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Daisibell
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After moving my game from MAC to PC most households not loading

I am at my wits’ end. I have been playing on an 8gb ram Macbook Air for years without many issues, so few issues that I’ve barely ever had to even use this forum before. However my Macbook was running low on space for game files so I recently purchased an HP gaming computer as it promised better performance. It’s the Hp Victus with 32gb ram, nvidia graphics etc and I was so excited to get better speeds and an overall better gaming experience. However since moving my files over from my mac it’s been a nightmare. Only one of my multiple played households are playable, the others just get stuck on loading screen. I’ve done everything suggested in the forums here to address such an issue and nothing has worked. I have spent literal days sifting through my mods and cc to see if one of them may be causing the issue to no avail. I have a lot of CC. I have picked through my mods folder, removing batch by batch and gotten a few households to load but then I would try to load the same households again with the same cc removed and it would fail. And some households are not loading no matter what I do. I don’t use many script mods and have updated all of them to the latest version. I feel like crying because I spent a lot of money on that laptop just to be able to enjoy my gaming time more and now I can’t even play.
My game is updated to the most recent patch. No LE error is generated when the households don’t load. I have only been able to access one household through build mode and I was able to play it for a bit afterward but the next time I tried to load it I was unsuccessful. I don’t know if this might be a factor but I did miss a few patches and updates while I was still playing on Mac due to low memory. Let me know if any other info is needed. I am desperate for help. 

NB: I know there are already threads that address similar topics but I started a new one because none of the solutions offered worked for me. If I was wrong in doing so please guide me accordingly. I haven’t used this forum much before. 

 

 

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    Daisibell
    New Rookie
    12 days ago

    Also going to do this in case it causes problems in the future. Thanks🙏 

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    Daisibell
    New Rookie
    12 days ago

    The batch fix did the trick! Thank you so much. Somehow I never came across the Direct X 11 thing in all the research I did before switching across to PC and missed the note about it in the master post 🫣 . You are a lifesaver. 

  • Daisibell- you mentioned that you had already tried different solutions, but that none of them had worked. Did those solutions include removing the .DS_Store files?

    Those were what prevented my game from running when I switched from MacBook Air to PC for the same reasons as you.

    In case you haven’t deleted them, you need to get rid of them all so check every folder. For me they were in the main Sims 4 folder, the saves folder, the recorded videos folder and the mods folder - and within the mods folder in pretty much every single subfolder as well.

    If you’ve already deleted some of them, just check if there should be any remaining in some of the other folders. They all nede to go.

    Hope you find a solution that works, because it’s so frustrating when you’re looking forward to playing and some technical issue is preventing you from doing so 🙂

  • Daisibell  Have you tested with all mods and cc removed, or only a batch at a time? If not, please test with all mods/cc removed - just don't save while they're out (or you could use "save as" to create a separate test save).

    Did you check out this master post [MASTER POST] Current and Common Mod/CC Issues | EA Forums - 9360744 ?

    Particularly this section: Re: [MASTER POST] Current and Common Mod/CC Issues | EA Forums - 9360746

    I do see a Windows-specific note about CC that is not updated for Direct X 11 - do you have Sims 4 Studio to run a batch fix?

     

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