pool light crashes game! Hi all I've discovered what's been crashing my game recently. Ever since I installed Bon Voyage the game shuts down when I try to buy a pool light! I click on the light and a box comes up telling me "the application has crashed" and has to close. Does anyone else have this problem? I've installed the EA patch for BV but it hasn't made any difference. I've heard that there are many glitches with this expansion, do you reckon that's one of them? Anyone know what I can do about it? Cheers. x
The pool lights were always broken, as far I know. Pescado had an early hack to fix problems with them right from before University. Can't remember what the trouble was (it wasn't what you describe), but it was enough to stop me me using them. I haven't used them since. I suggest you do the same. It's like the old joke: Patient: Doctor, doctor. It hurts like hell when I do this. Doctor: Well stop doing it then!
GRRRR! Not only does buying a pool light crash the game, but going into a lot which has a pool light crashes the game!!! So I've had to uninstall everything (yet again), reinstall it, minus BV, and go through every lot deleting the pool lights. I wish EA would sort these things out before they put games on the market, it's SO annoying. x
Amen to that, Scary. Since BV gravestones can't be moved to community lots either. Well they can be moved, but they never arrive at where they they are sent. They just disappear. Also Open for Business owned businesses cannot be visited by sims as customers going to a community lot. So if you want a sim to have a kite, you have to hope he visits a kite shop while you're playing that lot, or else have the kite maker befriend him and give him a kite as a gift. :(
I don't have OFB so yet have those delights to come across. I'm amazed at the huge list of things that these patches are supposed to correct. Surely they could discover some of them before they pour these games out into the market. I've seen the Sims at prices as high as 40, even on the older expansions, so really EA is making a lot of money on faulty products. It's not good enough really. Makes me want to ring them up and give them a piece of my mind! :grumpy: x
Oh I am about where I was when Superstar was released. I didn't buy it, because there was just so much brokenness in my Sims 1 game already, that I couldn't cope with idea of adding any more. The BV patch fixes only half a dozen (mainly) BV-related bugs (and the worst of those was fixed by Pescado's 2Kb hack ... so no need for a 45MB game resetting patch to fix that then. Meanwhile, I am discovering more and more really important things ... that I paid to have as part of previous expansions, that I can no longer gain access to. They (EA Games) treat its customers like criminals with MI6/CIA/KGB/Mossad grade digital rights protection and yet it is they who are the pirates, by taking our money for a product which will become partly unusable immediately after installing the next instalment of the package.
