Apartment Life hates me

[strangetomato]

So I was presented with the Apartment Life EP to cheer me up in my gloomy sickly state, and I decided to just jump in and install it (a sure sign of how much I just don't give a fuck right now), but it's not working for me. The game crashes during the loading screen, right around where it says "preparing pops and locks" or some such thing. I tried two different no-cd cracks, and I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it again, and nothing changes. Why must I fail so badly?

If you have any idea what I'm doing wrong, please point out my stupidity. Maybe my brain is just too cloudy for this right now. I did remove the hacks, though. I got that much right.

*sigh*

Comments

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a conflict with a piece of custom content. Did you take your downloads folder out?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I took the whole folder out, so it's not that... :(

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

That's odd, but I think I had a similar issue not long ago.

Did you delete the group.cache/accessory.cache/cigen-whatever files in the Sims 2 Folder?

That usually works when my game doesn't want to load.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I checked again and there was an accessory.cache file there, so I deleted it, but it stil crashed. I just restarted the computer (franwi mentioned something similar below), so I'll see if that made any difference.