I have the exact same problem. And I've DLed all of the other updates just fine.

But oh well...I've got awesomemod

Well so far I have noticed a problem. I don't know if it's just this one skill or all of them. Logic seems to fizzle out after a while and no LONGER levels up. A reload of the game save seems to help. O_o

Edit: It seems to be doing it to all the skills cause I noticed cooking was NOT leveling up either. Good going EA!

The updates sound good.. but my mods are holy. Untill they are updated, no patch here.

I removed my mods folder, ran the update, started the game and all was fine. I then quit the game and put my mods folder back in and restarted. Everything is fine EXCEPT...I can't direct my sim to do anything that isn't in the same room with him without first directing him to go there. For example, to use the computer in the next room, I have to click on the floor in that room and have him go there and then when he gets there have him use the computer. Another example, I can't just click on the theatre or stadium and have him perform concert. I have to click outside them, have him go there and then when he gets there have him perform concert. He constantly cancels everything in the queue unless he's right there with it. Anyone have this problem??

so far i havnt had any problems.... except my whole computer freezing once.. but maybe thats just a co-inkidink.

i didnt think to not install it.. is there anyway to uninstall it???

I doubt it. EA probably removed the previous patch. I wouldn't put it past them or any game company.

Well i've been playing for the last few hours (seeing as i didn't have to go to school ) and i haven't come across ANY problems. So far. It even fixed my crashing problem. So I. Am. Great. .

And yeah i doubt they allow the patch to be uninstalled. Game companies don't normally make it very easy to -downgrade- a game.

I installed it and haven't found any issues with it. I don't have any hacks or mods...yet...so maybe that helps (or not). Time will tell.

Well, my game is all messed up....my downloader stopped working after the patch. Then I played around with restarting my computer a few times. Then the downloader installed my last few EA store purchases but my whole history of downloads is gone.

All the items in my downloads folder (mostly from this site) are gone. My game crashed several times at the loading screen but I finally got in and it seemed to play OK.

I tried unpatching the game but couldn't figure out how. Now I'm kind of at the disgusted stage. I don't know what to do about all my dl's. Guess I can start over....memories of many Sims 2 patch disasters come to mind.

I'll echo what a few others have said... I think it's good that they fixed so MUCH. Regardless of whether it touched upon all problems, that's still a lot of fixes. Although I agree that a few of the "fixes" didn't need fixing.

But I'm going to wait to download it a few more days, just to see what everyone's experiences are, and give my favorite modders a chance to update the mods that I just can't live without.

Not getting for the forseeable future. Awesome/Indie already fixed many of those issues and it takes away GRIMMY BABIES :[

Did you make a backup of your Documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 3 folder?

Since I wasn't sure I had removed everything that needed to be removed for a successful patch I backup that Documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 3 folder and then deleted the original. Opened up the game to generate a completely new Sims 3 folder under Documents. Then I also cleaned out everything from Program Files/Sims 3/ folder where my Mods/Packages folder was.

After installing the patch I copied over my Saved Sims, my Downloads (Which needed to be reinstalled via my Launcher), Mods/Packages items--minus all hacks like Facial and Body Slider hacks. I also copied over the saved games folder and pretty much every other folder once I verified the contents. I did it this way to avoid carrying unindentifiable files over to the game. I suspect some of them were error reports of some kind. Whatever they were, they are not part of a virgin file system nor where they anything I knowingly put into my game.

After finding out Riverview was acting oddly in the map views I also went to my Launcher to reinstall my download of Riverview. That did not fix anything, but it did not break anything worse, either.

To answer the original question posed by this thread, my Opinion of the Patch is that so far it's caused me enough disruption that I haven't had time to notice the benefits. And I can no longer have even the most unobtrusive of mods like the Slider hacks. So if I had to do it all over again, I'd have waited until all the reports were in on it.

If your game has been running fine, like mine did, and you enjoy your mods, my advice would be to wait just a little bit longer and see what all the new glitches are. I suspect there are plenty. I did as clean an install as anyone possibly could and I found Riverview's Map view to work oddly. I can no longer take my new sim to the Military Base for Handyman lessons. I am moving him to Sunset Valley to see if the venues there still work properly.

