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Do not post here if you are having problems with BV.

I don't have any issues with my copy of BV. Lagging a little, but thats my fault, needs to clean up my comp a bit. I took out INSIM, turned the music off, (bugged me anyway) and left all my other downloads and mods in. No other problems to report.


Anyone else?

No problems worth mentioning.  Really.

At the start of every install of an EP, a warning pops up saying Make a Backup.  There's three good reasons for this:  
   1.  You may decide you can't play the new EP until after the inevitable patch that will be released a month later.
2.  You find out that EA's recommended computer specs are no where close to being accurate and you need new video cards, more memory or a new sound card.
3.  You refuse to remove your mods and after starting up the brand new shiny, your mods grow minds of their own and really mess up your neighborhood.

A lot of problems are coming from people that refuse to take their downloads out of the game and add them back as they find out what works or decide to try on their own.  You would think after all the EPs that have been released, people would understand the need to do that.  Every EP has needed a new InSIM and new Inteen.  Take them out!

This isn't the first time this has been said.  It won't be the last time.

The nature of my play, everything is expendable.  I haven't tried to keep one neighborhood going from the very beginning and have a legacy 'hood in it's 37th generation.  If a 'hood lasts 3 generations with me it's ancient, like my name.:toothy4:  So I didn't make a backup.  Never have.  But with my style of play, I've got nothing to lose.

Mods or hacks on the other hand is completely different.  I remove them all, then put in just the bare essentials.  InSim and Inteen are not bare essentials until after they've been updated :D.  

Then after playing a family for a while, trying the new things with the new EPs and I get a feeling for how it works, I start to put my other mods back in.  Not all at once, just a few at a time.  And as I play the next time, I do things that will force those mods to be used to see if they work.

By the time I get most of my mods and CC back into the game, public betas or initial updates are available for InSim and Inteen.

Someone in another thread has said BV is the buggiest EP ever release.  It's not.  Not by a long shot.  Pets and OFB are in that catagory.  BV and Seasons are, IMO, the two least buggy.  

But, having said that, BV has made numerous changes to it's internal code.  Whether it was EA's intent or not, they made changes that broke most of the more complex mods people love.  The changes broke a larger number of mods than have been broken before.

BV works unmodded.  BV works with compatible mods.  BV works with the proper hardware.

So far so good! Installation was no problem. I sent one family so far on vacation. Everything worked. I had placed Merola's multi painting on the hotel lot prior and that was a godsend.

There is a lag, very slight, for a second or two and it happens frequently but it is not the major standstill that has been reported.

I'm experiencing some lag, but that's usually logic (the game having to open the 'chance appearance' screen for example).
When I first loaded the game I also had the pauses in the moving pics at the 'choose neighborhood' screen, but when I shut my game down and then started it again, that was gone too.

I'm also perfectly able of walking to other lots, without my game crashing. So I'm really glad with this EP. And I'll take the bit extra lag for granted.

other than one problem with the new accessories my game is running fine, the only CC I have in it right now is the bodyshop stuff (except accessories - I'm not too sure about those)

sent one lass on vacation to three lakes, spent 4 days on the campsite, did all the tours, had a grand time, I bloody loved it! not too keen on takezumi village or whatever it's called, thought that was a bit boring!

I like the walking to other lots on the vacation hoods, that's really good, so apart from the one annoyance I'm loving this EP, just like I did Seasons, they certainly seemed to have been saving the best while last!

I had a minor annoyance with the pausing, crashed a few times because my favorite mods (global) needed updating. Got my updates and my game runs smoothly, except for a bit of pausing. I have a slow, older computer. Guess I need a new one. LOL!

I haven't any problem (but I've retired all my hacks and mods) except for the family album disorder. BV is a great game ! :)

ive not had any problems,only abit of lagging but had that anyway,ive got all the right specs but like it was said before the min specs arent always what it says on the box,but unless you can afford a top of the range pc then you just have to put up with it,which i dont mind.

no issues for me other than the occassional lag. Seems like the more I play it the less the lag.

I also moved all CC out, played the game vanilla in an test hood, checked out all the new vacation spots.

Move all CC back in (excluding mods) played more-still in test hood.

I am slowly adding the mods back in as they are updated or cleared that no update is needed.

I am just about confident enough in now to move to my regular hood without fear that it will blow up. (but I still have my backup if it does)

I play the same as you guys and have had a blast with the new stuff. I have added a few hacks back in that I thought might work, I did put a couple I hoped would work and the game wouldnt even load so that spared me a heartbreaking gamecrash. I love the new CAS additions for jewelry and new likes and dislikes...and buying a vacation home? Awesome.

