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SimQueen1992's avatar
12 years ago

Won't load while traveling to University

Hi, when I send my Sim off to university, it loads about 95% of the way and then just stops. The music still goes and it still gives game tips, but its basically stuck at 95%. It has worked in the past, so I'm not sure what's happening. Anyone know anything about this?

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  • First of all, this game is fragile. Traveling of any kind makes it even more so. The game should be saved (using Save As and changing the name slightly) before and after every travel transition so there are always safe saves to revert to should something like this go wrong. Also, travel should never be attempted unless the game is freshly started up so it has more resources to work with.

    For those who still get stuck on travel transitions to and from Uni or any other world, if not averse to using mods NRaas Traveler together with Overwatch and ErrorTrap work very hard to prevent the failures from happening.
  • > @igazor said:
    > First of all, this game is fragile. Traveling of any kind makes it even more so. The game should be saved (using Save As and changing the name slightly) before and after every travel transition so there are always safe saves to revert to should something like this go wrong. Also, travel should never be attempted unless the game is freshly started up so it has more resources to work with.
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    > For those who still get stuck on travel transitions to and from Uni or any other world, if not averse to using mods NRaas Traveler together with Overwatch and ErrorTrap work very hard to prevent the failures from happening.

    Oh hai, it's me, still playing the game in 2017 because I got a hankering for University and there's still no Expansion for that in Sims 4. Lo and behold, I had this same problem. My computer is able to run Sims 3 with ease now and is a pretty beefed up gaming beast, so load times aren't an issue, but there it sat, stuck at 97% for ages and ages, I let it run for a good solid hour.

    I tried @keekee53 solution, but unfortunately it didn't work for me. After many hours of trial and error, I tried the solution above using Nrass Traveler, Error Trap, and Overwatch, and lo, almost instantly the heavens opened up, plopped my Sim down, and we finally began University life. I am now a true believer in NRass for all things.
  • "Bramwolf;c-16195404" wrote:
    ...and lo, almost instantly the heavens opened up, plopped my Sim down, and we finally began University life. I am now a true believer in NRass for all things.

    The heavens opening up bit was meant to be reserved for the secret special premium still in beta testing version of the mods, sounds like a copy got leaked out somehow. We'll send you an invoice for it in the morning.

    Just kidding of course, glad you got that sorted out. Good luck on your sim's final exams. :)
  • I cant even play. My game just quits on me and i can do everything else except play with my sims.
  • "AverageSpaceBoy;c-17320675" wrote:
    I cant even play. My game just quits on me and i can do everything else except play with my sims.

    Is this related to University somehow and are you playing TS3 or TS4? Note that this thread is from many years ago and is on the TS3 section of the forum. If TS3 though, at what point exactly is your game quitting/crashing on you?
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    EA_Rtas
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    6 years ago
    Hey folks considering this thread has been very inactive for quite a long time I'm going to close it off. If you have any questions about necroposting you can read this thread here : Necroposting

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