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fc0686300169c9ee
Seasoned Traveler
6 days ago
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I recently downloaded some home lots for my Sims, like I have done for years now. However, every one of them had missing walls on the top of the house where it met the roof! Some also had no foundation but were "floating" or used a fence as a foundation (but it bleeds into the house or blocks the front door) I never saw such an issue before and I have posted all over and googled this with no solutions! I play the Sims 2 Legacy collection and any lot that I downloaded with a flat roof was fine, just the gabled styles gave me trouble. What is causing this and how do I fix it?? What's even weirder is someone asked for a link to test the lot for me and the house was fine for her but not me!! I don't understand that at all! I appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks

  • I had the missing foundation and roof gable walls issue, too, on a lot I was building. It started to happen after the game crashed numerous times (50-50 method to find a bad piece of CC).  I had to back up my Documents/EA Games/Sims 2 folder and uninstall, then install, the game. 

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  • fc0686300169c9ee's avatar
    fc0686300169c9ee
    Seasoned Traveler
    4 days ago

    I haven't built a lot yet, so I do not know. But everything I have downloaded that uses those gabled style roofs has some upper walls missing. Some basements can be seen from street level too. Flat and some other types of roofs, that I have tested out work fine. However, I have downloaded over 25 lots and the majority have that style roof, and they were from different websites and different creators. My roommate noted that they all had ceilings, and he deleted the ceiling and built a roof and it came out fine,but he was having a hard time trying to replicate the roofs that were on that particular lot. Sadly, the way the roof was styled gave the homes character. From neighborhood view, walls appear up, but in buy/build mode is where I am seeing these missing walls.

  • I had the missing foundation and roof gable walls issue, too, on a lot I was building. It started to happen after the game crashed numerous times (50-50 method to find a bad piece of CC).  I had to back up my Documents/EA Games/Sims 2 folder and uninstall, then install, the game. 

  • fc0686300169c9ee's avatar
    fc0686300169c9ee
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 days ago

    I found many more issues when I went to experiment. The lots that come with the game also have missing walls and they have fences across where the walls should be!! I never saw such a thing!! I tried building a house to see if I could try the roof to see if I still had the issue. However, I built a foundation first and then went to add my walls on top, like normal , but the walls went on the ground instead of on the foundation. I am not even sure if it was a foundation. Do they have bricks on the outside? This was like a decorative wood on the outside. Anyway, I tried several times to get the wall on the foundation and it just seemed to melt into the foundation. Then I tried to place a door and it would not let me. I also noticed the tool to make decks is missing from my game!! I am at a loss! I do not know what to do!

  • fc0686300169c9ee's avatar
    fc0686300169c9ee
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 days ago

    I never had any problem with crashing, but I think I might have to remove custom content. The houses that came with the game all have the same glitch! I do not understand why this is happening to me!

  • fc0686300169c9ee's avatar
    fc0686300169c9ee
    Seasoned Traveler
    2 days ago

    Thank you for sharing your own experience with this. While I never experienced any crashing, I thought it might be worth seeing if cc was causing this. I removed all my cc and yet everything was still glitchy! I uninstalled and reinstalled and bingo! All the house lots work normal now and suddenly my deck building tool is there and the actual foundation building tool!! What was showing up for me was the third option, a raised platform, I believe. There are 6 building tools in that section and for some reason, only 2 were showing up in my game! I have no idea what happened to my game, but I am very glad it is working again!😁

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