I NEED HELP! My sims can't travel anymore!!

Is the problem with just one particular save game, or all of them and new games too?

If it's all of them including new games, then I don't know what to do.

If it's just that one save game and you've been playing that save for a long time, it might be a memory limitation issue. The game can only use so much RAM (no matter how much you have installed) and if it surpass that limit it crashes. I've had this happen in my own game when trying to travel. I can check the Task Manager\Processes tab and see how much memory the game is using, and if it gets over 3.2-3.4 GB I won't be able to save (error code 12) and if I travel I'm at risk of the game crashing. This only happens to me with one save game that I've been playing for 4+ months. Other saves and new games work fine.

You can try lowering graphics settings down to the absolute minimum, exiting, reloading the game, then try traveling, saving (with a new name) once traveling is successful, setting the graphics back, then reload the game. That worked a few times for me.

Good luck.

You might also want to clear your caches. Those are .package files with cache in the name. (There are about 4 or 5 of them depending on how you're patched/installed EPs.) Never delete a folder with cache in it, however. When you restart the game, they will regenerate in a healthy way (as they can become corrupted, which interferes with traveling.)

Another problems is the DBTravel.package file that it in the neighborhood save file. When that gets too big or gets corrupted, it too will cause traveling problems. However, if you delete it, you'll find that some information is lost, such as images. But if you like to travel, it's certainly worth it.

The NRAAS mods do help with a lot of the problems with traveling. But sometimes you also need help by deleting those files I mentioned.

Thank you Trey!! It is just for one saved game that I've been playing for months now so that all makes perfect sense. I'm going to try what you said as soon as I get back on to play but I wanted to ask: is there anything else that you know of that I could do to lower the amount of RAM that the game is using? Would it help to delete things from the town or from the file or anything else involving my computer? I'm sorry if I sound dumb I'm just not very savy with tech stuff. I leave it to my brother. What you've said so far makes sense though.

OH! Thank you Kat that actually answered some of my questions. I hadn't seen your reply yet when I was typing mine to in response to the other answer I got. I'll definitely look into that. I'll have to ask my brother for help but I'll see what I can do.

I'm not Trey, but the RAM problem is unfortunately not something I've seen any answers to. It's been a problem for a while (and seems to have started with some of the EPs/updates) as I never had a problem with them when I just had TS3 and WA alone (without the updates or EPs that followed.) I too started having those problems with memory (especially in old established families or when I'd done a lot at one time in the game) when I had to reinstall (and couldn't use the incremental updates that I'd used previously, but had to use the update that included all the updates.)

I try to keep a watch out for information about curing the "Code 12" problem but even the non-EA TS3 sites don't have a concrete answer for it. It's theorized that it's due to the games handling of RAM memory, but it hasn't been proven yet.

allisoniraheta10 wrote:
Would it help to delete things from the town or from the file or anything else involving my computer?

I had collected a large number of items on my sims lot in my affected game. I tried selling most everything I wasn't using but that didn't really help much. Later I bulldozed all the lots I had added and really wasn't using, and that may have helped a little. The last thing I tried was moving the household and all extended family to a new town with Traveler (there's a way to travel to any world and then set that world as the new homeworld). That was a very long and involved project and really didn't help much with the error code 12 issue - but I haven't tried traveling yet in that game. I think perhaps I should have moved just the household and left the rest of the clan (which was over 100 other sims) back in the original neighborhood. The last idea I had (which I haven't done yet) is to move the household to a new neighborhood the EA way, and lose the family tree, relationships, and current wants. I don't really want to do that, so I'm thinking of just abandoning the family and starting a new one.

When I was having a lot of Code 12 problems with my "legacy" family, I tried deleting items from their household (as I had had them buy things every time they got the wish for it.) I tried deleting things I had saved in CAS. I tried deleting all the cache files and the DBtravel file. I tried moving them to a different neighborhood by putting the family in the library, then putting them in the new neighborhood (which is supposed to really cut down on the size of the file). I made sure that everything was closed on my computer before starting up the game. I made sure that I deactivated the "memory" in the game, and deleted everything from their memory that had already accumulated.

However, none of that worked. I finally got so frustrated about the crashing to desktop and Code 12 (even though I was saving more than just every simday) and not being able to travel that I just started over. It was the only thing that finally worked. The new game has not been a problem.

KatAnubis wrote:
However, none of that worked. I finally got so frustrated about the crashing to desktop and Code 12 (even though I was saving more than just every simday) and not being able to travel that I just started over. It was the only thing that finally worked. The new game has not been a problem.

I think that's where I'm at with this particular family. Kind of a bummer, there's more I want to do with them. Oh well.

I definitely won't be getting Sim 4 until I know whether 10 generation legacies are doable.

KatAnubis wrote:
When I was having a lot of Code 12 problems with my "legacy" family, I tried deleting items from their household (as I had had them buy things every time they got the wish for it.) I tried deleting things I had saved in CAS. I tried deleting all the cache files and the DBtravel file. I tried moving them to a different neighborhood by putting the family in the library, then putting them in the new neighborhood (which is supposed to really cut down on the size of the file). I made sure that everything was closed on my computer before starting up the game. I made sure that I deactivated the "memory" in the game, and deleted everything from their memory that had already accumulated.

However, none of that worked. I finally got so frustrated about the crashing to desktop and Code 12 (even though I was saving more than just every simday) and not being able to travel that I just started over. It was the only thing that finally worked. The new game has not been a problem.

I don't know if it will work for error code 12, but one thing I do that's drastically cut down on the file corruption is rename my save file at least once per gaming session. Just use "save as" and add 1,2,3, etc. to the end of your save name. This gives you a fresh file to work with without having to start a new game. I used to get error code 16 a lot with WA, but haven't had it once since I started doing that. Other problems, like the broken travel world (arriving at your destination without your sim) also hasn't happened since. Just make sure to delete the old saves, and continue to clear your cache files after each playing session. Also try Nraas Overwatch mod, which helps clean up your game.

whenever i click travel and try to click someone to travel with it wont let me click a sim to travel with and sometimes when i click travel it wont even show up.