[ARCHIVED] Orange/Green Exclamation signs over lots / Houses disappear

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@kassey22000 wrote:

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For myself and some friends who have also been struggling with this issues, it started when we noticed:
1. Long established lots in Willow Creek had disappeared after the installation of 4Rent.
2. When Res Rental units were placed there, they initially ran well (5 unit and a 6 unit build, no cheats). But when revisiting them, only one floor would show as accessible.
3. The same rentals would then devolve over just a few days into UN-playable (would not load, Error 800, and or/infinite loading screen).
4. Soon that spread to ALL units no matter which designation in Willow Creek.  So we tried to build in Oasis Springs (2 of the original Worlds shipped with the base game). Same FAIL, now O.S. is unplayable. 
5. Now both Willow Creek and Oasis Springs show orange warning triangles over many previously perfect properties whether they are Res, Generic, Bar, etc.
6. One 6-unit rental in Tomarang will only show 2 of 4 floors so you can only load 2 households.

This all started to occur as soon as we installed and built our 1st rental and progressed day by day until the entire game file(s) are corrupt!  We lost over 2 weeks of development! (for some it's months of loss).  Others on here have posted that they had corruption issues starting 2-3 DLCs prior pointing to issue with save file sizes +++

What we collectively did for now:
1. Located a SAVE from the day or week before 4R was installed and loaded that game (sad in the realization of all that we had made was destroyed). 
2. Carefully deleted any lots/households that we were not playing or lost interest in to lower the save file size.
3. Deleted any rarely used CC down to just a few build and create a sim items.
4. Converted the 8 individual res rentals units we painstakingly designed/built into just residential so at least they could be played with individual households. Until and IF EA fixes this malignant bug.
5. The game seems stable now, but it's only been 48 hrs.
6. We will NOT download any Rental units from the Public Gallery - some of those are already cheated and may contribute to the spreading corruption issue.

What didn't work:
1. Repairs (all 22 of them),
2. Removal of broken rental lots/households (can't even get to the property b/c of the bug)! + Removal of all cache files.
3. Reboots, Re-installs, Reaching out to EA directly - all a huge waste of time.
4. Playing without CC, Cheats, or Mods.  NO DIFFERENCE PERIOD testing over 40 lots/world/saves.
5. De-listing For Rent DLC in the game properties to keep it from loading.  (this may help some but also throw up a number of errors as well). 

In some sense we had it better than many who have tipped over the Sims Codebase trigger for lot/world/save spreading corruption super-bug!   We only lost 2 weeks and many hours of careful design, build, families etc, many have lost hours/days/months of work/play. 

My System: Pro build Origin Gaming PC - Win 11 + 12th Gen Intel + 32gb RAM + RTX 3090 graphics card + 2TB SSD main drive + 1gb ISP service + DX12 + Fullscreen.

As so many helpers and heroes on here state over and over - BACK-UP, SAVE, RECORD WHAT BREAKS.  We now hit SAVE with any major change in the building or household.  We also use the SAVE AS menu when making an big changes in a world or event so we can name those and easily find them later. 

I hope it never happens to anyone else, but it is and Game Ender!

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Wow thank you so very much for taking the time to write all this down! So many useful informations! 🙂 Now I can look out for these signs, and of course still avoid those buggy Residential Rentals. So glad I've never dared to use even one of them.
And also I am sorry that you had to go through this stress because of this terrible bug. It really is a shame that EA doesn't seem to care about it.