How to work out where your problem is…

celebkiriedhel:

This is a method I use to work out what the problem is. Basically,
it’s about finding which folder is the problem, by getting a working
game, and then replacing the folders one by one from the broken one
until it stops working again. Then you know what the problem is, and you
can fix that folder.

Save your game and regenerate a clean one.

1. make a copy of your game for saving purposes (that’s the whole
sims 2 folder) and save it somewhere safe so if you stuff up your game,
you can go back to the original configuration and start again.

2. rename your old folder – ‘The Sims2 – broken game’
3. regenerate a fresh new game. Load game  to menu. Remember to delete your cache each time.

Does it load? – then it’s not your program install. If it doesn’t load? Then re-install your game.

Check your neighborhoods folder

4. Come out of your game. We’ll call this game load TEMP from now

Go to EA GamesThe Sims 2Neighborhoods and delete this folder from TEMP.

5. Copy EA GamesThe Sims 2 – broken gameNeighborhoods

to EA GamesThe Sims 2 Neighborhoods

6. Load up your game. Remember to delete your cache each time.

Does it load? – then it’s not your hoods. If it doesn’t load? Then
your hood is the problem. We already know that the other folders are ok
because of steps 3-4.

Mootilda has a hood-checker  and you’ll need to run it and fix what it thinks is wrong.

Check your Collections folder

7. Delete your collections folder from Temp, and Add it from broken.

8. Load up your game. Remember to delete your cache each time.

Does it load? Then the collection is not the problem. If it doesn’t
load – then there’s a corrupt collection. (This happened to me, so it’s
worth checking).

Check your Downloads folder

9. Add your Downloads folder from broken. Your Temp game won’t have a downloads folder.

10. Load up your game. Remember to delete your cache each time.

Does it load? Then the downloads are not the problem. If it doesn’t load now – then there is a conflict with something outside the download folder which is changing the game. You’ll need to regenerate a clean version again, and then do the 50-50 search to find the download that is causing the problem.