Sims 3: Mods folder & mods not working
Hi friends. Weird issue here. Been playing TS3 again recently, and my mods folder seems to just… not work. Almost as if it’s not synced to the game. Anything downloaded through the launcher is fine...
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Apologies for my poor formatting: got thru to the initial menu and crashed upon scrolling through my installed worlds. No idea if this is relevant, but I figured I'd attach the exception file just in case. The world I had highlighted at the time the game crashed was Oaksoak Hollow. I figured it's likely just a corrupted or buggy file so I deleted it, but hey, the more info the better. The earlier attachment (marked #1) is another exception generated after I closed the game without a crash, which I thought might help identify the mod folder issue, or at least narrow it down.
@CatSimmer123 The crash logs don't say anything useful here, which is typical of these files. It reports an access violation, which is too generic to be any help here, and you already know the cause anyway.
As an experiment, please move or rename the Sims 3 user folder (again) and open the launcher to spawn a clean folder. Download one Sims3Pack that's not from the Store or Exchange, and manually move it to DCCache within the new folder. It's important to move it manually rather than double-clicking to install because the point here is to see whether the download shows in the launcher.
I'd also like a bit more info on how this setup works. Search Windows for Command Prompt, open it, and enter this command:
reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal"
Then post the results.
