Maybe if I made a list of glitches that people are having then maybe they can realize they aren’t the only ones having the same problems.
- Decreasing/increasing body weight on my Sim in CAS, the body parts detach from the whole Sim. For example, when I’m increasing body weight, the Sim’s torso detaches from the body. Likewise, while I’m decreasing the body weight, the Sim’s torso moves away from the rest of the body. Another glitch/bug is that when I increase my Sim’s muscle mass in CAS, there is no visible change.
- Changing the category of clothing, Sim’s hair color changes, Sim gets a different hairstyle, Sim gets added accessories, and Sim’s eyebrows change.
- The cheapest shower’s arrow ‘faces’ the wrong direction, It’s supposed to point where you enter from but is on the wrong side.
This makes it annoying while building a small house, I didn’t pay a maid $125, so he went to steal a chair.
BUT now the chair is “attached” with the desk… and on the desk was a laptop…
I owed him $125 and he took over $5500 worth… - Audio making weird crazy noises.
- Applied for a job in the athletic career, there’s this spot by the stadium that won’t go away.
- Random single males have babies with no mothers.
- The game randomly deletes families and asexually reproduces kids with no explanations.
- Children moved out of the house, took a life of their own with story progression off.
- You CAN toggle the family, but when you go back to the original it will have changed. Some Sims may not even be there, or have new kids…and your saved wished and promises will be gone.
- Can get to Create- a-Sim for a while, 10 minutes or so, computer screen turns black and system shuts down.
- Female character had a small glitch in moodlet panel, the “Cozy Fire” moodlet when the family did not have a fireplace.
- This only seems to affect the mom Sim. Once mom had her first baby, she would pretend to hold an infant, and when sitting or laying down she would alternate between the correct position and a standing position. There were some spacial issues while she attempted to train her toddler to walk for the first time.
- Roofs are disappearing after modifying house.
- Hair disappearing.
- Game going black, causing computer to freeze.
- Negative moodlet fails to leave after 10 minutes.
- Halfway through loading the screen start blinking and goes into a blinking version of the Create-a-Sim mode where it will continue to blink. [Sounds like a graphics card problem.]
- Protesters are blocking the walkway, other Sims can’t/won’t move around them.
- Taught a toddler to talk and now neither her or the mom can do anything except sit there, frozen.
- Having troubles downloading; says the code was ‘already used or invalid’.
- Baby bottle that can’t be deleted or a Sims can’t pick it up. [There's a cheat code that can fix this one.]
- Had a paper to recycle and threw it away in trash can then all of a sudden there’s a message saying that the Sims was being inappropriate and was kicked out of the house and was told to leave making the Sims hate that Sim.
- Sim put on formal wear to go to bed and bathing suit to go out. When told to change into a certain outfit, it still doesn’t work. [This is only a bug/glitch if you don't have the Insane Trait for your Sim.]
- Time controls not changing.
- The television never cuts off even in ‘buy/build mode’ or when the game is paused, the television even still have sound coming from it.
- Families losing cars.
- Sims getting stuck in showers.
- Carpool still arrives even when Sims have a car. Sometimes the Sims would leave from work carpool but it would take a cab with the carpool sitting next to the cab.
- Download manager isn’t managing [working].
- Okay, I got my Sim to call up on a maid, and as she came (and actually wrecked the house), I decided to go get some groceries (they were holding a sale or something). As my Sim was walking to the grocery store, the maid said she was done and was leaving.So my Sim got all the goods and such. When I tried directing him home, I noticed something funny on the map. When I clicked on the green house sign, it said “No interactions available.” Huh? It’s my own house!When my Sim came back he was as dumbfounded as me as to how to get inside his house when the game didn’t think it was his. He knew it was his house though, and recycled the newspapers outdoors (neat trait).
- Cutting ‘Story Progression’ to ‘off’ does not work.
- When the pizza is delivered and my Sim wants to try to eat it, but no table space anywhere and it goes into inventory, but in the inventory when I click “Grab a Slice” My Sim will go to the closest table and go into an infinite loop of finding table space, look at yummy pizza, no table space -> put into inventory -> repeat.
- The Story Progression toggle is broken – it is on whether you want it on or not.
- Crazy endless spawning of babies in households that I am not playing.
- Single men all of a sudden have a baby on their porch.
- Family households that are not being played will all of a sudden have some single Sim move in with them.
- Guitars get stuck to Sims in very odd positions.
- Girl Sim stands up in the middle of her bed and her arms are posed as if she is holding a baby, and then she snaps back to bed for a few seconds, and repeats.
