@Luciaaafs Try to lower the stress on the game engine as much as possible:
If this doesn't work, and you're willing to share your save, you can upload it somewhere (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) and post the link here, or send me a private message. In that case, please let me know whether you play in Windows or macOS and which packs and worlds you've installed so I can recreate your save's context as much as possible. I won't have your other store and custom content, that is if you use any, but everything else should be intact.
Thanks for responding.
I cleaned out some of the inventory but there are greeting card photos in there I want to keep. I lowered all graphic settings, play offline, I delete the cache files every time I load the game. Not sure how to turn off the in game shopping or if I've already turned it off. The loading screen is still freezing at the same spot.
Packs: university, IP, ambitions, generations, late night, pets, world adventures, seasons
I have a mac but I play on a virtual machine with windows 10.
The town I'm trying to go back to is riverview. I do have a lot of mods and cc.
Here is a link to my save https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sk-c1F3tmVBoGtYV7wh1vOK7XKOEzgxI?usp=sharing
Thank you!!!
@Luciaaafs I tried everything I could think of to get the save to load, on two different computers, and I'm sorry to say that I came up empty. The game got stuck loading Riverview each time, with the Task Manager reporting that Sims 3's memory use was stuck at exactly the same value after a short burst of activity. So it's reasonably clear that the game is waiting to be able to do something that it can't.
I do have two suggestions for you. One is to clean the TravelDB.package with a save cleaning tool. It's quite large, in fact large enough to possibly be a problem all by itself, and I noticed in a couple of tests that the game was having trouble copying all that data to the CurrentGame folder. That's not to say that this is definitely the problem—it could just be a side effect of the loading getting stuck—but it's worth trying.
The other suggestion, if the save cleaner doesn't help, is to travel your main sim to another world, specifically a residential one rather than a vacation world. Once there, you could try using NRaas MasterController's Add Sim function to add the other family members from the homeworld to a house or empty lot in the new world. They'll lose their house and family inventory, but the sims themselves should be intact. Add Sim allows you to filter by homeworld when selecting the sims.
Out of curiosity, are you sure those eight packs you listed are the only active expansions in your save? Are you using any non-NRaas mods? The reason I ask is because I saw quite a lot of scripterrors, I think more than I've ever seen at once in a save, and I didn't recognize most of the errors. Some mods can't be safely removed, and expansions definitely cannot be removed without corrupting the save and the sims in it.
Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it!
I always play with all expansions active. I do have quite a few non nraas mods. I just delete the script errors before playing.
I know there are a few save cleaners out there. Is there a specific one you recommend?
Is there any advice you have preventing this problem in the future? (the obvious one is keeping a save from before you leave for university (face palm).
