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7 days ago

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Major bug: Multiple worlds are completely unusable in my existing save

Hello, I am reporting a serious bug in The Sims 4 that has made a large part of my game completely unusable. In my existing save, multiple worlds are broken. When I open these worlds, I see a faint...

crashing

CGrant56
6 days ago
Misa_jiroutova What else besides starting a new game have you done in the way of testing? From everything you've said, since a new save does not have the problem of your original save, then the game files are mostly likely not the problem. But sometimes running a repair, deleting the localthumbcache file, doing a user/clean folder reset or even a full uninstall/reinstall will make a difference in an existing save. Did you try starting new games, both with and without with your mods/CC? Have you done any of those? I'd suggest you do a user folder reset as that is the most likely thing that might fix your problem. You can find directions to do that here: 📓[GUIDE] Clean User Folder Approach | EA Forums - 12690428

Since you are a mod user, did you check your mods and if you did, which method did you use? Did you add or remove something in your mods folder right before the problem showed up? Do any of the mods you use save info in the save file itself or in its own save file? When you tested without mods, did you also pull the mod save file out too?

Hopefully, one of those things will work and you can continue to play your save. However, if none of that works, then what it sounds like is your save file has started to show a sign of save corruption. Tbh, at this point you are probably better off saving what households and lots you can and start over in a new save. It can be a lot or work and time to do that. Or you can just start a new save and abandon everything. The choice is yours.

Hope this helps.

CGrant56

Hero+

6 days ago

Misa_jiroutova What else besides starting a new game have you done in the way of testing? From everything you've said, since a new save does not have the problem of your original save, then the game files are mostly likely not the problem. But sometimes running a repair, deleting the localthumbcache file, doing a user/clean folder reset or even a full uninstall/reinstall will make a difference in an existing save. Did you try starting new games, both with and without with your mods/CC? Have you done any of those? I'd suggest you do a user folder reset as that is the most likely thing that might fix your problem. You can find directions to do that here: 📓[GUIDE] Clean User Folder Approach | EA Forums - 12690428

Since you are a mod user, did you check your mods and if you did, which method did you use? Did you add or remove something in your mods folder right before the problem showed up? Do any of the mods you use save info in the save file itself or in its own save file? When you tested without mods, did you also pull the mod save file out too?

Hopefully, one of those things will work and you can continue to play your save. However, if none of that works, then what it sounds like is your save file has started to show a sign of save corruption. Tbh, at this point you are probably better off saving what households and lots you can and start over in a new save. It can be a lot or work and time to do that. Or you can just start a new save and abandon everything. The choice is yours.

Hope this helps.