Hello,
I've been having problems loading my saves (all of them) for since the weekend. I played fine end of last week, then started getting this message when loading any of my saves, and evening trying to start a new one. I did wonder if it was linked to one drive as I do remember pressing a back up button at some point on start up one day (whether it was before or after I'd last played I can't quite remember).
Anyway I have since unlinked my pc and quit one drive still having this issue. I have looked at this post here [Current Issue] Sims 3 "serious error" when loading save | EA Forums - 8322938
and when trying the command prompt "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal"
I get a message saying - The system cannot find the path specified.
So I'm a bit confused at what to try next. I have tried repairing the game and also putting old after sims 3 loading launcher and trying again (still same issue - only think I did do was merge the folders with mods, I didn't try and create new sims 3 folder and start it up)
Any help appreciated , I'm a bit of a nervous about trying things on my own as don't want to mess anything up to much!
Using a Windows 11 - version 24H2. Processer - 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12450H 2.50 GHz
if thats any use!
Thanks
Edit: Even though I seem to have removed one drive my file path for sims is still saying: "C:\Users\louis\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts"
louise199360 Please use this guide to change the Personal value within the registry:
You can change the value back to the default listed in the guide, then restart your computer again and see whether Sims 3 works.
DarkenedSentura Are you getting the "serious error" message, or something else? If you do see the "serious error," please follow the instructions in the first post of this master thread:
[Current Issue] Sims 3 "serious error" when loading save | EA Forums - 8322938
Thanks will give a try, stupid question has having to do it manually where it says step 3. In Registry Editor, browse to the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders where abouts do I then to to paste %USERPROFILE%\Documents and do I have to change the user profile to my user name or just leave it and copy and paste exactly what it on the link. Thanks
Ignore my first reply, I've changed the documents back to default and also pictures. Still getting the same error. Am I supposed to do desktop too as that is saying onedrive but as far as I'm aware I didn't think sims was using anything on the desktop ?
