Problems with Mods and World Adventures

Since downloading Sims 3 WA I have had an increasing number of glitches. First my Fridge didn't work (all food spoils immediately) and since I saved last night all my family have lost all their relationships (completely red bars when talking). I don't have anything tricky installed – can anyone help?

Hey there I also have one huge prolem with sims 3 wa. I installed a mod/patch the instant learning skill, but since that was installed my sims can't use any object that has something to do with building/learning skills, not the mirror to practice their charisma, not the gym to pump iron or anything…and I noticed that if you install the hidden traits mod/patch then if you want to create a new sim, then there is no traits for you to choose from, and also if you install any custom clothing or tattoos for that case, then sims 3 wa is on slow drive the whole game…and I did try to install it under my sims 3 wa directory, it's just the same problem.

Does anybody else have problems with the game just shutting down for no reason? I have had it happen a few times and when I would go back into it my saved game was no longer there.

Those sound just like the problems I have! I have reinstalled it and it really didn't fix the crashing problem.

When you get the error 16 problem just save it under save as that is how I fixed that problem.

Hey, I've got a really annoying problem too.

Every time I try to install my game it comes up with an error when I press 'try again' it continues this keeps happing then at the very end of the installation I try again then I wait half an hour and the problem reoccurs. I cannot get past this, its really bugging me :P

I hope you can help reply as soon as you can cheers.

P.S – I've looked everywhere I cannot find a solution

– EDIT: Just merged your other two comments into here ;) (Nick) —

My problem is weird. How can you ask a sim out? Cause apparently ever since I installed the World Adventures expansion pack it wont let me. I have a "baita" heartbreaker family and they cant ask anyone out. its so annoying.

Any help?

I did this livechat thing with one of the sims 3 help desk people on the internet. It was no help at all, he copied and pasted stuff from other sites forums which I'd already tested and didn't work for me. Hopefully EA will fix this soon.

Hey guys,

Sorry so long-

I have been looking at everyone's problems and haven’t seen the major issues that I have been experiencing. First of all, yes my game also crashes either when I'm creating a new sim and haven’t been able to save yet or when I have been decorating a custom house for hours! This is really annoying but lately I have been dealing with worse. Let's see where to start… ok I don't know if I’m the only one having this issue but sometimes when I go to create a toddler, child or teen in create a sim the graphics get all messed up. Lets say I’m creating a toddler, it comes out half toddler with body parts of an older sim- like the arms and torso are all disfigured and it doesn’t look like a toddler at all. This also happens with any sim younger than an adult. To fix this I have to use the cheat to age that sim to an adult so it looks normal- but just sucks b/c it happens to a lot of my younger sims. Next- it seems like in some of my neighborhoods and exotic locations for WA that some of the homes or lots turn black and I can't see them nor visit them. It's almost like the basement feature that are included into the WA game has made them that way. I don't know what to do but I just would like to know if anyone else is having these issues. Thanks to all who can help.

Can anyone find out what's wrong with my Sims 3 World Adventures? When I update my Sims 3 World Adventures to the latest version 2.3.33.003002 it just says 'The version that you are running is incompatible with data. Please update your game! I removed the mods and kept reinstalling over and over but still it doesn't work.

What to do?

I know how to save it! Just go on save as – instead of save :]

There's another thing after coming back after a holiday, I went with 2 sims and they were married !! And when they came back everything messed up they didn't even know each other any more and the women was on the streets I had two of the same sims so I had 9 people in the family which is wrong coz there's only aloud to be 8 and I couldn't click on the top one and now they cant get married again!

What the hell am I meant to do?!

Sorry about all the comments, just one more thing.

If your game shuts down right, there's a few reasons:

1) Ermm mine did that it could be because you have MSN on because whenever some one came online or talked to me (you know the little box in the corner when some one says something or comes online) that would shut it down.

2) Your computer can't run it because it needs to be updated or running on something different or it's not good enough to run sims 3 on it =P

3) You have too many things open when you play the game (like MSN, iTunes, Internet xD, and other ones) mine didn't close down when I left them on but it just slowed my game a teny bit down but it was still okay.

