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#1 Old 19th Oct 2017 at 5:53 PM

This user has the following games installed:

Sims 3, World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Showtime, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise, Into the Future
CC Magic Problems/CC Magic not Working at all! I can't find a solution anywhere!
I have been searching for an answer to this for weeks now and I have had no luck finding a working solution. CC Magic is the ONLY thing that works for me to keep my game running smoothly with custom content, without it my game is just unplayable with CC and a lot of times people tell me try running it without CC...This is not even a solution nor a good answer because for me, telling me not to use CC is like telling a dog not to bark or a cat not to meow. My game is too boring and unplayable without it, not to mention I think we can all agree that most of the base game and expansion content is just so unoriginal that I doubt anyone would be able to sate their creative needs with only base content, if you're like me you don't like all your sims looking the same and you hate using base game stuff alone and most likely can understand where I am coming from. Bottom line the base content from EA freaking sucks and the expansions and store content don't make up for it. Please help! I miss playing my sims 3 so much, but I can not play it and enjoy myself without custom content and without CC Magic the game becomes an unplayable lag fest where it will take a whole day just to finish one household.

Let me now explain my issue as thoroughly as possible now that I have expressed my feelings on the issue.

So CC Magic use to work just fine for me, it was like a lifesaver when I learned about it and it was exactly what I needed! Though I believe this issue occurred a bit back when I had to factory reset my computer. The CC Magic program then did not work at all and no matter what I tried I could not fix it. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling CC Magic, running it as Admin, uninstalling and reinstalling my Sims 3 it's self and then starting the game before downloading CC Magic and starting it, I have tried downloading an older version of CC Magic, and much more, even tried messing with the .ini settings files to see if the problem was in one of those. None of this worked and then I just gave up and started looking for help from various communities which included Steam, Mod the Sims it's self, EA forums, and even tried messaging the creator of CC Magic himself. Steam hardly anyone answered and the only answer I got was a cocky answer from someone I had a bad time with before and they just gave me a smart a** link that showed a video and then redirected me to google search which I don't need to say that I already looked over google search 100 times for my answer, on this site it's self it seemed no one ever answered me and I just gave up asking until now because I am starting to get frustrated and desperate, EA forums yielded no results and even when I asked in my own post it did not seem to go anywhere, and finally the creator of CC Magic is of course never on and never answered me, I doubt they are even aware that people are having problems with CC Magic because they never seem to come on here anymore. Another thing I tried was using S3PE (Sims 3 Pack Editor) as a substitute and if you read this all the way through it should be obvious that it did not do me any good since I stated CC Magic is the only thing that seems to work.

Now let me try giving an ordered list of what keeps happening.

I downloaded my Sims 3, I started the game, I closed out the game after it fully loaded and was on it's main screen, I download CC Magic using both regular run and run as Admin, I wait for it to finish and I have set it to make a folder in program files (x86) and I have also tried to just make a folder in documents for it to go to after it did not work as a troubleshooting step, I load up the CC Magic, CC Magic opens but looks like it freezes, the loading icon on my mouse shows up, CC Magic says "Not responding" on the top bar, a pop up comes up saying "CC Magic not working, Windows will look for a solution but for now we will close this out" or something like this, I have no option to wait for it to load or close it out, no matter what I click it closes it out. All those issues with it not working happens immediately after clicking on it to open it! And you have no other option but to close it out.

This is what I get in the log files. The highlighted part is where the issue seems to arise.
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2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Logging Started
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.Core.LaunchManager] -- .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- InstallationInfo .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- 64 Windows
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- 32 Process
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- LoadRegistry
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- Registry Open
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- LoadRegistry -- Found 9 Game Packs
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 Generations
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims™ 3 Island Paradise
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 Late Night
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 Pets
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 Seasons
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 Supernatural
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 University Life
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- InstalledGameEntry .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- Loaded Game Pack The Sims 3 World Adventures
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- Registry Close
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- InitEntryProperties
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- 9 Packs found
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- BaseGame = The Sims 3
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- NewestGame = The Sims™ 3 Island Paradise
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- InitBaseDir Locale:en-US
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- Result = The Sims 3
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstallationInfo] -- Result[full] = C:\Users\Kurai\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.Core.Configure.SettingsManager] -- .ctor (private)
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.Framework.FrameworkManager] -- .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Version Info: CC Magic [2.0r0 Build: 2942]
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Forcing Registry Read
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- ------------REGISTRY READ BEGIN-----------------
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Locale Read = en-US
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- ------------REGISTRY READ END-----------------
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Generating Log Filename
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Log Filename Generated and set as: C:\Users\Kurai\Documents\Electronic Arts\CC Magic\Logs\CCMagic.log
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Creating Main Window
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.MainWindow] -- .ctor
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Setting WPF DataContext
2017-10-19 12:02:55Z| Debug | [CCMagic.App] -- Showing Main Window
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:56Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Info | [S3ToolKit.Utils.Registry.InstalledGameEntry] -- GetIsGame()
2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Debug | [CCMagic.Core.LaunchManager] -- GetEnabledSetsList
2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Debug | [CCMagic.MainWindow] -- Window Rendered
2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Debug | [CCMagic.Core.LaunchManager] -- Run - Initial
2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Fatal | [CCMagic.App] -- Unhandled ExceptionSystem.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.
File name: 'System.Data.SQLite.dll'

