I had a number of responses to my launch problem, and you were all so helpful! I have another issue that started before that problem, but I had been living with it.

When I send Simmies out into the neighborhood, or downtown, and it's time to return home, I click on the phone, or the car, and the game crashes. This means after shopping for clothes, the game will crash, and the Simmies don't make it home with their new wardrobe. In fact, once, a Sim walked down the sidewalk with another customer, after shopping, and was gone, though his car remained.

What could the problem be?

Thanks

Did you try removing your downloads folder from within your Sims 2 folder, re-enter the game and see if the crashing still happens then?

That might be an out of date hack.

I don't understand how removing the downloads would help with the problem. Sure I can do that, but how will that identify the problem?

Now I have simmies running around with black hands and hair full of letters, Do I have some bug?

In 90% of the cases, the problem is caused by custom content. I once crashed everytime I tried to click on the phone as well, and it turned out to be because of a mod I had. I forgot which, though.

But if you don't use any hacks or custom content, that would obviously rule that out.

The fastest way to find out is to follow this: http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...lp:Game_Problem

Well, if the problem disappears when you remove Downloads, you will know the issue is CC and not something seriously fubar with your game. It's the first step to working out what the problem is.

But don't remove custom eyes or skin and load up your regular game unless you have made a backup as they will lose their eyes and skin and not get it back again when you put the cc back into your game. I always test cc in a test neighbourhood. The black hands sound weird, the letters could be because you removed the hair possibly. You need to do this in a test hood not with your real sims.