The Sims

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-01-07 01:54pm

Hey everyone, Rebecca likes to play The Sims (yes, the old one), and she has some corrupted Sims on her machine. Whenever you load certain families, the graphics go nuts. Does anyone know of any way to salvage these Sims? I already tried the SimsFileCop, and it only looks for bad graphics files.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2007-01-07 03:53pm

can you evict those sims from their homes and then delete them?

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2007-01-07 04:07pm

Enigma wrote:can you evict those sims from their homes and then delete them?

I think she would want to keep the characters if at all possible, getting a Sim successful and up to speed takes quite a lot of time.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2007-01-07 05:03pm

That's when cheating is justified

You might try evicting them, then moving them in again.

Has she tried Sims 2, BTW?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-01-07 05:45pm

I tried evicting them and it seems to work, but the house is still corrupted. Looks like we have to bulldoze the house and build a new one. Thanks for the tip, though. At least it gave an idea of where to proceed, and the Sims themselves were saved, even if the house wasn't.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-01-07 06:38pm

Did she ever download the patch from the site?

By the way, does anyone else think of the Sims while shopping at Ikea?

Resinence · Post by **Resinence** » 2007-01-07 11:41pm

Superman wrote:Did she ever download the patch from the site?

By the way, does anyone else think of the Sims while shopping at Ikea?

The furniture there looks JUST LIKE the stuff from The Sims, it's uncanny.

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2007-01-08 12:43pm

IIRC I had one minor incident where this occured, although I was fortunate in that I didn't loose any of my better buildings. You can actually copy entire neighborhoods outright, and load them into the game (as duplicates) or store them elsewhere for backup purposes, and that is what I started doing.

I heavily modded my copy of the Sims, with massive custom architectural elements, hacks, every expansion pack, some music deleted (I hate the country western music, so I literally took it out of the game) and 10+ neighborhoods (getting it to allow that is tricky, but doable). In retrospect, I feel quite lucky that I never had any major problems of this sort.

I only had to do one complete reinstall (when my Maxtor HD kicked the bucket, I had it replaced with a 200 gig Seagate, and had the entire Windows ME-bearing image copied to a folder on it). To get all my settings back, I literally overwrote the freshly installed Sims directory in Program files with the old one.