sims 3 a serious error has occurred
i've been editing the whole of monte vista for the past month, editing every single family and every single lot in preparation for a new family i want to play. i'm a perfectionist when it comes to si...
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@willowcloud9 It sounds like the instance of Monte Vista may have been corrupted, unfortunately. Adding ErrorTrap and Overwatch could help, but there's no guarantee: the world might be too corrupted to recover.
Be sure to delete the five cache files in your Sims 3 folder (the one in Documents\Electronic Arts). These files should be deleted regularly anyway, and in particular any time you're troubleshooting. For reference, they are:
- CASPartCache.package
- compositorCache.package
- scriptCache.package
- simCompositorCache.package
- socialCache.package
Please also delete any files in the CurrentGame folder in the same place. This folder should always be empty unless your game is open and a save is loaded, but sometimes data doesn't get deleted when you save.
If you don't want to add more mods, or those two mods don't help, try recovering the automatic backup save. Go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves, and you'll see a folder for your current save and another folder with a .backup extension; this represents the second-to-last time you saved. So if your save is named Monte Vista, you'll have a folder labeled Monte Vista.sims3, and another labeled Monte Vista.sims3.backup. Delete the .backup extension and rename the save (e.g. Monte Vista 1.save), and it should be available to load from the Main Menu.
If this backup save doesn't load, there are a couple other approaches, but there's no guarantee they'll work. Let me know how things go.
@puzzlezaddict thank you for your reply! i've tried all these methods and still nothing has changed. i think i'm just going to have to move on and start fresh. also i feel like i must have deleted the .backup extension because i don't see it anymore in my saves folder. maybe that was the problem all along...
anyways thank you for replying so quickly i'll keep doing some research but i think i'm out of luck ☹️ x
anyways thank you for replying so quickly i'll keep doing some research but i think i'm out of luck ☹️ x
@willowcloud9 I'm sorry to hear that. If you have any other backup saves, you could try those. You could also try loading the save in an otherwise clean user data folder. If you move your entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts, a new folder will spawn the next time you open the launcher. Install Monte Vista and copy over the save, but don't add anything else, not even store or custom content that you know you used in your remodels. This is just to see whether you can get it to load at all.
If you're not interested in jumping through hoops for an uncertain outcome though, that's understandable.
- @puzzlezaddict yeah that seems very complicated, i might try it! thank you for your help though i really appreciate it. wish this kind of stuff didn't have to happen to such a great game like the sims 3 ☹️ x
I moved my entire Sims3 folder out of Documents/Electronic Arts as suggested and when I ran the game after doing this, Sims started over fresh like I had never played before.
Had to re-download all of my purchases.
I moved my Saves back into this new folder and so my families were there, but some were unplayable because I had an expansion pack activated at the time that I've since deleted I think.
Just a heads up.
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Hey all,
This thread is a bit older now, so it's been locked to prevent any necro-posting.
If you're needing further help on this issue, please feel free to create a new topic so we can take a look with you 🙂
