CC Magic Crash on Startup, Log Included. [SOLVED]

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Apollyna wrote:Everything goes swimmingly everywhere except when I try to hit play in CC Magic - it finished building sets, stops responding for a moment, then immediately says it needs to close. I can play through the EA launcher just fine.

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Apollyna wrote:Unfortunately I have already read that thread; I have the necessary files and the log doesn't specifically mention a corrupted package or sims3pack.

Is there a tool I can use to auto-check if any of my CC isn't valid?

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I also notice when I play the game, that any items that use the Misc. material in Create-a-Style are lightened - if you try to recolor an EA jacket pure black for example, it will be more of a light grey as if hovering over the clothing piece with the cursor. Non-Misc materials look fine. Does this lend any clues?

Let's see about your CC crashing first...   

Apollyna wrote:Funny enough, Rachelstoolbox's stuff was one of the first things I downloaded after nraas. I also had already converted all my sims3packs, bar counters patterns and lots, to packages using Delphy's tool. I also found another tool by her to check for corrupt packages. Found one, but removing it did nothing to help.

I tested a version cleared of ALL cc, I renamed all the folders I could think of (Mods/Packages, CCMagic/Content/Packages, DCCache) and cleared the game cache using CC Magic. I even hit Rebuild before hitting play, just to be sure. The program rebuilds just fine, but still crashes when hitting play - on a vanilla-as-its-gonna-get install. Here's the log on that: pastebin dot com/cYmsWyt0

Perhaps I'm not reading it right, but the program only seems to throw exceptions right when it wants to open the game. I think this instead of thinking my CC is the problem because not only did removing all CC not solve the problem, but the logs also only read a problem on "play/excecute". Specifically:

2014-07-20 19:18:36Z| Fatal | [CCMagic.App] -- Unhandled ExceptionSystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at CCMagic.Core.LaunchManager.LaunchGame()
  at CCMagic.Core.LaunchManager.PlayExecute()

Surely if this were a problem with the program, others would be reporting it? Could it be because I bought the game through Steam?

(BTW, The lighter material issue has been solved, but I sure can't remember what exactly I did to fix it, bar restoring my pre-CCMagic backups.)

It's not necessary to "start the game with CCMagic".   Can you please try and start the game with Steam (again, NOT with CCMagic !), and see if the .sims3pack contents show up in-game ? 

Apollyna wrote:I can play the game through the EA launcher (requires / synonymous with Steam) just fine, CC and all. No problems whatsoever, which is the weird part.

In the meantime I've gone about merging packages the hard way with S3PE.

I appreciate your time very much, by the way.

Sure, no problem. The most important thing is that you're able to start the game in the "usual" way, and that your CC shows up in-game. Sure, the CCMagic-thing is weird, but then, as far as I'm concerned at least, I don't care anymore, since virtually all my store items are in .package file format.