Difference between revisions of "Game Help:Sandbox 7"

Latest revision as of 11:01, 21 April 2007

[edit] Some/All Content Not Showing Up After EP/SP Install

You have enabled custom content and restarted twice and it's still not working. This is actually a pretty common problem after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.

[edit] The Body Shop Trick

To knock your content back into working, we're going to do something called The Body Shop Trick. This trick will force the game to regenerate a new Downloads folder. This is especially helpful if a particular category of content is still not showing up - i.e. if all of your objects are not showing up, but they were working fine before you installed that expansion/stuff pack.

Please make sure you follow these instructions to the letter - where it says cut, you CUT, not COPY, etc. - if you don't do it exactly right, it simply won't work!

Here's exactly what you should do to perform the Body Shop Trick:

1. Open your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\' folder. Select the Downloads folder.

2. Cut (ctrl-x) your Downloads folder and Paste (ctrl-v) your Downloads folder to your computer's Desktop. There should now be no folder called Downloads in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\ folder.

3. Run Body Shop. Body Shop comes with your game and is already installed. If you have never run it, you can find a shortcut to it under Start - Program Files - EA Games - The Sims 2 (or your newest EP) - The Sims 2 Body Shop. It may seem like nothing's happening as Body Shop starts to load, and it may take several minutes to finish loading fully.

4. When Body Shop has loaded, just close it by hitting the X in the top right corner. You just needed to run the program, not do anything in it.

5. Open your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\ folder again. You will notice that there is a new Downloads folder in there, which Body Shop made when you ran it. This is what we wanted - Body Shop has generated a brand new Downloads folder.

6. Go to your computer's Desktop and open the Downloads folder you moved there.

7. Select All (ctrl-A) and Cut (ctrl-x) to take out everything in that folder.

8. Now go into the newly-made My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder and Paste your custom content files back into it.

9. Delete the now-empty old Downloads folder that is on your desktop.

10. Load the game and see if your custom content is there.

[edit] Does it work now?

• Once the game has loaded, check and see whether your custom content is showing up now.

• Does it work now?