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suprana1
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21 days ago

My save is broken since the latest patch update

Hi!

As mentioned in the title, I believe my save files became corrupted after upgrading my game to patch 1.121.361. I have never had this issue with previous updates, typically I would only have to upgrade a few mods and every thing would go back to working perfectly. For clarification, I only play with one save.

This time, even after removing all of my mods and tray files from my sims folder, my game is facing a number of issues. Firstly when loading my game, instead of being taken to the saved household, I am kicked back to the map of their residential lot (Willow Creek for example). Then, I am unable to access the majority of my lots (infinite loading screen), whether in build or live mode. Finally, I am having issues with CAS: I tried to modify some of my households (with cas.fulleditmode on) but I can not access or even see traits, they just do not appear on the screen, only the aspiration. 

These are just the issues I have uncovered when trying to fix my game, there are probably others.

Here is everything I have done thus far to test and try to repair:

-Created a backup of my mods and saves files and emptied the ones in the Sims 4 folder.

-Cleared all cache (before every new launch of the game).

-Repaired my game in the EA app (multiple times).

-Deleted my Sims 4 file to launch a clean version of the game which worked fine.

-Introduced only a copy of my save files in the newly created Sims 4 folder (no mods, no CC, no tray): the issues came back. 

-Restored earlier saves and played them: they all presented the same issues. 

If I am right and my save files have indeed been corrupted, is there anything I can do besides cry? Is it fixable, will it be fixed by a later update?

I would be so grateful if anyone could assist, thank you!!!!

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  • suprana1​  If you're still interested, would you be willing to share your broken save(s)?  You could upload them to a third-party filesharing site (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) and either post the link here or send it to me via PM.  If you use Google Drive, make sure "anyone with the link" can share it.

    As for whether the saves are gone for good, I've been able to load some broken saves on patch 1.120.  So if EA figures out what's wrong on patch 1.121 and is willing and able to fix it, then your saves might be usable again.  But I don't know how likely that is because I don't know the root cause.  Some of it appears to be genealogy-related, but that's about as far as my understanding goes.