Sims Cannot buy Clothing I've recently started having a weird problem with my Sims game. I haven't actually played much lately, but have been downloading stuff like crazy in anticipation of playing quite a bit in a week or so when I'm off work. Mostly I've downloaded just clothing and hair, with a few objects here and there. I was playing a little recently and discovered that my Sims cannot buy clothing when I send them to the community lot. It allows me to click on the clothing rack, I get the menu to "buy", "browse," etc., but when I click on one of them the icon disappears on the way to the queue on top of the screen. They can still buy food and other items, just not clothing. I haven't installed any hacks to my knowledge, and checked with Clean Installer which showed no hacks either. Someone suggested I must have some type of hacked object rather than a skin. What makes it hard is I have no idea what time frame to look for in deleting something; I've been downloading more than playing for a couple months now and have no idea how long this has been happening. Would it make sense to delete or move all the object files I've downloaded in the last couple months or so to see if that helps before I have to do something more drastic like delete EVERYTHING? I've also been told that several other people have had this happen, though no one seems to know why! Melissa
This has not happened to me, so my only suggestion is that you move everything you've downloaded since you last played (when there were no problems) into another folder. Then see if the game works again. If it does, move things back into the Downloads folder a few at a time, until you find the problem download. On the other hand, if the game still doesn't work, then, obviously, it's not one of the downloads that's causing it. I hope it is just a download. Testing them is the easiest thing to do first.
That is what I was thinking of doing, moving my downloads and bringing them back a little at a time, and testing the game every so often after a few downloads to see if there's a problem. I'm just not very skilled when it comes to computers, so I didn't know if this sounded like a good idea or not, but I think it's what I'll try...I posted this problem on another forum and had a couple people say it happened to them as well, no one could figure out why, and at least one of them ended up deleting everything, even re-installed the whole game before it resolved. I'm hoping I don't have to go that far....
First try going to http://www.simwardrobe.com/ Get the Hack Conflict Detector from the Program section of The Sims 2 part of the site. The site is frames so I can't give you a link to the actual page. If that doesn't work ... :( Try the 50:50 method for testing your downloads. Divide them into two equal chunks. Try game with chunk A ... if OK, remove chunk A and try chunk B ... if neither chunk is problematic you have a serious problem Divide the chunk with the problem into 2 parts: chunkette C and chunkette D Keep repeating this until you narrow down the problem to a mere half dozen downloads at whcih point you may feel that just deleting the few that contains the rogue is the easiest option ... or the rogue file may be more apparent in some other way. This method has the advantage of increasing speed since you are testing the game with fewer and fewer downloads, so speeding up game loading times. Also halving and rehalving is a very fast way to reduce hundred (or thousands) down to manageable numbers. (1000,500,250,125,62,30,15 ... seven steps ... its nuffink! )
You've probably already checked this, but just to make sure all bases are covered, do you have a wardrobe of dresser at the home of the sim trying to buy clothes? If not, that may be your problem...Just a thought!
Yeah, I've got a dresser at the home of the Sim who can't buy clothes, I've even tried different Sims in different neighborhoods and they all have this problem. I'm going to try the suggestions here, I was kind of thinking of them anyway but afraid to try! I learned a lesson about downloading tons of stuff without testing afterward. I would always go into the game to make sure the stuff showed up afterwards, but never thought of a quick test for problems...:(
