Re: Sims 3 patch, Jan 13, 2025: technical issues thread

@acartergirl3  Please pull ErrorTrap and try again.  If you still get the message, remove all non-NRaas mods.  The error should go away, but if not, redownload your other NRaas mods and replace your existing copies.  Then you can start introducing your other mods to see which one is triggering the error.

ET has a specific copy for version 1.69, so make sure you get that, not the disc or Steam version.  The download link is the arrow to the right of Version 100.

@adrianna456  I'm so glad to hear that.  Do you know which step helped, or did you try them all at once?  The important thing is that one of these worked, but now I'm curious exactly what the problem is.

I've figured it out. Apparently CMAR's XCAS (body sliders) is a coremod. I removed it and was able to start my game. Unfortunately, that mod hasn't been updated since 2016 and it doesn't look likely that it will be anytime soon - so I guess I will have to play without. Very disappointing as I relied on those body sliders a lot for customization. I wish I have never updated with this patch!

For those of you also having issues with the EA app after updating Error Trap, the following are also core mods that can throw the error message and prevent you from starting the game. If you have any of these they will have to be updated or removed completely :'(

NRaas ErrorTrap
NRaas UntranslatedKey (but there never was a 1.69 variant of this one, only 1.67)
CmarNYC's XCAS
Consort's 2X Weight/Fitness
Lizcandor's Asymmetrical Relationships
Simler90's Core Mod (not compatible with NRaas though)
AwesomeMod

@acartergirl3  Right, that's why I asked you to remove all non-NRaas mods, in case you had another core mod you didn't know about.  And CMar passed away in late 2023, so unless someone else takes over her work, it's unlikely that her mods will ever be updated.

@puzzlezaddict So I did try to launch the game after every step. It would not work until the last step, reinstalling and getting rid of duplicate Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable programs. I'm not sure if that means it was just that, or if everything else needed to be done lol. 

@adrianna456  Thanks, and that might be the entirety of the problem, as these runtimes all have to work together.  An older version of one not built to work with the newer versions of the others could easily stop the game from loading.  The next time someone shows up with the same issue on Windows 7, I'll ask them to do that first.