As I mentioned in the bug/compatible thread, I haven't had a chance to really play yet (started working on new hood and been doing the hack dance).

So far, the only issue I have had is an occasional 2 second pause/freeze. My daughter who plays on my other computer (which has only 1 gig of ram and is almost 3 years old) says "it's runs fine"
She made a new hood, made a family, moved them into a beach lot and built them a house. She hasn't taken them on a vacation or anything yet tho.

edit to mention - she is currently playing almost hack free and is really missing InSIM.

ugh, me too, and although I'm really enjoying it I really miss my insim too!

No problems!

No major problems on my end either; I removed the "dangerous" hacks that I have and I've been playing virtually mod free at the moment. :)

The only MAJOR issue that I've had is about 1 sim out of 6 that's gone to a beach lot has a permanent sunburn now. Other people have let the Maxoids know on the Official BBS and I've sent a bug report to EA too, so it's not just in my game, thankfully.

I have had no problems either.  I took out all my hacks before installing and after that only replaced the ones that were listed as compatible by their authors.

working great for me so far...

Same here, took out the hacks I knew needed an update.

Other than occasional lag issue (which I suspect is townie creation) and some lots that are a bit poorly design it is running fine.  Some sims are a bit obsess with the new gesture and dance they are learning on vacation but that was expected lol.

Once I will get rid of the annoyances I do not like, I will have a lot of fun playing it.  In all, it is really not a bad ep and I agree with Ancient it is not one the most buggy.

Hello, no problems for me after 8 hours playing (I've removed all hacks but no CC). The only thing is that the game lags a lot, so I have to low the graphics.

I installed BV yesterday and played with a contest family for a few hours, but the only thing I have noticed is a bit of lag time. I removed some mods and hacks, but most of them are still there. My CC is working fine so far. I did tweak my game options and graphics a bit to see if it help with the lag.....just a little help, but the lag isn't so bad that I can't deal with it. I haven't gone on vacation yet, because my simmy is preggers and I don't know if she will go into labor while there. I do like that they can walk to community lots and can take pics & pose. Hula works fine too. I haven't tried the model posing hack yet in BV. Now I am just waiting for my sim to have the baby so grandma and grandpa can babysit while they go on vacation.

I've had it for about a week and so far I've had no probs at all *knock on wood* The only annoyance is when I come back from vacay I end up going back on vacation. But other than that, it's been great. It even goes to my community and vacation lots as fast as it did before.

No problem at all,I installed the game with all CC and hacks in place,went fine.
Lag sometimes,shorter now,between 1 and 5 seconds,when on vacation.

I had one crash saying my graphics card dissapeard, for the rest, living it, loving it.

OMG, EA's stealing graphic cards now?

Just before getting the BV I was having a good read around and was getting worried with what I was reading, but after putting the game in both my PC and Laptop everything seams to be working fine.

My PC is windows XP, ram 512, graphic card 6600 GT Nvidia, so by putting the Sims settings on medium it working not bad at all.
My laptop is Vista, ram 1gig, 8400 Nvidia and playing fine...

One thing I would say is don't be in a rush to update you graphic card if your PC is like a spec like mine as I find it don't help and makes things worse, I had to take out one update, so I'm using 84.21 Nvidia driver.

Yeah, I've found that to be an issue with Nvidia cards, where you need an older driver to be able to run it better. With ATI I'm now using the newest driver, no problems with Seasons, hopefully it'll run BV okay :)

I´ve started all over again, put back in the DL Folder including the safe hacks, not the ones which need updating. No issues at all., exept the seconds of freezing. I started with a test hood, but by now I´m back in Strangetown and there also, they can walk to other lots. I like that a lot! And the beach lots are a real treat. I´m glad,:)

acually im having 1 problem.

How do you get them to comb for seashells and build sandcastles and stuff like sunbathing?
i heard "just click the beach" but no option to do so. And now for a question; is it just logic a castle has to be built on wet sand "in other words, click on wet sand to get it" and click on sand with shells in it to look for some? i dunno how to sunbathe. if someone can help it would be omg helpful.

and i leanred teleport from the ninja but the option wont show up. and yes im sure i did, the little window said "yay Satomi just learned teleportaion" or something like that. help mee!!

Thanks! Other than that, great and i totally reccomend it!

acually for those of you who made this dumb mistake too...
i clicked the massage table, and sure enough, said No Options. I thought zOMG why cant i select anything for it, but then i realized there wasnt another adult sim on the lot :P

If you don't have the option, you probably have InSim in your game still.  Take it out.  It's not compatible with BV yet.

