seasons. I'm almost positive I start it right (start-programs-ea games-sims 2 seasons-bodyshop). So I click on the icon and open Windows Task Manager to track it's progress. I go to processes, where it shows Bodyshop loading up to Mem usage 39k. And then it just disappears. I deleted all the cache files, (except accessory.cache, can I do that?) and removed my download folder so there's no problem there. Please help! Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Tenshii~Akari on December 11, 2007, 11:01:55 am You should delete the Accessory.Cache file with your Groups.cache file also, since that file can get corrupted, too. Not to mention the cigen.package file might have to be deleted. Sometimes that file can konk out on you, too. :angel:
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Khayman71 on December 11, 2007, 12:12:05 pm Bodyshop stopped working for me too, however it would crash on loading and give me an error message. Turned out that if you export a sim with SimPE then it will kill Bodyshop. I removed all the N000whatever_User packages from My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/SavedSims folder and Bodyshop decided to stop having a strop.
I don't know if that's any help, but if you do have any sims exported using SimPE in that folder then move them somewhere else before loading it. Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Tenshii~Akari on December 11, 2007, 01:44:43 pm ^^ It's not true all the time, but it definitely could also be the case in this situation... I've had a corrupt sim once or twice after exporting them from the game, but most of the time when I extract sims, I don't have a problem. I guess it depends on if the sim was corrupt from the very beginning and not after extraction. :dontknow:
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 11, 2007, 11:52:11 pm *kills self*
OK, deleted all .cache files. Bodyshop hates me and will not load. It's the weirdest thing too. The screen never comes up but I'm tracking how much it's loading on task manager processes, right? So then it loads to 20k or 30k or whatever and it disappears from the list. a. Any other suggestions? b. Do you think it will work if I get a new expansion pack and load that one's bodyshop? Thaaanks. Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: CynaraBlade on December 12, 2007, 02:59:19 am So, did you try deleting the cigen.package file as well as the .cache files? I'm just asking because it seems you only deleted the .cache files, judging by your post.
As for getting a new expansion pack, well...I sincerely doubt that would make any difference, sadly. Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Mr Heartache on December 12, 2007, 08:03:59 am did you open bodyshop by going start> programs> EA games> Sims 2> Seasons> Bodyshop?
Because that's how you get the latest version of bodyshop that will work with your latest expansion, and could explain why it's not working for you. I'd recommend deleting your old shortcuts, and making a new one from the seasons bodyshop. Hope this helps! Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Nik4myth on December 14, 2007, 04:59:23 pm Try moving your savedsims folder somewhere else and loading bodyshop. Also, maybe try some of the suggestions from this thread.
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=62922 Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: monkeynolike on December 15, 2007, 10:10:22 pm um im not sure if this ios the right place post this but here goes. My bf was on my comp and he did something and now none of my custom content i have downloaded wil show up in body shop. ne ideas?
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Kala on December 15, 2007, 11:28:20 pm I'm glad I saw this thread as I'm having simular problems with my game/body shop. BTW What's writen in the active title bar when you get error messages?
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: caffeinated.joy on December 17, 2007, 11:12:39 am Quote from: monkeynolike;1066333 um im not sure if this ios the right place post this but here goes. My bf was on my comp and he did something and now none of my custom content i have downloaded wil show up in body shop. ne ideas? It's a better idea to start your own thread rather than bumping someone elses. This problem is completely unrelated to the question Lexx is answering, and won't get the attention it deserves. Try checking your Downloads folder and make sure there's still cc in there. Is it possible your bf deleted it? Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 19, 2007, 10:36:41 am Kala I'm not getting error messages it just kind of disappears from task manager. The interface never loads. It's weird.
