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5d5zzkhmzm38
Seasoned Newcomer
6 months ago

Sims 2 Legacy is nearly unplayable

My sim cannot eat at the restaurants or food stalls in the vacation worlds.  Every time she is seated at the restaurant, she will reset and pop out of her chair.  At the food stalls, she can order the food but once it's placed in front of her, she resets and pops out of her chair.  When I had her try to shop, she resets at the register when paying for her items. 

I've also gotten stuck in loading screens that never end and I have had to exit from the game.  Error messages constantly pop up and selecting cancel does nothing to fix them.  I have to keep hitting delete and hope that it doesn't delete my sim, which has happened more times than I care to count.  

For the price EA is charging for a re-release of a game many of us have purchased more than once, these bugs are totally unacceptable.  

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  • Eloka477's avatar
    Eloka477
    New Adventurer
    6 months ago

    Does this happen with other sims, or just this sim in particular? If you are getting error messages you can check the log with this https://www.picknmixmods.com/Sims2/Notes/WhatCausedThis/WhatCausedThis.html and see exactly what the issue is


    Edit:

    I haven't tested vacation worlds yet, but it seems to be an issue for many people that they are quite buggy, people are also getting stuck there. https://www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/comments/1if4sjz/stuck_loading_screen_community_lot_vacation/ 


    I will test this out with a test sim tonight. 

  • Eloka477's avatar
    Eloka477
    New Adventurer
    6 months ago

    Ok, I just tested a vacation lot with premades from Strangetown, I'm using Jenny Smith and Jill Smith to do the testing.


    I went to Twikkii Island and chose the Twikkii beach hotel, I chose my room and checked in, saved and exited the game and was able to load back in. So I tested the restaurant within the hotel, I got Jenny smith to order and eat her meal (salad) without issue, I paid the bill after she finished eating, I then saved, and I went to the boardwalk with both Jenny and Jill where the food stalls are, and I got Jill Smith to order ribs, again ordered and ate without issue. I got Jenny to buy Private Island Figurine from the cashier, all went smoothly, I then got her to buy a dress from the same cashier, again went smoothly. Couldn't buy jewelry from this location because it was facing the wrong way LOL



    I walked (using lazy duchess mod for this travel) back to the Twikkii beach hotel, saved my game when they loaded in, exited the game, went back to Twikkii island and loaded in again without a hiccup. I then tried out going to the beach because some people are having an issue loading back to their vacation lot after visiting the beach in the vacation world, and I had zero problem visiting the beach and then returning to my hotel again, zero issues.




    I will test the other vacation hoods and lots too, but the Twikki beach hotel is working fine in my game.



    This was all tested with a clean hood Strangetown (I get clean hoods for all my neighbourhoods,) and various game fixes.


    https://modthesims.info/d/685385/strangetown-with-genetic-infant-faces-subhood-ver.html 
    https://modthesims.info/downloads/all/519/?p=1&u=10269790 



    I do have a number of fixes from MATY which may be stopping me from replicating these errors, and I delete the cache files after I exit the game. The only issue I seem to be facing right now is the beach lots crashing when I try to edit. I suspect that a lot of the fixes I always save in my backup folder which I moved over to the legacy are what's stopping these issues that other people are experiencing. 



    This may be an issue related to a bug that makes the tour guide continue respawning over and over which creates a lot of character files, and I do have the fixes that solve this issue from More Awesome Than You: anti-redundancy, notownieregen, nodormieregen, nostrayrespawn.


    Also a direct link for the http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9607.0.html tour guide spamming, don't forget to check https://www.picknmixmods.com/Sims2/Notes/HcduPlus/HcduPlus.html for conflicts when you are installing fixes/hacks. 

  • 5d5zzkhmzm38's avatar
    5d5zzkhmzm38
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 months ago

    I'm so jealous that your game appears to be working!  I am playing a vanilla game and am having all sorts of issues.  I was able to get my sim back from Twikki Island by deleting those worlds from the menu and she appeared back home, but now I'm getting stuck in loading screens trying to travel within Pleasantview where I wasn't before.  I foolishly spent hours building an amazing community lot and can't load into it because I got an error message during the loading screen and of course, got stuck and had to force my game to close.

    When I first sent my sim on vacation, the game loaded fine and I was able to check into the hotel fine.  However, when I sent her to the restaurant to eat, that's when my problems began.  I then had her go visit the Boardwalk and she was able to buy some outfits, but when I had her try to buy some souvenirs, it glitched out.  She was starving by this time because I was having issues with the restaurant. so I had her try and order food from the stall and she could order and pay, but when she went to eat, she just reset.  

    I give up.  A game that is supposed to be fun is being anything but.

  • Eloka477's avatar
    Eloka477
    New Adventurer
    6 months ago

    I'm so sorry that they released it like this, they really should have fixed these spawn bugs before they did. If you want help installing the fixes I can give you a hand and you can test with them, but I understand if you don't want to mod, you really shouldn't have to, it should have been fixed. 

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