@ToKiHyou
Move the Sims 4 folder from Documents > Electronic Arts to the desktop then launch the game, it will be completely clean with no saves or settings. Start a new game, download that lot from the gallery and see if the same error comes up.
Edit - merged into an ongoing thread on the issue, seems you're not the only one experiencing it.
Hello! @Bluebellflora
I've done as you suggested but I'm afraid it was still the same.
Also I don't know if this help, but the restaurant looks a bit corrupted when you look at in the WorldMap, like so:
Any other suggestions?
Bes tergards,
ToKi
@Bluebellfloraquick update on that. As I thought the graphics didn't really like the depth of my lake, so I went and deleted the lake (for now) in my save game and the world game looks just fine, but the error is still there.
In addition, this is what shows right after the messages comes out (this is what it always showed but I never took a SS):
But then I go in and the restaurant had nothing missing ...:
Best regards,
ToKi
@ToKiHyou This is a long shot, I'll be honest, but maybe it has something to do with the number of dining spots in your restaurant? I don't know if 99 is accurate or if that's what it caps out at (or is a visual representation of the game glitching when it attempts to assign them), but it seems like a lot, and I'm wondering if it's maybe overloading the process that Dine Out runs when it checks to see which seats are valid dining spots, thereby making it think there are none (sort of an integer overflow type thing
Try removing a bunch of tables/chairs (or just un-slotting the chairs from said tables) and see if that fixes it. And if you haven't yet, perhaps try installing TwistedMexi's Better Exceptions mod and see if it spits out anything useful (unlikely, imo, but it can't hurt).
@ToKiHyouI don't know about an "ideal," but logistically, I believe TS4 only allows a total of 20 Sims on one lot unmodded. So counting a minimum of one each chef, waiter, and host, minimum one playable sim, and the unlikely scenario that each dining party consists of only one sim, you should need at MOST 16 seats. Realistically, it's unlikely you'll need even that much, but I find somewhere around that number looks nice aesthetically.
It might be worth fulfilling the minimum number of requirements for the lot and see if that helps, or perhaps swap out the tables and/or chairs used. Maybe also try setting everything (chefs station, host station, wait station, and at least one dining seat) aside in a wide open space to be absolutely sure the game isn't disregarding it due to inaccessibility. You could also try setting it as a generic lot, then saving and replacing it, then set it back to a restaurant.
And if you haven't yet, reinstalling the game could help. If you still use the Origin launcher, you can try right clicking and choosing "repair game" before resorting to an outright reinstall. I'm unsure if the EA launcher has a similar mechanic, though I'd expect it would.
ETA: you don't have to install Better Exceptions if you'd prefer not to, though it doesn't actually affect your game in any way. All it does in intercept when the game throws an error and makes the error file more readable. It could help diagnose the issue, but it's not necessary.
Hello everyone!
Apologies for the suuuuuperlate reply!
After trying literally everything, I had a feeling i had to destroy it and build another one, and the mere idea made me so made, that I didn't play for like two weeks.
Once I got over myself, I destroyed it and built another restaurant, and it worked with all waiters etc (you can only have one host though), so I do believe it was that error in the floor level on the ground floor.
Thank you so much for everyone who offered to help me,
Toki
To anyone else having issues with restaurants not loading, regardless of CC use, a new mod was released on ModTheSims that claims to help prevent issues relating to placemat drawings, it might be worth installing if nothing else is working for you! I'm unsure if I'm allowed to link to it here, but in case the link breaks, it's called " No more placemats - no more broken restaurants" by VeiledWoman on ModTheSims.
[Cm Edit: Mod linked removed]
This is definitely caused by placements. Today I was playing on my sims wend to a date at a restaurant, everything was fine. Then the next day I sent them to the same restaurant using the map and the got the save error. I thought it was a fluke, rebooted, tried again. Save error again. Tried sending them on a date instead of directly traveling. Same issue.
I poked around the internet, eventually found this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mod-CC-Issues/DO-Error-123-20ece5dd/td-p/7099951/page/6 which mentioned placements. Loaded the restaurant through Manage Worlds, there was a child's drawing on one of the tables. I deleted it, went back to my sims and now they can travel to the restaurant no problem.
Ctrl+F on Better Exceptions listed the following, placemat specific possible issues:
@BluebellfloraPlease stop giving kneejerk responses that basically amounts to "your game is screwed, please make it even more unplayable and tell us if that works." This is an EA game we're talking about that's got over 8 years of interns rubbing their greasy paws in the code. Give the users some credit and assume that if they have enough savvy to take a screenshot of the error code, then maybe they're not complete idiots.
