Re: [OPEN] Endless Loading/Crashing when trying to load a certain lot

Hello @4llen11,

Could you confirm if the issue you posted is the same as this existing thread?
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Endless-loading-on-game-start-up-Turn-off-wifi-to-fix/td-p/13002150

Seems similar, but nothing I do fixes the issue. I have also tried removing mods, but that didn't solve the issue. 

I have also removed any broken or outdated script mods that may conflict with the update. This issue never occurred in previous patches and the loading times for extreme households like mine, currently totaling 64 sims was reasonable at 20-30 seconds, but after the update, the household endlessly loads, but luckily I can still retrieve the sims from that household. I think it has to do with the recent patch that may have created some form of bug that increases loading times. The issue does not occur in smaller sims households, but there is a noticeable lag when loading into the game. For single sims it would be as long as 5 seconds and for 8 person households was nearly 20 seconds whereas previously would only take about one second to load both. 

@4llen11 Did you also remove ANY mods/cc you have and test with an empty mods folder ?

How big is your save game ?

But you have 80 Sims in your whole game not a single household ? Just making sure cause you said you had 80 Sims in one household which seems a lot and is only possible with mods.

@4llen11 So sorry, missed that. I'll let you know.

EDIT: So, Did you put any of your mods back ? Especially the ones that let you have that many Sims in one household ? If you load the save with no mods, the game needs to remove all the extra Sims (it does so when you load the household or go to CAS) and I think that just overwhelms the game. I would suggest waiting till all the mods you are using are updated and try again then. Play a new save until then.

@4llen11 

Did you try to load the game with broken mods in? If so the save may be permanently broken and will try to load indefinitely. If so you must recover an older save.

I have tried recovering a save and it doesn't work. I have removed all broken mods, so it is very strange. 

It is possible the sims became bugged. I have updated all mods to try and fix the issue and that has not been fixed, so I suspect the update basically broke my household. Oh well, but at least I can still recover the sims, so I will be able to recreate the household in no time and this time I will make sure to save the household to my gallery, so if this problem ever occurs again, at least I do not have to be too mad about the update breaking my household. 

I tried it on a fresh save and still nothing. I have even tried it using a house from the gallery and it still does not work. I have a save from several months ago when I built it and it still does not work, so I think it is that the code in the recent patch has screwed up large houses. I am even going back after today to try again to see if it is happening again, so I will keep you notified on any issues.

Ps. I also tested it without mods.