Sim frozen, sim panels won't open, and more
So my sim recently got back from a vacation to Al Simhara, and has been at her home in Bridgeport for a few days. I played the game last night and everything was running smoothly, but this morning there seems to be a major glitch.
- My sim is frozen and will not move. I already tried doing Ctrl+Shift+C and typing "resetsim *," along with "moveobjects on" and then deleting my sim and undoing the action, but neither of those helped.
- The sim panels are hidden and won't appear when I click the arrow
- I can't cancel out of any of my queued actions
- My household balance is $0
And after I tried the "resetsim" cheat, saved the game and went back into it, I can't even see my sim. I just see the outside of her apartment, and it's like a rabbit hole building so that I can't move up and down floors or see the inside. Any clue how I can fix this?
Also, if the best thing to do is restore one of my old saves, how do I do it? When I googled this the instructions were confusing and didn't fit what my Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves folder looked like. I have three folders in there, being "*household name* .sims3" "*household name* .sims3.backup" and "Monte Vista.sims3" I just moved the "sims3" folder to my desktop and renamed the "sims3.backup" one to just "sims3," and now I can see inside my building and see my sim but I'm still having the same issues listed above.
My computer does have a 12th gen Intel processor, so I think that could be influencing why Sims won't open now?
I repaired my game within Origin again, and tried to launch it to no avail. I then downloaded the AlderLake patch and followed the instructions, patching TS3.exe, and the game finally launched for me. None of my saves are there, but since I haven't been playing it for long on this laptop, that doesn't bother me too much. However, would it be a good idea to just begin using the new admin account I created since the Documents folder is located in C:? That way, I can download the mods you provided for my game, which I'm not sure how to do on my original account.
