Sims Castaway Stories - Issue Travelling to Village Market.

ingeniosa wrote:I've been playing the Sims Castaway Stories, and the game works fine in story mode up until I get to the part where I have to go to the village market, but when I go there the game crashes in the loading screen. I've played the game through twice up to this point, and I have the same problem each time. I'm able to travel anywhere else on the map, just not the village market. Running the game as an administrator doesn't work. When I run it in compatibility mode, the screen is black when the game loads. I can see the mouse and hear the game, but that's it. Any suggestions?

ingeniosa wrote:I tried all that, and it didn't work. I also tried it in Wanmami Island, and I was only able to travel to Buccaneer Cove, Division Six, and the Lost City.

I'm sorry that I can't give a better solution right now.   Feel free to bookmark this thread, and I will keep you posted, if I find anything else about this. Interestingly though, I googled your issue and couldn't really find anything substantial. Another person asked the same question on EA's "Answer HQ", but didn't get a reply.

yuki5596 wrote:I follow all the instruction, and I can't travel to that village as well, I reported this problem in facebook last week and still unable to get any solution.

P.S I create my own sim

Meanwhile, I finished replying to all private messages on the Facebook-page, but I'm not sure if I saw your question there. I will get back to the other "visitor posts" later on or tomorrow.

That said, please note that we cannot solve all possible issues that may come up with those (glitchy) Sims games.   As I hinted above, it seems to be a rather rare glitch that does not happen with everybody. And if it did happen more often, I'm sure there would be more results in Google.

Edin ElDi wrote:Hello,


Have you tried reinstalling the entire game? You won't have to start over if you make a backup of your saves.

Enric wrote:I have the same problem.

I downloaded and installed the game without any probem. I can launch the game, I can do the tutorials and I can begin to play... but when I try to explore it crashes.

After reading these forums I tried a few tricks and none worked:
- Give administration permissions
- Windows XP compatibility mood (I have Win 10)
- I reinstalled DirectX
- I also followed this tutorial: https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t21900-sims-pet-stories-not-working-crashing-solved

I don't know what else do...

And not only this.

I have the same problem with the Sims Life Stories. The game works flawless at first but whenever I try to create a sim or whenever I try to go somewhere with taxi the game crashes.

 

Enric wrote:It looks to me that not many people are interested in this game, so perhaps the problem is not very reported because not many people tried it?

I thought that it can be a sort of incompatibility with my operative system (Windows 10 Pro 64 bits) or my graphics card (Nvdia GeForce GT540M). But it's weird because the game at first works flawlessly and the problems are repeated exactly in the same places.

Maybe we can find it out if we know the specs of every person who reports the same problems.

georgiacbsmith wrote:Hello everyone, I'm having the same problem. I know there isn't a fix right now but thought I'd throw my 2c in anyway. I DLed the game today and am running it on a Windows 8.1 laptop, used a pre-made Sim, and have tried reinstalling. 

The problem happened for me earlier today while I was in my actual screen's resolution (1360x768), so when I rebooted I left it in the original resolution and voila, I could get into the market. That trick isn't working any more, though, but I might just cycle through all the resolutions and see if I can get a fix.

I believe you've actually given us a very valuable hint, thanks a lot for sharing that with us.   I actually suspected that this could have to do with the game itself being buggy. But according to your insight, it may (also) have to do with the graphics settings in the computer/graphics card.

Enric wrote:You were right.

I played now in Windowed mode and finally worked.

Thank you!