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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Error code 16 keeps occurring

I've been playing my Sims family so long. Every time before I start playing, I must make a backup of the saves and delete all caches.

I also use "save as..." instead of saving it directly.

To ensure my game process, I used to save the game into 2 files, e.g "File A" and :FIle B".

Today, I repeated the same thing, saving it as "File A", but it tells me "saving error occurred,error code:16" for many times,

(and error code:12 occurred for once). So I try the solution that other helpers suggested here but it doesn't help.

Strangely, I opened a new game in a new town and chose a family to play and save, it didn't have any problem.

While I returned to the main menu to load my current family,

a window popped up "Loading error, we strongly recommend you exit the game" (Something like that cuz I translated it from Chinese to Eng)

I have all The Sims 3 except Movie Stuff and my computer does match the requirements of the Sims 3.

But 1 thing I have to mention, I installed TS3 in E-drive. And my C-drive is about to be full, so I wonder if this affects running of the game.

Please someone help me. Thanks a lot!!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Does anyone have solutions??😕mileyindifferent:

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I found out what's going wrong.It's because my C-drive doesn't have enough space.

    After I cleared unwanted files in C-drive, my saving is now going smooth.

    Thanks for your response.😕mileyhappy:

  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    11 years ago

    welcomes 🙂 great to hear it's solved for you 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Just one thing to add:

    If your current game is too large to load, go to My Documents> Electronic Arts> The Sims 3> Saves> Currentgame.sims3 folder,

    and delete all packages with the extention .package

    This won't affect your gameplay but makes it run smooth.

  • 2533125726's avatar
    2533125726
    5 years ago

    I know this is a super late response, but uhm.. This completely * up my game. Thanks. I feel gullible to a prank.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @2533125726  There should never be any files in the CurrentGame folder unless you actually have a save loaded.  So deleting those files with the game closed won't have any negative impact and may in fact help.

  • asheesksmith's avatar
    asheesksmith
    5 years ago

    I have my game loaded. I can't close it unless I want to lose my current progress, which obviously I don't. I've tried saving the game under a different name and the error code 16 continues to be a problem. 

    Can I still delete the files even with my game open? Because I can't close it otherwise..

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @asheesksmith  You shouldn't be deleting any files within the Sims 3 user folder while the game is running.

    It's possible that your save is simply too large to save properly, in which case there isn't anything you can do at this point.  But it's also possible that your hard drive is too low on space.  To check, put the game in windowed mode, bring up a File Explorer window, click This PC, and you'll see how much free space you have on each drive.  Please let me know the free and total space on each drive, as well as whether you've moved Documents or the Sims 3 user folder to a secondary drive.

  • asheesksmith's avatar
    asheesksmith
    5 years ago

    I have all my game data on a hard drive that still has a good 3TB left. My original folders are on my normal computer storage but my game data isn't in that folder.. I'm not sure what else I can do

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