- Saves don’t function on all parts of a lot or family: If you switch from one active family to another, you cause everything in Personal Inventory of family A to be sold, and give you the appropriate funding, unless it’s a used item, such as a laptop or a guitar, which stays. This includes the Lifetime Reward “Collection Helper” (the $6000 is NOT compensation IMO).
- Turning off aging is buggy: The time bar ’til next age will fill randomly, but they will not age, and it will reload when next you go to Map View.
- Experiment Auras will not always show (Going to Map View and coming back will fix this).
- Sim and her toddler are floating in space next to my house. They are selectable, but they can’t move anywhere.
- When you have a toddler sitting on the floor watching TV, and the parents are also watching the TV. They are talking back and forth. When the toddler speaks it’s upper body stretches.
- Taught a toddler to talk and now neither her or the mom can do anything except sit there, frozen.
- Items purchased with Sim Points through the TS3 store disappearing after downloading and installing requiring them to be re-downloaded and reinstalled.
- Entire families disappearing and reappearing from the Main Menu.
- Lighthouse not seen anywhere in map view appears in view from my Sim’s lot.
- Message telling you that bills are due, but no mail being delivered. Or bills already paid not being “credited”.
- Items that I never bought or downloaded from the store are showing up in my account history purchases list.
- Unable to ride bike after purchasing in Buy mode. Message appears saying that no interactions are available.
- All color disappearing from household items that have been designed/recolored.
- I’ve tried running the game in windowed mode and it likes to freeze up on me. The game will lock up for a minute or two and then unfreeze only to freeze up when I click on another command. I didn’t notice it last night while playing but this morning it happened constantly while in build mode.
- So basically, I’ve been downloading clothes and hairstyles off the sims 3 website for my sims and i find that when i go to try the custom content on it keeps closing down back to windows but its still at the bottom so I can click back on it. I got used to this because it closes down for each item and then it works, But if i go to a wardrobe and do it or a mirror and i also have the ‘testingcheatsenabled true’ cheat also.
- TEENAGER disappeared, when the police took him because he was hanging out too late. To be exact, when he and the policeman were in the car, instead of starting the car (with those two inside it) disappeared and I couldn’t anymore find my teenager boy anywhere or even call him.
- Well my problem is whenever I am playing after a certain amount of time my game stops and just pretend my sims was saying hello the game would go ” he . . he . . . he . . .” etc and go back to the desktop with no error reports or nothing just as if nothing has happened. Also when i return back to the desktop all my icons are big and everything is in such low quality ! i try to click back on the game but it says something like ” video / graphics card not found please check system.
- When in build/buy mode, this happens 10 times more. Esp. when a you’ve entered a cheat.:The game freezes. As you wait, it gets worse. You are unable to move the mouse. All sound messes up. This makes a sound before it goes silent. Kinda like a record stopping. Next, the BSoD comes and states: An error has occurred. You may want to uninstall any recently installed programs.
When i go back to play mode I cant click on anything, all I can do it teleport and if I click on another Sim I can make them have a birthday or add them to my family.
- I had a family of a mom a daughter and the mom’s boyfriend. I moved the mom’s boyfriend into his own house. The mom and the boyfriend had a baby together. I went to change households and I wanted the boyfriend to be the active household. Except when I went to his house, no one lived there. I went to his son’s family tree and it still said he was alive. He isn’t in any of the relationships but he is still on a family tree.
- I had a family of with a man and a woman, they were totally in love and had already three kids, but the option to get them married or even dating simply NEVER APPEARED! So anyone else could flirt with them and they didn’t mind
I had another family that had six kids. I moved two of the older kids out when they were young adults and then I didn’t play with the family for a while. I just got back to the family today and sure enough a set of twins and another son is gone.
I have no idea what to do! They were only toddlers and they are literally just disappearing. I know it’s not something with me saving the game because there are younger siblings on the game.
Some of these sound like computer issues and not the game others sound like glitches due to the computer and well so on and so forth. Hopefully, EA will come through with that ‘Same day patch’ before people start flipping over cars and setting their houses on fire. [I mean in the Sims game.]
Click here to see the list of World Adventures expansion pack glitches, bugs, and errors.
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once i had a very scary glitch… it haunted me! I had two parents who had child twin girls. The one girl was artistic, evil and grumpy the other was good, friendly and athletic. I don’t remember how it got like this but the evil little girl’s icon on the screen turned upside down and the colours were negative. My friend said that happened to her too on sims 1 and we looked it up on the internet and got websites reffering to: evil sim children.
