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I started playing AL just recently.. and i've been playing sims 2 now for quite some time..so i've been downloading custom contents for almost 2 years now [for the base game only-never had any success with expansion packs until recently] and no problems have occured. But recently, i've been downloading custom contents for AL and everything works fine until suddenly i noticed that only for of the many houses i've downloaded are appearing in the game. i've make sure that all the houses i download are AL compatible. and it also happens with downloaded neighbourhoods.. Pleasee anyone help me?? I'm practically begging and kissing your feets by now!  :D

p/s : sorry for the draggy writing! n sorry if i posted at the wrong forum n repeated a question cause it's my first time writing on a forum as big and famous like thiss!!  ;D

Sorry, don't mean to be pushy, but i need to solve this to make a story..
pleasee help me guys..  :'(

you are double-clicking the sims2packs to install them?  or using sims2pack installer to install them?

earlier on i did that, but then i installed clean installer and reinstalled all the not working ones...
you think i need to recheck??   :confused:

Please be aware that any neighborhoods need to go in EA Games: The Sims 2: Neighborhoods :p they will not show up in just your downloads folder, and I would suggest using clean installer to install CC in your game

aww..i tried what you told me but it didnt work..
maybe i need to reinstall it..thnks anyways!  :D

No, they don't go into neighborhoods.  they can be put in downloads using clean installer. When using the sims2 package installer, they go into teleport until the game is loaded.  

as for neighborhoods that you download, you put those in SC4 Terrains file.

whoops! lol

lol..i put the folder into SC4 Terrain but nothing happened..sobs..
maybe im doing something wrong.. anyways, can u guys help me with the custom house problem..as i LOVEE to download the beautiful houses available and just too plain lazy to make one myself...  ;D ;D

what folder?  you just put your terrains/neighborhoods in loose into the SC4Terrains folder. For your houses you use clean installer to install them into Downloads or just double-click the Sims2package file to install it by itself. There is no wrong way to do that. Does your other Custom Content, like clothes you have downloaded or whatever, show up in your game?

my other stuffs shows up just fine..only the houses and neighbourhoods.. but as far as i can remember i installed them using clean installer.. early this year, i've downloaded like 4 houses and they show up.. but the rest don't.. and there's something else wrong i think cause i can use one house for more than once.. like it is saying "you can use me all u want but im not goin anywhere!"   :D 2laugh

?  what do you mean? you can use houses more than once. that is normal.

really? before this i only use custom content on base game and when u use a house, that's the only time u can use that particular house.. hehe.. thnksss for the note! i thought my game is bugged..

Oh yeah, with the base game, once you use a house it is gone; I forgot about that!  :D

lol..now, im trying to figure out how to lessen the freezing while playing..it even messes up my game! btw, i've just installed free time and seasons...and it's getting slowerrrrrrr.....maybe because of insufficient ram??

Hmm are you sure your not downloading homes not compatible with your EP's because that can likely cause problems and I feel your pain with the low memory and RAM issue I only have 256 MB of free space lol! :p

If I understand this correctly, you are trying to put houses and SC4 terrains into your game, yes?

Houses: come in a Sims2Pack file, which chucks stuff into the Teleport folder. The house gets installed when you next run the game. General advice for installing houses is that you install them only 1 or 2, at the most 3, at a time and keep exiting the game to continue installing further houses. PITA, I know, especially if your game takes a long time to load, but this stops the game from losing the houses. If you think you previously installed a house but it's not showing up in your lots and houses bin, go to the Teleport folder in My Documents>EA Games>The Sims 2. Are there files there? If yes - delete EVRYTHING in there. These are your failed house installations and they are preventing new houses from being installed. Once you have deleted the contents of the Teleport folder, try installing the houses again. But remember - only a couple at a time. Also, even though the Clean Installer will let you, you should not install houses that require Expansion Packs that you do not have. They will make your game crash. Missing Stuff Packs is OK for some reason, the game will simply remove the content you don't have, but houses that require expansions you don't have will make your game crash when you attempt to enter them from the neighbourhood screen.

SC4 terrains: These go loose into the SC4Terrains folder. They are NOT neighbourhoods. They are terrains which you can use as base for building your own custom hood. This is why you are not seeing anything in the neighbourhood chooser screen. Click on the plus sign box to create a new hood - are your custom terrains there? If yes - you have successfully installed the terrains, go and make yourself a new hood :) If not, check the SC4Terrains folder - they need to be loose in there, not subfoldered.

Neighbourhoods: These will come as a bunch of .package files and subfolders in a folder numbered N004 or above. This folder goes into the Neighbourhoods folder. Remember - you cannot have 2 neighbourhoods that are numbered the same and you should never make neighbourhood folders overwrite each other when you put in a new hood or restore a backup. If you have downloaded a neighbourhood that is numbered the same as a hood that is already in your game, it is not enough that you change the number of the folder. You must also rename each and every file inside that folder and all of it's subfolders to correspond to the new hood number. This is best done with a mass renaming utility. I use one called CKRename.

re freezing:  take out your whole downloads folder and see if it still does it. it is probably a problem with something you downloaded

re slow: How much RAM do you have?  and yes Seasons etc will slow down your game.

when i installed seasons it disabled the custom contents until i shut it up and open it back but i played it for awhile without the downloads and it doesn't freeze [not that much i think]..so maybe yes, something i downloaded is causing this, but then, i noticed that it freezes more when im playing in belladonna cove but not in the other n'hoods... so i took the house that i like to play out along with the people and moved them to the seasons hood...and it doesnt freeze that much anymore! YEAYYY!!!  :D

about the ram, i THINK 160 or 256... hehe..not sure...
but this is a new desktop and the used space is only 1/4 of the whole thing...and it's not that slow if i play in the other hoods rather than belladonna... so thats kinda fine with me.. but i saw this program today that says it can speed up the computer or something of that sort... i wanna try but im not sure..

"https://speedbit.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=1686242"
the website of that program...


for the house thing, it does end up in teleport everytime i install it... and i dont install more than 2-3 houses at a time...and i am sure that i chose the compatible house with my expansions... cause just a few days ago, i downloaded a magnificent apartment and it only requires the AL.. but it's not showing up as well... and the other houses that i downloaded are mostly from QBuilderz at MTS2 and im sure i only downloaded the ones that goes with the base game...

oh my, i didnt notice that i typed such a longgggggggggggggg answer..hehheheee...my bad..  ;D
as for the SC4 terrains and n'hood..i think im going to leave that for a while cause it doesnt bother me that much as it does with the houses.. [because im just too plain lazy to build one myself as i tend to take more than 2 hours for DETAILSSSS] lol..my friend say that i have obsessive compulsive disorder..maybe i do... *stops to think about it*
yeah,  maybe..  ;D  Lol..

anyways, can u guys have a look at the speed optimizer thingy.. thankss a bunch!!
and thankssss forever for all the help..im gonna retry all the things said...  ;D

yes RAM matters.  I have 2gb on my computer and it still bogs down at times.

Thanks a lot guys for all the help! I think the problem is solved now as i can install the houses and they worked fine! I'm really grateful for all the help! But..as that problem solved, a new problem arises...my bodyshop crashes everytime i want to use it! N i need to use it to edit my sims. Any help will help so much!

How much RAM do you have?  How much free space on your hard drive? What operating system are you using? what kind of graphics card?