I installed BV and everything is fine on the surface level. I absolutely refuse to remove INSIM. I just love it too much. But I'm having a problem loading lots. It's not my computer. While I'm playing with sims and I book there vacation everything seems fine. The Taxi comes and the arrive nicely and fast. But they can't leave the lot, nor can they reserves a room. So my sims are left to hang in the lobby, lol. I have to exit without saving.
So after doing this a few times today I got the billiant idea to have them purchase a Vacahome, right? Wrong! The game loads the lot without any sims on it. Like you're just creating a house.
I thought I'd share to see if anyone else has this problem. I'm not going to remove any of my hacks or INSIM. Some of them are not replacable.

I only had one problem with blank wants after installation, because I somehow overlooked my old version of "teen whoohoo" when taking hacks out for troubleshooting.

I think a lot of people are having problems because they don't want to go without their favorite hacks and they're not properly testing them/checking the forums to find out which ones are problematic and which aren't.  It should be common sense by now that big hacks like insim and inteen are NOT going to be compatible with new ep's, so it kind of amazes me that so many people refuse to take them out and then complain when their games go kablooey.

I have some lag time... was running fast at first then slowed down quite a bit for some reason, might be that I have a lot of stuff downloaded though and Im on a notebook computer thats a couple years old also it was slow before I put it in... I was shocked when it ran faster, then dissapointed when it slowed down again to the point where its a bit slower than what it was. Also had to take out a couple of things that needed updating and that prevented my sims from going on vacation but other than that everthings ok. I love it so far.

I had the same problem. It turned out to be a buy/build mode enabler in my downloads folder.

Well, freshfs2003, if you refuse to remove any of your hacks, you shouldn't be complaining about bugs either.

I did delete my hacks. I love them to death, but until they're either updated or multiple people confirmed that they're compatible, i won't put them back in. I love my game more than I love my hacks. :)

I havent run across any real problesm yet. Of course mines a brand spankin new clean install, since I got a new computer a month ago. Id Only added some skins and makeup along with Pescado's BV anti redundancy fix and 2 other fixes.

Though I did notice it tends to lag a bit. Some times freezes up for a few seconds then resumes.. more so on a vacation lot. ALso noticed while I was on vacation(twiki island hotel) that the fast foward(fastest) would go a bit slow..

I didnt notice fishies in my pond yet.. though it was winter when I created it.. but Ill check later. I may just need to mess with my video card settings.

Ive heard there may be some sound card or graphic card issues? I do have a sound blaster audigy SE card and an onboard sigma tel codec..
Using a nvidia 8500 GT graphics card, 2gb ram, AMD athalon 64x2 dual core 3600+(Im used to pentiums and know practically nothing of amd).

Interestingly BV has fixed one bug I had. Sometimes I get a sim who can't clean up the dishes, a bug, but not one worth worrying about. Now they can, so that's wonderful for a sim who lives alone.

No problems here.  My lag time is minimal.  I installed clean no CC or hacks and have added hacks back slowly as it has been determined safe or updated.   I just downloaded the new insim this morning !!cheers!!happy dance!!

mine works fine, maybe even a little faster (I have TONS of cc in my game) and I'm really enjoying it.  I had problems but they were all because of incompatible hacks so I took all of those out and I'm running smoothly and perfectly.  I like it!

Took all my stuff out ran great put most of my stuff back in started getting a little lagging. other then that no problems.

I have ATI and it works just fine. I had Nvidia cards before too. That was annoying, but ATI has been great.

Yeah, I've been playing with BV for a while and no problems; glitches pop up now and then but can usually be traced to a rogue download ;)

I've not had any major problems.  Other than the time the game wouldn't work at all and Sadie said that she had the same problem on occasion.  Deleting the groups.cache and accessory.cache files fixed it for me.  Thanks again, Sadie!

The only other issue I had was minor.  After I put my downloads back in I lost the ability to interact with the ground, so digging for treasure, sunbathing, building sandcastles, combing for seashells, and watching the waves were no longer available.  I finally figured out it was the teleport hack I had - and everything worked perfectly upon taking it out.  Luckily, there is a BV version of it, and it's working great with everything else.

Some minor lagging with the large lots, freezes and pauses, but I've always had that on large lots, so it's nothing new.  Before I patched it, the autonomous water balloon fighting would slow things down a bit, but they don't happen as often now.

I'm really pleased with the ep and have had a lot of fun with it so far.  Some great new animations for storytelling, plus the ocean is just beautiful.  I'm not even a beach person, but I find myself wishing I could jump through the screen and wiggle my toes in the warm sand.

Oh yeah, how could I forget the game not starting! :laughing: Something (else) they need to add to their list for the next patch, methinks :P Still, it's easily fixed I suppose, just gets annoying.

