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Re: Sims 2 legacy - suddenly crashing no error message

Hi, I’ve been playing The Sims 2 without any problems for several months, but suddenly it started crashing. It began with the game crashing when my Sim was returning home from a community lot, and when I restarted the game, the house was no longer visible on the neighborhood map. When I tried to load the family again, the game crashed.

 

I switched to a new family and everything seemed fine until a Sim’s face suddenly disappeared and the game crashed again. I thought the save had become corrupted, so I chose a completely new neighborhood to play in, but it crashed immediately again.

 

Now the game crashes at launch. I have tried removing the Downloads folder, but it continues to crash. I have reinstalled the game twice. I am using the Sims2RPC Mod Launcher for Mansion & Garden. When I put the Downloads folder back in, the game crashes. I have tried the 50/50 method, but it seems like it corrupts the entire game, because the game continues to crash even after I remove the files again.

9 Replies

  • b1d44841c69b51e7's avatar
    b1d44841c69b51e7
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 month ago

    I'm having exactly the same problem since yesterday. I don't have any mods. Tried deleting the cache files, uninstalling and reinstalling, and repairing the game from EA app but the game keeps crashing

  • sapphiretopaz22's avatar
    sapphiretopaz22
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 month ago

    this is happening to me too💔 the games been crashing when I load university. Now it crashes when my sims go to a place like downtown for a date?? This never happened before idk what to do

  • BigRube12's avatar
    BigRube12
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 month ago

    I've been having the same issue, glad it's not just me. Just about anything makes it crash. I was trying to look at a sim's family tree and it crashed. Switching neighborhoods makes it crash. I've tried repairing the game and restarting the app, it still crashes

  • HeatherSpears00's avatar
    HeatherSpears00
    Seasoned Novice
    1 month ago

    Had this also happen to me. Uninstalled, reinstalled. worked for a little while and same thing happened again.

  • Simmerella20's avatar
    Simmerella20
    Rising Novice
    1 month ago

    This just happened with me today. My Sims face disappeared after I tried to put makeup on her and then she completely disappeared. I tried to move the Sim to college using "send sims to college" and this is what I'm looking at. Every once in a while I see a flickering green plumbob but I don't even have a panel at the bottom. 

    Edit to add this is Legacy edition that I've had for close to a year. 

  • bekahbeans's avatar
    bekahbeans
    Seasoned Newcomer
    30 days ago

    I'm having the same issue. It doesn't save my changes concerning bought items, and some sims have faces missing like others say. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, but it didn't help. There were no issues previously.

  • LadyGray01's avatar
    LadyGray01
    Seasoned Ace
    15 days ago

    I don't know what causes invisible Sims, but FFS Lot Debugger has an option to fix them. It's been happening since the early 2000s.

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