Emergency patch coming 11/25

I've removed the CC beds and computers I had in my remake of Drake Hall, as per that Guru, but still I get the same loading error. The same CC I use elsewhere where its working fine. Something is wrong with this expansion. Aggravating. I refuse to live in a Maxis house.

"ReflectedLight;c-17327845" wrote:

"DeKay;c-17327101" wrote:
For example, you have Save A and you do a save as and call it Save B. But then the patch corrupts both Save A and Save B. You won't be able to use them anymore.

The game cannot corrupt Save A since you only used it to load and immediately created Save B.

Loading a save doesn't change it. Saving over top of it does.

So while I get the common "backup your saves" you might hear from a game company, it really means I'd think twice before saving over top of your pre-patch saves and thereby losing the save you had pre-patch. One way to avoid saving over top of them is just create a new save immediately and only use this new one.

Now if someone is playing multiple different versions of stories through multiple unique save files, it's probably easier to just back up your save folder rather than risk forgetting to make a new "save as" for each unique story line save you have, until you're sure the patch hasn't messed up the game (and hence messed up any new saves files created / overwritten after the patch).

Whenever there's a patch, I tend to do a "save-as" immediately to start a new save file in case the patch ends up having issues then later delete previous one when it's clear I no longer need it.

Thanks for the response.

I'm saying the patch could corrupt your files even before you open the game (even after you have created Save B before that) which means it corrupts the files while you're downloading the patch (tho, this might be super rare and might not happen, I think, tho I've seen patches that could corrupt the game files in the other TS4 folder).

But never mind. I don't want this to turn into an argument. I think I already did my part to answer your question so there's that.

"DeKay;c-17328070" wrote:
I'm saying the patch could corrupt your files even before you open the game (even after you have created Save B before that) which means it corrupts the files while you're downloading the patch (tho, this might be super rare and might not happen, I think, tho I've seen patches that could corrupt the game files in the other TS4 folder).

Yes, I know you're claiming that - there's no proof that this is the case. Save files do not in any way get changed just by loading it or by patching your game - they only get changed by saving over top of them. (You want to verify it: load a game, do a save as, exit the game and check the save file you loaded: they are not in any way modified in date or file size from before you ever loaded them). And this is why I was wondering why they make the claim to "back up your saves" when they do not get changed unless you overwrite them. Oh well - happy gaming!