'A serious error has occurred'
Whenever I try to load a family on my game, a message pops up saying 'A serious error has occurred while loading 'SunsetValley5.sims3'. It is strongly recommended that you restart the application.' I...
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Hello Guys,
You can give following steps to try once. It can help you there in order to fix this error. Here are the steps below:
1. First of all, please quit from game if its still running.
2. Go to your Documents library, right click the Electronic Arts folder, and click Properties.
3. Untick "Read-only" that shows under general tab and click Apply button.
4. It will show you "confirm attribute changes" popup window.
5. Select "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" (this may be selected automatically), and click OK.
6. Close the Properties window and start your game. You should now be able to load your savegame.
Best of luck!!!
I am not sure where to post this but when I load a save that has been corrupted before, do I get the Serious Error message or does my saved game load properly from the last time it saved? 🙂
Have you tried ? It really depends what corrupted.
I am talking about a saved game I saved about a month ago in Roaring Heights. When I saved (apparently the saving time was taking a ridiculously long time to complete and I knew it was Error Code 12). I tried to get to Edit Town but when the Windows 7 cursor showed up I found out that my game had stopped working. Had nothing to do with the message that says "Windows 7, Build 7600, This copy of Windows is not genuine." which happened to me two years ago and especially in CAS.
Then checked my Saves folder. There was a file with the extension .bad and deleted it. Restarted my Sims 3 game, the corrupted save was gone and it was the save from the last time I saved in Roaring Heights with the Capp family being my active household. And found out that overpopulating the town with households that I made and households from the family bin and not invisible/stuck Sims or multi-selected portraits!
My other saves load perfectly but I do not know if the specific save can load because I am afraid to see this message when it loads.
But I haven't really tried it.
🙂
