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Re: Sims 3 keeps crashing when traveling home from university

I honestly started just pressing random buttons, and ended up getting my sim back to her house. Although, she lost her degree history. Any idea how to get that back or its just lost?

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    5 years ago

    @christinah1121  It sounds like the version of your sim that contained all the data from University—the degree, possibly the skills she earned and the relationships she made—wasn't properly imported back into the homeworld.  As in, you may have basically loaded the version of the sim as she existed before she left for University.

    There isn't a way to recover the data from this point, but if you go backwards and try the travel transition again, it might work this time around.  Or I could try.  Even if you saved once after you landed in your sim's homeworld, the backup version of the save should be from while she was still in the University world.  In the same Saves folder, you'll see a folder with your save name and a .backup extension.  Rename the save and delete the .backup (e.g. UniversityTest.sims3), and you'll be able to load that save from the Main Menu.

    Out of curiosity, what are the specs of your Mac?  I'm trying to find a pattern among the players who report this issue, especially since I can't ever reproduce it on saves known to be affected.  I'd like all the information under About This Mac including the operating system and except for the serial number.

  • abcfhgRiLKQ66L's avatar
    abcfhgRiLKQ66L
    5 years ago

    HI im currently having the same issue.
    Can you Help me?
    The problem are the games always having force close everytime my character travel anywhere.
    Thank you in advance

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    5 years ago

    @abcfhgRiLKQ66L  Is your game closing on its own, or is it freezing and you need to close it?  Either way, that's different than the issue the other players in this thread have.

    Please attach your deviceconfig.log to a post; it's in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3.  (You'll need to manually open the folders; the file won't show up in a search.)  You can delete your user and computer names, about 25 lines down, but there's nothing else in that file that can identify you.

  • abcfhgRiLKQ66L's avatar
    abcfhgRiLKQ66L
    5 years ago

    Hi,

    I already send you a PM and the game was always close itself everytime it was on the middle of the loading o travel.
    I try a lot of solution in the forum but seems is not working at all. Thank you

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    5 years ago

    @abcfhgRiLKQ66L  I can't do anything with your save, I mean there's no point in testing it at this point, without more information and some idea of where the problem is.  Please post the section of deviceconfig I described.  Please also list the expansion and stuff packs you currently have installed.

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