Problems with cats after installing showtime and store content oddities

illusions wrote:Hello,

There's something wrong with the cats in my game. After I installed Showtime, the cat in a family became uncontrollable. It would still appear in the house, but I couldn't select it and it's profile picture was missing. The box was still there, but the picture inside was gone and I couldn't select it. Even weirder, the second cat in the family was perfectly fine, it was only the first one. I tried getting rid of all custom content and mods and then applied the ultimate fix, but it still didn't work... Also, the store content wouldn't install properly. I would install the stuff, and it says that it installed it properly, then when I go into the game, it's not there. I go back to the launcher and it says that it's not installed. I tried clearing the caches, and it still did the same thing. Then I tried deleting all the CC and mods, and when I go into the game, the stuff that had previously installed was still there. It would only go away after I actually went and deleted all the files from the folder and cleared the caches again.

Hello,
Youa re not the only one with this issue. It comes from the EA patch itself. To have your content show up; you may chosse two uptions after clearing your caches, remember that DCbackup and DC cache keep all you alredy installed CC through the launcher. You may install your packs one by one or you may use CC magic. It has worked for various people. As for the pets issues try reseting them with debug enabled. If it doesn´t work try going into edit town, build buy and then come back to the regular game. Let us know

I don't know what I'm doing wrong

illusions wrote:So, I force killed the stuck cat and adopted another one and that cat was perfectly normal. Then I got a call from the science thing about restoring a ghost. So I tried to restore the previously stuck cat, and she came back, but it was like before where she was unselectable and had a green box as a portrait. So I guess there's something wrong with the cat itself?

illusions wrote:Thank you everyone for the help. Although I will miss that cat, it's nice to know there's not some weird problem with it.

illusions wrote:The store content stuff seems to be working. The launcher still doesn't list them as installed but most of them seem to show up in the game (I haven't had the time to make sure that they're all there, but I think so...)

I've run into another problem...I had a saved game in Bridgeport, and when I loaded it yesterday, none of my sim icon picture things on the left side of the screen showed up and the motive bar that's normally green was blue and transparent...When I tried to switch characters with the space bar, two of the profile pictures would show up, but no matter what I did, the rest wouldn't come back. I tried going into build/buy mode, and Edit town, but it didn't do anything. (Should I make a new thread for this?)

illusions wrote:Hello,

Everything works smoothly now, but there were a few hitches along the way. When I reinstalled, I followed the guide, but when I went to load a saved game, it would give me an error message saying "a serious error has occured while loading "...", it is strongly recommended that you restart the application." No matter which world I tried to load, it would give me that message. I tried removing the mods and download folders, but nothing worked. I tried following the guide that said to get rid of the windows 95 compatibility mode thing, but I couldn't find the "layers" after AppCompatFlags. Then I tried ErrorTrap, and it worked! The game finally loaded and the sim icons were back but the cat was missing so I reset her with mastercontroller at the cityhall and she came back. Now everything is working smoothly So happy!

Edit: It doesn't work again...It worked that one time, now none of my families will load. It keeps coming up with that "serious error while loading" thing...I can load a new game just fine though.

illusions wrote:I'm not too sure what you mean by induction mod, but the mods that I have are the nraas debugenabler, mastercontroller, woohooer, overwatch, and errortrap. They should all be updated to the newest version (just changed them yesterday). I tried renaming a backup file and deleting the original, but when it was loading, it still gave me the error while loading thing...My saved sims and CAS seem to be working normally.