I have a sim that lives alone, and the last few times I went to play her, I noticed that if I directed her to "talk," either using any of the three options on a visitor, or to "just talk" to someone on the phone, she starts to, then either "warps" to standing behind the person, or hangs up the phone.

Not sure if it's related, but she also jumps out of the hot tub or bed if anyone else joins her. It's frustrating, since she's a Romance sim, and always wants to WooHoo!!

Any ideas?

Zeo

If this is the sims 2 without the Ep, it could be the jump bug. I never dealt with it, but it was pretty bad. The official patch for the game was supposed to fix it. There is also a hack on this site that fixes it. Not sure if this your problem or not, but if you think it might be, do a search on jump bug for plenty of information. Good luck!

Teresa

Okay, and here's a follow-up question. I am re-installing on the computer, but I don't want to lose my sims.... Would just backing up the My Documents-->EAGames-->Sims2 folder and reinstalling it after running the game to create the folders put my simmies back where they belong?

Zeo

Yes it will. If you have just sims 2 back it up, but if you let it the reinstall will give you the option to save your game. Let it. If it causes problems(it never did for me) you still have back up. Good luck!

Teresa

This reads funny alwyas back up game with both sims 2 and ep, to save when you reinstall.

Another stupid question. Do I uninstall before reinstalling and when I uninstall, is that when it gives me the option to back up?

When you uninstall, it will ask if you want to save your game. But still make a back up.

Teresa

Okay. I uninstalled, reinstalled, installed the patch...and she still won't talk. It's not a problem if someone calls her just to complain they haven't heard from her, or if she needs to call a taxi, those all work. It's just "talking" she can't do. I had her call one of her lovers, and he sort of warped over and back then she hung up the phone. Weird.

Any other suggestions?

IT sounds like the jump bug. I've had it. Try using the memories in a bottle hack and use the forget option. Note she will loose all memories. I don't know what else it could be. Does she do anyting wierd with Trying to throw a party?

Haven't tried. Is there a way other than total amnesia to get rid of selected memories, like all the "so-and-so got an A+" memories? She's got alot of nieces and nephews, some of which have children and grandchildren, and she has all their A+, grow up, marriage and baby meories (I think, on the baby). If I could prune those out, she'd have a nice, slender memory file.

http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=9814


Check this thread. It is for the jump bug fix. Might read it and see if it is what ou need.

Teresa

I looked around at some other stuff, too, and found that SimPE had a memory editor. I went in there, deleted all the A+, fam reunion memories, and now she seems to be fine. Thanks, Teresa and drktrper, for all your help. I never would have thought it to be the memories.

Zeo

I am glad you got it fixed. I was lucky as to not have the jump bug, but knew several who did. And now you have the tool to fix it, if it happens again. Since you have the patch, hopefully it won't happen again. Congratulations!

Teresa