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weirdicat
6 years ago
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Sims 3 Pets - Can’t click on own sim (self)

Hi,  So, my story is a bit weird. I bought the Sims 3 Pets disk LEGALLY at Walmart. And when I tried playing it after a short time of like 5 minutes I could no longer click on my own self sim, but I...
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    puzzlezaddict
    6 years ago

    @weirdicat  It might be a mod, although it could also be your specs.  While your hardware is fine for the base game and some expansions (and all stuff packs), Pets is the most demanding pack of all.  Many people on similar hardware to yours struggle to run it, although graphics glitches are much more common than issues with processor tasks.  Still, the fact that you played without trouble until you installed Pets means it's worth considering.  The best thing you can do to relieve stress on the CPU is to not run anything else while you play.

    Aside from a possible issue with hardware, another possibility, if you've been playing in an existing save, is that the addition of the Pets EP is overloading the game.  It's not just the extra content, it's the spawning of new animals, and possibly their routing issues if you're playing in a world that wasn't built to accomodate them.  You can test by starting a new save in Appaloosa Plains and comparing that with the save that's been giving you trouble.

    As for your mods, it's easy enough to test: remove them, delete scriptCache.package, and test the same save with issues.  You don't need to save your progress, or you can use "save as" to rename the save if you're not sure whether you'd like to revert to the previous save sometime later.  By the way, you don't need to worry about NRaas mods unless they're wildly out of date.  But the others are definitely worth testing.  If the problem goes away with no mods, you can start adding them back in batches and testing.

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weirdicat
6 years ago

I’m beginning to think that what I’m facing is being caused by some sort of mod I have, so I am going to sort through my mods to figure out if something inside it is causing it. 

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puzzlezaddict
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6 years ago

@weirdicat  It might be a mod, although it could also be your specs.  While your hardware is fine for the base game and some expansions (and all stuff packs), Pets is the most demanding pack of all.  Many people on similar hardware to yours struggle to run it, although graphics glitches are much more common than issues with processor tasks.  Still, the fact that you played without trouble until you installed Pets means it's worth considering.  The best thing you can do to relieve stress on the CPU is to not run anything else while you play.

Aside from a possible issue with hardware, another possibility, if you've been playing in an existing save, is that the addition of the Pets EP is overloading the game.  It's not just the extra content, it's the spawning of new animals, and possibly their routing issues if you're playing in a world that wasn't built to accomodate them.  You can test by starting a new save in Appaloosa Plains and comparing that with the save that's been giving you trouble.

As for your mods, it's easy enough to test: remove them, delete scriptCache.package, and test the same save with issues.  You don't need to save your progress, or you can use "save as" to rename the save if you're not sure whether you'd like to revert to the previous save sometime later.  By the way, you don't need to worry about NRaas mods unless they're wildly out of date.  But the others are definitely worth testing.  If the problem goes away with no mods, you can start adding them back in batches and testing.

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