Hi there folks. English is not my native language, so apologies in advance for making mistakes.
Before you guys beat me up for putting the topic in the wrong section, I want to say that I guess that the main problem in my case may be (!) MC because at the time of the described events (the one during a party, below) that was the only heavy mod in the game.
At the moment I have MC, Careers, Register & Overwatch, and the two bugs that I unfortunately can't fix by myself as I always do.
So I play with mods. Lots of them (clothes, skins, NRAAS etc). The s**t started ~6 months ago: my sim went to a party in a huge house, some time later all the sims in the party suddenly froze. They only slightly moved their heads w/o reaction. The time went on, the needs scale started turning red, and as I understood it won't resolve itself I entered the command 'reset the sim' but after doing that the sim teleported and became transparent, and judging by the green rhombus above his head he didn't move and didn't respond to my commands. I rebooted the game w/o saving and continued to play normally.
Over some time the problem has worsened, I have this bug every time I play more than 2-3 hours (it normally happens during social gatherings), the only thing that has changed is that the glitched sims now look like that:
https://sourlemonsimblr.tumblr.com/post ... 917056/wip
I can't find a way to fix it, I hate this bug and don't know what to do. Overwatch doesn't help with fixing it, as well as MC.
The bug #2 is newer and more harmless, but it pisses off completely: some of my female sims have green, yellow, black & pink heads. Only the heads. The problem most often solves by changing a skin tone via MC, but not always and not always for a long time. I don't know what to do. The last time I played, my sim's head became white without irises (never had this before), the screenshot:
https://i.ibb.co/gRKhYWx/Screenshot-80.jpg
Changing her skintone didn't help.
Graphic card: Intel HD Graphics 630 & nvidia geforce gtx 1050
(the drivers are updated)
The laptop: MSI GV62 7RD
Please someone help me with this. Thanks for reading.

MC doesn't do anything on its own, which means it's exceptionally unlikely to be the cause here.

Looks like some faulty mod or cc. And, of course, there's igazor's sticky to consider, for example the point about Smooth Patch mods not playing well with MC.

Turjan wrote: ↑

January 3rd, 2024, 3:34 pm

MC doesn't do anything on its own, which means it's exceptionally unlikely to be the cause here.

Looks like some faulty mod or cc. And, of course, there's igazor's sticky to consider, for example the point about Smooth Patch mods not playing well with MC.

NRAAS are the only mods I use atm, I cleaned mods & cc thoroughly (using Dashboard as I remember). But yeah I still have lots of cc.

You'll want to introduce NRaas ErrorTrap, as it and Overwatch cover slightly different kinds of error management.
And, as above, reference the announcement for potential use of incompatible mods.

ErrorTrap will report on the issues it encounters in the form of ScriptError text files that generate in your The Sims 3 folder. You can drag and drop those on a reply to upload them to the site, or upload them to Drive / DropBox / etc and link it here for us to read.

Temporarily removing all CC would also help narrow things down. Or at least only use what you currently need for your active sims and see if the issue persists.

CardinalSims wrote: ↑

January 3rd, 2024, 4:58 pm

You'll want to introduce NRaas ErrorTrap, as it and Overwatch cover slightly different kinds of error management.
And, as above, reference the announcement for potential use of incompatible mods.

ErrorTrap will report on the issues it encounters in the form of ScriptError text files that generate in your The Sims 3 folder. You can drag and drop those on a reply to upload them to the site, or upload them to Drive / DropBox / etc and link it here for us to read.

Temporarily removing all CC would also help narrow things down. Or at least only use what you currently need for your active sims and see if the issue persists.

Thank you for the detailed answer. I'll install ErrorTrap, hope it shed some light on why this happens.

CardinalSims wrote: ↑

January 3rd, 2024, 4:58 pm

You'll want to introduce NRaas ErrorTrap, as it and Overwatch cover slightly different kinds of error management.
And, as above, reference the announcement for potential use of incompatible mods.

ErrorTrap will report on the issues it encounters in the form of ScriptError text files that generate in your The Sims 3 folder. You can drag and drop those on a reply to upload them to the site, or upload them to Drive / DropBox / etc and link it here for us to read.

Temporarily removing all CC would also help narrow things down. Or at least only use what you currently need for your active sims and see if the issue persists.

So, hi there again. I checked the game today with installed ErrorTrap. (As I understand, this mod saves files as "ScriptError_MSI__01-04-2024__17-01...", am I right?) I had been playing for 2 hours receiving these notifications from ET from time to time when the frozen sims bug appeared again. Unfortunately ET did not detect it, and I couldn't find a file in TS3 folder related to the time when the bug appeared. After rebooting the game I noticed that ET stopped reporting on errors, and after a while some of the sims' heads have begun to change colors again.

it would definitely help us if you drag and drop one or two of the files onto the reply box here: yes these files named ScriptError_