Tech Bites
October 30th, 2007
For those of you that have wondered what cheats/hacks I use to take my pictures, I've updated my FAQ question "How did you get your characters to make that facial expression/do that action/etc.?". All my current cheats/hacks are listed. So, hopefully that will will be helpful.
I've had the new expansion pack Bon Voyage sitting on my desk for awhile now. After hearing about all the SecuROM stuff, I'm terrified to install it. I'm very tempted to try though despite my fears as I've seen some pictures of the new animations and I know they would be so helpful in future chapters of Worlds Apart. Of course, not all my current mods have been updated for Bon Voyage yet. And then there is still the fear of SecuROM screwing up my computer. Bah…I don't know what to do.
For those of you that have installed Bon Voyage, what has been your experience? Have you encountered any bugs? Do any of you have GunMod's Radiance Lighting installed as well? Does it still work? I don't know if I'd be willing to give that mod up—I love the lighting that it allows.
I'm also going to updating WordPress sometime today, so the site may be offline for awhile.
4 Responses to “Tech Bites”
October 30th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Well, I went through hell with it and eventually had to reinstall my OS to get it off completely. Even though I bypassed the launcher, I still had the game trying to phone home – which seriously pissed me off.
But I followed directions at MATY and DL'd the nocd exe and now I am happy! The game starts up without a CD! That is wonderful.
I backed myself into a corner because I was redoing all of Thyme with a new terrain and I got BV the day it came out because I wanted to make sure my terrain would accommodate beach lots. Once I had it installed I could not take it out without losing New Thyme because of all the new trees I had in my hood:
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee24/islethyme/Hood_Photos/09-28-07-HoodTour-03.jpg
So…in the long and terrible end I am now glad I got it but I wish I had waited. So you are in a good position now because you can just install it, and before you play install the nocd exe and boot from that, bypassing the launcher and all will be fine. So go ahead.
And now that I reinstalled and do not ever boot from EA's exe, the game no longer tries to phone home – not once. So it's safe.
Information is power:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9929.0.html
Death to EA.
🙂
Oh I do not have Gunmods mod in since seasons, but I have not heard any terrible tales. Why not check his thread at MTS2?
As for bugs, not a one yet. But I have not yet installed any vacation hoods. I would though, NEVER let my Sims learn the new songs and Tai Chi until I found a no autonomy hack because I read everywhere that once they learn they NEVER stop.
What I am using now is the trees, which admittedly are AMAZING and AWESOME, and the Massage table in Victoria Boutique.
Hope this helps.
Jade
*wishes there was a preview comment function before posting*
October 30th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Hey the only issue that I have had Kara is that securom doesn't always reconize my original disk. It will ask me several times to insert the origianal disk when it is already in the drive before it will boot the game. I am not tech savoy so to use this nodisk mod is beyond me, I do however bypass the launcher though. And I have no idea if it trys to call home, I just disconnect my interent when I play.
October 31st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
No, I don't have Bon Voyage yet. I have to wait till Christmas, but I can do it (I think, hope and pray!) 😀
I noticed you couldn't find the Hula Hack or Shaklin's walkstyle animators – that's because both creators retired from Simming. But you can still download them at: http://files.sims2graveyard.com/squinge/hula/
and
http://files.sims2graveyard.com/shaklin/
…in case you were wondering. 🙂
I don't know about the lighting; however, I think Seasons lighting is awesome and as soon as I saw how good it was in my own game, I was very willing to surrender the Radience Light mod. But that's all down to personal preference. 😉 I hope, whatever decision you make, that everything still works hunky-dory. 😀
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 am
Hey! Just wanted to say that I've had no problems with bon voyage what so ever. I know that the problems have been very diffrent for different people and apparently there are alot of bugs. I love bon voyage, both the animations and all the new interactions. There's also alot of new cool things to explore and I'm not half way through all the new features yet.
I have Radiance Light installed (can't seem to play without anymore) and I have had no bugs or problems at all. Well I did at first, but that was just cause I forgot to uninstall old InTeen..