1.31 Update

[Ricalynn]

The NoXroadsName thing actually seems to be widespread according to the official forums.  I've been keeping up with Crinrict's bug thread in the Showtime forum to see what to possibly expect.   You can find that thread here. I don't think they've actually come up with a way to get rid of it yet other than what you're doing.

[MoonsAreBlue]

I'm having a problem today that I haven't had so far. The only thing that has changed is that I cleared my internet's caches. Anyways, when I try to play sims, it gets stuck at the main menu with the connecting loading screen. I have it set to keep logged in. So I minimized sims and logged into the official site, then brought sims back up. It said there was an invalid username/password combination. It prompted me to log in again so I did, and it got stuck on the connecting screen again. I'm about to restart the game and see if it happens again, but has this happened to anyone else?

[Margerita]

I'm having a problem today that I haven't had so far. The only thing that has changed is that I cleared my internet's caches. Anyways, when I try to play sims, it gets stuck at the main menu with the connecting loading screen. I have it set to keep logged in. So I minimized sims and logged into the official site, then brought sims back up. It said there was an invalid username/password combination. It prompted me to log in again so I did, and it got stuck on the connecting screen again. I'm about to restart the game and see if it happens again, but has this happened to anyone else?

That happens to me everytime I try to log in when I start the game. I've found that adding an extra letter and then deleting it from the e-mail part of the log on and then typing in your password usually solves it after a few tries. A bit irritating to have to do that but it works for me.

[macphile]

Two minor issues:

Last time I played, I checked "do not show this message again" on the Origins login. It showed it again.

Every time I save, I pause my game. The last two times it's loaded since installing, it's loaded in play mode.

If these are the only problems I ever have, I guess I can be glad. I guess. :-)

[xFezIsAFreakx]

Every time I save, I pause my game. The last two times it's loaded since installing, it's loaded in play mode.

I think everyone's getting that - it happens to me every time. I suppose we just have to be near the system as the game loads just in case we come back to the room and before we know it, our sims are doing something crazy!

[JudesSims]

I just noticed that I can add another career outfit in CAS. This could be a good thing! Please don't tell me it was there all along and I just missed it. LOL

[Trentorio]

The NoXroadsName thing actually seems to be widespread according to the official forums.  I've been keeping up with Crinrict's bug thread in the Showtime forum to see what to possibly expect.   You can find that thread here. I don't think they've actually come up with a way to get rid of it yet other than what you're doing.

Thanks a lot. I have been keeping up with that thread as much as I can despite all of the Me Too! responses. Oh well. I will keep doing what works.

[Ricalynn]

I finally decided to update today and tragedy stuck.  Just like Pam mentioned, in my dynasty file the three cats in the family have all become green squares and I can't play them at all.   To add insult to injury, I had a collection of every butterfly and beetle in that game sitting down in the museum and now they are invisible/gone.

[Hosfac]

Every time I save, I pause my game. The last two times it's loaded since installing, it's loaded in play mode.

I think everyone's getting that - it happens to me every time. I suppose we just have to be near the system as the game loads just in case we come back to the room and before we know it, our sims are doing something crazy!

Yes, this seems to be universal.  It's probably a simple fix though...someone forgot to "cross a T or dot an I" somewhere.

I finally decided to update today and tragedy stuck.  Just like Pam mentioned, in my dynasty file the three cats in the family have all become green squares and I can't play them at all.   To add insult to injury, I had a collection of every butterfly and beetle in that game sitting down in the museum and now they are invisible/gone.

Has anyone tried backing up their saves before installing the patch?  I'm wondering if the patch itself is what caused this issue.  The patch utterly killed one of my game files.

[Ricalynn]

It was the patch.  I didn't even have my saves on my computer when I downloaded the patch.  They were all on my external I was starting with a new file.  Started a new game and saw no problems so I brought in my latest file and that's when I lost the cats.  They went invisible after I went into mapview and this is all three of them still sleeping even though the rest of the town was woken up from their beds the moment my save game started.


Cherish was in the cubbyhole, Chester was just above her and Mr Bigglesworth was on the top. I can still place them for adoption and I'm trying it just to see if I can get them back.

[Hosfac]

They were all on my external I was starting with a new file.

I have a number of questions:

Is your game installed on an external drive? 

Were the saves you're having issues with actually in the saves folder when you patched? 

Did you have anything external from the EA/The Sims 3 folder than you can or did use to back them up? 

Does this happen with a game started post-patch?

And finally:  are cats the only pets affected?

I'm curious because the save that was corrupted beyond recovery had a dog.

[Ricalynn]

Game installed on actual computer hard drive.
Saves were not in the saves folder when I patched they were on the external in a Miscellaneous folder.
I moved my saves to the external in an attempt to save them/plus that's where my backups go.
This happened with my dynasty file I've had since near Halloween. No problems with post patch games.
Cats are the only pets I had in this file.   I am checking a new file I just pulled off the external which had a dog and another that had a horse.


According to Crinrict's thread, invisible pets seems to be a major theme with the patch as well as corruptions with games that have pets.  Unicorns even get their own subsection of troubles.   I'll get back to you on the horse and dog games.

[Hosfac]

According to Crinrict's thread, invisible pets seems to be a major theme with the patch as well as corruptions with games that have pets.  Unicorns even get their own subsection of troubles.   I'll get back to you on the horse and dog games.

This is exactly what I was curious about.  After hearing about everyone's cat problems, I was wondering if my one save was ruthlessly terminated by the patch.  I didn't have an invisible dog:  the file was utterly destroyed.

Has anyone had any issues with cribs, like the one I described?

Once I put an infant into a crib, the crib becomes unusable and I can't take them out again.  I have to do a resetsim on the infant to fulfill their needs, and I can put them back into the crib, but then I won't be able to take them out again.  I've replaced the crib, and even used a different crib and this happens every time.

[MoonsAreBlue]

Hosfac, the only time I ever had that crib problem was when I had my family get the aging glitch. I hardly ever use cribs now that I have the baby swing, but I'll keep it in mind when I play next.

[Hosfac]

I haven't had Generations long, so I completely forgot about this.  Perhaps this is the answer to my woes.