I love this EP :D Not only the new animations, but the walk to feature is so much better than needing to hop into the car every time - I walk to most of my destinations within Leeds, even if they're over two miles away. I've also discovered a love for taking sims on holiday - wishful thinking at its best...

I have not backed up any of my downloads.. i have just recently dl pets, seasons and bonvoyage... Is it too late? I dont have many.. because I just started a week ago( finally got a new puter) ... this is probably one of those questions that has probably been answered a million times..but thought id ask anyways... if its not too late ill dl today :) thanks  and sorry if its a dumb question

i had a small problem not at first, but after i registered the game. i thought that was the problem until i found out it was just a download i had that was conflicting with the game, it would, at weird intervals, turn the whole screen blue, and wouldn't turn back until i moved the mouse over every inch of the screen

I've had BV for a few months and it works like "smoove creamy budda".  I think the forest thing is boring, but it provided the perfect pieces for creating the rustic log cabin in a forested lot that my soap opera is based on (which in turn is based on the song I chose for its theme song).  I'm thinking of sending my characters off to the mountain resort as a holiday special so the family patriarch can recover from his poisoning in a revenge plot against one of his daughters.  The poison was meant for the daughter as revenger for humiliating the antagonist for taking the guy they both liked (the antagonist's best friend did it).  

I like a lot of the things from this program.  I think it's one of the better ones and the clothes and new interactions they added are very nice for moviemaking.

I had two little hiccups with the new version of the inSIMenator.  I had one crash, but that was totally my fault.  I went a little crazy putting an extra in the hospital scenes through to the third trimester and then changing her clothes to regular everyday wear which caused it to crash.  Another time, I lost my three of my stars' faces when I turned them into teens for a flashback and then tried to make them adults again. But other than that, I've had no problems.  I can't wait for Free Time.  My junior high ESL kids and I talk about the game all the time.

I've got no really annoying bugs.
just a few that probably comes because of a hack or two. only thing that really annoys me, is a blanket problem when they go to bed - oh, and that they for some reason have troubles reading. but that's probably just a hack that I've not located yet. and lately, I've had a few troubles with vacation lots - but that's probably a hack, too, because it worked fine before.

all in all, none of the games have made any real problems for me. Once (around pets, I think), I had an insim issue, that made error warnings on every sim on the lot, but after removing insim, it worked fine.

I've not had one crash with BV at all. (I nearly had one, but that was probably a hacked object that caused it when I was building a house. it was just the screen that went all pixled, but the game screen popped back after a few minutes. and I'm still playing :D)

No problems here, other than a hang every once in a while on a packed business lot.  I thought this had disappeared with Pets, but guess not...oh well.  I just added another GB of RAM (up to 1.5), have all the expansion packs (one stuff pack - Teen Stuff) and run it with Insim, Inteen, ARC, a few other minor hacks, about 140MB of food (I should be ashamed of myself), and 150MB or so of other things (clothes, skins, hair, objects, bedding, etc.).  It's a little slow, but nothing to sneeze over.

hi everyone...i have a problem with my game.i played with BV with Insimenator hacks and there's a problem.it didn't work well with my game.for example,when i book the vacation for them,the vacation car didn't stop at the house,and it repeatedly come and go and it is really annoying...help please.

No problems widespread for me.  I've had crashes in one household but it turned out to just be the house itself and now I'm getting crashes with a single other sim that can't possibly be caused by BV.

I never get any of the bugs anyone complains about.

Had BV for about a week and no problems at all so far. Fingers crossed. One thing I found funny though. Seems men in the sim world are not so chivalrous. I mean, leaving a pregnant woman to carry her own suitcase ... LOL

Playing with the patched version (no cracked exe this time) on Vista, and still playing great :) Any anomalies can be tracked down to a download, as always, no problems that've been reported by others.

I installed BV on a pc that had NO dowloads, hacks, mods, CC or anything... at that time I wasn't aware of all this cool stuff...

Anyhoo- as I said I installed it the day after it came out and have played it all this time... and only had ONE major problem...

EVERY time it snows my game crashes...

I know this would seem to be a "Seasons" problem but it didn't do that when I was playing Seasons- UNTIL I installed BV.

Strangely enough---

I just installed Free Time... and so far... no snow-crashes.

Weird.

ANYWAY--- for the most part I had no real problems with BV except for the snow-crashing.  :)

(I seem to recall the error message being about my graphics card- which is not really anything to do with the game- that makes me think that it isn't a game related problem.)

Oh I forgot to say that my "Strangerhood" disappeared when I installed BV.

I don't mind since I never played it- but I guess for some that might be considered a problem.

Mine has a white screen if I click anywhere on my screen when loading.  
I am taking out all my CC.  See what that will solve!