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#1 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 12:20 AM Last edited by Chrystali8 : 13th Mar 2019 at 1:59 AM.

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Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life
Default (Solved) 'boolprop testingcheatsenabled true' not working in UserStartup
Hello all,

Please could someone help me with my issue.

I used to have a user start up file that had basic cheats such as 'testingcheatsenabled true' and all the cheats worked as soon as I got into the game - which was fantastic. When I right-clicked on the Sim, the new menu would show up.

Now since some type of update has happened in my game, it refuses to recognise the userstartup file and now I have to manually type in every single cheat I would like to use.

I was paying close attention around the time it happened to see what might have caused it, I suspect it has to do with me deleting 'Securom' and because of that my game can no longer open cheat file. Another thing could be using the newly updated Graphic Rules Maker, I'm not sure. I've been dealing with this glitch for some months now and I was hoping someone might know what updates or things might be causing the game to not recognise cheats anymore.

Thanks
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Mad Poster
#2 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 1:12 AM
If you have a bad cheat code above it then it will stop loading cheats.

You need to exit back to hood view then go back in for it to work when you type it in game.

The update may have set the My Doc folder to read only and will not allow the cheats to work.

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Mad Poster
#3 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 1:36 AM
Can you perhaps copy and paste the text from your UserStartup below? Would help in figuring out where the problem is.

Also make sure the file is named "userStartup.cheat" and is a "CHEAT-file" when you click it once (in the properties it should say "CHEAT-file (.cheat)"
Lab Assistant
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#4 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 5:50 PM
Hi All,

An update.

Thank you @marka93 by changing the properties of my userstartup cheat file, to 'read only', I was able to the have the file remain the same. This would have solved my problem if the game read the file. I went in and the game still doesn't read the file because testingcheats doesn't work automatically.

In the past I thought it was a badly written cheat but the game would reset the file to say:

'intProp SeeThem 231
boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true
boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true'

every single time I would open the game. These are pretty common cheats so I believe the game keeps resetting it and doesn't want to read it. It is the same cheat file I have always used it just suddenly stopped working.
Mad Poster
#5 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 5:54 PM
Looks like you have the "seethem" hack, and messing about with this is going to cause the game to reset the UserStartup. Best way to deal with that hack is to either not use it, or set it the way you want and make sure you never remove the mod file or the generated file (censor.package) from your Downloads folder.

The only useful file is the censor, because the cheats can be added to the UserStartup (don't add Snapobjects because you won't be able to turn it off - I've added mine as an alias with Son/Sof for on and off). There are a few other ways to remove the censor blur from the game, but personally I've stuck with the SeeThem hack for a while now.
Lab Assistant
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#6 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 6:50 PM
Yes, I use seethem2 and it has never had this problem before. Do you think I should delete all copies of it from my computer?
Mad Poster
#7 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 9:56 PM
Here is what mine looks like with the see them mod and its does not have the ' at the beginning.

intProp SeeThem 231

setHighestAllowedLevel 8
modifyNeighborhoodTerrain on
floatprop tvvolume 0.2
uintProp maxTotalSims 50
uintProp maxTotalHumans 35
uintProp maxTotalPets 15
boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true
boolprop ControlPets true
intProp maxNumOfVisitingSims 30
boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true
moveobjects on
vsync on
boolProp dontMergeNHFlora false

I would remove the ' from the beginning and see what happens.

Unless you just added the ' for the post.

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
Mad Poster
#8 Old 7th Mar 2019 at 10:11 PM
What's the "vsync on" cheat for? Haven't seen that one before.

If youv'e got the pet cheat, this one is also useful: boolprop petactioncancel true (allows you to cancel pet actions).
Lab Assistant
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#9 Old 8th Mar 2019 at 1:29 AM
Quote: Originally posted by marka93
Here is what mine looks like with the see them mod and its does not have the ' at the beginning.

intProp SeeThem 231

setHighestAllowedLevel 8
modifyNeighborhoodTerrain on
floatprop tvvolume 0.2
uintProp maxTotalSims 50
uintProp maxTotalHumans 35
uintProp maxTotalPets 15
boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true
boolprop ControlPets true
intProp maxNumOfVisitingSims 30
boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true
moveobjects on
vsync on
boolProp dontMergeNHFlora false

I would remove the ' from the beginning and see what happens.

Unless you just added the ' for the post.


yes it was quotation marks It's okay I guess we will have to see if anyone has ran into this problem and come up with a solution.

The file simply refreshes itself all of a sudden
Mad Poster
#10 Old 9th Mar 2019 at 5:00 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
What's the "vsync on" cheat for? Haven't seen that one before.

If youv'e got the pet cheat, this one is also useful: boolprop petactioncancel true (allows you to cancel pet actions).


That was from one of my older computers that have a low end video card.

Quote:
Vsync (on/off) Turning off increases game performance but with some
graphical errors as the price.


If that computer starts having a problem then I would turn it off.

All my Beginning Hoods here at MTS. http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=7749491
All my Beginning Hoods as Shopping Districts plus Old Town. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523417
MooVille, a tribute to Mootilda and her fabulous lots http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=534158
Lab Assistant
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#11 Old 13th Mar 2019 at 12:17 AM
I was able to solve the issue and was inspired by another thread:

My problem:

My userstartup file kept refreshing itself. Additionally, none of the cheats inside it worked.

Solved! Yay!
Step 1: I deleted 'SeeThem2'. Sad to see it go but now I am more comfortable with putting cheats in my userstartup file myself, I guess it was time to let it go.

Step 2: I put my userstartup.cheat file in 3 locations. 1 of these locations is probably the most powerful location to put it but I don't know which one it is yet so I'm keeping it in all 3 places.
These places are:

Game Folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\UserData
C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\UserData\Config
(Very similar whether you have UC or any version of the game installed)

Your Documents Folder:
D:\Docs\EA Games\The Simsâ„¢ 2 Ultimate Collection\Config
(It may not be in the D: drive but it will be in your usual Sims 2 Documents folder)

Step 3: Played my games, now everything works again!

Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way because I listened to all the advice from this thread and bits from other threads. Thanks! :D
Needs Coffee
retired moderator
#12 Old 13th Mar 2019 at 12:29 AM
You don't need see them, I had issues with that years ago when I tried it. Just use Quaxi's mod on the SimPE site.
The game only reads the file in the config folder, it will ignore the rest.

if quaxi's is gone I can toss it up for you. Just a small file that goes into your download folder.

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