The Sims 3 Life States Dynasty Challenge

[TheTripWasInfraGreen]

Don't worry Metro, I'll send you e-cookies of forgiveness.

I'm assuming that I have to wait for an heir to celebrate their YA birthday before turning an Imaginary Friend real (with the intentions to marry them, of course). I find it to be cute when a child makes their IF real, but I'll live without it if I must.

[Ricalynn]

An heir's spouse can only be brought into the family when the heir reaches marriageable age.  This includes IFs which means it has to be YA lifestage.   And it has to be the heir's IF not a sibling's.

[TheTripWasInfraGreen]

Of course it was going to be the heir's IF. And thank you.

[RainBeau]

I've cleared out memory, ResetSim *, cleared out inventories, deleted memories, and gone to Edit Town to save. Nothing has worked. Can I have permission to go back to a previous save? Or should I just start over? I'm 30+ weeks into the game and maybe I should just accept that I waited too long to do all the requirements and try again.

[Ricalynn]

I've cleared out memory, ResetSim *, cleared out inventories, deleted memories, and gone to Edit Town to save. Nothing has worked. Can I have permission to go back to a previous save? Or should I just start over? I'm 30+ weeks into the game and maybe I should just accept that I waited too long to do all the requirements and try again.

I'm not entirely certain what you're asking.  If something you've done is causing errors then what's to say you won't get the same errors in a previous save?  You're talking about Error 12s right?  Do you always try to save at the same point? If so, have you tried saving at different points or waiting longer to save to see if it's something about that particular Sim Day/Time?  Have you deleted your cache files and DCBackup files (all but ccmerged)?  Have you deleted the thumbnail files? 

Have you considered deleting the world cache files?  It's not always recommended but it might help.  Of course, it's not guaranteed that you have these files but if you do they would be located Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > WorldCaches.  Only delete the world you're having trouble with.    Are you ever running anything other than Sims?  Have you tried logging out of Simport while trying to save?  Make sure that Sims is the only thing running - no browser, no IM service, nothing but Sims.

[RainBeau]

Yes, Error 12s. I've tried saving at all different points between seven at night and seven the next morning. I haven't tried waiting longer yet, no. I delete my caches and DCBackup (except ccmerged) more than daily. I've never heard of thumbnail files, so no I haven't deleted those. I'll try deleting those and the world cache files.
I only ever run Sims while I'm playing, I don't even keep a Finder window open (or whatever that's called on a PC). I have not tried logging out but sometimes I'm not logged in in the first place and it still doesn't work. I will try deleting the thumbnails and world caches and wait 24 Sim hours before saving and see if that works, but I'm scared that I'm having these problems. I am so torn between trying to make this work and worrying about the future of the game. I know no one understands better than you, Rica. Maybe I should just start over, as much as I don't want to 

[Odie]

I thought error 12 is most likely caused by a shortage of memory. How much do you have? Any chance you can add some GB?

[RainBeau]

I have 8.45GB open. I realised I had some files taking up space that I could delete. It was closer to 3. I don't know that I could really add more. It's my husband's computer and I don't understand it very well. I'm hoping to get a laptop soon but I don't know when that will be.

[sdhoey]

I have 8.45GB open. I realised I had some files taking up space that I could delete. It was closer to 3. I don't know that I could really add more. It's my husband's computer and I don't understand it very well. I'm hoping to get a laptop soon but I don't know when that will be.

I was getting the error12 and it was from the RAM, physical memory not the harddrive memory. Do you know how much RAM you have?

[RainBeau]

How do I check?

Edit: I found it. I have 2GB.

[Odie]

I have 8.45GB open. I realised I had some files taking up space that I could delete. It was closer to 3. I don't know that I could really add more. It's my husband's computer and I don't understand it very well. I'm hoping to get a laptop soon but I don't know when that will be.

I don't understand completely what you mean. Do you have 8.45 GB left to use? That should be more than enough. Or did you only have 3? That is too little and could cause for error 12. So I hope you have closed some programs then.
I am talking about RAM btw

If you are talking about only 3 to 8 GB disk space left, I advice you to free up much more space. In that case, 3 to 8 GB is nothing. A full disk makes for a slow pc and that could also cause errors in the game.


Edit: You guys beat me to it .  2 GB RAM is not enough unfortunately. This is most likely the cause of your error 12. I would advice at least 4, but 8 is better even.

[RainBeau]

Do you have to buy it? See, I don't know how this stuff works! Am I never going to get past a certain point without more RAM?

By the way, I don't have any world caches for Moonlight Falls.

[Silverbella]

Unfortunately if you're only on generation 2 when you started having these problems I don't think restarting and trying to progress faster will allow you to get to the end of your dynasty...by the time you get to the later generations it will be worse no matter how much you rush through

[RainBeau]

You're right. Even if I sped up, I wouldn't necessarily get through seven generations.

[Shirin]

Thanks for the clarifications, Metro, Rica.

I was asking partly because of the bug others have been having (as my gen 3 is still a child, he's not even close to marriageable yet), and partly because I think I found him a genie spouse. As I've never ever ever played a genie before (or use them for anything but Eternal Gobs of Money), I don't even know if he could have become engaged to the genie prior to being freed from the lamp.

This works out perfectly, I appreciate it.