honorine 
Boutika Labels Designer/Tech Support
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(4/23/03 6:18 pm)
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Is your game crashing?
This problem is most often caused by a file that you've recently downloaded and added to the game. The creator may have made an error in writing a file, or it may have become corrupted during the download.
Maxis makes a free program to check the clothing files (skins) stored in the Gamedata/Skins folder of your game. The program is called "File Cop" and you can download it at the official Sim's site - thesims.ea.com/us/index.html. Go to the section called "Get Cool
Stuff" and click on the link that says "Make Cool Stuff." The Sims File Cop" will check your game for any problems in your skin
files and let you know which ones might be causing the problem so that you can remove them from the game. If skin files aren't causing your problem, then you'll want to check the files in your Sims/Downloads folder.
Find any new objects that you've placed in your game since your
problem began and remove them from the Download folder. Then, try starting up The Sims again and see if your game still crashes. If it doesn't, you'll know that one of the objects you removed was causing the problem. At that point, place one of those objects back into the download folder of The Sims and restart your game. Do this with each of the objects and in that way, you can find out which objects are fine and which objects might be causing your game to crash. (If you have a lot of objects in your Downloads folder, remove half of them. Restart the game. If it doesn't crash, you know that those objects are fine, so put them aside into a holding folder for the moment. If it does crash, you know that
there's a problem file in that half of your objects. By adding or removing half of your files at a time - and keeping track of which ones are o.k. - you can gradually isolate the problem file or files.
Corrupt floor and wall files can also cause the game to crash, though this seems to be a less common problem. Those files can also be checked in the same way you checked the object files.
Glenda
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