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Re: Sims 3 Crashes & Error Code 12

Oh Thank-you I didn’t know about the reset everything, I did it and had over 26,000 objects reset 😳 lol, that’s a lot!

Thank-you for the tips on graphic setting tips and the other mods to get, I’ll definitely do that and get them as I have all the ep’s and I’ll move my family to a new world by moving them to the bin and see how my game goes from there! Also thanks for letting me know about changing the virtual graphic, I was searching on what I could do to help the game and that sites were saying to change it. lol

I have a question maybe you know the answer, I only had master controller installed with overwatch and error trap, my Sims were on vacation in France and wanted a baby so the day before they went home I had them try for one, when my sims returned home they instantly had 2 child sims standing next to them, did master controller do this or was it the game, I tried going back to the previous save and every time they came home they had 2 child sims. lol

Thanks again for all your help!

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
7 years ago
@MsSaintsAngel That's the game being its usual glitchy self. Traveler will fix a lot of travel errors (no need to fiddle with it; the default settings work just fine), but there's still no way around the game turning a pregnancy into a child. Some things just don't seem fixable, even with mods, unless you want to totally annihilate the kids (MC command) and pretend they never happened. If you don't have a save from before the kid was conceived, or I guess maybe it was twins, then that may be your only option.

The game itself keeps the file from the second to last time you saved, but whether this will help depends on when that save was created. If you go into Saves inside your game folder, you'll see a folder labeled [your save].sims3, and another labeled [your save].sims3.backup. Delete the .backup extension and rename the save [your save1].sims3, and you'll be able to load it from the Main Menu.

In the future, it's a good idea to use "save as" to rename your saves; that way, the game will keep the old files instead of overwriting them. I generally keep the last 4-6 and delete the older ones when I'm sure I don't need them.

And yes, 26,000 objects is a lot; it sounds like your save was overdue for a reset. I usually get 15-18k, which also feels like a lot, but that's apparently in the low-normal range.