Game all messed up

[Darstan64]

Hi,

Not sure where to start here but like Gingerkid mentioned I had the same problem with babies being born not invisible but half black and half white (very strange) and a line across the screen then when I aged up the male kid to toddler then child then teen he had these ladies thigh high boots on.  I know this sounds nuts but I'm at my wits end.  I assumed it was bad CC like was mentioned here so I did delete suspicious stuff but now when I try to go into create a sim I can't change my hairstyle.  I don't know what happened to mine. All of a sudden my sim has a different hairstyle.  When I go click on hair no choices come up, nothing at all.   So I can't do it normally by changing appearance in the mirror or by using cheats and going into create a sim.

My town of Riverview is also messed up, my sims can't go to work or school because it says no schools in town to go to and now they have no jobs anymore.  It shows the hospital and the business center in town but the sims  are unemployed.  I can't find the school at all.  I know this all sounds crazy but could bad CC really cause such problems.  Any advice or help as to what to do now would be so much appreciated.  I'm going crazy here trying to sort all this out.  Do I need to start a new game, uninstall my game and reinstall?  Thanks again 

[Pam]

Would you try a couple of tests?  Start a fresh game file and see if the problems continue.  If so, try running the game without custom content.  You will find a box to click on the Installed Content tab of the launcher.  If we can determine whether the problem is with the game or with just that file, we'll be able to have a better idea what to do.

Also, I'm moving this to the Technical Help board.

[Darstan64]

Thank you for answering Pam and yes I will try to start a new game as soon as I get a chance  and report back here.  I wasn't sure whether to post on the technical help board because everyone seems so knowledgeable on the misc. board too but I will respond here when I try that.

Thanks again

[Darstan64]

Hi,

Nothing works Tried running without custom content, tried starting a new game, I also downloaded Riverview like 3 times legitimately from the store on the sims3 website,  it shows its downloaded and installed but not showing up on main menu to start a new game.  Went to a live help chat with EA, they weren't much help, told me to reset sim and that my files were corrupted and gave me a link to a super patcher which took alot of time but did nothing.  Its hard to explain without actually seeing my screen.  When I do play Riverview its so weird no one can work or go to school, even though the lots are showing up in map view.  It said no visitors allowed and I changed it to visitors allowed but don't think that helped and everything is coming up like this in map view - Community Lot then underneath World/Riverview/LotAddress: High School for example.  In the panel for the kids career it says there are no schools to attend but the school is there! One of the sims works at the graveyard, he seems to be able to go to work and the other works at the supermarket, everything is ok with that.

In the simology panel for a sim it would read like this - World/Riverview/Sims:Susie World/Riverview/Sims:Broke. (Broke is the last name)
 I guess I'll have to delete everything and redownload my digital game from amazon and I'll lose all my games now with all the progress I've made.  I can't believe all this would happen from custom content all because of downloading a household from the exchange that I never really played and kept an active household.  Sigh....I just wish I had more time to research this and get more help.  If anyone knows if anything I've typed here sounds familiar or makes any sense at all please advise.   I wouldn't even know how to explain this to EA chat help.

Thanks so much!

[Skilletnap]

You don't need to lose your games if you need to re-install. You could save them to a portable hard-drive, or on a different place on your computer entirely--like on the desktop--where the game won't look for them.

I'm not sure entirely what is going on in your game. I'm not sure if it is installed properly, or if all the files needed for the world are there. I have no idea. I didn't stumble across this problem myself. I would think, in the case that it isn't installed properly, that you wouldn't be able to access it at all, let alone some of the time. What i'm thinking you need to do, and bare with me, is uninstall it again, and make sure you get EVERYTHING attached to it.

In the /InstalledWorlds folder, delete the Riverview one. Then, go back into the /TheSims3 document and delete the following caches: SimCompositorCache, CompositorCache, CASPartCache, and ScriptCache.

Then, go into your DCCache folder and delete anything Riverview related. Also, go into the "Downloads" folder and delete anything Riverview in there.

THEN do a complete re-download and re-install of Riverview.

From this post on the official forums.

For the school problem, if you have managed to get Riverview to run completely and that is the only remaining issue, I would say go into edit town, bulldoze the school and place a new one. Make sure the lot is tagged as a community lot first, though.
I've had a similar problem, not with a building but with items the Sims use frequently, like a bed for sleeping. I would tell them to sleep, and they would stomp their foot, yell and wave at me, as if there was something in the way. I would personally walk them to the side of the bed I wanted them to sleep on and get the same response when I told them to sleep. So I just went into buy mode, copied the bed I had and placed it, deleted the older one and placed the new one in that spot, and they were able to sleep. I imagine whatever is causing that kind of weird issue is happening on a grander scale to your world.

If this doesn't help, let me know and I will keep looking for solutions.

[Darstan64]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.  You sound very knowledgeable and I printed out your whole post so I can try this.

I will come back and let you know what happens.  Again, thank you

[Darstan64]

Thank you, I redownloaded and installed my game.  It looks fine now.  I got Riverview back, I will play tonight.

Just curious, not that I would do it, but I did save my old sims3 folder on my desktop.  If I did want to go back into the household I was playing how would I transfer a folder to my new game?

I guess I won't be going on the exchange for anything anymore!  Thanks again Skilletnap and everyone else here for all your help and support.

Happy simming everyone