Un-corrupt a save?
Is it possible to repair a possibly corrupted savegame? My problem right now is my save wont load. Household loading causes the game to crash. I can enter cas but leaving it can crash the game. Crea...
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Zasz_Zerg Hello! I'm so sorry you're having trouble with your saves. Are you still not able to play or did you figure it out? If you haven't already tried it, I suggest creating a completely new Sims 4 folder. First, with the game closed, move your entire The Sims 4 folder from Documents > Electronic Arts to your desktop. This will keep all your current files intact. Then launch the game, which will generate a new TS4 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts. Create a new save and see if it also crashes. Please come back and update if the new save is stable or not.
Still unchanged. I tried that too. After removing, repairing, resetting all on my end the save still continues to crash as described above.
I created a new save. Well, technically I copied a save I created where I removed all lots and households, saved that in a new slot, moved the current house & household into it and everything works fine. So Im pretty confident its the save, not a game folder, settings or mods.
But I lost pretty much all relationships, electronics & stuff isnt upgraded, all inventories are empty ect. All gone. Again. I did that last year when a save had an error nobody was able to help with too.
This really needs some attention from a dev who can look at the save itself.
Zasz_Zerg Would you be willing to share your save with me? I haven't done this since the new forums were established but you should be able to send me a DM with your save file attached. I'm not a dev but I could at least be able to see if it crashes for me too and possibly be able to determine the cause.
EDIT: After a bit of research, I see that if you want to share your save file, you'll need to upload it to a cloud storage service like Google Drive, then share that link. This is up to you of course but I'm happy to help if I can.
Zasz_Zerg Thank you for sharing your save with me! As I mentioned over DM, I was unable to figure out a fix and the only thing I can suggest is uploading your Last Crash file(s) and hopefully a CM can take a look. I'm really sorry I'm not able to be more help to you. 🙁
Thanks for testing. You did more than everyone else.
I found a forum post where someone used chatgpt and got it to decrypt the encrypted lastcrash file. I only have copilot at the moment but it seems it successfully discovered something:
categoryid 0x2e08ab48
This category is 100% consistent with a CAS‑related infinite loop / runaway recursion inside the UI / SimInfo / Outfit system.
It is not a GPU crash, not memory, not DX11, not a mod loader issue.Your stack trace is pages of repeated calls in the same pattern:
0x2e668b07
0x2e6692da
0x2e6686b2
0x2e6697e5
0x2e664a27
0x2e668920
0x2e669620This is the classic Sims 4 CAS infinite recursion crash. The game is stuck in a loop trying to evaluate a Sim’s outfit or CAS part.
It never escapes the loop → stack overflows → crashBut even when I remove everything, all mods, all CC, everything, it still crashes.
The provided solutions dont really work but I got a few new options to explore to find out whats causing the issue.
It would really help if the game would name the files it tries to load or cant load. After all its looking for something thats either not there, expected to be there or there & broken. Or its not a CC issue at all.
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