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iButterfree's avatar
13 years ago

Can't Use Theater During Show Times

For a little while now, my theater becomes unusable whenever a show starts. Before a show starts I have all the options pop up like normal when I click on it. As soon as the show starts it won't even let me click on it. All I can do is hover over it and have it tell me that a show is in progress. I can't do anything with the theater until the show is over. My Sims can't see any shows because of it, nor hold concerts if they're in the Music career.

I do have some mods installed, but I've had them installed for a long time and they've never interfered with the theater before. Besides Dragon Valley, I haven't installed anything new that would cause the issue. It's only the theater that's having the problem. It happens in old worlds and new worlds. I've gone through my files, but I can't find anything that might be the culprit. I'm not sure what to do at this point.

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  • Hi,

    I would try the following to do a factory resetting of your game to test if your userdata is causing the issue by doing the following.

    Temporarily move the The Sims 3 folder from \My Documents\Electronic Arts\ to the Desktop. Play a test game and see if you have the same issues. Post your results back here.
  • Hi,

    If you use the DebugEnabler mod, there is a workaround to this. When the theatre says "Next show starts at 10:00" when moused over, select it and click on Nraas>>Debug Enabler>>Options. A popup menu should appear; when it does select "DEBUG:Trigger Concert". And hey presto, the theatre info will change to "Show In Progress" but should still be selectable! :) Worked for me, hope it works for you.
  • > @SimsLova777 said:
    > Hi,
    >
    > If you use the DebugEnabler mod, there is a workaround to this. When the theatre says "Next show starts at 10:00" when moused over, select it and click on Nraas>>Debug Enabler>>Options. A popup menu should appear; when it does select "DEBUG:Trigger Concert". And hey presto, the theatre info will change to "Show In Progress" but should still be selectable! :) Worked for me, hope it works for you.

    this honestly works! i tried that in a world and it totally works!
    i had this for months but thank god it's fixed!
  • EA_Cian's avatar
    EA_Cian
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    8 years ago
    That's awesome, and welcome to the forums @mitz! This thread is a bit old though, so I've closed it - feel free to join in the discussion elsewhere though!

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