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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Stuck in Create a Sim/Create a Household

I don't know if this has been asked before but I am stuck., I go to "Create a Household" to create a Sim and it stays in the loading screen and does no load or let me create a sim. Stays on screen wi...
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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    13 years ago
    • Close the game and launcher
    • Go to documents\electronicarts\thesims3 and rename that to thesims3_old (you won't loose any data, it's still in there for later use)
    • Start the game. A new folder will be created
    • Check if CAS now works as it should.
    • Come back with the result and we'll go from there.
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    crinrict
    13 years ago

    Great. 

    Do you now want to put some of your old stuff back or is this fine for you ?

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Anonymous
13 years ago

IT Worked!!!

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crinrict
Hero+
13 years ago

Great. 

Do you now want to put some of your old stuff back or is this fine for you ?

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Will it have all of the items I bought from the store? I think I understand now. If I want stuff back in, I put each file back and check each file withe the game to see which file it is. It is probably stuff I downloaded which I am fine with not putting back, what file would that be?

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    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    I would start with putting the savegames back.


    They are in the folder saves.

    The store content is in the folder DCCache. There are two kinds of files. Such with the extension dbc (leave those out those are probably the ones that give you troubles) and ebc (those are the store content)

    Also put back the file ccmerged from the DCBackup folder.

    Here's an explanation what files do what: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/01/faq-user-files.html

    As you said, check after everything you put back if the issue re-occurs.

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    I'm having a similar problem kinda. I went to edit town/create a household to put new sims into the town. They are supernaturals. I successfully created a witch, werewolf, vampire, and fairy. I pressed the check mark but then forgot I needed to create a ghost. So I go back and the first sim that pops up I try to change their supernatural type from human to ghost. But then my mouse curser is showing the loading icon and it's been probably 20 minutes and there's no change. I try to exit cas and I can't but I can still rotate my sim with the mouse. I don't want to quit the game because it isn't saved and I don't want to loose my progress. Please help

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