Patch 1.29

[Joria]

I patched just fine and fast.  The only issue I have had is I'm having difficulty with "save and quit".  The game saves just fine as long as I'm not doing "save and quit" but it stops working half way through the save if you are also quitting.  I check with task manager and always it's "not responding" so I have to end task and hope it saved for me.  Wasn't doing anything major but it is a concern.

If they fixed the travel bug where your Sims go invisible I will be happy.  We've wanted that fix for a LONG time.  It affected every world you traveled to, (China seemed to be the worst for me), and would really ruin a game.

[simfulicious]

My favorite part of this patch is that there is now a name randomizer right in CAH.

[Noodles]

If they fixed the travel bug where your Sims go invisible I will be happy.  We've wanted that fix for a LONG time.  It affected every world you traveled to, (China seemed to be the worst for me), and would really ruin a game.

This is sooo important... My game is still on pre-GEN patch, because it glitched so totally every time I travelled after installing that patch... I think it was 1.26 that started this, and I'm still on 1.19 because of it...!

I'd love to hear more if the travel bug is truly fixed from you people who already downloaded this.
I think it's time to update my game, I feel like living in the past since going back to 1.19. 

[amyrose]

My favorite part of this patch is that there is now a name randomizer right in CAH.

The name randomizer came with the Pets patch, I've had it a while now.

[simfulicious]

Really?  I guess I didn't see it before then.  Well I still love it, as I have a hard time naming my sims.

[Ktan18879]

After downloading the sims 3 1.29 patch, there seems to be a particular problem that happens over and over again to me. A featured item placed in the game under micellaneous entertainment by the sims 3 committee seems to cause my game to crash over and over again when I tried to view that category. Ps. I am unable to identify the item causing the problem. Does anyone has the same problem that I am facing right now??

[Jeni2810]

It sped up after I posted that, so it must've just been slow to start.

@kattiq Me neither. To be honest, I'm not too crazy about most of it, but hey, if it fixes any bugs (some of which I haven't heard of), I'm happy.

me neither, bit cheeky /me thinks

Jeni 

[MoonsAreBlue]

Has anyone had any problems with old games and the new patch? I have started a new game just fine, but I haven't touched my old saves yet.

[MarianT]

I didn't have any trouble immediately after loading the patch, but today I couldn't launch my game, either from the launcher or through the work-around. The fix I'm currently using is to disconnect from the Internet when I want to play. Apparently the problem is caused by the  "featured items" addition, which I would never use anyway.

[MoonsAreBlue]

I didn't have any trouble immediately after loading the patch, but today I couldn't launch my game, either from the launcher or through the work-around. The fix I'm currently using is to disconnect from the Internet when I want to play. Apparently the problem is caused by the  "featured items" addition, which I would never use anyway.

I'm having the same problem right now. Is it safe to connect to the internet after the game launches?

[MarianT]

I haven't tried that, but I did try to launch again, with the Internet connected, and it worked. However, when I clicked on one of the featured items icon in the Entertainment section, the game crashed. There's more information on the official site.

I love your T.S. Eliot quote, btw.

[bshag]

No problems with patch, yet.

They fixed the invisible fish problem, yay, but fish still go missing after returning home from traveling, boo.

I just found out about the new stuff...wow, in a patch no less.  Miracles never cease.

[ladybug53]

I had no problem before the new patch and now my saved game keeps crashing . It crashed about 4 times in the last half hour. Not sure what causes it or what to do to be able to play .


Edit :  I disconnected my internet and it has worked fine since then .

[Ktan18879]

Hey I also had the same problem as Marian T, apparantly one of the item in the entertainment section causes the game to crash frequently. Can others check about this as well.

[Schipperke]

I haven't had any trouble so far (touch wood).  I usually don't have the internet connection open while I play, and clicking on the featured items didn't have any effect at all.  (the only reason I clicked on them was because I didn't know about the new option and wasn't sure why those items looked different)  But I didn't try the Miscellaneous Entertainment section.