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SO far Numernor, Marvine, & I have experienced sims freezing to death in CAS.  This has resulting in the game crashing to the desktop.  It has occurred in both unedited and edited CAS'es.  Whether the CAS was edited in Seasons or not seems to make no difference from what I have seen so far.

If anyone else has experienced this please post it in this thread so we can see if a pattern evoloves.

Updated:  other seasonal effects noted - death by heatstroke or something very similar & death by lightning strike amid torrential rain.

I have had this problem too, but only with CAS that I made with Seasons installed, just as I got random pets showing up in CAS when I made one with Pets installed.
I havnt had any problems with any CAS made pre-pets or pre-seasons though.

This is what happens with the Pets bug:

ye very Ephors of Sparta!  That is a ghastly bug!

Just thought I'd post saying that I haven't *touch wood* had that experience; I don't have a custom CAS; and all of my installed hacks have been updated for seasons. I have all games installed; pets wasn't patched and I have the happy holiday stuff pack.
Don't know if this will help or not.

Not that I had anything like spooky's :oogle: but, when I tried to create my own CAS, it also crashed to the desktop or no changes occured to the Custom Cas.

makes for a good laugh though :-P

Yes, I've experienced the freezing sims in CAS bug myself, both in edited and unedited CAS screens. Every time I see a sim turning blue in the screen I make a point of cancelling the sim creation before something untoward happens. Now that I know about the game crashing to the desktop if a sim actually does freeze to death in CAS, I guess I can say it's a wise move on my part. ;)

I´ve asked for help about this problem in a thread under Seasons problems or help, I´m not sure. It seems to me, maybe EA must provide a patch for this freezing.
My Sims don`t go to the floor, but they turn blue, in the neighbors bin they are blue, but in the house they are normal. But i would also like them to be their healthy colour in the bin, no?
I have also some hacks and mods, but all else is working fine.(till now...)
In the standard CAS it does not happen, only in my self-made ones.

Yesterday I made a custom cas, and one of my sims was constantly freezing(not blue but just did the freeze animation and fell to the floor over and over).

No crash to desktop though. Cant say Ive ever had a crash in sims2. I exited that sim in cas(X'ed her out) and just chose another premade one I was going to putin game(just to take pics). THat one wasnt freezing when she entered CAS. So far just that one incident. I had put the 1st sim in my game via cas premade on the 2nd try and no freezing or anything.. *shrugs*

*Fell to the floor laughing*  My poor simmies would die in my CAS, because I would be laughing soooo hard.   Spooky, that pic is hilarious!

i removed and reinstalled everything and seems to be working fine now

Like Spooky, I have had those creepy pet/sim, transporter accident looking Sims show up.. except it is in my Bodyshop.   Never before did this happen till I installed Seasons.   The weird thing is that I uninstalled Seasons and everything else and reinstalled the whole game from the Basegame up to Pets again.  And now the transporter accident dog or cat  and human mixed up sims are there.   It's like Seasons caused something to happen in the Pets bodyshop even though it isn't currently installed.  Is that even possible?

I had all epxansions, installed Seasons and the game stopped seeing my custom content. I fixed that. Sort of. Now it (the game) sees what it wants to, and different things each time I log in are working, while things that worked last time are not.

Then the latest weird thing: This last time I started up the game I went to play the Sim modeled after me, and she had a lamp on her head, one on each shoulder, and one on each foot. Maybe she just couldn't stop at wearing the lampshade?

{edit} The Sim modeled after me has no custom content in her creation. {/edit}

When I try to create a new sim, the screen goes black and it restarts the computer.

This one really creeped me out. I dont know if it's related to a Season's problem, but this happens to some of my sims in CAS, not bodyshop.

The second picture is from the male bin although, some have female icons with me unable to know where particular sims are.

I also have something strange. In my female hair bin there is a picture of a nude skin but when you click on it installs a hair style on the Sim.

Sandpiper, that could mean the creator of the hair has an EP you dont have,
clothes can show up as a nude icon as well.

@Decora: for the second one at least, it sounds like you need to delete the contents of your Thumbnails folder - I have to do that sometimes when CAS thumbnails get screwy :-\

@Sandpiper: Sounds like you don't have Pets, but the creator used an unpatched Pets Bodyshop - that's a known bug.