4) You didn't install it properly I dunno, it could of happened, you never know, just uninstall it then reinstall it :)

@PAUL – I used mods off the Sims3.com go to the exchange they all worked or welcome to mod the sims 3 they both worked for me.

@Krissy – Ermm same happened to me the first time I went but if you've only been once then try it again beacuse the second time I got everything back I dunno anything else to do :S

@KatieLouise – Ermm what traits did you give this sim? If they are traits like mean or something then it will say that, change them, press ctrl enter (the one above crtl) and c then type "testingcheatsenabled true" press enter the press enter at the same time you click on your sims then press edit trait or what ever or you can uninstall then install it again but when it asks do you want to keep save progress press yes.

If you have like any PROBLEMS WITH MODS then when you click on the Sims 3 Launcher, go to installed content or what ever and press run with out installed content :) it should get rid of all your mods and it might get rid of a few glitches.

If anyone has any problems then just like email McrmyMcrmyMcrmy@hotmail.com

:]

I have The Sims 3 World Adventures and I am at level 3 visa on Egypt and I purchased a house and went back home now when I try and go on vacation I see my house but no people show up along the side or any thoughts of needs what can I do pleeeeease HELP ME !! ?????

Hey :) I have a really annoying problem. I recently bought WA and when I try to install it, the setup says 'cannot continue setup because Sims 3 is corrupt or not installed properly'. My brother has tried fixing it and reinstalled sims 3 a few times but it still doesn't work, do you know how to fix this?

xx Emma

Helloo, I'm having a really difficult time finding any solution for my problem :(

Whenever I go to China (I haven't tried this anywhere else) and whenever I finish an adventure, the person I have to report to disappears…any suggestions?

Going back home and returning just cancels the adventure.

Hi!

Ok, so my problem is very bizzare, I've searched the net and there is nothing about it, hope You'll help me.

I installed WA and when I go into a household my fridge is completly empty, I cant buy any food at the grocery shop (There are only fish and meat). My sims are constantly in a bad mood, when in "Create-a-sim" I cannot choos voice and color/music/food preferences. Also, when going on vacation my sim just pops back into a houshold.

Thanks in advance for help.

Thanks for the help Nick, I really did forgot to move the resource.cfg. The game loads slower now, but I'm so glad I have my mods back. If I see game gets too slow I'll try taking out some of the mods or just taking out all mods (that would be very sad, lol).

Well anyway Thanks A Lot for remembering me that.

"Happy simming"

Hellen

I’ve looked all over, and haven’t found any mention of this…

My sims are trapped on vacation in France. Their visas expired, the clock stopped at 12:00 AM, but they didn’t leave and things progressed despite the clock stopping. I tried using their cells to “Return Home” but the button was grayed out.

They have now been there seven days (this is their first visit, so they were only supposed to have 3). On the Simology panel, the travel time says 4/3 days, the Adventure journal says 7 days…

Somebody, anybody, help!!

Thanks in advance.

Hey

I have some serious issues. My game (WA) worked perfectly when i got it (which was for christmas) but now suddenly i have issues. I don’t update my game and i’ve never used mods so whats the matter?
Any way my issues are as follows:

1. Whilst saving my game, an error message comes up saying ‘An unexpected error has occured while saving’ and tells me to refer to read me file for a code 16 (which doesn’t exist by the way). The only thing is, my game saves! its just an annoying and unnessisary message

2. My food spoils so quickly in the fridge it’s a waste of time preparing group meals.

3. My saved games become corupted when i travel with one member from the household.

The thing is, i have never had a problem with the sims, ever…so why do they start now?

so we downloaded it and it works great now!!! :D the only annoying thing about the download is that it takes long time 2 or 3 hours but the results are very good i havent found any problems so far. i would not recomend looking for the updates online because i have some friends who done this and put a viras onto the computer and had to buy a new computer :) good luck xx

melissa aged 12 ;)

Hi. I installed World adventures and then tried to travel to Egypt (havent played anything else since, so dunno if there are other prpblems), but all times I go there, the graphics seem not to load properly, almost all buildings pulsate bright red and I cant select them. Although I was able to enter the sphinx, it was pretty unusable. I already tried to reinstall the WA, and I dont have any mods. Any suggestions?

