Re: Sims 3 won't close
@darkmage0707077 Sims 3 does hang on closing sometimes, and from what I've seen and read, it mainly has to do with the game trying to write to the FeaturedItems folder. I actually had the game hang indefinitely when I blocked write access to that folder, so I stopped using that workaround. Instead, I created a text file called featureditems, with the .txt removed, which blocks Sims 3 from creating a folder with the same name. Now I get some quick shutdowns and some that take about a minute.
For what it's worth, I think the minute-long delays happen when I have NOT loaded CAS or Build/Buy, whatever would show me the items whose thumbnails would get downloaded to FeaturedItems if I hadn't also disabled Shop Mode. So it happens if I quit right away or if I was just playing and never left live mode.
If the problem persists, or you don't want to use the above workaround, the fastest workaround is to bring up the Task Manager and kill the process. But you'll need to empty out CurrentGame, inside the same Sims 3 user folder, afterwards—this folder holds the data for your current save as you're playing it, and it doesn't get flushed until the game quits properly. The folder should always be empty if you're not actually playing; leaving the old files in there can interfere with the game loading the next time around.
If you can't see the Task Manager when you try to bring it up, put the game in windowed mode before quitting.