I had spooky's bug in Pets a few times, most notably after trying to fix the appearance (doing it again fixed it). But with Seasons in a pre-seasons custom CAS, fortunately I was able to create sims as normal :)

I had werewolves in CAS (custom CAS) showing up, but since I got the Pets Patch nothing of that sort happened again. Even with Seasons now installed they do not freeze to death or something. I once even went away from the computer while in CAS and returned an hour or so later. The Sim was still okay... so, it might be a bug or a hack conflict *no idea*

I've always had that happen.  A simple Ctrl + Right Click will solve that problem.  :angel:

My sims started freezing as well after my first attempt to make my own CAS. Very discouraging... And a wolf showed up as well. It didn't do this when I changed it back to the original CAS.
I double-checked my selfmade CAS, and it was indoors, and had a roof; the game still registers as outdoors apparantly. :(

My CAS chrashes, too. Bot not from freezing. At least I never saw a sim doing weird freezing animations. It started when both BS and CAS wouldn't start at all. After deleting the SavedSims, BS worked again, yay.

But with CAS it's very wierd: I can go in now, but after a couple of minutes, the game just terminates (yes, that infamous error). When I'm really fast, take a premade sim and just give them a name and personality and save and go back to the neighbourhood, I may be lucky and have a new sim or pet.

But when I try to go back into CAS to make another "quick sim", game crashes immediately. What I tried:

Deleting groups.cache, accessory.cache and cigen.package
SavedSims were already deleted aside from a few I want to get into the game.
Seeing that I had a writing protection on some folders, I reset all attributes for the whole downloads folder.
I took out ALL of my hacks and mods.
I didn't take out clothes and makeup and stuff, because that's just the stuff I need in CAS. Also, it didn't make a difference when I took out the whole downloads folder when even BS wouldn't start anymore.

Now I run out of ideas.
Do I just have to wait for a patch that may mess up other things again?


Edit: game also terminates while playing, but only once in a while. I save often...

My specs: I have all EP's, no stuff packs.
Computer: Athlon XP 3200+ 2,2 GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce 6800, drivers up to date.

Oh, thank you, hon! I thought it was just my setup that was doing that! I've been having strange CAS thumbnail issues for a while now - I almost never know just who I'm going to get when I click on a thumbnail to select a premade sim!
 
Is there any way to force-reset the CAS thumbnails?

:smile bi: It has to be done for each individual thumbnail you want to refresh, though...

I've never had that problem, I hve had the wrong picture in the bin hing though. Wow, this is my 300th post.

I missed that -- thanks! :oops:
Tenshii, I love you! It worked! :D

You do know this has nothing to do with this topic, right?

I have a custom CAS, but have only experienced the sim freezing in a CAS that I edited with seasons. In all my other CAS, whether custom or not, this does not happen - they were made prior to the seasons EP - I hope it can be fixed, because I am ready for a change :(

NB: My sim freezing entails: turning blue, falling over. gets up - face stuck blue. Repeat.

Edit: Note folks, this is NOT a general CAS help thread. It is specifically to record instances, or find solutions for the sims freezing problem in CAS post-seasons EP. It's important that bugs and help threads remain very much ON-TOPIC and related to specific problems (namely those outlined in the first post), or they become jumbled, and therefore, harder to address. I don't mind if you elaborate on other weirdness you've noticed also, but I do see some horrible bugs in this thread as well as other glitches that were addressed long before this thread was posted, so I think some of these problems certainly warrant (or may already have) more suitable threads of their own.
Thanks

It's not ? :P

This happened to me too. My favorite Sim froze to death. (*cry*)

I had this same problem but only when I used a custom CAS.  My poor sim kept freezing and collapsing over and over.

Weird, I didn't know about this thread or I would have posted about that...
A solution was quickly found when the issue arose, and you can build custom CAS that won't be affected by this Seasons bug, using Numenor's AnyGameStarter (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=250555) (formerly the BGS or Base Game Starter) to make your CAS in any version prior to Seasons. The only downside is that you won't be able to use CC that requires Seasons.

Oof.  I'm so glad I don't have Seasons.

Although, I'll be honest- if a sim were to actually die in the CAS mode due to the cold winter season, that would be pretty funny.  I'd also be very unlikely as well.

yeah that works for me

I don't have a cas screen custom in my game, I have Nightlife, Open For Business and Univ.
the only problem I have is hair showing up as nude sim icons, that sucks

^^ Hey, Geezy, that's a result of clothing created with the pre-patched "Pests" Bodyshop.  The only ways you'd be able to fix it is if you either get an EP that's Pets or higher, or if you go through SimPE and fix all of the broken files manually.  You can find a tutorial by Marvine on how to fix it here (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=27827).  :angel:

(It's an absolute pain to do, trust me.  I spent a lot of nights trying to fix all of the messed up clothes and hair I had in my downloads folder, and I NEVER got through them all because I installed Seasons before I finished.  :lol:)