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5 years ago

I finally get to play again!

In hoping TS3 works well on my new computer I decided to redo the Montoya Family from the very beginning. I'd like some input on my new additions though.

Firstly, the parents.
I want the mom to be from Champs les Sims, therefore I'll give her the hidden french culture trait through Nraas, so I won't have to worry about game issues. I can't decide on a name... my options are:

Allyson, Amalie, Angeletta, Blanche, Bridgett, Catrinette/Catrinetta, Celeste, Charee, Georgitte, Jacquelyne, Jazzmyn, Leondrea, Nicolette, Ninette, Noelle, Odelia, or Sydnee. The last name will be LaFayette.

Her job will be likely a Stylist or Singer or simply a stay at home mom for now, so perhaps self employment?

Her 5 traits will be - Artistic, Natural Born Performer, Perfectionist, Diva and Dramatic

Favorites -
Color - Pink
Music - French
Food - Crepes
For the father...
He was be Spanish or latino since the Montoya name needs to come from somewhere :wink:
My name ideas are:
Andres, Antonio, Armando, Cristiano, Eduardo, Elija, Esteban, Jorge, Leandro, Miguel, or Teo.

His job will be something really good. Doctor, Business, Politician...
or if I check out MissyHissy's job center - Accountant, Advertising, Banking, Real Estate Agent, IT or Lawyer.

His 5 traits will probably be Family-Oriented, Genius, Friendly, Workaholic and Natural Cook.

Favorites -
Color - Blue
Music - Latin
Food - Tri-Tip Steak

I'll keep Valentina and Juliette the same as before.

I'd like to add a puppy to the family for the girls to play with. Which breed should I pick-
Chow Lab, Goldendoodle, Labradinger/Spanador, Labradoodle, Poodle, Beagle, Bichon Frise, Boston Terrier, Chihuahua, Cocker Spaniel, Dachshund, Havanese, Papillon, Pekingese, Pomeranian, Pug, Puggle, Schnoodle, Scottish Terrier, Shetland Sheepdog, Shih Tzu, West Highland Terrier or Yorkshire Terrier.

I also can't decide where they will live. I'm going to build them a nice 2-story, but where? Bridgeport, Starlight Shores, Twinbrook, Appaloosa Plains or Riverview?

In the future I will be adding an interesting BFF for Valentina to do some things with, except they will be quite rebellious.

Let me know your ideas and input! :)

Rflong7
New Vanguard
5 years ago
Hi :)

I like Charee/self employed.

Eduardo/Politician

Papillon

Starlight Shores seems good for rich Politicians.

Good Luck! :mrgreen:
igazor
5 years ago
Would one of your NRaas mods happen to be Cupcake? That one will cause the game to crash on startup if the bakery store set objects it's meant to be controlling are not loading.

But regardless, I would suggest as a test pulling your TS3 user game folder out of Documents (or renaming it) thus causing a new no-content one to spawn in its place and see if you can get some store content installed on the fresh folder.
igazor
5 years ago
The MC Progression add-on module will crash the game on startup every time if the StoryProgression mod is not also present. But I didn't go there at first because I was focusing on store content not loading, sorry about that.

Win 10 has nothing to do with fps capping. The tools to use for that will depend on whether your graphics card is Nvidia or AMD -- which card do you have?

Edit: Is this the system we are talking about?
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/970206/switching-computers-soon-looking-for-suggestions-on-what-to-do-first-and-if-itll-work

Then it's the Nvidia Control Panel to arrange for vertical sync and triple buffering and as needed Nvidia Inspector to explicitly cap the frame rate to the refresh rate of your monitor.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17397750/#Comment_17397750 (and the posts that follow)
igazor
5 years ago
Right-click on your Desktop and select Display Settings, then Advanced Display Settings. It's one of about five or six things that show up there, the one measured in Hz.
igazor
5 years ago
"rubyskywalker;c-17399172" wrote:
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@igazor do you have suggestions for a free program to export RAR files? I downloaded some MTS and most of it is RAR, and some Zipped which is easy, and another type... 7 something...

7-zip will handle both rar and 7z file compressions. It is free and open sourced software.
https://www.7-zip.org
SimmingPuddin
New Traveler
5 years ago
:)

@rubyskywalker: Hello

For the mom: I like Celeste/self employed

For the dad: I like Armando/Politician or Real Estate Agent

For the puppy: Schnoodle

Starlight Shores
DollyGizzy
5 years ago
@Rflong7 and @Puddinroy thanks for the input. I wonder if a Schnoodle and a Papillon would get along?

Maybe I'll create an Aunt and Uncle and move them into a house so they will have some family members in town.

Thank goodness for Nraas... the possibilities are endless now.
DollyGizzy
5 years ago
Well... now none of my store Content is installing. I click install, window comes up, then closes. Can anyone help?

@igazor
DollyGizzy
5 years ago
Aaand it won't open anymore. Loading screen, crash. Trying a restart in case something is in the background

EDIT one of the mods was doing it.. doesn't make sense. All I have is nraas
LQuinn00
5 years ago
@rubyskywalker .
Very cool, I like the way you are setting up your Sim family.