I can’t use any mods or custom content at all with WA! I’ve tried starting the game with only one or two mods that are known to be compatible, but each time I do, my game freezes on the first loading screen (the one that has the scrolling text and “world adventures”). The progress bar stays the same, the music continues playing, and nothing happens. I’ve tried putting the files in the base game folder, as well as the WA folder, but no luck. Any suggestions?

I have also had problems with the patches. When I first installed WA, the problem stated above happened, so I removed all the custom content. Then, the next problem was that the game crashed each time while loading a family/neighborhood. I eventually had to uninstall and reinstall several times, and I finally figured out that if I didn’t patch WA, my game wouldn’t crash. This means I have to disconnect from the internet each time I want to play WA so the launcher won’t detect updates, and I have to deal with the in game bugs that should be fixed. How annoying! I really hope EA comes out with patches for the patches!

Hey I have had this problem for awhile now. When I take any family on vacation they do not show up, shows funds as zero, and are completely lost forever (unless I don’t save). I really want to take family on vacation because my main sim will have taken ever photo for collections after she goes to China, Egypt, and France. I do not have this problem on my laptop and I have tried uninstalling 4 times. I have mods but removing them does not seem to help. When I did save though it took me to edit town in china and it let me play a family that lived in China! Weird and cool but I wanted to play my main family! I know others have had this problem too but I have seen no solutions. Thankies ahead of time ;)

I don’t know how to mod please help.

I have a HUGE problem with my WA. My Sims 3 worked perfectly fine, and decided to install WA. The first installation was a failure : my game would constantly crash to my desktop. But I was able to fix that by downloading another WA (from another uploader) and it works! No crashing. YET I still have this HUGE problem that my sims is unable to have any sort of relationship with skills! It doesn’t pump iron nor work out, it can’t buy food, several buildings cannot be touched (there isn’t anything option with the food store, the bookstore, the hospital, etc), it can’t unclog the toilet, etc. I don’t what to do :S

Hi :)

I’m having with my Sims 3 WA. When I travel my game freezes and I cant do anything, and I have to close the game.

Can someone help me?

Chrystle66666666,

Hi, I had the same issue with my game crashing to the desktop also, I’m not telling you that you should do this because I am not a professional. My game was crashing because of some memory something however there was nothing wrong with my memory; it was a program called microsoft visual c++ (no idea what it is used for but I haven’t had any issues since deleting it) closing it I just deleted them since i don’t use it and I haven’t had anymore issues.

I’ve bought my sims base in the U.S, but i live in Israel, and i bought here (Israel) WA and Ambitions pack. When I try to install WA it says that it cannot be installed because of different regional code, though Ambitions installed with no problems and it works perfectly. Aany suggestions?

Hey,

I have similiar problems!

WA doesnt work with mods, and even without them its a lag storm on a high end gaming machine. I tried patches and updates but nothing works. Its not funny at all, EA should really fix that or I want my money back. And by the way “Ambitions” made it even worse, so why did they even release that game, when its not working properly at all? I uninstalled ambitions now but nothing works anyways and without the mods the game is boring.

p.s. I’m from germany so its the german version of the Sims 3 games

Everytime I travel, either my sim comeback a twin or they come back home and their invisable, why is that, Ive been a sim player for ages, help me please.

I installed world adventures and then i tried a number of mods but no matter what mod it is, it never starts up, the game i mean, the bar stays gray and no music plays, i moved the folder and the file and i dont know what to do please help.

i have finally reinstalled sims 3 right up to the ambitions pack. took it out ages back after i installed ambitions – got sick of the game crashing after i played a household. i like to speed up my play, got mods which speed up skill making. i did have a fair bit of CC in my downloads folder. i use sims 3 to work out story characters. i have now abandoned that idea – use sims 2 which is More reliable for that. im hesistant to get the new pack. i am on satellite broadband so cant disconnect which means my darn game is online while im playing. which slows the game down. i spose i gotta get used to it. it drives me nuts seeing the flashing bag all the time

Hello I’m Danielle. In the Sims 3 World Adventures everytime I try going to any of the 3 places it goes there and then I cant see my people its just all blue on the bottom it just shows me the time thats it. And when I do anything involved with Egypt it shuts my entire game down. Can you please help me with this, thank you.

