I talked to EA's live chat, what do they call them? Advisors? Yesterday. I was able to find out that at least this issues are on a Known Issue List. Whether that means it will be fixed any time soon is anybody's guess. He did say, the more noise we make, the better. :) It is difficult to force myself to make noise about it, since in RL, I am super quiet!
At any rate---I asked the Advisor if there was an easier way to tell that CAW had been updated besides downloading it, installing it, and then checking the version number. He said no, there wasn't, but he would add that to my report that he was typing up. That would be a really nice surprise, if I could just look at the CAW download page and be able to tell that they updated it!
I appreciate the help Annieover, but I was still unable to get my saves to show up in the Main Menu. I am at a standstill. :(
A snippet of my conversation:
Okay, it looks like this is currently a known issue. Sorry about that. People have had success by patching the game, but since CAW is still new, I'm sure we'll get it ironed out soon. Would you like me to link you to the patch? :)
you: Patch to what? I am at the current patch level for Sims game---1.42. I have the appropriate version of CAW for that patch level. It seems that CAW is broke, and I hope they fix it soon. And sorry, I was also a bit confused about CAW being new? Hasn't it been out since 2009? Or are you referring to the CAW for patch 1.42?
Andrew: Oh, it was altered recently to fix some bugs in it, which worked, and created new bugs. That's what I meant by new. My apologies. That was confusing. :)
Andrew: As for the patch, your game is up to date, but sometimes if you patch, it kick starts things into working. :)
you: Okay---I suppose it wouldn't hurt. But are they working on fixing CAW? There has been no word on whether any one was even aware of the problem. That is the biggest frustration, I can be patient, if I know that it is being looked into. If I have no idea if it will be fixed, then I start to worry that all my hard work on my custom world was for naught!
Andrew: Which I totally understand. It is listed as a known issue, which means they are aware of the issue, but I'm going to be sure to file a report on it immediately.
btw---using the Superpatcher didn't do a thing. But it was worth a shot, it has fixed game issues for me before.
