Every time I get any sim to prepare a meal or have a meal, they cook it and then put it straight in the fridge, even when they are very hungry, unless I direct them to eat it straight away. The only way they eat straight away is if they are directed to have a quick meal. Are they all anorexic?

 
I was bought a new computer for my birthday.Intel Core Duo 2.80GHz, with NVIDEA GE Force 8400 GS card, and I thought great, now all my problems with Sims2 are solved! Boy was I wrong! Unfortunately my old computer caught a virus and the whole hard drive was corrupted before I could transfer all of my Sims2 stuff to CD`s, so I had to install the game completely from scratch. I installed all of the packs up to Mansion and Garden and the only custom content I have so far installed are Maxis recolours and a few mods. As soon as I go into a house to buy basic furniture, the buy mode freezes on the third item selected and the stupid egg timer just goes round forever. I disabled all of the mods, cleared the cache files and still the same problem. This is driving me nuts! Any ideas? 10th April 2009, I used Clean Installer to have another look in my downloads folder and found the problem (which was occuring in Misc Kids.). I deleted some files I had from Sim Addict (Maxis matching items, Nursery) and so far have had no further problems. Fingers and toes crossed!

It was definitely a RAM problem. I have taken out all of my downloads and just reinstalled a few things(Insim being one essential) and the game is running OK, although it does run quite slow at times and has the odd hiccup. I will not be adding any more downloads until I have a new computer with lots of RAM.(Any offers?) My five year old processor will not accept any more RAM so it does mean a hefty layout in order to play the game with all expansions. :smt120

:sad4:I tried the testing cheats. Still no Object error..I went into an empty house,browsed through the buy catalogue and after placing three objects,(the categories vary every time) the game seizes up and I get the message Application has crashed and will now terminate. This is the problem I have been having since day one and still no other logs apart from Audio Errors and AppErrors. I think it must be a RAM problem, so I will try and buy some more Ram before I attempt to play this particular expansion pack. Thanks for all of your help everyone.

OK. I`ll try testing cheats. I think perhaps my computer won`t take anymore RAM. I`ll check with my friendly computer genius neighbour, but I have a horrible feeling a new computer will have to be found. Oh well, Christmas is on the way, perhaps my family will pool their resources!

Hi I`m back. I have no files in logs with those names. I have only AppErrors.log and AudioErrors.log and neither of these will upload.Would it help if I just copied and pasted the content of the log?

Well, I`m going on holiday to Florida for a couple of weeks. I`ll check back when I return and hopefully my brain will kick back into gear once it`s had a rest!

I forgot to upload the Apps Error log, I have tried and tried but it still comes up as invalid file.

OK here goes!  It did it this time! Thank you.:worship:

I have tried running the game with only Maxis recolours and the game still crashes. I have looked at the error logs and it seems to be a problem with audio files, but I have no idea how to deal with this. It seems to pick out Karaoke and Disco Booth and states that there are duplicates of the sound, but I don`t know how to find the problem. How do I attach the log to this post? I have tried several times but it keeps coming up as Invalid file.:worship:

I always delete the cache files before I play. Where do I find the content registry files?
I noticed in the error logs that there are Audio errors, but I do not know how to attach the log to this post. I tried to attach the log, but it came up invalid file.

Thanks. I`ll give it a try and see if it works.

I have already done this. Created a new test neighbourhood and the problem persisted. The game crashes in every category of buy mode after I have selected more than three items. There is nothing in my saved sims folder. I have run clean installer through everything in my downloads folder and have run SimPe GUID scanner several times and disabled duplicates that showed up. Is there anything else I should be checking?

After a lot of messing about, getting rid of a lot of downloads, unistalling and re-installing AL, running SimPe GUID scanner, and disabling duplicate package files, (Most of which were Maxis), I tried to play again, and as soon as I start furnishing a house in any neighbouhood, after placing a few items, the game crashes. I also noticed that the swing is missing from the buy catalogue. The only swing available is the garden swing of bliss and harmony. Am I ever going to be able to play this expansion pack, or is now the time to give up? I installed the AL patch and that hasn`t helped. I had previously installed the unofficial patch from Pescado. Could this be a conflict? Can anyone tell me why this damn game has caused so much trouble?  I am heading for a breakdown.:sad4:

Thank you for all your help.