Hello, guys! I desperately need your help!

Being on Win 7 and Win 10 I never had this problem before. But since I recently switched to Win 11 S3PE is giving me errors on most package file's IMG resources. It looks like this:

Error reading resource 0x00B2D882-0x0076A684-0xECCBBCB773C02131
Front-end Distribution: 14-0222-1852
Library Distribution: 14-0222-1852

Source: mscorlib
Assembly: mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
Адресат вызова создал исключение.
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Stack trace:
в System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
в System.Reflection.RuntimeConstructorInfo.Invoke(BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
в System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
в System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes)
в System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Object[] args)
в S3PIDemoFE.ABuiltInValueControl.<>c__DisplayClassd.<Lookup>b__a(KeyValuePair`2 x)
в System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectListIterator`2.MoveNext()
в System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereEnumerableIterator`1.MoveNext()
в System.Linq.Enumerable.FirstOrDefault[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
в S3PIDemoFE.MainForm.getPreviewControl()
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Source: DDSPanel
Assembly: DDSPanel, Version=1402.22.1843.33690, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
Failed to read DDS data. At 0x00008080.
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Stack trace:
в System.Drawing.Dds..ctor(Stream s)
в System.Drawing.DdsFile.Load(Stream input, Boolean supportHSV)
в System.Windows.Forms.DDSPanel.DDSLoad(Stream stream, Boolean supportHSV)
в S3PIDemoFE.DDSControl..ctor(Stream s)

It would've be understandble if it did the same for all IMGs - but it reads only some of them. Sometimes even within same *.package file with multiple IMGs few get read just fine, but the others throw an error.

I have latest version of s3pe, "Enable DDS preview" setting is turned on, NVIDIA DDS Utilities are installed (not sure if this matters). I tried to install .NET Framework 4.0, but Windows keeps telling me, that it has a latest version of .net framework (4.8.1) already integrated and doesn't let me to proceed. Also (just in case) I did a system scan with SFC - no problems were reported by it.

As I already told, I'm on Win 11 and my Sims 3 is a Steam version (yet again not sure if this matters or not ))))

Any ideas, what may cause these errors and how to fix them?

Do you have a link to a package with this behaviour?

There are some types of image compression that S3PE simply cannot read, so in those cases it would be normal and match up with the fact that certain IMG are fine.
For example, that same error shows in my preview if I try to view uncompressed .dds

Potentially related, but it looks like you have the 2014 S3PE - the latest version was actually 2017 https://sourceforge.net/projects/si...e/17-0520-1821/

For example, literally all lighting mods by Brnt Waffles are giving me this exact error. Here is one of his files


Yep, initially I had 2017 version, but as one of possible solutions tried an older one too. Though in regard of this error result was the same.


It is quite a relief to know that this is a normal behaviour! I was afraid, that something is terribly wrong with .net framework dlls on my computer. Even tried a repair tool to fix them, but it didn't help. At least now it seems, that I don't have to reinstall Windows, lol (I thought about it as a last resort).

Thank you very much, CardinalSims! If you'll have a moment, can you take a look at file I linked above, please?

If it's in a lighting mod, then it will be a DDS file. You'd need the NVidia DDS Utilities- link in this post:
https://modthesims.info/showthread....971#post3679971

yes, I know and I have them installed

Perfectly normal for a lighting mod, I get the same error from that package
Lighting colour ramps are uncompressed .dds, which even Photoshop won't display the thumbnails of (at least CS6, newer copies perhaps will). The files can still be opened in PS/GIMP and safely imported/exported into packages, just no preview.

It may also have some correlation with the software used to save the .dds, because I have seen S3PE preview textures labelled Non-DXT before - but generally it doesn't.

Thank you once again! Now the "mistery" is solved! While I'm not completely new to modding, I never tried to edit lighting mod files, that's likely why I hadn't experienced such errors before.