#game problems

[reginacyrkonia]

UPDATE

I managed to solve the pink flashing issue... I did everything, even reinstalled the whole game.

What actually helped me was a “duct tape” by Lazy Duchess, maybe it will help someone --> https://lazyduchess.tumblr.com/post/676760535182770176/pink-flashing-research-part-2

anyway, another problem occured... as you can see...

Any ideas about that? Never had this kind of problem before...

[themightytej]

The story so far:

Carol and I were excited to play Baldur's Gate 3, and decided to play it together, so we bought two copies. We livestreamed the first bit of the game as part of our Couple's Game Night show, in a multiplayer game hosted on her computer. The next day, due to scheduling, we each started a single-player campaign as well on our respective computers. Everything is fine.

I had started getting into mods due to The Sims 4, and expanded into using mods on Fallout 4, so I happened to be on Nexus shortly after installing Baldur's Gate 3 and noticed there were already over a thousand mods for the game, which blew me away. I didn't know about the early release, so I thought the community had somehow busted out 1.6k mods for the game in the span of just a few days and was deeply curious about what kind of mods they could possibly be, so I started looking through the list. End result: one dozen mods and a mod manager downloaded and running. Nothing major, just stuff that gets me new dice or access to camp clothes at a shop, one thing that makes feats available more often, that sort of thing. Most of them just make the game more closely aligned with the 5e books. One set of mods stands out; a mod that makes WASD move the character instead of the camera, because the "move the camera and then click somewhere" mode of moving around drives me nuts, as well as a camera fix required for that and the special mod loader needed to run both. These are installed directly in the game's bin folder instead of through the mod manager. There is an Improved UI override in the mod manager that does not turn off when I turn off other mods. Everything is working fine.

Carol and I load a second multiplayer game hosted on my computer, which involves turning my mods off because she doesn't mod, except the WASD set and the Improved UI because I can't directly turn them off and they don't affect anything that matters for multiplayer anyway. Besides, after talking about it, Carol decides to install the WASD set on her computer as well. The idea was to avoid playing the streamed campaign off stream, but we didn't want to not be able to play together when we weren't streaming. So a second multiplayer campaign was the best solution. The next day, I also join another multiplayer campaign being hosted by a couple guys in my Discord server. Everything is working fine.

My Dwarf druid/cleric reaches level 5. I go to level her up and the game crashes out. No message, no hesitation; click the level up icon, and I'm back on the desktop with the Larian crash reporter opening. I start experimenting with the mods, removing them one at a time and trying again, to see which one is causing it. Nothing fixes the problem. That same day, Carol and I decide to jump into our non-streamed multiplayer game, so I turn off all my mods in the mod manager just like before. But we can't connect. When she tries to join my lobby, she gets a message that "GustavDev" is different between our computers and therefore preventing her from joining. We try switching to the streamed one hosted on her computer; it won't let me connect, but doesn't give an error message. Carol tells Steam to validate her installed files and walks me through how to do the same thing. Finish that process, but still can't connect. We don't know which computer is the problem.

Carol reaches level 5 on her game and is able to level up her character just fine, so we now have ample reason to believe the problem is my install. She explains that "GustavDev" is a core game file, and has me uninstall and reinstall the game. This does not fix my leveling problem, so I start testing mods again. This does not work. I switch to my Shadar-kai (yes, a modded race) bard playthrough, which is at a lower level, so I can at least enjoy the game a little bit until we sort this out. But this is a temporary solution, as I know I'm going to be constantly frustrated with the game and unable to finish it if I never figure out how to get past level 4.

Last night, we tried to join a party with a different pair of guys from our Discord server. Carol gets in just fine, my attempts fail. I have my mods off, so I start poking around some more, and fully uninstall the Improved UI override. Now the game still won't let me join the lobby, but does at least give me the "GustavDev" error message. I validate files again and Steam reinstalls one. Still can't join. I go into the game's bin folder and manually delete every file added or altered by the WASD mod set. The game crashes without opening; presumably, one of the files I deleted was necessary. So I validate files again, hoping that will notice the missing file and reinstall it. It doesn't find any errors. I try to load the game again, and it crashes without opening. So I uninstalled and started a new install and went to bed.

This morning, with a new install, I verify my mods are off and my Improved UI and WASD set are uninstalled, start up the game, and load the multiplayer campaign I'm hosting. Carol is still in bed while our daughter is getting ready for school, so I hop on her computer and see if she can connect to my now-open lobby. She can't, it gives the same "GustavDev" error message. This tells me things are still not going to work on my computer. So I exited the game and uninstalled it again. Then I went through and deleted the mod manager itself, the game folder, and the Larian games folder that contains all the save files and all the mod files. I purge every scrap of Baldur's Gate 3 and the mod manager I can find off my computer, then restart my computer, THEN tell Steam to install the game anew.

The install is at 40%. Carol tells me that if that doesn't work, the next step would be a refresh of my entire Windows system. I'm debating whether or not this game is worth that level of effort. Stay tuned for updates.

[smolbluebeaned]

Anyone knows what's with Earth Wars today? (If I'm not the only one having the issue of course)

Stuck on loading on 5% (once on 6%) all day long everytime I try to turn it on

[meauxsims]

Here’s hoping this works. I really don’t want to do a full re-install.. and have to go through modding my entire game again.

I’ve been playing TS3 for a good while now (like, since quarantine began) and I actually really enjoy it. BUT TS2 is forever my fave and I want to play it T__T

[pridecomesbeforethefall]

To ALL of you who are experiencing issues with the OM app!

This was posted in the notices in game today!

[skyburned]

Replies & Thank You

Re my graphics problems, I want to thank all of you wonderful people for the moral support and suggestions.  @celebkiriedhel spent several hours with me going over everything and discovering that the game is not reading data.  It doesn’t read the graphics.sgr file when it’s replaced.  Checking the config log after loading and running the game with a modified file - it hasn’t recognized any changes.  It doesn’t find swimming pools as an option in Build (the round corner is there though). It can’t find road pavement.  

I was testing it with no cc at all and with Maxis graphics files.  I turned off shadows, reflections, and shaders.  I forced the game to regenerate new games.  I’d installed empty neighborhood files (N001, N002, etc.).  I put the Maxis neighborhood files back.  Nothing helped.  The neighborhood looks fine - no pink flashing, no red flashing, no blue flashing.  Sims look fine.  Roads and water are not fine and game objects themselves are just not there, not in the catalog at all.  

The hardware and Windows 7 operating system and other software are old enough yet strong enough to run the game without problems.  I hope that something about the installation went haywire and that reinstalling it fixes it.  I hope.  

The sims community always steps up to help people in need.  I was ready to quit.  You’ve given me options and the determination to keep trying.

[squid--inc]

I just lost a lot of progress in my game (fable 3, don't judge me) because the file corrupted. Who thought single file save systems was a good idea after multiple saves for one file became a thing?