Tech Responders - Break Room

Bronwin2 wrote:

And, of course, no one seems to read the stickies.

Haha that's my biggest pet peeve here! Crinrict did such an amazing job on the "How to post in the technical forums" sticky and yet I'd wager that only 25% of people who post here asking for help read it. Such a shame!

ewilson1114 wrote:

Bronwin2 wrote:

And, of course, no one seems to read the stickies.

Haha that's my biggest pet peeve here! Crinrict did such an amazing job on the "How to post in the technical forums" sticky and yet I'd wager that only 25% of people who post here asking for help read it. Such a shame!

Agree with this as well. I never will understand why people simply do not read. Some of the excuses people have posted are just... :roll:

Now you know why I have the signature I have. :hunf:

thanks crinrict! seriously feeling big time now!

ill get better acquainted with Answer HQ section ..i must admit i havent really looked at it since i thought it was just customer service. so glad to hear its not!

let me know if there is any we can do here better to connect folks more to Answer HQ...

and i totally agree Bronwin2 and ewilson1114 reading is fundamental! In fact i use to try to explain to folks why their intel graphic card was no longer working but to no avail and one time ewilson1114 wisely posted the MTS link your computer is like a car and it worked like charm!

so now its my favorite link!

blunote00 - thanks for book marking--i feel like we now have a nice hotline to ya!

ceejay402 - missed the Grammies. Can you tell me how Jan and Dean did? Oh, where does the time go! Me and the misses go to shows like Celtic Woman (great show), 12 Girl's Band (there's actually 13), Sarah Brightman (another great show), Gallagher (first time I went was row 3 center), and several lesser known shows. The Willowbrook Ballroom is close and on the way home we get to look for Resurrection Mary.

blunote00 - Most of us Americans try to assemble something and when that fails THEN you read the instructions. Didn't you know you CAN get a square peg in a round hole?

I can only make one person happy each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking to good either.

*****7 wrote:
blunote00 - Most of us Americans try to assemble something and when that fails THEN you read the instructions. Didn't you know you CAN get a square peg in a round hole?

That reminds me of my ex-boyfriend who has a giant tin can of leftover screws from all the things he's put together. :wink:

lol. You guys are funny.

I think the AnswerHQ is just a addition. No use in sending anyone over there. Here there are more people answering so if I have someone I can't help, I send them over here cause I usually can't help with hardware stuff. I see the AnswerHQ as entry level for the more basic questions.

It's really worse than here I just decided to help out there rather than here cause you're supposingly able to advance and get more privileges or even a goodie or two. Also I have a better channel to the moderators there and can get stuff sticky and even send them a PM now and then.

Well, I've had the same rank since I had 10 solutions (have 950 now) and EA has no clue why I'm not advancing. There are two people that have the status Hero (with a lot less) but all they can do more than I is give out 2 XPs instead of 1. So it's just another thing that doesn't work properly.

Reading is fundamental but it's easier not to and hey, why do so when you do get an answer anyways.I am thinking that there are probably A LOT of people actually reading and finding their own solutions, we just don't see them cause they don't post.

I really think it's great that we have a handful of people helping out here now, makes me feel less guilty about abandoning the tech forum but I'm still reading now and then. I've stopped answering questions were people try to play the game on their intel cards with 0-64 dedicated memory and a processor with 2.0 ghz or less. They don't want to hear it anyways, so why tell them.

If you guys think there's any topic that needs addressing in my blog so you can link to it, let me know. There's still a lot I need to re-write but if it helps you guys and makes our lives easier, I'm all for it.

Oh and while I'm at it, do you guys have a solution to the following issues:

- EPs are installed but none of the content show up. It's like they are not installed (doesn't ask for the disk). Happens mostly on Macs
- Game gives a disk authorization warning although person has the download version (never had the disk)
- Any of the Mac Issues: Unknown errors, exception raised and crashes
- Game does not start at all when pressing play (either launcher or directly). Nothing happens
- Has a satisfactory solution been found to the crashing on saving with Seasons ?

crinrict wrote:
Oh and while I'm at it, do you guys have a solution to the following issues:

- EPs are installed but none of the content show up. It's like they are not installed (doesn't ask for the disk). Happens mostly on Macs
- Game gives a disk authorization warning although person has the download version (never had the disk)
- Any of the Mac Issues: Unknown errors, exception raised and crashes
- Game does not start at all when pressing play (either launcher or directly). Nothing happens
- Has a satisfactory solution been found to the crashing on saving with Seasons ?

I have no solution to any of these especially the Mac questions since I don't have a Mac. :wink:

bump

crinrict wrote:
Oh and while I'm at it, do you guys have a solution to the following issues:

- EPs are installed but none of the content show up. It's like they are not installed (doesn't ask for the disk). Happens mostly on Macs
- Game gives a disk authorization warning although person has the download version (never had the disk)
- Any of the Mac Issues: Unknown errors, exception raised and crashes
- Game does not start at all when pressing play (either launcher or directly). Nothing happens
- Has a satisfactory solution been found to the crashing on saving with Seasons ?

howdy all!! to keep the laughs rolling checked out the TMN latest update re nraas ...seriously havent laughed that hard in a while :-o

so the following are what i have gathered from simmers as workable options ..not sure if any are new so please anyone jump in and pick a part anything or add more..

launcher issues
-so first of course try bypassing launcher using the latest EP installed
-if that doesnt work try bypassing with the base game
-if that doesnt work delete missingdeps.idx from document\electronic arts\sims 3\dc cache
-if that doesnt work try right click on game icon and select run as administrator
-if that doesnt work move the whole sims 3 doc folder to desktop (ive been recommending move vs rename since im not confident renaming is as effective for not be read)

-also im guessing is an old issue re .net framework...can folks still have this issue?
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/280647.page

so the missing content in games seems to me to be a growing problem and i only have a hunch ..i personally havent noticed an uptick here for macs but people are posting strange things like played bridgeport yesterday and today is not there?!

so my first hunch is it possible that all of the un/re installing have corrupted register keys? whats the best method to repair and clean corrupted registry keys?

re mac - no good insight...there is though a mac simmer here yenial who wants to be a moderator..i posted on his mypage this thread hopefully he'll stop by and give more info re macs...

and i thought i just throw this out for folks re windows 8
many are claiming running the game in windows 7 compatibility mode as the best work around. One simmer sent me this link for another EA game https://help.ea.com/article/why-am-i-having-trouble-with-my-gfwl-game-on-windows-8

another simmer posted this http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/645016.page

does anyone know if this is the best way to address the problem?


ill review more re seasons and disk error...