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kataloogiline
2 years ago

IN NEED OF HELP! Better exceptions mod gone wrong

Hey! 

Recently I've been playing sims every day. No problems with anything. My household consists of one male sims and his toddler son, who stays over on the weekends. Problems arose today when I tried to give the toddler a bath. Dad would pick him up and suddenly they were both reset. Not possible to give a bath. I tried it with another toddler, no luck. Mind you, the male sim sucessfully use to give baths to the same sim when he was an infant. 

So I thought some of my CC was broken, keeping in mind that I had just downloaded a bunch of clothes and hairstyles. 

 
Beforehand I had never tried any "broken cc detecting software" and I decided to look some of them up. I noticed people were praising the Better Exceptions mod by TwistedMexi. Watched a video tutorial on how to use it and this is what I did: 
 
1. Game opened up, notification said: BE: It's patch day. So I let it scan the mods and turned out I had 17 broken package files. 
2. I took all of these broken files out of the mods folder, deleted them. 
3. Launched the game and encountered the error showed on the first photo. When I snooped around in my neighborhoods, every household  had this shaky blue box as shown on the second photo. 
 
And now I dont know what to do. Did I use the Better Exceptions mod wrong? I did exactly as the tutorial suggested but it seems like the mod that was meant to repair my "little bit broken game with toddler bathing problems", now made my game unplayable (can't play with any household cause they've seemed to disappear, pic 3). 

Please help the stupid.

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  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    Hi @kataloogiline . Programs like BE are only looking for things they've been told by a human to look for. You may very well have removed the problem mod. Unfortunately, the issue you have is one that often can't be fixed by that because the save has become corrupted. I would advise deleting the file called localthumbcache (in case didn't before) then loading an earlier version of that save to see if you can find one from before the corruption happened.

    If you get one that will load a household, don't actually try that bath! Go back to the Main Menu, make a new save with an adult and toddler, and test the bath to see if it happened. If it did, you have probably got rid of the problem file. If not, you can do a 50-50 of your mods (all of them, including CC) using that new save to test.

    A 50-50 means organizing your mods into bite-size batches and testing one batch at a time. For each test, delete the file called localthumbcache, then put only that batch in Mods. If your game behaves as you expect, set that batch aside as "cleared" and delete localthumbcache again. If it doesn't behave as you expect, take out half the batch and see if you're closer to finding the culprit. Remember to delete localthumbcache each time. You'll find some 50-50 method tutorials online too. Once you isolate the file, you can go find out if there's an updated version.

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