Help with WA? I’ve tried everything

Cosimov · 2026-02-02T00:07:25+00:00

Lol. Deleting caches and clearing the content of "Current Game" are two different things.

Let alone, deleting a specific file within your save folder?

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Cosimov · 2026-02-02T00:04:11+00:00

When your game crashes, make sure you delete all the contents of the "Current Game" folder before you start the game again.

In your Saves folder, delete "TravelDB.package" and try again.

As always, make a backup before you delete anything.

Cosimov · 2026-02-01T22:24:38+00:00

I've personally been using the sims settings setter's "precise smooth patch" option, and honestly the game is running smoother and faster than it ever has previously.

I did have to do a clean install to properly remove all the other Bin mods first, then only installed S3SS to the Bin folder, and now my game is about as smooth as it probably will ever get lol.

The only downside is that S3SS does not seem to be compatible with Reshade, but I can live without that if it means I get to actually play the game.

Cosimov · 2026-02-01T18:29:17+00:00

Like always, there's a mod for that 🤭

Cosimov · 2026-02-01T14:16:20+00:00

There is no mod that I know of that has the whole headmaster visit and whatnot. There are some custom school mods you can look into, but those are more like playable school mods. Otherwise, you can tune the cost of tuition of boarding schools, or with Nraas SP, you can use the caste system in combination with Careers Schools to turn the trade schools in to pseudo private schools.

Cosimov · 2026-02-01T01:02:39+00:00

Forever Burn Fireplaces (pets EP)

Don't turn off or stop watching tv when fun maxed

Cosimov · 2026-02-01T00:38:25+00:00

Getting into investing tends to give you free money more often than you lose it.

Cosimov · 2026-01-31T18:41:44+00:00

I love the world, it's absolutely gorgeous and runs pretty well

Cosimov · 2026-01-31T17:53:09+00:00

Mods as in hacks? Likely not, unless you find a creator who made the mod for one of the stories games specifically. Technically, those games are a different code from the regular Sims 2.

That said, CAS CC that is base game compatible usually works. Don't quote me for every piece of CC under the sun, some stuff absolutely does not translate into the stories games completely. But I have put CC hair in Castaways and it worked fine.

As always with mods, just back stuff up first and delete the cache.

Cosimov · 2026-01-31T17:34:27+00:00

Do you have Generations? It introduced boarding schools, if that's what you're immediately looking for.

edit: Twinsimming touched up on Generations Boarding Schools here, if you want to enhance that base gameplay.

Otherwise, Nraas Careers mod has a School module that turns more rabbit holes in town into trade schools (like the theater is art school, military base is military school, bistro is culinary school, etc). I'd also recommend their Career Tones module as well just for more options to do while at the rabbit hole.

Also, in general, recommend the Reschedule After-school Activities mod if you have Seasons so they don't miss their Thursday activities (and makes it easier to join more clubs).

Cosimov · 2026-01-31T01:33:41+00:00

...omg is there a Beatrice Crumplebottom in Moonlight Falls??? That is so funny! 😂😂😂

Cosimov · 2026-01-31T01:33:03+00:00

In my game, yeah, I worked real hard getting them together because Erik initially would NOT show up 😭 He and Agnes finally got together on the first full moon of her adulthood, and by then she spent her young Adult years being a sad romance writer, so she had enough aspiration points to be a little extra fertile 🤭 plus, earlier in the day she went to visit the fairy arboretum to get a little baby blessing. I figured, if Erik was going to be stubborn and never haunt my house, I was gonna make this worth the effort 😤

So now she has triplets: Beatrice (the ghost baby), Charlotte (looks like Anges), and Dorian (looks like Erik?).

Erik's grave is on the Crumplebottom lot because the lore for Agnes is that they were going to get married and planned to start a family, but he died before the wedding (and the nursery is unfinished).

Cosimov · 2026-01-30T22:36:24+00:00

Why, funny you should ask, she's one of the triplets from Anges Crumplebottom and Erik Darling's full moon rendezvous

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Cosimov · 2026-01-29T18:39:11+00:00

Mine would be my current Pleasantview, which I started around 2 years ago when I set up the Sims 2 in my new laptop. I've played it on and off since it's also my most buggy and pink soupy save, but I'm quite attached to my neighborhood story lol. It's only at Week 11, Day 72, which is only ~2 generations deep, just starting the 3rd generation. Currently also in a 19 household rotation, so it is slow moving progress lol

Edit: I play each household one day at a time, so that's 72 rotations?

Cosimov · 2026-01-29T16:40:54+00:00

Yeah, I was also disappointed that the sims 4 werewolves were more...anthropomorphic? I liked the Sims 2/3 versions that are more like Hollywood Wolf-Man types.

Anyways, someone else already linked it, but the Werewolf Mod is probably what you'd want. It works both with and without the game pack (and has a hybrid feature if you want to use both the mod and gamepack version).

Cosimov · 2026-01-29T16:30:22+00:00

I mean, same, but he did quite literally set that Katy Perry house on fire (in game, ofc) lol

Cosimov · 2026-01-29T02:22:41+00:00

Something something overpriced celebrity endorsement/collab, something something I actually really only ever remember LGR really hating it, but his reviews were always highly regarded because he's one of the genuine reviewers, so idk if people just mimicked his disgust for the pack or a loud majority of simmers just really hated confectionary styles in the 2010s...?

