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Re: Sims 4 Mermaid's kiss and Siren's Call options don't appear

I just tried this and now my entire mods folder has stopped working. All my mods (I have over 1.2k) are separated into folders and I'm adding each folder one at a time to make it quicker and so I can narrow it down more easily if there is a problem. But non of them are loading when I go into game now. So thanks for the advice but whilst it does fix the problem of not being able to use the mermaids abilities it just creates another problem (for me at least) with the mods folder 

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  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    6 years ago

    @Xhloemaee Let's try a reset with your game, then deal with the Mods folder as follows:

    Please try the following in this order:

    • Exit your game and Origin.
    • Move your 'The Sims 4' folder ( Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 ) to your desktop. (Save this "The Sims 4" folder for reference.)
    • Then start the game, and a new 'The Sims 4' folder will be created by the game.
    • Exit your game and Origin.
    • Now re-add a copy of the 'options.ini', 'screenshots' folder, 'saves' folder, and 'tray' folder from the "The Sims 4" folder on your desktop into your new "The Sims 4" folder ( Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 ). Replace/overwrite the newly generated files/ folders with the old files/folders from the desktop "The Sims 4" folder. 

    Now see if your game will run properly with the newly created empty Mods folder. Don't add the old Mods folder to the newly created The Sims 4 folder.

    Now you can re-add your Mods/CC via the 50/50 method since you have a lot of them:

    • Divide your Mods/CC from the folder on your desktop in half.
    • Add one of the halves back into the game’s Mods folder. Now re-start the game and see if the issue is still gone in the vanilla/new game-save you made.
    • If the issue did not re-appear with those added Mods/CC you can try adding the 2nd half from the desktop. If the issues did re-appear, try only adding half of those mods and see if the issue is present in the game...
    • Continue in this pattern dividing the folders’ contents in half then half again as needed to eliminate in groupings which Mods/CC are causing the issue.

    Once you find the Mods/CC that are causing the issues, check with the Mod/CC creators for updates that may fix the issues. Note: Do not re-add the old config file from the old mods folder, as it is possible for it to have become corrupted also.


    SheriGR ☕ – I don’t work for EA