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Investigating Game Launch & Save File Issues

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EA_Cade
Icon for The Sims Team rankThe Sims Team
22 days ago

Sul Sul Simmers,

If you’re unable to play The Sims 4, we want to hear from you. The more detail you give us about the issue you’re having, the more it helps us be able to replicate it internally, which is the first step towards fixing it. 

Please only respond to this post if you have an issue with your game and by answering these questions, as this will provide us the base line info needed for our investigations; 

  1. Does the game launch at all?
    1. If not, do you get an error message?
    2. If yes, does the game endlessly load?
  2. Does the game load, but buildings, lots, worlds, or Sims are missing?
  3. Is this happening to every save, or one specific save?
    1. Does this happen on new saves as well?
  4. Do you use mods? 
    1. Does the issue persist after all mods are removed?
    2. Have you tried repairing your game while mods are removed?
      1. Does the issue persist after repair?
    3. Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling the game?
      1. Does the issue persist?

Receiving a save file of the issue happening is the most helpful way for us to be able to investigate further. If you happen to have a save file that will not load, please send it to us by following the instructions here, please also include the above bulleted information, or a link to your post in this thread for tracking.

Our team will be reading every comment in this post and you can help us keep this thread on topic to ensure we don’t miss any critical info. If your issue is one we’re already tracking, we’ll move your comment to that thread to keep things organized. 

Thank you for your patience and help with our investigations!

Updated 23 days ago
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26 Comments

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    9 days ago

    Hey there Melody4321567​ 

    Could you share your save file so we can look into this a bit further? If you're willing to share your save, please DM me with a link using the instructions here. Please also include a list of the mods you're currently using. 

    Thank you! 

  • Dvohna's avatar
    Dvohna
    New Spectator
    2 days ago

    Ever since I updated my game recently, NONE of my game files load... I even tried a new save file from scratch and that too is NOT loading..so sad :(

    *Does the game launch at all? YES.

    If not, do you get an error message? [N/A}

    If yes, does the game endlessly load? YES.

    Does the game load, but buildings, lots, worlds, or Sims are missing? NO, Lots, sims, and worlds are still there, and not missing.

    Is this happening to every save, or one specific save?  EVERY SAVE, even a fresh one from scratch does not load.

    Does this happen on new saves as well? YES! :(

    Do you use mods? YES.

    Does the issue persist after all mods are removed? YES.

    Have you tried repairing your game while mods are removed? YES.

    Does the issue persist after repair? YES.

    Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling the game? NO.

    Does the issue persist? [N/A]

    D'Vohna's Save File Via Google Drive Link

    *I look forward to hearing back from you, and will uninstall and reinstall my game in the meantime! :) thanks sims team.

  • artemis9865's avatar
    artemis9865
    Seasoned Adventurer
    19 hours ago

    Had some issues loading in the past, THE update made me reinstall and start over again. In the past I did play with WW, which is funny but brings also alot of trash along.

    For the restarted fresh savefiles, I have just a couple plain cc and some food related stuff. Also "better builds" which is much easierer than setting all the cheats on by typing......  TIP😉 I do notice a difference in play after for rent in building and love lovestruck on romance maintain or moodlets ect. Life and death gave no problems but a bit like the empty highschool or sims sitting on the ground like dineout.

    Desktop player, yes mem, video and drive are updated. Intell core i5. I have no problems playing highend builders games, inzoi exculded.

     

     

  • Dvohna's avatar
    Dvohna
    New Spectator
    18 hours ago

    UPDATE: I have since reinstalled my game. It persisted but I then took all my mods out..and the game loaded up fine. I'll proceed to do the 50/50 method!

  • bremelm's avatar
    bremelm
    New Spectator
    18 hours ago

    I had the White Screen when loading world (Patch 1.109.207) error on my laptop and it corrupted one of my saves. I had multiple other residential rental lots in that save, but while I was building one in Tomarang - the lot had 4or 5 rental units in multiple different buildings and levels - my game crashed, and when I tried to load into it again, I got a white screen when I tried to go to the Tomarang world - where the lot was saved. This did not affect my other saves, and I was able to save my other lots not in Tomarang to my library, make a new save, and copy them over to that save, and go from there. The new save has been working for months, and hasn't had any issues, but I am still unable to open the Tomarang map in the corrupted save.

    1. It loads, but in some safe files it loads endlessly and in others it simply brings me back to world selection. But the files with the second szenario somestimes aren‘t found at all.
    2. No
    3. The first szenario happens to new safe files, the second to all old ones
    4. Yes to all