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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 with that little green diamond. I left it on for an hour and nothing happened. I can change my Sims clothing fine, there are no issues there. Someone please help me 😕mileysad:

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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.
  • crinrict's avatar
    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's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Ok now I have another issue and I am wondering if it is because I changed files due to this error. My new problem is that I cannot update my Sims launcher. It states following error: Update Error: File Not Found.  Someone please help.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I'm not very sure how to explain it to you, but if you downloaded any Sims not from EA, or from EA store. Or any CC/IC you recently bought or downloaded might be affecting the game, better to be said is: Reset the Downloads folder, Mods folder, or anything near that. 

    This is an easy way, plus, it won't affect your game and also you don't need to waste time on un-instaling and re-installing while you could simply press the Delete/Cut button in seconds.

    Note:If this doesn't help, I don't know what will. I'm not an expert on The Sims 3 Modding and Helping, I'm bad at teaching really🙂.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    DONT DO THIS! Deleted my game and all my installed content. I was really far along so thanks for nothing 🙂
  • Anonymous's avatar
    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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    zulnutspread
    3 years ago

    i did this and also deleted my cache and now my game is deleted ☹️ do you know what happened?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @zulnutspread  Your saves aren't deleted; they're intact in the Sims 3 folder you renamed.  The game can't read the contents of that folder when it's not called "The Sims 3," so it has instead created a new folder with that name, and that new folder doesn't contain any of your previous content.

    The point of this exercise is to see whether the game works properly while you're using the new Sims 3 folder.  If it does, then the problem is something in the old folder, and you can start moving over your saves and other content to see what works and what doesn't.  If you still have issues with the new folder, the problem lies elsewhere.

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    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hey all,

    This thread has gotten a bit older, so it's been locked to prevent any necro-posting.

    If you're still having trouble with this issue, please feel free to create a new thread so we can take a look with you 🙂 

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