I just tested it. I got the business deed and switched households. It was still there.



I don't. My sims can use objects in other rooms and do stuff in rabbit holes just fine.

you can still get grimmy babies if click on the grim reaper with debug interactions enabled just have too click on the grim reaper with get pregant interaction and the sim that was selected will have baby with grim reaper as the father

i was having this problem also...like when my sims were standing around and tried to do something and nothing in their way they wave their hands like fools so i moved them into a big roomy lot and still the same but if i click the floor where its at they go and then i have to tell them to do what i want them to do so annoying so i just un did the patch

Well, I just installed the new patch, Pescado's new AwsomeMod, and Indie Stone Mod. Then I played a couple of sim days ans everything seems to be working just fine: Michael Jackson got married to a cute black woman and I hope ISM gives them a few babies. I wonder who they will look like.

How do you undo the patch?

I think the patch fixed a lot of issues I didn't even know existed. Yay for that.
On the other hand, there's still nothing about the disappearing tombstones. Would've been nice if all the missing ones would have shown up in the Mausoleum.

Awesomemod gives more room for your own configurations, EA just tries to fix their apparently less-than-perfect game. Is it just me, or has this happened before? Can't remember TS1 times anymore, but with TS2 there was always big fixes right after a new add-on, sometimes even a new patch.

It's not fair that us, as end-users, have to fix their screw-ups. Just so they can probably take the ready code and put it in their patches. And yet we pay for their games. Pff.

//edit
Forgot to mention the improved graphics with the Mac version. Less jagged edges, also the bottom of the shallow ponds is visible now. Feels like I can see every single fish too, so it's a huge improvement.

I've just installed the patch without the mods, the game starts fine but there is something weird about the graphic... my settings are at max and the game always ran smoothly, now it lags a little while moving around with the camera. I'll look into it, put back in all my mods (I don't have core mods so it should be fine) and do manual changes to my camera file, following what's different from the one I downloaded, I loved getting close to the sims.
Well... I'll do everything and test it for a couple of hours, then post here the results.

This is list of files updated by this patch among files from "GameplayData.package" (C:\Program Files\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\Gameplay\GameplayData.package")

If a XML tunning mod modifies these file, the mod may need to be updated for this patch.

S3_0333406C_00000000_0C6AFEE12A069672_MoveOutHousehold_0x0c6afee12a069672%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_0F70831C50A68894_ObjectCategoryData%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_18D1257ADFD2ED99_LogicSkill_0x18d1257adfd2ed99%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_2F9AACF9B2D00204_Opportunities%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_3D6D354A842B2257_KillSim_0x3d6d354a842b2257%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_4B0FC8F0A28B12EF_Socializing%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_547CBB82CE695C3E_Idles%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_8143819B0FC47373_ToddlerWander_0x8143819b0fc47373%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_9A976C90ECC75C81_DreamsAndPromisesNodes%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_B4336E6F80D6F69D_EmigrateHousehold_0xb4336e6f80d6f69d%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_BF46450A94A5EAB2_SocialCallback_0xbf46450a94a5eab2%%+_XML.xml
S3_0333406C_00000000_DC0D299F04BB3773_Career_0xdc0d299f04bb3773%%+_XML.xml
S3_03B33DDF_00000000_C3ABC13D6A7ECA90_PutAway_FirePit%%+ITUN.tuning
S3_0604ABDA_00000000_C6D81D0BCEBEE2A0_Painting Use%%+DMTR.dreamtree

i just restored my compu back to my back up of before i installed it and everything is fine in my game

Brilliant!

And, Summersong, thanks for the guidance on preserving the game, but, I'm not a computer expert and it's easier to just start over than go through all that backing up, removing, resetting, etc.!!! :b And I'm so used to patch disasters that I don't get too attached to my specific families any more.

The only issues I had with it were that my custom hair was all messed up. So I uninstalled the game and started fresh... and the hair (hair that came with the game) is screwy. I removed the mods and i'm still having problems with it. It's not a big problem, but it bugs me. Any ideas, solutions?

Edit: Ok, even after reinstalling, my game will crash during start up if my mods folder is in place.

my sound is messed up since the patch...only can hear it will walls down.