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purrsuasively
13 years ago
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Why is Sims 3 crashing at the loading screen?

 So I wanted to install a patch, and I tried installing it, but forgot to remove my custom content. It kept crashing at the loading screen and I wondered why so I took out my custom content and it st...
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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    13 years ago

    Did you ever install mods the 'old' way in programs or via the helper installer monkey ? If so. maybe something is still hiding there.

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crinrict
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13 years ago

Crashing on loading is usually due to an incompatible scripting mod. Either you still have one hiding somewhere or you forgot to delete the cache files.


Best is to move the entire mods folder to the desktop and then delete the cache files.

Go to documents\ea\thesims3 and delete these files

  • CASPartCache.package
  • compositorCache.package
  • scriptCache.package
  • simCompositorCache.package
  • socialCache.package
  • purrsuasively's avatar
    purrsuasively
    13 years ago

    Thank you, I just did what you suggested, but it still wouldn't work. But thanks for the effort.

    • crinrict's avatar
      crinrict
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      13 years ago

      Did you ever install mods the 'old' way in programs or via the helper installer monkey ? If so. maybe something is still hiding there.

      • purrsuasively's avatar
        purrsuasively
        13 years ago

        Hmmm, well I just searched through folders again, and I found something. I removed it, I'm going to try Sims again. It worked! Thank you for the help. 😕mileyhappy:

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