HI ! So i just bought sims 3 WA and installed it, when i clicked on the game launche it kept saying disc not found please insert sims 3 ambitions to proceed which i did but nothing changes do you know a quick solution for this ? pls reply to my comment asap. thank you

Recently, each time i try to get my sim to go to China (haven’t tried other locations) It begins to load and then the whole computer shuts down? any idea how to fix this?

Before I had an issue where after downloading world adventures I was only able to use one household-as in, I couldn’t select or play with the other families. I haven’t tried so far and have just been working around it. But if I can’t even visit the other countries, I’m not sure I see the point. Can you help?

i tried to do that but it still didnt work my game quits everytime i try to open a new world

hello. so i am having a huge problem and its really bugging me! when i travel somewhere in world adventures when i return home my sims wont stay in bed.. they’ll be exhausted and try to go to bed and only stay in bed for about 10secs. and wind up glitching to the end of the bed or my whole household freezes in the same place i left them.. time will go on but they will not move.. help please?!

Hey :)
I have the same problem as Lillian (above) – it’s really annoying me because I have this dream of getting my sims rich and sending them to France to paint in a cute little house by the river, haha.

Also, if anyone has the “Error 16″ glitch while saving, I found that trying the “Save As” option will solve that problem :)

Hope you can help!
-Lena :)

Both of the things that happened to Shelby (above) has happened to me also.

I got WA for my birthday the other day and it is by far the worst birthday present I have ever gotten. It ruined my game and family and now I have to uninstall the entire game.

My question is: should I install it again but this time not travel? I have the sims 3 deluxe (sims 3 and ambitions), WA, and Late Night. For my other birthday presents I know I am getting the rest of the expansions. I read online somewhere that it is best to install the games in order. Do you think that is why it glitched the first time – because I had installed sims 3 and ambitions???

I don’t have any mods or custom content only EA store bought things. I’m a noob to computers so I don’t know how to do the file moving stuff.

Please help! It’s ruining my Sims playing time =-(

I have exact same problem as BEN. ^
But it’s only when i go to France. Please help? :/

Hi everyone having the WA problems. I posted on the 19th because I got WA for my birthday and had a ton of problems. Here are some possible fixes that I found:

1. If you can’t get out of the one of the 3 towns you traveled to, try playing as a resident in the town. Then “add to family” your sim(s) and have them travel to your original home town. Once there move them into your home and then move out the foreigner. Your relationship meter will probably be gone for your sim(s) but at least you will be back home.

2. If you travel and once there you can’t see your UI or anything just quit right away without saving. If it doesn’t let you, push Ctrl+C and type quit. Whatever you do, do not save during this time. Also, by the time you’ve read this, you will have probably already saved and messed the game up. =-) So, if you did save the game, hopefully you had another save of the game prior to traveling. If so, load that. If not, then refer to #1 above.

I really hope that helps. In the future, remember to save before traveling.

Happy Simming!

Here is MY problem.

I’m on a macbook with all the recommended settings and everything. I’m running my windows 7 which is what I use to play sims. it’s a good partition so that’s not the problem i dont think.

When I’m in WA and I travel somewhere, my game will often freeze. The graphics will still be running (trees rustling and whatnot) but the time will stop, the people will stop, and I can’t click anything. It will sit there for like 3 minutes then go again. it happens the most when the sim is sleeping I think….I checked my RAM and stuff…and my graphics card is only like a year old. I also dont have any content that I didn’t just buy off of the website. I tried running it without any of them and that didnt work. I’ve tried everything! help me!

@All of the people who’s people/families don’t appear when they travel somewhere:
1. Edit the town you’re vacationing in, then click “return to the game” at the top and it will then let you choose a family in the vacation town!
2. Now you can play this family forever or, you go to their cellphone and select “GO HOME” and once your home, then you will see your actual family there:)
I really hoped this helped!

AHHHHHH!

My sims travelled to France and their travel time expired.
So it went through all the usual going home stuff, but when I got back to the neighbourhood they’re not there!
Its like I’ve started a new game and I’m being told to select a household. My sims have COMPLETELY disappeared!!

I’ve gone back to my last save multiple times, but this keeps happening.

Where are my sims? :( :(

I traveled to Egypt but my sims disappeared!