hi sorry for late response! i got the game to work again (kind of). the issue came, at least I think, from when I was changing the lot type of a lot i built and had a sim own from a small business res lot to a restaurant. I had my sim sell the lot, went into b/b, changed and updated it, and when she re-bought the lot as a restaurant and attempted to load into it, that's when everything happened. I tried re-downloading the lot from my library, changing it completely out of a restaurant, and more but nothing works to fix that specific lot. I CAN play the game, as long as a) i do not go to the restaurant or b) i take any sims to the restaurant. do you still want me to post lastexception files?