i have some bad news. plain and simple. bad. news.
i bought the seasons expansion pack and was so excited to use it. i installed it right away and went to play. at the launch screen, it crashed. not a big deal. sometimes that happens initially and we get over it. that happened with generations and it was fine ever since then.
i go to play it again and it tells me i have an unofficial mod. that’s awkward. i uninstalled my mods months ago and have been mod-free since then. i did some research on the google machine and it told me to delete my caches. i did that and went to try again. still no dice. i delete my CC. still not working.
frustrated, i realize i have only one choice: re-installation. I back up the wallace family (the files are still sitting on my desktop) and uninstall everything. in the meantime, i also decide to clean out my computer, deleting all kinds of apps and files i just don’t need. that cleared out a ton of space (when first installing, my game told me that i needed more room, so i cleared just enough before going in for the kill) and i decided to start installing.
i install the base game and world adventures just fine. i grab my ambitions disk and give that one a go. it starts fine, but then gets stuck during the process. i stop it and try a few more times before updating world adventures first. the updates fail, so i uninstall everything and start from the beginning. now my base game disk is giving me problems, getting stuck during the installation process.
i take the disk and bring it to my dad’s computer, trying to determine if it’s the disk or my computer. it’s the disk.
so, moral of the story: my base game disk is busted, possibly so is my ambitions disk. i need a new computer because my “d” key is sticking, along with my trackpad mouse thing and occasionally the button to open my computer. it is also running out of memory, slow, and the battery is on it’s last leg.
i have a few chapters saved up that i was going to post all at the same time, but now i will post them bit by bit as i get this all sorted. hopefully it will be soon, but it really could be awhile. i am going to buy myself a new computer sometime this week, give the disks another go, and then negotiate some early christmas gifts with my mom and dad.
so sorry that i have to tell you this. in all my years playing the sims, i had never had an issue until now. i will not abandon this story, as it is the furthest i ever got and i’m not ready to let go or give up after all this time.
thank you for your loyalty and love,
– jill