Well, I did that and the game now runs fine!

I am now eternally grateful to you all! (Lady Moiraine, caffeinated.joy and MissDoh)

Cheers again.

To be honest, I don't know how to :S

Well, I completely uninstalled the game and then reinstalled it, so this is just the base game on it's own without any custom content or otherwise, and this time I get this...



I'm getting pretty angry now!

Hey,

Unfortunately that didn't seem to work either

I have uploaded a new screenshot. This is what it now shows on Don Lothario's loading screen.



I'm going to completely uninstall and reinstall the base and the two expansion packs I own, if it still doesn't work properly, then I really don't know what to do!

Thanks.

Hi, this doesn't work either sadly.

I've noticed in more recent attempts at the family create screen, that it freezes for about three minutes when i tick the confirmation button before the "camera flash".

Thanks.

Well some more news. I loaded up the Don Lothario household today and it worked fine at first. I tested the game itself by buying a garage and a car, then making Don change his appearance in some way before going to a community lot in his car.

His load screen changed from the default one to one like the screenshot I previously posted, and the community lot (which was one of the shopping places in Pleasantview) loaded at a mega-slow rate.

Somethings bothering this game somehow, I don't know whether it is the custom content I downloaded earlier, (is it completely removed from the game by deleting it from the property bin?), but if it isn't then I'm completely stumped.

No it doesn't seem to have worked

Thanks anyway...

Ah, gotcha.

I'll install all the relevant patches now and let you know how I get on.

Cheers!

Hey,

Am I right in believing that the patches are what is installed when it asks for The Sims 2 base game disc four after installing an expansion pack? If so I did that after installing Nightlife but after Open For Business it said it was up to date.

I've had the game installed on here about three or four times before, and while I have had what occurred in the screenshot once before, that was only a one-off until now, and the slowness in loading up areas involving the "glitched" family was nonexistent.

Thanks.

Hey, sorry to just turn up here asking for help all of a sudden, and also I apologise if this has been asked before and/or is in the wrong place, but I really need help .

Just recently re-installed all my Sims 2 games (base, Nightlife and Open For Business), in the C-drive (which still has about 10 GB free space) and downloaded the latest InSIMenator before playing.

At first the game ran fine, but for some reason when I created a family the family loading screen looked like this.



This also occurs if any changes are made to an existing characters appearance.

The InSIMenator does work fine for me so I doubt that is responsible? I only downloaded one other thing, a house which errored when I attempted to load it, but the face glitch occurred for the first time before that was first used (it was in the property bin though). Since then both the original family and the house have been deleted but the problem persists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Perry.