sims 2 no relationship screen

Why do you keep mentioning your name in all of your replies? It's like you're writing an email or something lol

Crazy! I'm glad you solved it though.

JOHNCeezee

Relationship Screen

SOLVED!   SOLUTION!

simsample told me how to Store PROB game and reboot NEW Sims 2 game, worked Perfect.

Moved PROB Downloads to NEW game, saw ‘Game Options-Display cc dialog at Startup’.

Some Highlighted Mods looked suspicious, Cleaned them out. NEW Game ran Perfect.

THOUGHT I cleaned out PROB Downloads and put back PROB game. Didn’t Work.

A Nudge from kestrellyn made me Double-Check PROB Downloads, I had Missed some cleaning.

The Original PROB Game is now PROB Solved Game, runs Perfect.

I can’t pretend to know How or Why but the Culprit was… SUNBATHING!

Sunbathing/Suntan/Sunburn CC Mods caused all the Trouble!

I spotted them because Years ago a ‘Suntan Anywhere’ CC Mod caused problems.

So, Beware... use sunscreen.

Thanks for Everyone’s Interest

JOHNC

The only other thing I can think of would be to use SimPe to extract the appearance of the Sim that is messed up and make them new in CAS. Properly clean the neighborhood to remove all traces of the corrupted Sim, place the new version, and fix/add relationships and memories of this new Sim. That's a lot of effort and requires learning a few programs. But aside from ignoring it or starting all new, that's all I can think of.

JOHNCzee

Relationship Screen

Where I'm at right now:

Rebooted original Sims 2 Game, works Perfectly (call it NEW game).
Moved old (call it PROB game) downloads folder to NEW game,
Spotted some suspicious cc Mods and removed them, works perfect.
Moved one PROB Neighborhood to NEW, still works perfect.
Then Switched PROB from storage back to NEW Documents to Play PROB
and Same Problem, No Change.

Don't really want to Give Up on PROB game, Move all 'hoods to NEW.
Comments or Ideas?

JOHNCzee

I"m sorry it's still not working right, but glad that you've found a sort of workaround. I've used "make contact" to make my Sims know ghosts so I could resurrect them or retrieve their tombstones. 

The game does have a lot of dead ancestors. A ridiculous number of them. That suggests the developers really spent some time on it. Unfortunately, they also didn't treat them very well. Most are unlinked to their families, many are missing character files, a lot have broken face templates or hairs or clothes not used in the final game, and only a handful have tombstones. It was worth it to me to get cleaned neighborhoods with that stuff fixed and familiarize myself with SimPe so I could do further editing myself. I also used the tombstone of life and death and batbox to call all of the ghosts and respawn their tombstones. So my graveyards are full. 

JOHNC again

Sorry, Contact is not Right-Click, it's Shift-Click.  oops.

Hello from JOHNC.

Thank you for still Thinking About it.  I did mention 'No Sims showing in any category'.  Experimenting, I found Household Sims do show up, then disappear after leaving. Found Households get blanked Relationship Screens when moved to another Neighborhood.

So, No I have not Solved it, but I did find Band-Aid/Backdoor way around it.  When meeting a Sim, Right-Click on them, click 'more' and 'make sim my contact' and just talk to them.  This displays the Sim in Relationship Screen with a Blue pie chart that gradually goes away.  Then it Displays Normally as a Friend.  Does Work, at least they don't live as a Hermit.

One other Thing.  I looked at Neighborhood/Characters using 'Sims2 Pack Clean Installer' and found an enormous number of Characters listed as 'Packaged Ghost'.  None show up in gameplay, I assume they are Memories, Years Gone characters or something.  They make up like 95% of the List.  Some mistake I made, Corruption?  Neighborhood will not Start without them.  Comments or Ideas?

Thank You JOHNC.

Something just occurred to me that I didn't think to ask before. In the relationship panel, do you have "All" selected? Could it be filtered by chemistry, family, or household perhaps? If your Sim doesn't have any relationships with Sims they have chemistry with, or has no family or any other household members, then it would be blank. You've been playing long enough that this is probably not the issue, but it's worth asking. Even after 20 years I still occasionally forget something.

Thank You for Thinking About it and replying so Fast.

Will mention it if I ever Find Solution.  Maybe it will just Pop Back In by itself.

JOHNCeeZee