CC missing from gameplay
Help!!! I have a lot of custom content that I’ve downloaded from TSR as well as other places, all of it that I’ve accumulated over several months. The other day I clicked on the “run without cc” box...
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@guccmoney420 If you view deviceconfig in a Finder window sorted as a list, the date should be to the right of the file name. Or you can right-click (or crtl-click) on the file and select Get Info; the last modified date will be the same thing. Both dates should match the last time you launched the game—not opened the launcher but actually clicked Play.
Yes, drag your entire Sims 3 game folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop.
I have no idea how custom music works, sorry. I doubt it would affect cc though. Still, the new game folder will refresh those entries, so you don't have to worry about it.
@puzzlezaddict Thank you for clarifying. The date in the deviceconfig is accurate to when I last started up the game, so I went through and copied all of my dcdb.dbc into the fresh sims folder in the DCCache folder one by one and deleted my caches. And still, nothing. They won’t show up in game, they say they are downloaded and installed, but they will not show up.
I really want to figure this out since I’ve spent a lot of time downloading CC and built a lot of houses from scratch using CC and just can’t stand to lose it all.
I really want to figure this out since I’ve spent a lot of time downloading CC and built a lot of houses from scratch using CC and just can’t stand to lose it all.
@guccmoney420 That is certainly weird. It's common for one or two .dbc files to get corrupted, but all of them? There are only two possibilities I can think of. The first is that perhaps TS3 patched itself. Did the launcher ask if you wanted to update recently? If so, you may now have some outdated cc, and it's possible, although not likely, that this borked all your .dbc files.
The other is that you checked the box to run without custom content. It's in the Installed Content tab, next to the Select All and Select None buttons.
If neither of these is the problem, it's worth temporarily disabling your iCloud storage, just to see it if helps. The deviceconfig being current should eliminate the possibility, and so should your saves being available to load. Still, this is easier than reinstalling everything, so why not test it. Here are some screenshots of the relevant settings, in case it helps:
https://bluebellflora.com/2017/02/06/sims-3-and-sims-4-not-loading-save-games/
If none of this helps, let me know. There are a couple of shortcuts that don't involve redownloading everything from scratch, although I don't know whether they'll work for you.
- @puzzlezaddict I haven’t had any update notifications recently and I check frequently.
I checked the box once while trying to fix another in-game issue, and that’s what started the problem, but it has been unchecked for every attempt I’ve made to get my cc back.
My computer is about 6 years old and I don’t use it for much other than playing the Sims, so I’m not logged into the cloud and I always have the WiFi turned off. Is it possible that iCloud is still running without me logged in?@guccmoney420 If you're not logged into your Apple account, there's no way iCloud could be running, since cloud storage is specific to an account, not a computer.
Just to make sure there isn't something else strange going on, delete the new game folder that you created (move any content you want to keep back to the old folder, or elsewhere) and open the launcher again to create another one. Then go into Downloads inside the old game folder, right-click on one of the Sims3Packs that contains custom content, not store stuff, and select Copy. Then right-click inside Downloads in the new game folder and select Paste. You should now be able to install the pack in the new folder. Test a new save to see if the content shows up, and let me know.
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