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DulceHoney
Seasoned Traveler
14 years ago

Starlight Shores Won't Load - SOLVED!

Hey all! I am having a problem with my game. I have all EPs and Most SPs and all the worlds. I also have a lot of the user created worlds from this site. All of my worlds run fine...except Starlight Shores. Even after installing ST, I'd only been playing in Sunset Valley, Lunar Lakes and Setra (all with items/venues from ST installed). However, I tried to load Starlight Shores just to check it out, and it won't load. The green progress bar gets all the way to the end, and just stays that way. According to my laptop's task manager, "The Sims 3" is running fine. It's done this twice. It never crashes, just stays loading. It's been "loading" for about 35 minutes now and it's just stuck.

Again, everything else runs fine. Is Starlight Shores that demanding that it wouldn't even load up? From what I've read, it's not a large world. And I figure, if my laptop can run Setra with pretty much zero lagging/freezing, it should be able to run Starlight Shores just fine. Is anyone else having this issue?

Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you in advance.

7 Replies

  • Jacqpinks's avatar
    Jacqpinks
    Seasoned Hotshot
    14 years ago
    you need to back up your game files that are in the sims 3 folder that is in your My documents ea folder and then start a fresh game

    if u remove them files and boot your game the game will generate new folders and then try and play starlight shores if it loads u have something in your folders that upsets Showtime if it still doesn't load I would say it wasn't installed properly
  • DulceHoney's avatar
    DulceHoney
    Seasoned Traveler
    14 years ago
    jacqpinks wrote:
    you need to back up your game files that are in the sims 3 folder that is in your My documents ea folder and then start a fresh game

    if u remove them files and boot your game the game will generate new folders and then try and play starlight shores if it loads u have something in your folders that upsets Showtime if it still doesn't load I would say it wasn't installed properly


    Okay thanks! I'll try this!
  • DulceHoney's avatar
    DulceHoney
    Seasoned Traveler
    14 years ago
    I finally got it to load... and it's... ehhhhh. **Back to Setra I go** Lol
  • honeyfloris's avatar
    honeyfloris
    7 years ago
    Hey, I was just wondering what you did to get it to load? What mods did you remove? I cant get it to load and I don't want to wait 30 minutes for the game to just load by itself.
  • igazor's avatar
    igazor
    7 years ago
    "honeyfloris;c-16622580" wrote:
    Hey, I was just wondering what you did to get it to load? What mods did you remove? I cant get it to load and I don't want to wait 30 minutes for the game to just load by itself.

    Hi there. This thread is from 2012 and the OP hasn't been active on the forums in around five years.

    Since the moderators will probably lock this one up for being a necro post, I suggest that you post a full description of the problem you are having getting Showtime or Starlight Shores to load and the specs of the computer you are playing on over here, if you could.
    http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/893122/thread-for-new-members-to-post-their-sims-3-game-issues#latest

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