I think I broke my game... (The Sims Medieval)

So, I wanted to try something different. I hadn't played The Sims Medieval in forever, so I decided to download it again on the G4TW downloads page. I get a good game started, completing some quests. But I wished I could enable some more options, especially CAS during gameplay.

So after I updated the game to the final version and put the Crack files into the Bin folder I studied up on what I could do. First I learned how to mod the game. I created the Mods and Packages folders, downloaded the Resources.cfg file and put it in the destination folder (C:/Program Files x86/Electronic Arts/The Sims Medieval), and I also downloaded the d3dx9_31.dll file for script mods and put it inside the Bin folder.

I found a mod by DeeDawg that allows players to enter into CAS with full edit options during gameplay, and I found a mod with multiple sliders that I read about that was for The Sims 3 but also worked for The Sims Medieval and put them in the Mods/Packages folder.

The next part was a little tricky. I read up about debug cheats but it required me to edit the Commands.ini file in GameData/Shared/NonPackaged/Ini and change the TestingCheatsEnabled= value from 0 to 1. As my permissions were not correct to allow me to do that I had to look up how to do that. As I wanted to keep things simple for starters in the game that was all I did. Now, when I try to load the game it crashes after the loading screen is finished. What did I do wrong?


Gatekeeper Edit: paragraphed for easier readability.

- The_gh0stm4n

Sims Medieval Cheats

• Motherlode –  $ 50.000 extra
  
• Kaching –  $ 1.000 extra
  
• DisableRespos – *No daily order at 09.00 hours
  
• EnableRespos – *Daily orders must be followed up again
  
• setQP number – *setQP 1000 sets your Questpoints on 1000.
  
• setKP number – *setKP 5000 sets your KP (=RP) on 5000 enabling you to bay more buildings
  
• testingCheatsEnabled – see below for extra cheats
  
• ShowAllQuests – Make all quests available
  
• RerollQuests – Sorts quests in a diffent order
  
• moveObjects on/off -enables you to place items/buildings elsewhere
  
• enablellamas on/off – These warnings do no longer show (off)
  

* the cheats marked with * are only available after  testingcheatsenabled=1

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Extra cheats
Go to the location you installed Sims Medival to, by default it is  C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Sims Medieval

1. Open the folder GameData
   
2. Open the folder Shared
   
3. Open the folder NonPackaged
   
4. Right-clcik on the folder Ini  and select Properties
   
5. Delete tick for Read-Only click on Apply and then on OK
   
6. Now open the folder Ini and rightclick on Commands (open with Notepad)
   

Now you see:

; Warning: Editing this file is not supported and could have unpredictable results. ; You might permanently damage your save file and/or game experience. Achievements, ; Ambitions, and Quests might become impossible to complete and the game could ; become stuck. There may be no way to recover. It is recommended that you backup ; your save game before making any changes to this file. ; Enables/disables advanced console cheat codes [Config] TestingCheatsEnabled=0

Don’t worry, we’ve played the game for years and no problems at all

• Change TestingCheatsEnabled=0 to TestingCheatsEnabled=1
  
• Save in f.e. My Documents or on your Desktop
  
• Right-clcik on the original  Commands-file, rename it in Commandsold
  
• Copy the altered Commands-file to the folder Ini
  

That’s all

When you now enter help in the cheat toolbar you see more cheats. De best of course is that you can now have access to the Needs bars and you see more possibilities when clicking on your Sim with Shift pressed.

EDIT//
Regarding the mods files/folders:
I noticed you places these in C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims \Medieval
As far as I know they should go under My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims Medieval.

VoID2812 wrote:(...)

The next part was a little tricky. I read up about debug cheats but it required me to edit the Commands.ini file in GameData/Shared/NonPackaged/Ini and change the TestingCheatsEnabled= value from 0 to 1. As my permissions were not correct to allow me to do that I had to look up how to do that. As I wanted to keep things simple for starters in the game that was all I did. Now, when I try to load the game it crashes after the loading screen is finished. What did I do wrong?


Gatekeeper Edit: paragraphed for easier readability.

- The_gh0stm4n

When you get a permissions error, you can also save on the desktop, and then copy/paste the files(s) from there, to your install location of a game.

As for the Commands.ini, do you have a backup of the file? Whenever you experiment with anything new & unfamiliar, try making it into a habit of backing up the original files before you replace them with modified files. I'm not on my main computer right now, but if need be, I can re-upload the file later. Did you install just the Medieval base game, or the Pirates/Nobles DLC too? Did you apply any other patches, etc. ?

I was thinking that maybe you un-knowingly changed more in that file, than just that one single line that you mentioned.

Tarac wrote:EDIT//
Regarding the mods files/folders:
I noticed you places these in C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims \Medieval
As far as I know they should go under My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims Medieval.

Wrong.
https://www.games4theworld.club/t29525-how-to-install-mods-in-the-sims-medieval

My apologies

Tarac wrote:My apologies

Don't.

The game is almost un-known (it never was very popular, I think mostly because there are many other/better Medieval-themed games out there), so not many people are familiar with the details.

I think it may be easier for the OP to just install that 2.00113 patch + Pirates & Nobles, if they didn't do that already. This should restore the 'damaged' file in question. But let's see.

I did in fact get the Pirates/Nobles expansion before I updated to the final version of the game. I only edited the Commands.ini file in the base game though.

In order to change the Commands.ini file I had to rename it though. I renamed it Commands2.0.ini and moved the original out of the folder. I still have it though. But all I did was change the TestingCheatsEnabled= text value from 0 to 1.

VoID2812 wrote:In order to change the Commands.ini file I had to rename it though. I renamed it Commands2.0.ini and moved the original out of the folder. I still have it though. But all I did was change the TestingCheatsEnabled= text value from 0 to 1.

That should sufficient as long as your amendend file Commands.ini is still named as Commands.ini

Move (not copy) Commands.ini to your Desktop.
Open it with Notepad
Amend TestingCheatsEnabled to read 1
Save the file
Move it back to the original location

So I need to rename it back to Commands.ini. Okay.

Well I renamed it back to Commands.ini and the game is still crashing after the initial start-up. Great.

I needed to re-download and re-install the game myself, hence the delay.

Here is the original Commands.ini file, as per version 2.0.113.00001, see the window "attachment". Put that file back into your own installation and try the game again.

Edit: I was hoping to make it work with the Forum's attachment system, but it didn't work. Download the file from here instead:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/b0mgiyca0enbofi/Commands.ini/file

So, I still had the original Commands.ini file that I didn't rename. I changed the TestingCheatsEnabled= value to 1 and saved it in the ini folder. Again it crashed the game. Changed it back to 0, still crashes. This is ridiculous.

At this point I'm going to assume I will have to uninstall and reinstall the game. If it asks me to rename the Commands.ini file again after making changes I will not save it.

VoID2812 wrote:At this point I'm going to assume I will have to uninstall and reinstall the game. If it asks me to rename the Commands.ini file again after making changes I will not save it.

Have you tried to play the game without your mods ?
Move (not copy) the mods folder to your desktop

It could also be a problem related to the DEP; try adding the TSM.exe to your DEP exclusions. See this here if you are unfamiliar. This was written for The Sims 3, but you can apply the part about the DEP to almost any application.

https://www.games4theworld.club/t857-the-sims-3-crashes-freezes-to-desktop-fix-updated-on-30-01-2015



I also imagine that, because the game is somewhat similar to TS3, that this here may also help you; maybe not specifically for the crash at startup, but later down the road:
https://www.games4theworld.club/t21716-excessive-frame-rendering-in-the-sims-3-updated-on-16-12-2015