What’s happened to me before was weird… my teenager also didn’t come home from the police. I also have certain sims who interact with each other and flirt and all but the ask to go steady option ever appears even though I have a full bar of relationship. Once I had a family, a mother, a daughter and a son. The mother had a relationship with a guy next door (which I made and moved him next door but they didn’t know each other well) , the guy automatically had a baby named Fiona… even though he was single. And when after they wahooed they relaxed on the bed, doing nothing else. All her needs were going down so I clicked the toilet, the option appeared on the screen but then went away and she continued to relax. I clicked it again, nothing. I clicked to get up, nothing. She was basically dying of hunger, hygiene, sleep and her bladder was full but she refused to do nothing but relax. The baby was crying and crying because it had no crib, potty or food but the boyfriend wouldn’t get up either.
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All these “glitches” that consist of single sims moving in with other families, or babies spawing onto males houses with no femlaes present, or when you switch households and the family changes, are not glitches at all. It’s called story progession. Turn it off in the settings and nothing will change in your town unless you play that house.
Sorry but it has been stated by EA those are INFACT glitches. Which why in the list of updates from past patches even listed them fixing said glitches. Maybe you should do more research. I’m jus’ sayin’.
Also Sometimes my Sims disappear They dont Die…there juss gone But if they have any other family on there that HAS YET dissapeared you could call them and they answer as if nothing happened so Last time i used the girls sister and she invited her over [the dissapeared girl] and they tlk i made sure they tlk for a long time to the point where she asked the dissapeard girl to move in and thats how i got the girl moved back on the map..im so happy!! but that was weird lol she juss gone like that
i Agree with mainly when im in the middle of my game my Screen is blinking and really wont stop Sometimes..it might blink then blink again nd the color might change the color would of been really dark now its really light..its does that atlot but realy it blinks at least 8 times then my whole computer restarts like literally..so when i kno its starting to blink more then 2times i save it and it stops blinking for awhile nd usually when it blinks a hundred times if i go 2 click on my sims name it would click as if im going to settings..i have all the sims3 games except Ambitions and my blinking all started with SIMS3..
Sims 3 is not letting me change my town. It is stuck on Twinbrook. How do I make a new game on sunset valley?!
By going to the main menu and making a new game.
List of Glitches. When a sim “retires” and the closest sim to the retiree is a toddler the toddler’s body will stretch upward to adult size like he is made of rubber and the toddler will throw confetti on the retiring sims head.
Ew…
Today, my sim had a baby. I noticed something on the baby, it has a half white shirt with a glove or something.
If you downloaded something from the exchange…it was probably from there. You’ll have to bring up the uploader, go to installed and uninstall it.
i have a load of glitches, firstly i have a family with a little girl, the house they live in has 3 storeys and her room is at the top, when i tried to get her to got to bed she got to the stairs she acted like something was blocking her path and then all of a sudden she was on the bottom floor. i did this with another sim and they got upstairs no problem.
another one is in the same family where a boy has his bedroom on the top floor, he is sleeping right now and you can see him floating in mid air on the floor below.
another one is when i made the parents try for a baby afterwards they were relaxing on the bed and i couldn’t get them off the bed and when i pressed x on the action box it wouldn’t go go away and when i tried to get them to do something else that action box would just disapear.
Am i lucky or what? my game is glitch free!:D
Yea, you and me both.
Okay so I have the baby bottle which can’t be deleted or picked up glitch thing going on, and according to this
“There’s a cheat code that can fix this one.”
What exactly would that cheat code be? ’cause moveobjects certainly doesn’t work.
No need to be snooty. & Since you’re so sure it isn’t that one, find it on your own. & If its not bothering you that bad you can just deal with it or just move out the home. But ‘there is a cheat code for that one.’
Uh, I have kind of a weird situation… It seems like a glitch, but I’m not totally sure. So I had a mom with three kids (teenager, child and a toddler) and everything was fine, going well. But then I got a random message that popped up saying that the government was gonna take the kids away! I checked their hunger levels, etc., but they were all happy. But then the government DID take them away, and about 30 seconds after that the teenager died, became a ghost and the grim reaper popped up, and then the mom died! Only problem is, the mom just lays there, dead. She doesn’t become a ghost at all. So they’re kinda stuck like that. The ghost doesn’t move, just floats there, smiling like a creeper, the grim reaper just kinda stands there and the mom is…. Dead. And that’s it. I saved and restarted, but they were STILL LIKE THAT! I don’t understand!
(By the way, YES, I have all the updates. Also, I’m using a Mac. But I doubt that changes anything.)
