Please use this thread going forward: Save Game Corruption (Disappearing Lots/Error 800 or 801) | EA Forums - 5037272
My case is similar, both my daughter's saved game, which she has been playing for years since the game came out, and my wife's or mine's, we have years of game progress, which we would not want to lose.
And by the way, I do have that MOD that you mention, but only in my game, not my daughter's or my wife's, and even so the error happens in all of them, this since the release of the new expansion.
At the moment the only thing I have been able to do to avoid the error is not to have the content of the new expansion installed, although it is abusive, because one pays for a product that has only managed to corrupt the game, if at least it was broken but not corrupted the game, one could at least play, but there is no way to do it without the risk that all the lots end up corrupted in one way or another.
Hope you all are having great holidays! Just a quick update from me:
I went back to a backup save from before installing For Rent, and used cheats to bring it back to the most recent state, but didn’t add any residential rentals this time. Played for hours, and there was no corruption (For Rent was still installed, and the default residential rentals that come with it were there)
I added 6 residential rental units, and again played for hours. During this I was also uploading other (non-rental) builds from the gallery, building new lots etc. Again, no corruption.
Yesterday, I decided to play in Tomarang. I replaced their default residential rentals (with the same number of units), and added a building with six more units. Again, played for hours and all seems fine.
So in total I ended up adding only 12 units, and the game handled it well. So I know it sucks, but until EA fixes it, I think the only way to enjoy the game is to use the new expansion very delicately.
Also, regarding your games, did you all try doing “recover save” in the load menu, to try finding any non corrupted version? This way the loss of progress is at least somewhat smaller
I just wanted to add that this issue happened for me when I was literally using no mods/CC at all, just the new expansion
I’ve never used that cheat and my game still got corrupted! I did add lots of residential rentals back then, but vanilla way, no mods and no cheats. So honestly, I feel like it might be just the amount of lots (with each unit being treated as one lot). I don’t know why everyone has a different cutoff number after which it breaks, maybe it’s RAM related?
@LauratkoKLol! At least you've tried it and confirmed that the issue still happens. Not sure if its RAM related? I have 32GB ram and only hit 75% memory usuage when running Sims 4. My game is pretty smooth so if there is a cutoff i would hope it would be higher! We really need EA to get their finger out and start resolving this.
The lack of communication/response from EA on their own hosted forum about this issue says it all really...the silence is deafening...
I've been testing so many different scenarios using clean saves prior to the expansion pack and always end up running into the same issue at some stage. I think the For Rent pack has too many bugs that is hitting all types of gamers. I came across this thread https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-FR-Stuck-on-Residential-Rental-Lot-type/td-p/13291850/page/8 where lots get stuck on residential rental and you can't change them to a different lot type once you've registered it as residential rental. I've also noticed this bug in my game aswell which might be related or could be unrelated who knows!
EA really needs to fix these issues because it looks like this pack is corrupting a significant number of saves across the board. For now my only hope is that they release a fix in the next patch.
@nathaneous1 I also have this bug that you just linked. Not even once I managed to change residential rental back to any other type. I wonder if these two bugs come together…
Regarding the RAM, I didn’t mean that we have too little. Most of people in this thread have computers above the minimum requirements, as far as I’ve seen. But I wonder why everyone has a different number of units after which it consistently breaks?
But then again, if you all never reach any significant RAM usage than it cannot be it. I’m almost sure it depends on amount of lots in general (not just units) so maybe the number of units after which it breaks depends on how many lots we have in our games?
but then again, if you go to the beginning of this thread, it also happened to people with just a few expansion packs, and no mods. However, obviously there might be many different roots of this bug, and perhaps what they experienced was caused by something else entirely?
I wonder if we will ever know haha
