Hello everybody, 

I'm sorry to bother but I have a problem I'm not able to solve. I have reinstalled my pc and backed up my documents/the sims 2 folder (and everything in it). When I tried to recover my old neighborhood (I copied the neighborhood folder from old documents to the new ones created by the new installation of Sims2), all neighborhoods have disappeared. I have no idea of solving this, therefore I'd like to ask you - is it at least possible to make houses that show up in catalog from .package files located in neighborhoods/n001/lots? I tried just copying them (to the sims 2/LotCatalog) but it doesn't work. If you know how to make the neighborhoods to appear again, it'd be even better. 

Please, help me, I'm quite desperate.

Thank you very much.

Hello, 

thanks for answer, but unfortunately, it doesn't work. Everything looks like it should... I've succeeded in opening the lots in Sims2Pack Clean Installer, but I cannot find any way of copying them to lot catalog. 

Thank you for the reply,

renaming the lots to the cx format works.

Why the neighborhoods disappeared I still have no idea. The folder is as  it should be, the only thing I did before they actually disappeared was that I copied all lots from "n001" folder.  That's it, I didn't change anything else. I even tried to copy the whole backed up neighborhoods folder (which worked before), but it had the same result. 

However, since I figured out how to recover my old houses, the problem is solved, I can build a new neighborhood, it's not a problem.

Now I have another problem, it's an old problem, but I was hoping reinstalling the pc and everything would solve it. I have downloaded loads of new content (loads means thousands of new objects - almost 4 GB). And at some point, I can't exactly remember when, the game started crashing. I think it didn't happen after downloading lots of new stuff, so I don't think it's happening because of one malfunctioning object. I can't even say when exactly it crashes. Usually when I'm exiting to neighborhood screen, when I try to save the game or load a house. Now even when I'm moving around the neighborhood scr. You probably understand that trying every single object is impossible, even if I had million hours to try it, I might not figure it out because I can't make the game crash (I don't know what to do exactly if I want it to crash). Is there anything you could suggest? Is there any application that could test my downloaded content? 

I'd be very happy if you could give me some suggestion. It drives me totally crazy.  

Thank you very much 

Hey,

Thank you again, I've downloaded and run the HDU, but unfortunately it hasn't found any conflicts. I'm afraid the crashing can be caused simply by having too big buildings with too many objects in them. If that's the case there is no help, probably. What do you think? 

Anyway, I'm gonna try binary search. I've done it before, it took a lot of time and it helped. However, back then I knew that there was a malfunctioning object, so I was pretty sure it was gonna help. 

If you think of something, anything else that might help, I'll be very grateful.

Thanks.  

Hey,

thanks again. The problem is probably even bigger than it seems. I haven't  downloaded anything for sim characters (no hair, make-up, clothes, nothing), I only use the game for building. 

I'm trying to solve the problem by splitting the downloads, but it doesn't work with any of the parts. Everytime I load many objects, the game  crashes. Or at least one lot which I use for testing (It's probably the most demanding one).  There is probably no problem with my hardware, either. (I have intel core i7, 4GB DDR3, GeForce 8800GTX - which is old, but still works well). 

I'm really getting lost here...