Hi Crin,
1. Are you using any Custom Content or mods ? only store content, no mods
2. If you are using mods, are you using any of the 'big ones' like Awesome Mod or Twallan’s mods N/A
3. If you're not using mod, did you never use them or did you take them out for the EP (as you are supposed to do) never used them
4. Did you update the mods you put back with a compatible version ? N/A
5. Do you have Island Paradise or just the Patch ? just the patch
6. Which Patch Level are you at ? 1.50
7. Did you start a new game or are you playing an existing ones ? Existing game
8. Did you transfer an existing Sim over or are they new/Pre-Made ? Using Sims that I created but saved to the bin
9. What town are you currently playing ? EA or Custom ? Dragon Valley
10. What is your Operating System (Mac, XP, Vista, Win 7) ? Win 7
11. Do you have the download or DVD Version of the game ? DVD
12. Are you reporting for the Uni-World, Home-World or WA-World ? Home World
I doubt that you remember, but a while back probably in either the Seasons or SN bug thread, I reported that my games had started to randomly minimize while I was playing. At the time I said it was bothersome, but not problematic. This would happen very randomly, sometime not at all and others quite often while I was playing. I was always able to just click on the Sims icon in the tray and bring the game back up without issue.
Last night I was playing for the first time since the patch. While playing for about 45 minutes, the game once again randomly minimized. This time when I clicked on the icon to bring it back up I got a black screen with a white box that said the game was not responding. This is the first time this has ever happened so I am thinking that maybe this patch may be responsible.
I am going to play for a little while tonight, it is already 1 AM here and I have had a rough day, so I probably won't play for long. I don't know if it will happen again, because it always was so random, if it does I will let you know. Any advise on how to prevent this from happening will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for all of your help and all that you do for everyone here.