Is it time for a fresh install?

gatecrazy wrote:Okay I posted yesterday about this problem but I have new results so let me catch everyone up that didn't see my other post. My game is acting very strange. Every time I get my sim up to level 8 in cooking and read 3 recipes it fulfills the lifetime wish that my sim has (Culinary librarian) which isn't supposed to happen after my sim has read ALL the recipes. I took out my Dcbackup & Dccache folders and started a new world with a fresh sim on a new save game & the exact same thing happened to the new sim. Got to level 8 & read 3 recipes then it fulfilled the wish. Do you think my game is corrupted & needs a fresh install? I have all the expansion & stuff packs & all the store content. I was wanting to know if anyone had any ideas? If not then crap it's gonna be a long day installing tomorrow. Thanks everyone for your opinions!
                                             

Carlos G. wrote:

gatecrazy wrote:Okay I posted yesterday about this problem but I have new results so let me catch everyone up that didn't see my other post. My game is acting very strange. Every time I get my sim up to level 8 in cooking and read 3 recipes it fulfills the lifetime wish that my sim has (Culinary librarian) which isn't supposed to happen after my sim has read ALL the recipes. I took out my Dcbackup & Dccache folders and started a new world with a fresh sim on a new save game & the exact same thing happened to the new sim. Got to level 8 & read 3 recipes then it fulfilled the wish. Do you think my game is corrupted & needs a fresh install? I have all the expansion & stuff packs & all the store content. I was wanting to know if anyone had any ideas? If not then crap it's gonna be a long day installing tomorrow. Thanks everyone for your opinions!
                                             

Hello,

Taking out the DCBackup & DCCache folders was far too much, in my opinion. What you have basically done, is to remove all installed ".sims3packs" from your game, which might be useful, but probably not in this case.

Do you have any mods (usually files in the ".package" file format), which are somehow related to skills or learning ? If yes, please take them out and see if this changed anything. Or you might even go to My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 and rename the folder "Mods" (this will deactivate ALL your ".package" files). Then start the game and play on for a while.

gatecrazy wrote: Nope I don't have anything in my mods folder except the store fixes.

If that doesn't help, and if you say you don't have any mods, then your savegame might indeed be corrupted. However, if I were you (or if I had such a problem) I would NOT make a new savegame, because this in in my eyes just a small bug - OK, it's an annoyance, but nothing more serious. As long as you don't have more "severe" problems with your savegame, I would play on.  

//EDIT

It's not worth the time and effort (because of this bug) to un-install everything or even make a new savefile, in my opinion.

Carlos G. wrote:

gatecrazy wrote: Nope I don't have anything in my mods folder except the store fixes.

Go to My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 and delete the following things:


-CASPartCache.package
-compositorCache.package
-scriptCache.package
-simCompositorCache.package
-socialCache.package
-plus the contents of the folders "WorldCaches" & "Thumbnails"

If that doesn't help, and if you say you don't have any mods, then your savegame might indeed be corrupted. However, if I were you (or if I had such a problem) I would NOT make a new savegame, because this in in my eyes just a small bug - OK, it's an annoyance, but nothing more serious. As long as you don't have more "severe" problems with your savegame, I would play on.  

//EDIT

It's not worth the time and effort (because of this bug) to un-install everything or even make a new savefile, in my opinion.

Are you talking about the actual save file or the game itself? Because like I said I tried a new sim with a new save file. Is it possible one of my expansion packs are corrupted? Sorry, I don't know much about that. I might just play on like you said because I'd hate to re-install everything. Thanks!   

Lady ElDi wrote:Hello,


I don't even think reinstalling is going to make any difference per se. 
I'm with Carlos on this one, it seems like a minor bug. The only thing you could try is to temporrily remove or rename the The Sims 3 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts. Start a new save with a clean folder and test it.

gatecrazy wrote:Okay this is just too much. My sim is making making new friends with people I haven't even talked to yet, and giving me skills I haven't even started to learn yet. It's looking like I may have to re-install the whole game. Idk what else to do to fix it. That's just too much weird stuff for me to ignore.  

Hello again,

I know I'm repeating myself, but I would NOT re-install the whole game.

OK, what you could try is this: you make a new savegame; go to the main menu when starting up the game, choose "new game" (or whatever it's called in English), then you choose a new town and there you go ! Create a "fresh" sim/sim family and see if you still have that skill glitch.

But DO NOT DELETE your old savegame yet.   

Another theoretical possibility would be to use the NRAAS "MasterController" mod to set the skill level of your sim - in "extraordinary" cases like yours. And when does this skill glitch happen exactly ? I actually have a similar glitch: whenever I have learned a new skill, and if I go to a lot in the town to "take a course on that skill" (Science lab, Supermarket, Sport stadium; basically everywhere you can take "courses") then my skill level jumps from 1 to 7 or 8  . As far as I am concerned, I can live with that bug. But it's up to you of course how you want to proceed with your problem.

Carlos G. wrote:

gatecrazy wrote:Okay this is just too much. My sim is making making new friends with people I haven't even talked to yet, and giving me skills I haven't even started to learn yet. It's looking like I may have to re-install the whole game. Idk what else to do to fix it. That's just too much weird stuff for me to ignore.  

Hello again,

I know I'm repeating myself, but I would NOT re-install the whole game.

OK, what you could try is this: you make a new savegame; go to the main menu when starting up the game, choose "new game" (or whatever it's called in English), then you choose a new town and there you go ! Create a "fresh" sim/sim family and see if you still have that skill glitch.

But DO NOT DELETE your old savegame yet.   

Another theoretical possibility would be to use the NRAAS "MasterController" mod to set the skill level of your sim - in "extraordinary" cases like yours. And when does this skill glitch happen exactly ? I actually have a similar glitch: whenever I have learned a new skill, and if I go to a lot in the town to "take a course on that skill" (Science lab, Supermarket, Sport stadium; basically everywhere you can take "courses") then my skill level jumps from 1 to 7 or 8  . As far as I am concerned, I can live with that bug. But it's up to you of course how you want to proceed with your problem.