OMG! i was using cheats and i saw this really cool girl on the street. so i used testingcheatsenabled and added mher to household i tried to get her to go home and play the computer but she just stood there doing the thging they do when some ones blowing out b-day candles. laughing and cheering! then she started throwing rice!
i saved and restarted the game but she was still throwing rice. so i let her starve! she died and think now that she was pregnent! what happened? did i do something wrong?
She died, she disappeared and now there’s probably a pregnant cool looking ghost at the graveyard. No you didn’t do anything wrong…its the game that did something wrong.
I have a glitch were new born babies and some original sims family trees aren’t working. It does not even let me click on the family tree icon, and then the babies aren’t related to their fathers.
On some sims random relations are made up, i had a girl sim who was going steady with another boy and then it suddenly said that he was her uncle. But they could still use romantic interactions. It’s very annoying.
Here’s my glitch I discovered today (having the original game and expansions up to Ambitions) – for some odd reason the music won’t stop and keeps playing. Not the TV, not the radio… Sims are all exhausted, cannot sleep. Finally found out the problem was in the backyard guitar, which seemed to play itself since no one was using it. Apparently it may be related to the upgrade on music centre which wired the whole house with music, but the problem continued even when the upgrade was changed.
That’s odd.
I had one mom with seven kids living in my house. I tried to have us go out to eat I just had the mom selcet and clicked eat here with…and selected all my kids. Then one kid didn’t go he just stood there, he isn’t froze he just can’t go any where. so e straved and he got removed from my household but when i go to work he is still there and the lady who came to take him away is just standing at my house waiting to take him. so i moved and that worked but then it happend again to another boy when I selcet go here with… all the kids. they just get frozen when i do that sometimes.
My Sim was teaching her toddler to talk and she learned and they would not stop talking they just sit there in talk i tried to cancel the action on the toddler and mom and nothing i mean nothing will just wont work someone plz plz plz plz plz help i love the game and want to play
Try using the resetsim cheat or the moveobjects cheat and see if that works for you.
I’m currently having the same problem. i pressed X to cancel the interaction but they just didn’t stop. I’ve tried the moveobjects on cheat but it did nothing. Help?!?!?
I had a crashing glitch when I first bought TS3 in 2009.
The glitch was: VERY random, the screen would go black, and the window would close after another second.
It was fixed by uninstalling my AVG program and also buying an overly competent computer.
*sigh* BUT, the crashing glitch happened again after buying Ambitions expansion pack recently and downloading patches with it.
I considered whether the game is crashing because the computer can’t handle it, but this is too unlikely. I really want to know if there is a better solution other than just uninstalling the game and just playing it without patches for a couple of months. Because I believe the problem is the patches.
If there is any other way of fixing this glitch, please let me know. Thanks.
I have had the Ambitions game for a couple of weeks now but ever since yesterday I have encountered the most annoying thing.. One of my sims who is a firefighter whenever its a Large house fire my computer just freezes and eventually crashes but when a Small house fire occured in which 2 seperate fires started my sim was only able to put out one of the fires and if i clicked on the other the option dissappeared and then it eventually froze up completely.
You may need a better processor.
The other night, I had a fire in my living room. Something near the fireplace caught on fire, or the fireplace itself, I’m not sure. But I ran downstairs to put it out, and then the fireman showed up, because of the smoke alarm. I started putting it out, and I’m not sure whether it was me or the fireman who put it out, but it was put out. I went back to my normal activity but the fireman didn’t leave. He stood in the living room for a while, then he went upstairs and reacted to one my babies crying. He’s been here for days now, with his car still outside my house. Its quite aggravating because he stands in the way of the cribs freaking out about the noise when I’m trying to get to one of my crying triplets. When I mouse over him, it says his name, but it says “no interaction available.” and nothing I do seems to make him leave.
Not even the reset sim cheat?
What cheat is that? reset sim cheat?
It resets the Sim…
I had the same problem and the reset sim cheat wouldn’t work. So I threw a party and invite him and then he left with the other sims
Try moving to a differnt house
I have the exact same problem. But its with one of my neighbors. When I went to buy a house it said that ghosts were not put to rest. So I said accept challenge. So one of my neigbors asked if i need to help bust my ghosts. I said yes,so the guy just stood there until my child was an elder. He just stands there talking to himself instead of helping bust my ghosts. I died of age and he didnt age. He just stayed an adult for awhile. I moved and that helped the problem.
About the mom glitch, the one in she is pretending to hold her baby… The same happened to me but with the father. What can I do?
You can and use the resetsim cheat to fix the glitch.