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I have reached a higher level of corruption. I haven't even played and the savegames corrupt themselves with the PC off.

Here's the story: both simPe and the hoodchecker say half my sims have been deleted. But it's not true? All my sims are there!

Situation:

I open the savegame of the folder 003 (Veronaville) and everything is ok, the sims are all there (and I'm sure of it because I opened the families one by one to do makeovers)

I made a BACKUP of the savegame, I put some new mods (safe, I found them from trusted players, no mods with NPC) and THEN i opened the game.

I """played""" a while while trying out the new mods, saved and exit.

As my habit, I open the HC for a check and... I find this. All my sims, or at least, half of them have been deleted, or so the program says.

Obviously I'm scared to death, I think the problem is some mod, so I put the backup back ... and even there the hoodchecker and simPe says that the sims have been deleted. And it's impossible because I played with it until two minutes ago, both with the current save and with the backup. By the way, if they were already deleted in the backup I shouldn't have found them in the actual save either, right? and instead.

The strange thing is that I opened another savegame and even in that the hoodchecker says that half of the sims have been deleted but EVEN with that one I played and the sims were all there!

I don't know if it's a bug, but I hope that tomorrow when I open the saves all the Sims will be there and that it's all a bug or I'll go crazy.

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If you’re an active simblr pls reblog :•)

When you’ve been gone for like three years your dashboard gets really dead lol

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Captiva Bay BACC Round 1 - Osborne

The one where there was a love triangle.

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Permanent Quarter-Tile Placement On!

Just wanted to share a tip I know about how to make the Quarter Tile Placement Cheat on all the time so you just have to press Ctrl + F when you want to use it without having to type in a cheat each time.

Many of you may know that adding “setquartertileplacement on” to your userStartup.cheat doesn’t work, so I’m going to tell you where you can put it that does work, in case you didn’t already know!

So, head to Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config and open up the file called “globalProps.xml” with a text editor, I recommend Notepad++. You should probably make a backup of this file first before making any changes, just in case.

In this file, scroll to the bottom and you should see a line that says:

<AnyBoolean key=“quarterTilePlacementEnabled” type=“0xcba908e1”>false</AnyBoolean>

Simply change the false to true and save the file and that’s it! The Quarter Tile Placement cheat will always be on without you having to type it in ever again! Simply toggle it on and off with Ctrl + F!

Hope that helps at least someone! I was telling my friend @morepopcorn​ about this trick and I couldn’t find the website where I initially read about how to do this anymore so she suggested I should make this post as it might not be common knowledge.

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Coming out of hiatus to continue my BACC 🥰

Please reblog if you’re a ts2 player.

I’m looking for more ts2 blogs to follow, so please reblog if you play ts2.

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NOTE: This is mainly for NVIDIA users. Sorry :/

So, I think all of us simmers with modern hardware have sat in front of our screens having the time of our lives to only be greeted with this disgusting thing:

Pure evil, right? How about this?

I think we’ve all sat in front of our screens day and night hunting for fixes, in which some work, some don’t. Some do for three days, some just… prevent the application from starting at all.

Some of us have even gone as far as to buy completely new computers with older operating systems like Windows 7, Windows XP. Some of us have bought new hardware and still, nothing has changed. People are wasting their money, time and sanity to fix this issue when in fact… there is a reliable, quick and definite fix.

Thanks to @episims​ and their EXTREMELY helpful guide, I managed to fix the flashing and crashing in my game and have managed to exceed my old CC limit of 3GB. But the one thing in their guide that I want to focus on here is this:

This line isn’t here, you have to manually add it in yourself. Navigate to it by hitting CTRL + F and type some of the sentences that appear here. 

Now, I’m not entirely sure what it does but it did indeed prevents these errors from occurring. One of the huge issues with TS2 is that cards with huge amounts of VRAM like the NVIDIA RTX 2080 (8GB Video Memory) consistently have issues with the game and the crashing and flashing is bound to be worse.

However, that is not the case now. Crazysim, the one who created the DXVK guide and has helped tremendously in the community to fix the issue, tested this fix on their 2080 and the game ran perfectly - no issues. So, to those with awesome ass hardware and wanna play the game with no issue - HERE YOU GO! 

Before bringing this to the attention of others on Discord and Tumblr, I managed to help my small circle of simblr friends with this fix and they all said that their issues are now solved, which is incredible! I myself have gone out of my way spending money on new computers and hardware just for this game to run and now that there is finally a good, definite fix genuinely warms my heart. 

The last thing I want to say is don’t use the graphics rules maker after applying that fix as the GRM will revert it and wipe that line out (causing the errors to happen again). 

If you made it to the bottom of this guide, wow, I can’t believe you stuck around that long. Good luck with the fix, let me know how you all get on and finally thank you @episims​ for bringing that one line to our attention! :D

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Captiva Bay BACC Round 1 - Kelley

The one where there were not enough bathrooms.

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Halloween Gift. Knitting 4t2

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Download Functional knitting created on the basis of Beck’s Knitting. I would like to say a huge thank you to Beck (Kate) for the original object, to the @midgethetree​​ for helping with mods, to @jellymeduza​​ for her great help in developing a social plugin, and to @lowedeus​​ for creating clothes and helping with functions, as well as lapetitmortia (mortia) for the tutorial on converting 4t2 animations. Without all these people, this project of two (or three) years would not have been possible

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Captiva Bay BACC Round 1 - Griffith

Read the first installment here.

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Captiva Bay BACC

Meet the Settlers Here After a long hiatus because my PC gave me the blue screen of death, I finally have the sims 2 up and running and can start my BACC! I'm so excited to play and get to share this with the community. My goal for this town is to make it as integrated of a hood as possible with the theme focusing around a small harbor town. I want the architecture to focus on cute, stone cottages mixed with Victorian architecture, especially Queen Anne houses (which I've always loved). I'll be using a mix of edited pre-made builds as well as my own. We'll see if I'll be able to stick to the theme well. :)

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Oh my goodness, this is amazing 👏

i know there are many superb ts2 neighborhood deco masterlists out there but i felt the need to have all cc in one place so here it is!! i want to thank @lesyasun for inspiration and super cool wcif lists, @simper-fi for their amazing and iconic deco list and every lovely cc creator for making my neighborhood experience the absolute best!! ♡

this list has around 130 links divided into ten categories: countryside, suburbs, uptown, downtown, water, specific themes, misc, nature, maps/sky/terrain and mods :)

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I don't post that often, but I definitely play often!

TS2 bloggers

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Index

Challenges

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You need this!

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I’ve tried to gather some useful tips and mods/cheats that I use when building and decorating.

1. Building Cheats

2. userStartup File (copy & paste)

3. Unlock Hidden Objects

4. Mods

5. Tips & Tricks

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Crispin Mercantile - The little Grocery

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Here’s a small grocery for your hoods. Originally created for (BACC) Appleby; it was built with the thought of selling produce using Simwardrobe’s produce packing station. This lot is CC-heavy so install with Clean-installer!