Mariesalias wrote:
I especially agree with the MOO advice. I swear, I can not have it active for more then a couple minutes before it will start to cause big lag in my game. :\
There is a safe way to add old sims to your new games. If you added them to your library/bin in CAS, anyway. Then you can go into the SavedSims folder and pull the " .sim" and place it into the SavedSims folder of your new game. You would find them in the bin in CAS in your game.
The .sims are not the actual sims in the sense that they have any content attached to them, they are just kind of like a blueprint for the game that say, "this is how this sims should look". If you don't have the content that was on them installed, the game will replace it with a default one. You may have to re-do the traits and such, but appearance-wise they will be the same, to the limit of your content installed.
I will agree that in most cases, this method will work. However, in a very few cases, if a hair or something else from the store is missing, using this method will crash the game. I have had this happen, repeatedly, over a span of years. And if a sim crashes like this, it will continue to crash CAS each and every time that sim is accessed, even before you can manage to delete the sim.
So, in cases where the person isn't experienced in troubleshooting, I don't recommend this method. It is much safer to install a sim through the launcher, because the launcher will inform you if something is missing, and you can choose not to stop installing the sim
before it causes a problem.
That is why I suggested just starting over and making all new sims. When someone's game is really messed up, so many possible problems could be causing the trouble, or even several of them in combination. Starting completely over is usually the best answer.
Then, once the person has a viable working game that runs smoothly, a backup can be made of the perfect game. And I usually even make a second backup. A backup of the backup, so to speak.
After that, an old sim family can be put into the game through the launcher, and tested to see if any old problems show up. If they do, then that game can be trashed and one of the backups used, instead. If all goes well, then the old sim family is proven safe, and can be used from that point on.
But everyone has to do things their own way, so they can make sense of game maintenance. I would suggest, though, that if someone does want to try your method, they add only one sim at a time, and open CAS to make sure the sim doesn't crash the game. If it does, then it is easy to go back into SavedSims and remove the crash-happy sim. Once all the sims have been checked and verified as safe, one at a time, then they can all be put in the SavedSims folder, together.