MiM I did that too, didn't work of course. ALso moved SavedSims, nope. Cynara, where is cigen.package? All that's in my EA games folder is more folders. THanks so much guys for your help...I know this is really weird. Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Tenshii~Akari on December 19, 2007, 11:11:02 am I had this problem for a bit a few days ago... turned out that there wasn't enough memory for it to stay open. :doh: After a simple reboot of the computer and re-deleting all of the cache files that came back, it started up without so much of a fuss. :shock:
I'm not sure if it'll work for you (if you haven't tried already) but it's worth a shot. Sometimes, even after Bodyshop respawns the "Groups.cache" file, it'll just keep doing the same thing... but I find that if you restart it without deleting the new version of that file it will also start up just fine 75% of the time. I'm just throwing out some random stuff... but after that frustrating period of trying to get my skins finished and Bodyshop being a complete nincompoop, those are some things I seemed to have learned from it. :smile bi: Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Kala on December 19, 2007, 02:30:50 pm Quote from: lexxia;1069823 Kala I'm not getting error messages it just kind of disappears from task manager. The interface never loads. It's weird. MiM I did that too, didn't work of course. ALso moved SavedSims, nope. Cynara, where is cigen.package? All that's in my EA games folder is more folders. THanks so much guys for your help...I know this is really weird. Thanks for the responce. My main problem is the BV Bodyshop bug. Your cgen file should be in the same place groops cache is. Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: ancienthighway on December 19, 2007, 03:41:21 pm cigen.package is created by Bodyshop, so if it's never run before with your current EP, you won't have one to delete. As Tenshii~Akari said, it could be a lack of memory. Follow her suggestion to reboot, don't run anything else, and if you feel comfortable it killing processes with Task Manager, kill the unnecessary one.
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 19, 2007, 10:54:46 pm OK Tenshii I think you're right in that my computer doesn't have enough memory to load it.
What processes can I end that won't harm the computer? I didn't leave any windows up but there's still a ton of processes. Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Tenshii~Akari on December 19, 2007, 11:22:06 pm Try looking at the suggestions that Paladin offers on his site. http://www.simwardrobe.com (look under Tutorials. He has a whole section devoted for optimizing Windows XP and tips on what processes and background programs you don't need.) ;)
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: ancienthighway on December 19, 2007, 11:22:35 pm I'd start with any instant messenger programs and the antivirus. Those two should free up enough memory for you to run Bodyshop.
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: freshsfs2003 on December 19, 2007, 11:43:29 pm I've been having this problem with BS too. I posted comments on this topic before in the other post. I think there is something definitly wrong with BV bodyshop. I know about the B1...... files, so I don't have any. But I have never had BS crash so many times before. I used my backup and everything worked fine. But I noticed some downloads I get from smaller sites may be the problem. I cannot pinpoint it exactly, but I'm sure it comes from them. I reinstalled most of the downloads I have got from the bigger sites and BV works fine. So Now, I backup the sims after every couple of days, so I do not loose some of the gameplay I had. I have never used backups so many times EVER!
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 20, 2007, 07:58:16 pm The stuff on Paladin's Palace should do it but it will take me a little while to follow all the steps. Thanks so much again and I'll post if it still doesn't work.
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 21, 2007, 06:52:52 pm Agh I closed all my antivirus programs to make it have more memory, and all the processes (like 6 of them, adding up to over 100k of memory) stayed! Help please.
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: ancienthighway on December 21, 2007, 08:18:29 pm Download Numenor's BaseGameStarter (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=107015) and install only the Legacy Bodyshop. Maybe it will solve your problem. You will have to copy any Bodyshop related CC from the game folders over to the LBS folders, but if it works for you, that's a small price.
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: Orangotango on December 22, 2007, 03:33:50 pm im having trouble too. I downloaded just fine, but then when i tried to open it, my computer spazzes and says "we can't open that, where should we open it?" so, i tried everywhere but nowhere wanted to let it open. What should i do?
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on December 22, 2007, 04:07:42 pm But that's only for the base game....would it still work?
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: ancienthighway on December 24, 2007, 02:16:10 pm Lexxia, it will work just fine, to include reading your CC that requires an EP if i remember correctly. Numenor has set the LBS up to make it look like just the base game is installed to run, yet when you go to run your game, you still have everything.
Title: Bodyshop won't load, I followed all the tutorials! Post by: lexxia on January 06, 2008, 01:55:14 pm Thanks ancienthighway.
Orangotango go start--all programs--ea games--whatever your most recent expansion pack is--bodyshop. |