If You're Experiencing a Broken Save

"TheSpotted_C;c-17526439" wrote:
There's a white border line that appears around the loading screen when I try to load my saves. When it disappears, my saves crash. They better fix this soon.

Same white line here, but no crash.

"Pamtastic72;c-17526252" wrote:
I have 8 saves, 6 have had cc/mods prior to the patch and all work fine. My SimsieSave which has never had mods/cc is fine. But my build save, which has never had mods/cc won’t open ?. It has builds in various stages of completion along with the Maxis default builds that shipped with each world.

I reset my Sims folder before the patch and only replaced my saves, tray, and options folders after the patch, and repaired my game. I just really hope they can fix it because I have several builds I was working on that I don’t want to lose.

It was my build save that crashed too. I didn’t try all of them though so I don’t know if any of the others would have crashed. I had one house that I’d been working on the roof for HOURS to get it to look like a picture I saw. I really hope I don’t lose it.

When I started writing this I was thinking, “maybe it crashed because we had unfinished builds” but, duh!, how would the game know it was unfinished? ?

"Wykkyd;c-17526175" wrote:
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!

It’s working fine for me. I hope yours starts working soon!

"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.

Yeah, I've gotten lazy with that since I haven't had serious issues with TS4.
I backed up as soon as I read about his. My main save worked, but I just poked around to check out the ladders and that poor quality MAC makeup. I haven't tried my other saves, but they aren't important.

"evelewis;c-17526361" wrote:
I've had issues with patches crashing saves that had been heavily modded in the past, but not to the extent it seems people are experiencing this go around. What worked for me was removing all my mods before downloading the patch, in addition to all the last exceptions. I then utilized Origin's "repair" game function, then downloaded the patch. I don't know if this would work for anybody else, but doing it this way worked well for me and I haven't had any issues accessing my saves.

I had just repaired my game yesterday and I have no mods or cc and still one of my saves, my build save, crashed. I was able to open a different save and start a new one without problems but every time I tried the build save it shut down.

I can’t imagine what all these crashing saves have in common that all those others that didn’t crash don’t have. I’d hate to be the person trying to figure it out.

I've never backed up my saves but yesterday I was like "meh, why not" and I did backed it up. :smiley:

Some people were thinking it’s got something to do with their Nvidia card but I’ve got a Radeon (I think- but for sure it’s not Nvidia) and I had a save crash too. But I had a different save load and consoles are crashing too so I don’t think it’s related to our computer’s specs but who knows what it could be.

It’s good to brainstorm possibilities but it’s probably going to be something like “if you’ve got a left handed toddler with maxed motor skill and level one potty training AND also a cat’s litter box that needs cleaning but only if it’s located on a floor other than the first floor” then your save will crash. But if your toddler’s right handed, it’s all good. ?

I'm normally backing up my TS4 files monthly. Periods when I play almost daily I really should consider backing up twice as often. I've decided to grab the patch tonight, knowing that if it breaks my main save I will not be able to play the game until there is a fix. That might be a good excuse for editing my latest video though, it should have been done a month ago... or I could simply spend the weekend cleaning my apt instead of getting pixel-eco ;)

I only have one save. :# Welp too late now... my game is updating. Fingers crossed things work out for me lol.

I had one save but many households fit in it cause of rotational play. Now it`s broken. It happens everytime they have update before major pack. Can`t say i`m surprised.