Information and Questions about this issue
The error seems to be caused by a corrupt relationship between two (or more Sims). It doesn't affect all household but only those where one or more Sims are in the corrupted relationship
It seems to work to delete the relationship between the Sims but I'm unsure if there are any further side effects or not.
All suggestions given here are done at your own risk. Make a backup of the corrupted save so you can go back there if the fix doesn't work properly and EA fixes the issue and you want to go back.
You will also need a mod to fix this. Haven't found a possibility without. You can either use twistedMexis AllCheatFix or MCCC (you just need the base mod)
Fix with MCCC
The fix is a bit complicated so please let me know if you have any questions. As time allows (if EA doesn't' fix this fast) I will make instructions with pictures in my blog, just don't currently have the time for that.
- Backup your user folder
- Put MCCC (you only need the base mod) in your mods folder and make sure you have cc and script mods turned on
- Start the game
- Find any households that don't load and write down the names of the Sims in those households.
- Load one household that still loads
- Travel with one sim of that household to any of the lots with the households that don't load
- Click on the Sims that live in that household (one after the other) and choose: MC Command Center - Relationships - Delete Relationship, then choose the first Sim that has been in the households that didn't load.
- Repeat for all Sims in those households.
- If other Sims had relationship among each other that are not covered by 7 and 8, you need to click on the next Sim and also delete the relationship. You only need to delete relationship from A to B, the relationship from B to A will automatically be deleted so that should be covered.
- Once you have done that, save the game under a new name and go back to Manage World
- Try loading all your households. It should work now
- If you had other relationships then household members, you will need to reset them again via either MCCC (Add relationship) or via CAS if they are in the same household.
Fix with AllCheats Mod
I didn’t test this solution but it should work.
- Download the current version of .
- Start the game and load a household that is not affected.
- Turn on testingcheats with testingcheats true.
- Find the ID of all affected Sims with sims.get_sim_id_by_name <FirstName> <LastName>. Write those down in a text file as you will need them later multiple times. You’ll be glad you can just c/p from the text file.
- Delete the corrupted relationships with relationship.destroy yoursimID targetsimID
- Save your game under a new name and try to load the previously affected households. They should now load. If not, try to find if there’s other corrupted relationships.
- All relationships between the Sims are now set to household member. This means that any relatives or husband – wife relationship will be deleted by this and your Sim may now have wrong ones.
- If you had such relationships you can now re-add them with either CAS (Cheat: cas.fulleditmode on) or with relationship.add_bit <yoursimID> <targetsimID> <relationshipBit>. relationshipBit has one of the following values
- romantic-Married
- family_husband_wife
- family_grandchild
- family_son_daughter
- family_brother_sister
- family_grandparent
- family_parent