Freetime Help

[Johnny Drake]

I got Freetime today and installed it. I took off all my hacks. The game loads perfectly fine to a neighborhood. I can even create a new Sim family. However, the game shuts down completely whenever I try to load a house. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advanced.

[menarine]

I've just installed free time and can't access my Sims loads up to the neighbor OK when tries to load family just get screen of the family and a spinning hour glass. It also comes up with a message something to do with a pull down curtain looking in the logs files it's traced to something called dreams any suggestions. I've backup my custom content if i have to re-install it all?

[tophatdan]

wow, i just got free time but havnt installed it i hope i dont have to totally reload.... that would be total suck

[Rayea]

jonny, did you totally remove the downloads folder, or just your hacked stuff?

i took the whole folder out and it played fine, all be it crappy amounts of things to use

i have so far checked and a few of my things work fine (copied over into a new downloads folder)
so far, my japaneese foods got from a link thru sims libido (i think they are all sims 1 compatable, dont need any eps, so i assume stuff that is hacked to be sims1 no ep are compatable)
the Grand Trianon set from Mts2
mostly clothes and skins (enaylas havent crashed me yet, but i am not going into my custom hood till i find out whats causing this) are fine, but i have only used my build and japaneese item folders yet.

im guessing that walls and floors are safe too.
but i totally took out anything i thought might affect it (haks i mean) yet it still kept crashing. im gona have to add folders by hand..*sob*

[AjiDivine]

Did anyone put in the latest BV patch before installing Free Time? On the Sims 2 site there were people that said Free Time did not include the new patch for BV on it.

[TheCelt]

Yeah I don't think it did.  I downloaded the patch a day or so before I got FT.  But it was on one computer and the game on the other.  So I forgot to move it to the other computer and kind of forgot about it until I was happily playing my freshly installed Freetime.  Then remembered the patch.  I clicked on the patch and it gave me the you have a newer expansion pack installed lecture and not the it's already up to date notice.  So I guess I have to unistall and reinstall to get rid of some of those dang BV issues.

[Ali]

well, my FreeTime nightmare is that the Securom bug finally got me . The game installed OK but the damn thing just would not load even though my task manager said it was running. The only way I can play it is through a no-dvd download that I found, with that in, it's going like a dream.
 
All my bodyshop items are fine and dandy and I put in all the hacks that I know have been updated or don't need it. I have yet to put in any objects, that's next on my list
 
For those of you with insim, I have it too and so far have had no problems or glitches from it. I read at MATY that having insim stops your sims from being able to catch bugs and butterflies, but my sims are doing it just fine

[lindseyanne2000]

you can get delphys organiser or a similar tool from MTS2 and other locations. my advice is to get rid of any downloads you don't really use.  Some hacks/mods are hidden and they can interfere with the game , i know this because it happened to me too.
Have patiences as if you have a lot of files in your dlds folder it will take time.start with hacks then walls because you might have quite a lot like i did, objects next.
move any you want into another folder and try the game . you can always add them back later or wait for a updated one.

good luck

[Johnny Drake]

Oh gosh, seems like a lot of people are having problems with the new expansion pack.

I only deleted the hacks. Perhaps I'll have to go through with delphys organizer. Maybe I have a hidden hack, one that I accidently put in the wrong folder under the downloads?

Thanks to those of you who helped. I hope that everyone else who has problems is able to fix them as well.

[Charley]

This is exactly what my game does even with no downloads! Why can't EAxis make something that actually works for once?

Char
xxx

[TheCelt]

I had the Securom problem too in which the game would never load.  I downloaded a no cd thingie.  But found that had problems as well.  So just by chance, I found that if I open My Computer and click on the CD drive that has my BV (and now my FT) disk in it then immediately go to start the game from the start up button at the bottom of my computer screen by clicking on EA Games then clicking on the icon for Free Time.  That brings up that Start button that we must now deal with.  So then I click on that.  And sure enough my game starts up.  Weird.

[Johnny Drake]

Hmm, it seems that all of my object downloads have disappeared from the game. I loaded a family in a new house and the game loaded perfectly. Anytime I try to get into an already established house, that is when the game shuts down on me.

Where are my downloads? That's what I want to know. All the bodyshop downloads are present as well as my wallpapers, floors, fences, etc. Except, my furniture is entirely gone.

[LadyKitiara]

Question - for those of you whose downloads have disappeared from your game, did you enable them after installing freetime?

[fsinaswee]

Everytime I try to load my sims, who were already in the game I keep getting "lot load...pull down curtain" error wat the heck does that mean??? Has anyone got a solution?  I'm thinking that I'm going to have to use the hack detector thingy and erase all the hacks that dont go together and see what happens.

Oh yea does anyone know a way to get the game to load faster?

[Sweet_Candy23]

mine doesn't work. I installed it and I play sims but freetime doesn't come up! help please?!?!?