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user316
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12 years ago

I Resolved the Monte Vista Woodfire Oven Issue

This in regards to the issue that some of us have had where the Monte Vista woodfire oven would give us the "no interactions available" notification after hovering over or clicking on it, causing the object to become useless. So, I saved my games, library files, saved Sims, etc., and regenerated a new The Sims 3 folder in My Documents by placing the old one elsewhere, and I re-installed all my Store CC and added my saved files back in. I tried different combinations, with and without third-party mods/CC, with and without Store items, with and without saved files, and the woodfire oven worked perfectly in each combination until I deleted the DCBackup folder. Then, it gave me the issue again. I restored the deleted DCBackup folder and replaced it with the newly generated one, and the oven worked again! I used to always delete the DCBackup folder periodically because of how large the size could become, thinking that maybe it would slow down my game (I'm not sure if that's actually true or just a myth). After all, I had never had any issues before after deleting that folder. Perhaps the ones who aren't having this issue are the ones who haven't deleted that folder? This is just a suggestion. To the ones who are having this issue, maybe you should try this solution to see if it worked for you? The "resetSim" cheat didn't work for me, as suggested by a few members here, so that might not work for others as well. Good luck, and post here if it worked or didn't work for you. :)
  • OMG!! I am so so HAPPY!!! I tried SillySela sugguestion above and now my oven works!! I just download MV yesterday and was so dissappointed when the oven didn't work. (I really just bought MV for the oven - half price on origin folks 'til Feb.14). I googled the problem most of the night, found this and tried and it freakin' worked! Thank you!! How do you know all this stuff? :)
  • My problem is, I never get to make any perfect quality foods with this oven even though I tried about 100 times. :-o
    I reinstalled it several times, and even tested without mods in new games, I experimented on different households and worlds.
    My main sims make everything in perfect quality, including foods they make with the Teppanyaki grill.
    I have all the ingredients in perfect quality, too.
    I also have the Kelvin fridge. All my sims are in cooking skill level 10 or 9
    (some of them learned after I installed the oven) and some of them have the natural born cook lifetime reward.
    And I know we can't delete the ccmerged file....So it's weird. :(
  • :D Thank You so much for this, after many tries and attempts, your method of keeping the renamed ccmerged did the trick!!!!! Now I can see the food my sims have been making!!! Again, thanks :) :) :)
  • i tried EVERYTHING. uninstalled, reinstalled many times, uninstalled, reinstalled all ccs, uninstalled my tepanyaki grill, deleted all my store fixes, and followed sillysela tips; renamed my old ccmerged file, downloaded a new one... still NOTHING works.

    i know this is an old thread but somehow im still hoping i could get a new tip about this.