Overwatch problem

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Overwatch problem

Post by Dees22 » March 27th, 2016, 6:46 am

Hello everyone!

Yesterday I started a new game in the Sims 3. Later in the evening I decided to continue the game, only when I started the game a lot of my sim townies were suddenly dead. They all died of old age even though they were children / teens and even pregnant women. I deleted the game and started a new one only to find the same problem after I quit the game and started it again. I removed mods one by one in the mods folder to determine which mod was probably causing this effect. When I play the Sims without the Overwatch mod it works fine and all townies are alive. When I add the Overwatch mod again and start the game those townies are dead. Besides the Overwatch mod I use SP, Mastercontroller, Register and the Portraitpanel but the problem only occurs when I add the Overwatch mod. When I remove this mod the townies are alive and well. Does anyone maybe know what the problem is or maybe if I did something wrong?

Thank you in advance!

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Post by igazor » March 27th, 2016, 6:53 am

Hi there, and welcome to NRaas. And, Yikes! There's a game issue I've never heard of before. Some initial questions...

1 - Do you have any mods other than NRaas in play? Certainly NRaas mods do not conflict with each other, but there could be something from another developer that is not playing well with Overwatch.
2 - What version of Overwatch do you have and what patch level are you playing on?
3 - Are you quitting the TS3 program entirely between loadups of saved/new games and starting it from scratch or are you retreating to the Main Menu after one game to load or start another with the program still running? (the latter is easier, but not advised)

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Post by Dees22 » March 27th, 2016, 7:06 am

Hi! Thanks for your warm welcome and for your fast reply!

1. I do have some other mods in play from modthesims.com but I haven't used new mods in two months, so before they worked good together. I expierenced that removing the Overwatch mod solved the problem. But I really want to use the Overwatch mod because it helps my game run a lot smoother and I've never had other problems with the mod before this one. I did use some new mods last weekend from Nraas though. That was the personalities mod (so I could get different kinds of death). But I removed those mods a week ago!
2. I use the 1.63-1.69 version of the Overwatch mod. My game is updated to 1.67.2.024002
3. The problem occured when I quit the whole TS3 program but also when I go to the Main Menu and start the game again. So either way when I quit and save my game and go to the Main Menu or quit the whole TS3 program the problem starts when I open up the save game to continue playing!

Sorry if I'm difficult to understand maybe, English isn't my main language :) Thanks a lot for your help!

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Post by igazor » March 27th, 2016, 7:27 am

Just to confirm that we don't have a third party conflict problem here, I am going to ask that you remove all non-NRaas mods and put only the NRaas mods you want to play with in Mods/Packages including Overwatch. And delete the scriptCache.package file in your game folder if you aren't already doing that, then try again as a test. Also, I forgot to ask which world you are trying to play, also maybe try a different one in addition to the one you were trying to start, an EA world if you could.

By the way, just an hour before you posted I created a new saved game myself for mod testing purposes, I am also on Patch 1.67, and I have Overwatch plus over 200 mod files in play. I got worried and loaded it up after reading your post, but everyone in town seems to be fine so we need to figure out what is different about your setup. :)

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Post by Dees22 » March 27th, 2016, 8:01 am

Hi! Thanks again for your reply! :)

So I removed all the mods except fort he Nraas ones. I also have removed the scriptCache.package in the EA folder. I noticed that I have a lot of error scripts in the EA folder that are all made yesterday. They are called like this ‘’ ScriptError_DESKTOP-JMG7MH6<u>03-26-2016</u>13-08-54__7925EB61’’. And yesterday is also when the problem started, not sure if that has anything to do with it?

I started the game again and the problem still occured in my ‘’old’’ game (Sunset Valley). It happened there twice (game of yesterday morning and a game that I made in the evening). So I tried a new game in a different city (Riverview). So I played for a few Sim hours, and then I saved the game and went to the main menu. Loaded the game again and all the sims in town looked fine. So then I tried to quit the whole game and start it again. When I started the Riverview game again everything worked fine as well!

The weird thing is, that when I start the Sunset Valley game everything is alright in the beginning. I always quit the game when it’s on pause. So when I start that game it is on pause as well. If I look in the city at that moment all the townies are good and well, but as soon as I let the clock ticking and get the announcement that the storyprogression is activated the sims are dead when I look again. Even children and teens are suddenly elders and dead of old age.
Thanks a lot for your support! I appreciate it :)

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Post by J4Ks » March 27th, 2016, 8:11 am

Please upload any ScriptError.....xml reports onto this site, so we can review them.

Here's a guide to help you out: How to Upload

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Post by Dees22 » March 27th, 2016, 8:23 am

Thank you for your comment! I have uploaded a file according to the link you send me. You can find it here: http://nraas.wikispaces.com/file/detail ... OP-JMG7MH6<u>03-26-2016</u>13-18-12__14A41DE9.zip (hopefully I did it correctly! :)) I'm not sure if this error has anything to do with the problem that I have in the game.

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Post by Dees22 » March 27th, 2016, 8:24 am

Sorry the link isn't showing proparly but it's on the recent changes page!

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Post by J4Ks » March 27th, 2016, 8:30 am

Seen it, Mods you've downloaded from here are out of wack:

Incompatibile:
NRaasMasterController: Version 127 <- Base version of the mod needs to be updated to Base V132
NRaasMasterControllerCheats: Version 132

Outdated:
- NRaasOverwatch: Version 105 <- was made for patch 1.55 - 1.63, you are on patch 1.67 so you should get V121
- NRaasPortraitPanel: Version 31 <- outdated version, there is a V33 version for patch 1.67

See after having handled the issues I mentioned above, it fixes your game. Not sure how long you have played + saved games with these incompatible and outdated mods. But hopefully they aren't that far gone of being corrupt.

Also I recommend getting ErrorTrap to get rid of improper/obselete codes that might be still running on the background. Be sure the game isn't running and after updating clearing your Cache files within your TS3 user directory before running a new game session.

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Post by J4Ks » March 27th, 2016, 8:33 am

Ahhh rats... MasterController has an updated version V133, you could update it to both MC Base V133 and MC Cheats V133. Though make sure to read the finer print on the module downloads which Base runs with it.

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