yay it worked, yes it was simple once i knew what dang folder they actually went in, so ty ty ty once again

the libraries folder is where you put it?? i never in a million yrs woulda thought that, i was lookin all through the program files x86 path to find some place to put it..lol i shall try this..tyvm

so as i sed in another post elsewhere, i just got stuck with the horror that is windows 7, after hrs & hrs & hrs, i got my custom content to show up in game, but now i have no idea what idiotic win 7 directory i need to put my mp3s in so they play in game, there isn't even a nice, simple, logical music folder like when i had xp...will someone pretty pretty pretty please tell me where i need to stick the mp3s...& did i say please yet?

yeah u have to go thru program files (x86) on win 7 & what i had to do was create a downloads folder & put it in the apartment life folder to get the custom content to show up, but i've looked thru every sims related file or folder in my program files (x86) folder, & there is no music folder anywhere, there's a sound folder but i've tried putting my old sims music folder in 2 different places now  (apartment life folder & sound folder) within the program files (x86)/ea games path & nowhere at all seems to make the music show up in my game & it's drivin me nuts *sigh*

ok, i just got stuck with a windows 7 comp yesterday & i spent the entire day trying to get my custom content to show up in the game--now i FINALLY got that working, but i can't for the life of me get my own music into the game, & every single thing i find online only shows how to do it on xp (my documents/ea games/sims 2/music) but i already could add it to the game in my sleep with xp...with this win 7 crap, there isn't even a music folder! please someone, anyone help!

ok, so i begin again with saying that after installing free time, i finally fixed it so my mods work, my cc shows up again, & i stop blue screening..

then i added the patch & had to fix all that stuff all over again, tho it is now thankfully fixed yet again...

however, 1 more small problem remains, i mean, yeah, i can still play the game, it's mainly just an annoyance, (since i hate all the townies/npcs anyway):
but what's happening is that the townies in the dorm keep fading away into nothingness, going invisible, which i've seen happen 1 other time, & it was in a 14 room dorm...now i'm playin in a 30 room dorm (i'm tryin to make it realistic, since my dorm in real life had 350 rooms, not 6 or 8 or whatever other numbers come with the game)...& now it's even affecting the cafeteria worker...u can see the dishes when she's cookin/servin/cleanin up food, but she herself is invisible..it's very weird...is this mainly because of the game only bein able to have a certain number of sims on a lot, so it's just invis'ing the others to remain within it's own preset maxis parameters, or is there another reason i might be missing?...anyone else have this happen or know how to fix it?

eabling CC & setting it to display is always the first thing i do with a patch or new xp...the weird thing is, my sims themselves still have the custom content they were made with, but the objects won't show up at all in the catalogs, & the custom objects that were already in the game, are all blinky blue

so, i finally had all my problems fixed, even the blue screening problem, & all my mods worked & everything: life was peachy....then i downloaded the so-called "patch" for free time....& now everything is destroyed!!!!

the custom content (including any insim options) won't show up in the catalogs, no matter how many times i recopy the folder into the game (which was always what fixed it before)...& all the custom content that i already had in the game is now blinking blue, even AFTER adding the newest CEP...

so is there any way at all to de-patch the game (though i seriously doubt that) or is my only choice to uninstall & reinstall free time, without patching it, & therefore lose each & every one of my neighborhoods....someone tell me there's some other solution!

you mean there might actually be a cure for the problem i've been puttin up with for the last 5 xps?? in other words, yes, i do have nividia, & i shall try this boolProp thing, i can live without seein fish if it means i won't blue screen anymore...hopefully i won't be posting about this again LOL thanx!

