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Pear046
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15 hours ago

Unable to Play Saved Game With and Without Mods

I have tried everything. After the recent update my game will not open my current household, it will only open the load worlds page. At first, I thought it was my mods, so I tested every single one. It was not an issue with my mods. Even if I take all of my mods out of the game, I still cannot open my household. 

So, I looked to see if the Sims team solved this issue and, in this post, (that I also commented on) When Loading Household Game Returns to Neighborhood Select Screen I decided to see what they recommended since, apparently it isn't a game issue. So, I clicked onto this link Solution where it gave me many different ways to solve this issue.

As stated, I already knew it wasn't a broken mod because I tested the game with and without mods. Then as recommended I decided to rename my Sims 4 folder "Old" so a new folder would populate creating essentially a blank slate. I did this. It worked; I could open this new game exit out of Sims then reopen back into this household. So, then I went on to the next step of moving my Save file in the "Old" folder into the fresh one. This is where I found that I could not open the household like it had been doing before. I didn't have any mods in my game and cleared out my localthumbcashe.package and of course repaired my game via EA app. I was given this code: 110:bleeeb7:b90b4979 but I am completely lost how to fix this issue. 

Now, this would not be a big issue if I didn't have my legacy save game. I have worked so hard on this file and would hate for it to be gone completely for an update that occurred recently especially because I have never had an issue with my mods nor my household since this update in prior ones. 

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  • I have the same exact problem! With or without mods, I cannot load any households (townies or my own) but starting a fresh saves works. I can enter CAS and build but no households as it crashes to desktop everytime. I do not want to lose this save file as I've been playing with it for years :( I'm interested in the answers on this thread, hope we get some help ! Weirdly it happens to every saves from 2025 to 2024, but I can load without any issues in 2023 save files with the same sims...