at CCMagic.Core.Database.DBManager.Open(String BaseFoldername)
at CCMagic.Core.LaunchManager.Run(Boolean IsRefresh)
at CCMagic.MainWindow.Window_ContentRendered(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Window.OnContentRendered(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Window.<PostContentRendered>b__198_0(Object unused)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)
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2017-10-19 12:02:57Z| Fatal | [CCMagic.App] -- Unhandled ExceptionSystem.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.
File name: 'System.Data.SQLite.dll'


This right here seems to be the log for the problem, I tried to take a look at the file that it seems to be saying has an issue but since it was coding I did not really know what I should look for!



This is a screen capture of what happens every single time now! I don't know what the problem is because it use to work for me swimmingly, but now it just randomly chose not to work for me at all!

Computer Info:

Windows 10 gaming laptop with 16.0 GB total

Version 1703

64-bit Operating system

Game Info:

Modded

Version 1.67

Provider was Steam

Please help I want CC Magic to work for me again and I want to be able to enjoy my Sims 3 again! Thank you...
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#2 Old 19th Oct 2017 at 7:05 PM
I advised you to remove your CC to see if the game worked without it, as originally you posted that your game kept crashing.

For CCMagic, you need:
dotnet framework 4.0
Visual C++ Runtime 32bit
Visual C++ Runtime 64 bit (if your OS id 64 bit).

Do you have those? If not, make sure you install them- links in this thread:
http://modthesims.info/d/461888
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Original Poster
#3 Old 20th Oct 2017 at 2:48 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
I advised you to remove your CC to see if the game worked without it, as originally you posted that your game kept crashing.

For CCMagic, you need:
dotnet framework 4.0
Visual C++ Runtime 32bit
Visual C++ Runtime 64 bit (if your OS id 64 bit).

Do you have those? If not, make sure you install them- links in this thread:
http://modthesims.info/d/461888


That is not a problem any more, I don't crash at all anymore, the problem was simply a mod I believe that I deleted. Also my computer does not allow earlier versions of Visual C or any of that and so I can not download it because it will tell me "Download declined, newer version already installed"... So can't do that, also my game no longer gives me any issue so no need to bring up an old issue. The problem at hand now is CC Magic is not working at all. Besides it use to work fine without all that.
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#4 Old 20th Oct 2017 at 3:09 PM
Quote: Originally posted by KuraiNekoMT13
So can't do that, also my game no longer gives me any issue so no need to bring up an old issue.The problem at hand now is CC Magic is not working at all.

Well, I was just replying to your part in the original post where you say that 'a lot of times people tell me try running it without CC', and I was explaining why you were advised that. And the second bit of my post was an attempt to help you with the CCMagic issue.

The error you are having shows that CC Magic cannot find a file that it requires. If you google that error, you'll find a whole bunch of suggestions how to solve it.
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#5 Old 21st Oct 2017 at 12:09 AM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Well, I was just replying to your part in the original post where you say that 'a lot of times people tell me try running it without CC', and I was explaining why you were advised that. And the second bit of my post was an attempt to help you with the CCMagic issue.

The error you are having shows that CC Magic cannot find a file that it requires. If you google that error, you'll find a whole bunch of suggestions how to solve it.


It is okay I am not mad or anything, I know why I am usually advised to do that, I was trying to explain I simply can't play without CC though XD
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#6 Old 21st Oct 2017 at 3:46 AM
The advice to run without CC is not intended as a permanent step.
The advice is to TEMPORARILY move your CC out and put it in a safe place.
Then load the game. Start a test game that you don't plan to keep. Play a while to see if it works. If it works, then something in the CC is causing a problem, and you get to do the "Find the bad file shuffle." (http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title..._Custom_Content is an excellent walkthrough on finding bad CC. The only thing I would add is that if you've gotten to the binary search, check the most important files first, and make sure that files which should not be separated stay in the same folder. )


Although this is probably not relevant since your error seems to be due to CC Magic not finding a file it needs. It's just something to remember the next time that you have a problem and someone suggests seeing if it continues if you run without CC.

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