ok, so i have all the xps & none of the stuff packs, & i've had the evil horrid godawful blue screen thing happening ever since nightlife, however, before it used to blue screen me every few hours, which was annoying, but the game was still playable.....but NOW, ever since installing free time, it blue screens an hour after starting the game, then like every 20 mins thereafter (not to mention the fact that the blue screen itself lasts for anywhere from 3-12 mins)....& now an even newer hell has begun on at least 1 of my lots: 1 hr-blue screen, 20 mins blue screen again, 15 mins, blue screen again, 10 mins, blue screen again, 5 mins, blue screen again, 2 mins, blue screen again...THEN as if i'm not already ready to kill by this point, on this final blue screen the (2 week old) monitor starts flashing from blue screen to black screen & won't even let me get back into the game at all, so i have to completely restart the computer & lose everything that happened since the last save!!!!

anyone at all know how to fix this?? (& yes i just updated my video drivers yesterday to fix the error msg problem i had just posted about last)

i mentioned this in the edit of my last post, but since it's a new prob, i figured i should mention it in a new thread....
i got some weird error msg about a "direct 3d error 3derr not found" or somthing like that, & it crashed my whole game, therefore making me lose everything that had happened in the last hr, so i'd really like to know what is causing this cause i really don't wanna have to save every 5 seconds just to play the game, the blue-screening wastes enough time as it is...someone help please!

...except in the CAS screen...no custom content at all shows up in the game (it won't show in buy mode....nor will the spawn option for the insim & it's parts show up, nor will the insim & it's pieces show up in the catalogs)

-yes, i removed the dls folder & loaded the game once without it like you always have to do with the new xps, then put it back (& spent another 1/2 hr to load the game again), & still no custom content shows anywhere but in CAS
-yes i turned on the "enable custom content" & "custom content shows in catalogs" options

anyone have a clue what's causing this, cause i refuse to play the game without my custom content. after all, i refused 2 even install it til the new insim, inteen & lizz's waterbed were updated, so yeah, i won't play it at all if i can't have my CC & mods, period, so please help

EDIT:well i got the custom content/mods to work now, BUT then i got some crazy error that crashed the whole game: someting about direct 3d 3derrr not found or some such nonsense...i lost everything i hadn't saved, so if anyone knows what's doiung this, please tell me

yes, i've played about 5 different lots, & it's happened on all of them....

& i've gotten so many different mods over the past few yrs, i wouldn't even know where to find updates for most of them at all anymore, if they do exist at all (the insim seems to be the only mod that anybody ever bothers updating for each xp, & thank goodness, since it's 1 of the main 2 mods that i absolutely cannot live without)...all my other mods seem to be doin what they're supposed to do in the game though, it's just that i've got this other crazy stuff goin on now...

yeah, i added the patch already, didn't fix aything though...i suppose there is a disclaimer on the patch page that says it may not work with existing lots, so i guess my next option will have to be to try and make a new family/lot, which kinda sux, since i didn't wanna just stop playin all the ones i already had, but thanx though

ok, i just got bon voyage, & yes, it's playable, i suppose, but there are some very annoying problems happening:

no non-residents can leave my residential lots, which means we end up with a bunch of townies standing at the edge of the lot all day (including neighbors who were visiting and then attempting to leave) screaming about bathroom, hunger, fun, whatever, but they're just stuck there, everytime they get to the edge of the lot, they fade out like they're leaving, then just re-appear....because of this, the mailman never stops delivering the bills (as soon as you pay them, he reappears on the lot & delivers more, nevermind the time of day, or day of the week), & the paperboy, just endlessly redelivers the paper, since the game won't let him leave the lot (i'm not exaggerating when i say there were literally 50 papers in the yard, & he kept reappearing & delivering more)

yes, i can delete the extra sims & the papers by turning moveobjects on, but it still doesn't stop the problem from happening the next time someone walks by or the next time the mail's due or the paper's due, it just starts the loop all over again

any clues? anyone? please?

EDIT-ok, i just finished removing every single mod from the game except the insiminator & the seasons version of the inteenimater...it still glitched...then i forced myself to remove the inteen & everything worked again, so yes, the seasons version of the inteen is what was causing all the problems (it was my #1 suspect, anyway)...so yeah, problems gone, however so is my ability to stand playin the game WITHOUT the inteen....but i figured i'd let everyone know, just in case they had any of the same issues