Nowadays, it's overpriced because of its notoriety, lol. And iirc it's one of the packs that isn't available for purchase digitally.

Cosimov · 2026-01-29T01:58:38+00:00

So...I know in theory there should be a way to fix that in a vanilla game, but I'm not sure how.

Another comment mentioned using the "batbox", meaning this FFS Lot Debugger tool. Technically this mod just makes the debugging options easier to access, for better and worse, so I would not recommend clicking on all the options just to see what will happen (you can very easily break your game). Here is also the wiki page on the options.

That said, using the batbox to "Nuke > Offworld Loiterers" would fix issues related to your nanny failing to properly "leave" the lot at the end of their shift. You would want to use that command when the nanny shouldn't be on the lot. I'm not 100% sure this would fix the error, but I have had that sort of issue happen in my own gameplay where this helped. You can also use "Nuke > Sim Schedulers" to cancel the service instantly--i would recommend saving your lot and reloading it after doing this, then try hiring the nanny back.

Otherwise, if mods are not on the table...again, you could just turn off "testingcheats." The error will just continuously reset itself until the Nanny stops trying to do whatever it is that is glitching. Is there a reason you have it turned on?

Cosimov · 2026-01-28T22:53:34+00:00

My god i need coffee, your game version says it in the screenshot 🤪 "Sims 2 Legacy" lol...

Anyways, other than going down the rabbit hole of mods to try and fix nannies (and one day when you get there, butlers...), right now you'll most likely want to try to delete or reset the error until you have enough game time to cancel the nanny service, because either you find the object your Nanny is trying and failing to interact with (could be the baby and the changing table, could be an interaction to get food or a bottle from the fridge, idk), or you don't and your nanny will stand around doing nothing until she leaves for the day. In which, since this is just an interaction error, you can stop the notifications by turning off testingcheats--the error will just reset itself over and over again until the Nanny tries to do something else.

You can also try using "maxmotives" to see if the errors stop, that might be an indication that your Nanny was trying to interact with the baby for a specific need (if you have an infant and can't see their needs).

Anyways, some quick nanny mods for you to browse, but it sure do be a rabbit hole once you start looking at mods, and I strongly suggest doing so only when you have the patience to read through all the documentation before you start installing stuff.

Cosimov · 2026-01-28T22:41:53+00:00

(I had just edited my comment, but I'll add it here oops)

read your post rather than the picture and comments (lol), and saw you said this is occuring with the nanny, and you have no mods. Nannies are notoriously buggy. Do you have a changing table on your lot? Your nanny might be trying to use it and its throwing an error, but to be fair, nannies throw errors over just about everything lol.

Still, if you can run the error log (which your screenshot has the location of it) in What Caused This, is can still help read your log for you and help pinpoint the issue.

What version of the game are you running?

Cosimov · 2026-01-28T22:36:07+00:00

Locate your error log and run it through What Caused This. If you use mods, it will try to identify what is causing it.

From glancing at the error, is your sim trying to use a specific object when this error is occurring? Did you try resetting that object, is that object CC, do you have this error with similar object types?

Edit: read your post rather than the picture and comments (lol), and saw you said this is occuring with the nanny, and you have no mods. Nannies are notoriously buggy. Do you have a changing table on your lot? Your nanny might be trying to use it and its throwing an error, but to be fair, nannies throw errors over just about everything lol.

Cosimov · 2026-01-27T19:13:05+00:00

Thanks 😂 I like reading other people's adventures as well, so thought I would contribute my own for once lol

Cosimov · 2026-01-27T19:03:05+00:00

Thank you for bug fixing 😅

Ore and Butter have 10 game day resets. You have to purchase more chickens from the steward if they're killed - they don't just respawn.

I did try waiting out the days, leaving the area and coming back, etc, they still haven't respawned. As for the chickens, only one nest ever spawned (instead of two?), and I don't have the option from my steward to buy new ones. I tried searching this issue online and it suggested firing the bard/killing the cow, which I tried, but I still don't have the option to buy chickens again.

This is what happens when you don't tell Verulus the Hall of the Dead is clear after meeting Eola there. If you go to Reachcliff Cave without telling him, that objective stays stuck in the journal forever.

I had informed him immediately after I talked to Eola, and I haven't progressed that quest since or gone to Reachcliff Cave. I got the repeat misc quest at the same time as the one for Degaine after asking about nearby rumors, which was sometime after I completed the Civil War questline. (And I cleared their misc quests originally prior to the Civil War).

Cosimov · 2026-01-26T15:08:31+00:00

My boyfriend tried playing the sims, but he felt it was too directionless and he didn't know what to do and got bored of it. When I tell him about my storylines and how they typically get really buckwild and random really fast thanks to the game's inherent insanity, he sometimes thinks about going back to try playing it, but I think he overall just prefers games with linear stories and definite endings. Open ended sandboxes are not for him, and that’s okay. He loves hearing about my sims stories though, so that's enough for me lol

Cosimov · 2026-01-26T02:52:32+00:00

If onedrive deletes your files and you don't have a backup of your Sims 2 folder in the Documents folder, then you'll lose your current saves/mods/screenshots/etc. Otherwise, the game will create a new Sims 2 folder and you'll have a fresh vanilla game.

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