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The bug is coming back after Life & Death update. Before this, I was able to fix it by decreasing the favorited sims count. I created sims NPCs & favorited them all & the bug happened. Then I started a new game with the same creations but I only favorited 1 sim.
After I updated to Life & Death, the bug happened again in the same save file even though my sim count is just 1.
I'm sure it's not caused by mods because in my other save game using the same mods that has fewer sims count, the bug didn't happen.
I'm running out of ideas on how to find the cause of this bug.
I think this is a long lasting bug that was introduced with the For Rent expansion pack. My save game that I played for many years is now unplayable due to this bug and this is really bad.
For other bugs I always found workarounds but for this one not. So I'm giving up at this point and won't touch this game anymore. There have been too many bugs and I have put a lot of effort into finding solutions. But a save game being corrupted is the last issue I can handle. If this game is broken so much that even save games get corrupted how can we have the courage to start a new one?
I will watch this thread maybe there is a solution in the future but for now it's better to move on and forget this game.
yeah, it happened to me again. First time after installing Lovestruck. The only solution I have for now is again to bulldoze some of your lots, remove unnecessary Sims and then the bug should disappear from the distance view (even if it is not the solution you except)… don’t know why the game cannot handle it, but I can only repeat myself. Why it cannot be solved without sacrificing our work to fill in other worlds with our own lots? Having all packs is not the best idea. It’s a shame devs cannot help with this… but at this stage the gameplay is pointless. At the time of writing this my save file is 140 mb, 1000 Sims (75 played, rest unplayed), all addons, no mods. I had to sacrifice residential rental units as well because 1 unit is apparently treated like 1 additional lot for your save file. I had to resign from external content due to fact For Rent EP messed everything up. Is there anything we can do with that, The Sims Team and EA?
Does it help uninstalling expansion packs so that the game engine is not overloaded with too many worlds?
@indywara wrote:Does it help uninstalling expansion packs so that the game engine is not overloaded with too many worlds?
Most people would uninstall the For Rent DLC and delete all their Rental Residentials then start over. However the corruption will come back.
Hello,
I also have this problem which happened some time ago (on a savegame that I had restarted from scratch because of another problem!), I have almost redone 2/3 of the worlds and one day I saw that the terrains were no longer displayed correctly!
Like you, I tried a lot of things, with or without CC, with few families, etc. I hadn't touched the game since. I hadn't touched the game since, and when I played yesterday, the problem had disappeared! Then it came back shortly afterwards, and I get the same impression every time I change home or move around the world... which isn't very practical. In short, if the problem appears randomly, I'm not going to start my save again... let's hope for a corrective patch…
I had this issue happening with my main save, where I filled 70% of the lots I made, and had approximatly 200 Sims played. I started from scratch as I tought it might have been linked to how long I played the save (even in this case, thise issue is not aceptable, as the goal of the game is to play with your families and see your Sims grow 😅) but if thzt's connected to a limitation, I'm king of concerned about my new save...
If this issue happens because of some limitations of the game engine, that's worrying. Currently, starting a new save file with all the packs installed, the game has 277 Sims created (in unplayed households, and not counting the hidden households) and around 250 lots built (without counting apartments). That's close to what I had in my save, except most of the Sims where set as played.
I had this problem on a save just before or after lovestruck, the houses all defaulted to ea versions in the street view, each lot was fine when playing and from map view. Then I stopped being able to save. I also kept getting multiple deaths spawning but never reaping and sims just weren’t dying but instead staying alive then being culled. I ended up deleting the save as I hadn’t been playing it that long. Didn’t get any exclamation marks anywhere though.
i play on Xbox so no mods or anything
