If You're Experiencing a Broken Save

I've got a number of saves and I'm 50/50 on them either working fine or crashing. Fortunately I backed up the whole folder before trying to open any of them.

"Aine;c-17525652" wrote:
You need to remember to backup your saves, people! This situation is exactly why you do it, so that if it gets corrupted you still have it.

While this is good idea and one people should do, people have reported that they made a back up, then when the save crashed replaced it with the back up - only for the back up to also crash.

I'm still waiting on certain mods, so I've only tried two saves - one crashed (the one I never open except while playing without mods) and one didn't (a rags to riches that felt aimless so I stopped playing.)

I was able to play after taking out mods but I left all of my cc no problem.

Sadly my saves were broken. But I will just put them aside, I was honestly planning on starting a new game anyways.

Everyone saying "this is why you backup": yes! I backed up! The back up won't play either. Backing up or not would not have helped or saved you from this "bug".

I'm not sure what is causing some saves to crash the game and not others but you press play and the game closes, that's what I know. I know repairing the game doesn't work. I know putting in my backups don't work. I know taking out my sims 4 folder and replacing the saves doesn't work. It's happening on consoles, mac and pc. Can a console even back up? Not helpful. Seems like we are waiting on a hotfix.

I did start a new save to test it and it's fine. I can exit, quit, save and re-load and it's fine but anything before the patch closes the game and origin.

I really hope they can hotfix this before the pack comes out. People will be getting it in only a few hours! I’ve updated my game but haven’t checked to see if any of my saves work. I think I’ll probably just wait until a hotfix is out if I’m honest before I even attempt to get into my saves...

"GracieO312;c-17525942" wrote:
I really hope they can hotfix this before the pack comes out. People will be getting it in only a few hours! I’ve updated my game but haven’t checked to see if any of my saves work. I think I’ll probably just wait until a hotfix is out if I’m honest before I even attempt to get into my saves...

I hope so too! I, for one, WON'T be getting it in a few hours if they don't hotfix it before then. I got my saves ready to play EL, specifically. If I'd wanted to start a new game I wouldn't have spent the last 2 weeks preparing these saves with builds and families. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who's done this either, has this issue and feels this way. :/

"danceswithchaos;c-17525610" wrote:
HELP?!

How can I play without running the update until there is a patch for the stupid patch? It won't let me open the game without updating and I actually have time to play.

Open origin. Cancel the update that starts. Go into settings and disable automatic updating. Unplug your internet. Start the game.

You'll have to unplug the internet before starting the game every time otherwise it tries to update.

I haven't touched any of my active saves, because the one I'd been playing is bound up with Basemental. I don't want my gang leader / master dealer's progress reset because the mod suddenly isn't there. :D

My "testingcheats" command is not working. When I try to enable it, it tosses back "Unable to execute command" error. The "bb.moveobjects" works.

Anyone else have an issue with that after the patch?

Thanks in advance!