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Rising Novice

3 years ago

Error code 16 after new windows 11 update.

I recently started having issues with my sims 3 games after installing the latest windows 11 update. Save files not saving and getting error 16 along with the save files getting straight up deleted o...

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CAHbKA78

3 years ago

Hi everyone, i think the Windows 11 update KB5020044 fixed this issue (error code 16 at least). I played a bit and game saved normally, but i'm not sure yet. If someone want to test it the update is optional right now in Windows Update.

Spoiler

Maybe problem was caused by this

From Update page "It addresses an issue that affects the CopyFile function. It might sometimes return error 317: ERROR_MR_MID_NOT_FOUND."

because error 16 is file copy error.

Maybe problem was caused by thisFrom Update page "It addresses an issue that affects the CopyFile function. It might sometimes return error 317: ERROR_MR_MID_NOT_FOUND."because error 16 is file copy error.

lgaudet

3 years ago

Hopefully the Windows update did? I didn't get an recent update on my Win11.

I managed to get saving Sims 3 game files to work after purging all installed content and running the game after exiting out of OneDrive. I did not uninstall because I need it, just exited and closed it.

That was working while I slowly reinstalled game content in bits, then was installing bits of downloaded (the horror) community content in small groups of files.

It worked until the last group of SavedSims, then error 16 hit. I removed those particular sim files and error 16 stopped happening. So it looks like one of them has a glitch also causing the error.

But now it's moot until they fix the new EA app that rendered all my purchased expansion and stuff packs no longer registered as owned, leaving me with a world of base game sadness.