I've had the same problem with a megahood. The only thing I can think is that something is left behind when the Sims are "cleaned up" - and as I haven't the time or the patience to do this for myself I have to live with it. So some of my Sims are just "allergic to marriage" or traumatised by bad marriages - those couples love one another just as much and live together happily. The only difference I see it making is - no wedding ceremony, and that when one dies the other is treated as a friend and not as a spouse for insurance purposes.

I am getting crashes almost every time I go into the game, always when loading a Lot. Always at the same point. I delete groups.cache, Thumbnails, Neighbourhood Manager, every time I am preparing to load the game. I check constantly for files=-in-the-wrong-places - sims2packs, rars, jpgs in downloads folders. I take out some or all of my downloads and then it MIGHT work - usually doesn't start working again after I have taken them ALL out. Then I start the long process of putting them back, a folder or so at a time. A week or so later I have my game almost working, I might find one item that I am suspicious of.
Then I visit a favourite site or add in some old downloads from my collection and off we go again. I never seem to get to play my game properly. Sigh.
I am careful - I use very few hacks and a small number of hacked objects but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

I'm so tired of this. IS there any way to see if a download is corrupt BEFORE I put it in my game? I really don't need this amount of frustration. I DO use the Compressorizor and I don't use Delphy's tool or SimCategorizor because I hear those can interfere with Compressorized CC.
I don't want to play with NO downloads, and I do enjoy playing with new downloads...

Sorry for the necromancy but this set is so sweet - anyone know where I can get the meshes please?

Oh yes, and I never use custom careers. They break my game over and over again. I had some I loved, maids and firemen galore... really badly broke it and wiped out entire Hoods. And for some strange reason, so do downloads from the Maxis site.

Somebody unplugged the server to plug in a vaccuum cleaner?

Dungeons and Dragons Online lots of fun if you have good folks to play with. (I play with my son and my online BF). Highly recommend this game.

I DID play Sims 3 but have uninstalled it after a few months of struggling to get it to work in any sort of playable fashion and when they broke custom content with a patch I gave up.

Yes, I would make myself young again, go to college (which I never completed in RL got sick instead   ) Do all the things I haven't done in RL like - have a REALLY good career, do lots of sports, swimming, make LOADS of money, establish a major dynasty, write (and sell!) lots of masterpiece books, live forever... Be abducted by aliens just to see what it's like on their planet.

I had Carrigon's rape/fight hack and ACR, and I think they were conflicting, though it did not show up as a conflict in the checker. I liked Carrigon's for its plotline ideas but actually it's not rape - just fight nude. So it was disappointing. ACR got boring quite soon, and seems a little unrealistic to me: ALL Sims are not nymphomaniacs... I'm going to try Pescado's fight club again instead. Never used InTeen, teenagers are kids to me.

Am tempted to try Zombie Apocalypse but I need to get the game working perfectly again first. I have altogether too many hacks, and have to rotate them out fairly regularly.

Playing a megahood now, I just rediscovered Circe Beaker. I usually concentrate on the green people in Strangetown and Bella but I was surprised - she cleans up really well, lovely facial structure. Haven't tried her hubby yet, can't decide whether to let him kill himself in a cooking fire or not.

Usually I like the Goths. Cassandra and Alexander have gone through several lifetimes, mostly happy, as has Mortimer.

Sadly it seems the mesh is no longer available  anyone know where I can find it?

I have been trying to deliver a painting to France (opportunity) - found the guy I was sposed to take it t, talked to him 3 days straight.... no way could I give the painting to him.... eventually tried putting it up in the Art gallery, that doesn't work either, took my Sim home in defeat... any clues?

Does anyone know of a no-CD patch for my (completely legally bought) Sims 3 and WA (patched) - just simply to save wear and tear on my poor disk?

Mods if this is the wrong place to ask or the wrong thing to ask, apologies and  please let me know.... (sigh - so many forums so many rules).

Yes, I was finally able to get the family back after removing every bit of custom content from the game. But even then they wouldn't load. So I moved them out, which I COULD do even though they hadn't properly come back from their hols - so they didn't get the bonuses for after a holiday. After a couple of attempts I got them to loac, after moving them into a completely different house. Of course they look different now, and having put all my hair and clothes CC in the game still works... but I would like to know WHY this happens.
The only patching I do, AH, is that when I reinstall the game, which I seem to do every few months, I patch each EP as I go.
I'm hoping this isn't a general glitchiness but I am not very hopeful. I don't have many hacks, but I like the ones I have My downloads folder is not huge, about 1.5Gigs.
Sigh. This is why I left Sims 1 for Sims 2, and Sims 2 for Sims 3, in the hope of a game that would run better.... no such animal with EA I think.

I played the Contender family for two hours last night - married Carlos to a bimbo, long vacation (a week? Whatever the longest vacation is) - they had a lovely time. When I went to return home, the game crashed.
When I restarted the game they were apparently in their house again, so none of the Bon Voyage returning from home bits had happened - now every time i try to load the family, the game crashes - gets to 4 blue squares and then hangs.
Short of delete the family and play somewhere else, any suggestions? This is very frustrating.
I do have hacks and downloads but I check regularly, ran HCDU a couple of days ago - and as far as I know I have no hacks that have anything to do with BV as I rarely actually play the BV features.

kisses badwolf! THANK YOU!