I am getting an error 800 pop up with 2 lots in my game. I don't know what caused the problem. At first I thought it was because I added the City Living food stalls on both lots. That is the only change I've made and I've had these same lots ever since the game came out in 2014. BUT, I have a different lot that has a food stall and that lot is not bugged...yet? So far I have tried: - Update game via Origin; I'm already fully patched. - Repair game via Origin; it didn't download or repair anything. I have all EP's/GP's/SP's. - Recreate new "The Sims 4" folder and replace the Mods/Saves/Screenshots/Tray folders with my actual old folders. - Place a house from the Gallery while in the Manage Worlds screen; didn't work but just showed the animation of Building Lots for over 20 minutes. - Enter the lot in Build mode; I get error 800. - Added a test sim and moved then into the lot; I get error 800 when trying to play. - Have another Sim buy the empty lot as Retail store; I get error 800. Does anyone have any additional suggestions?

Sorry for the late response. It's the "Lap of Luxury" lot in Willow Creek. I have a family in there called the HootiePooties (that was embarrassing to type!). Thanks for your help, and thanks for all you do for the Simmer community. Your posts and bug lists have saved me on many an occasion. We all owe you a lot.

Hey there,This thread is rather old, so I'm going to lock it to prevent necroposting. If you need any help, though, please either find a newer post (<6 months old is ideal), or feel free to create a new one! Thanks for your understanding.

I have the same issue and it's now affecting all the community lots in Willow Creek. Started with the Blue Velvet nightclub being gone when I would send a Sim there. The lot would be set to "residential" and the entire venue was gone. I could reset the lot type and rebuild the venue from a saved version in my gallery. This happened 2-3 times. Now it throws the 800 error and I cannot travel there with a Sim, or try to build on the lot from the neighborhood screen. I just tried to visit the museum and gym in that area and got the same bug. I too have tried the things listed above and none worked.

I have 16GB of RAM. So, I play every household, rotating around periodically. Is that abnormal? Is that not how the game is supposed to be played? I realize it's a huge save; I just thought that kind of file size was normal for this game. 🙂 It's the way I've been playing the game since the first version of the Sims. The current save has households that have been around for probably 20 generations. If I mark households as unplayed will that help? The lots in Willow Creek are all starting to become corrupted. I just went into a house I've had for a long time, and I got the error that certain items were incompatible and were being removed. It removed almost ALL of the furniture.

Was there ever any solution and explanation for this bug?I didn't play my Brook Bungalow family in ages and when I returned today I was getting the 800 error. I can neither visit the family nor enter when in the build-mode. (not even after repairing the game)I am not sure if this is related to the saved-game file...I can only say that this file was always around 3000 KB and some weeks ago it suddenly jumped to 59.000 which is weird.

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FruUtter
8 years ago
I totaly agree with the post above! I have been having this problem since I finally got tempted and bougt the game 2016. And you know what, the error code 800 is also linked to installation of expansion packs not only the size of the played file.
Just like vigaver I too enjoy having many families which I visit within short period of time. However, I do NOT DARE to use neither mods, CC nor even MOO because of all those bugs the game is littered with. This error-code-800-bug is an insult to us as customers!! Especially since the same bug was present in Sims 3 it should have been fixed for the curtesy of paying customers!
Or, as someone else pointed out, should one change the playstyle to avoid the bug? In that case, my dears, you should inform your customers about the playstyle BEFORE the purchase this glittering EA-Cash-Maschine!
Shame on you, developers and content providers hiding behind fancy logos EA and Maxis!!
FruUtter a sims-veteran and customer sick of bugs, promises and fancy advertising
Just fix it!
PS: to the customer supporter: kindly remove the sentence: "happy simming" because it does sound like heartless mockery
IrishMadCat_EA
EA QV Team
8 years ago
@SimQARobo wrote:

For anyone encountering this, would you be willing to share some game files?

Specifically everything in \Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves\.

Instructions for how to send us files are here.

Tagging @vigaver and @Tahemet as recent posters on this thread.

Hi @FruUtter

Sorry to hear you are having this issue. Are you happy to share the save file @SimQARobo has asked for so we can investigate further?
FruUtter
8 years ago
Thank you for replying so fast! I have cleaned out my game (removed the "infected" game, moved sims to library etc., this time I did not re-instsled the game) since last disaster that accured two days ago namely houses disapearing combained with frequent freez/crashes.
Nevertheless, I can see if I can re-cover the files through back-up.
I read another thread from 2014 where other gamers discribe the same problem http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/791146/save-size-suddenly-bloating-post-here. Fortunatly for some the problem got solved.
Still a very unhappy gamer and customer
FruUtter
leucosiax
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
even with mods- same issue
EA_Pulsar
Community Manager
2 years ago
Hey there,
This thread is rather old, so I'm going to lock it to prevent necroposting. If you need any help, though, please either find a newer post (<6 months old is ideal), or feel free to create a new one!

Thanks for your understanding.
ashesinchains
Rising Traveler
14 days ago
This is still happening. Is EA even investigating??! LOTS of players are having this issue with ZERO solutions. It's been almost a decade, seriously.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
12 days ago
ashesinchains Please use this master thread:

Load Error Code 800/801 | EA Forums - 11901236

Since this thread is very old and was previously locked (before it was migrated to this new site), I'll lock it again now.

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