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champion_hustle's avatar
5 years ago

Crashing After Uni

So my sim finished uni but every time they get sent home the game crashes. I didn't invite any friends or family to graduation as i read somewhere that can cause problems. I have the traveler mod, No CC, i've cleaned out my caches, played it offline, emptied my sims inventory and yet i still cant get my sim home without the game crashing, HELP! What the heck can i do?

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  • @champion_hustler  Try all the following, together:

    • Empty your sims' inventories as much as possible.  A few items is fine; a hundred is not.
    • Use "save as" to rename the save, then quit (without saving) immediately before you want to travel.
    • Load the game just to the Main Menu.  Turn off memories, the in-game shopping experience, and the hidden object interactive loading screens.
    • Lower all the graphics settings to the minimum.  (You can revert to your normal settings after the travel transition.)  Now quit the game again, without loading a save.
    • Delete the five cache files in your game folder in Documents: CASPartCache, compositorCache, scriptCache, simCompositorCache, and socialCache.
    • Empty out everything in FeaturedItems as well.
    • Sign into Origin and in offline mode.  Now disconnect your computer from the internet—turn off wifi and/or pull the ethernet cord.
    • Now launch your game, load the save, and send your sims home right away, as soon as the game clock starts moving forward.

    If these steps don't help, you could add a few mods, specifically NRaas ErrorTrap, Overwatch, and Traveler, to try to get through the travel transition.  While the mods are very useful in general, you could remove them after your sims return home, if you want.

  • @puzzlezaddict I've done all that (read it on a different thread) plus i already have all the nraas mods and i STILL cant get home without crashing. I tried emptying my inventory and household inventory put all settings to minimum removed all but the three mods turned off all the "features" but no dice. Do i have to just give up and start a new sim?
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @champion_hustler  If you want, I can mess around with your save and see whether I can get your sim home.  If you send me your save and I managed to get it to work, I can send it back to you.  The caveat is that I don't own all the stuff packs, or anywhere all the store content, so you might have some missing items.

    If you're interested, feel free to upload your save somewhere and PM me the link.  Please also list the packs you have installed, so I can uninstall any that you don't have; and any store content that's critical to your save.  I own all the worlds except Roaring Heights, so that's not an issue, but I do need to know what to install.

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