If You're Experiencing a Broken Save

I’ve been playing all night with no problems either. I did for some reason reboot my MacBook before I even played the patch don’t know if it helped in anyway. I never ever use ‘save as’ only the ‘ save’ button.
I’ve got my main game with all my families in that save .. and my partner has his just for building every now and then but both play fine. I’m lucky. But I hope they fix it soon so people can access their saves <3

"SimAlexandria;c-17525504" wrote:
I only have one save right now, working on the same save for 3.5 years (same family first generation but the kids are starting to become young adults and move out and they are almost elders). Around 1000 hours in this one save. I'm almost scared to open the game haha! fingers crossed the save will be fine.

I'm in a similar boat. I've been playing the same save since TS4's release. I updated, and lo and behold, that save is causing my game to crash. So I basically can't play until they fix this. I'm really disappointed. Especially because who knows how long that will take?

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.

I hate Origin so much. And I knew this would happen, which is why I had Origin open as sometimes when I leave it open, I can play without patching before updating to make sure it doesn't break anything, as this one obviously did. (sigh)

this is why you backup. I also play a fresh game following patching to ensure the stability of the patch.

"SimAlexandria;c-17525504" wrote:
I only have one save right now, working on the same save for 3.5 years (same family first generation but the kids are starting to become young adults and move out and they are almost elders). Around 1000 hours in this one save. I'm almost scared to open the game haha! fingers crossed the save will be fine.

I am in the same boat...unfortunately my 3 year save is GONE. I click on play, loading screen starts, and then BAM helllloooo desktop my old friend...I did not expect us to meet this soon again....

:'( :(

I refrain playing the sims games for months when the game crashed and i lost progress of 2 hours playtime. imagine losing hundred of hours in the game progress and the patch corrupting my saves.

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.

"SeanBobbyG;c-17525534" wrote:
I’ve been playing all night with no problems either. I did for some reason reboot my MacBook before I even played the patch don’t know if it helped in anyway. I never ever use ‘save as’ only the ‘ save’ button.
I’ve got my main game with all my families in that save .. and my partner has his just for building every now and then but both play fine. I’m lucky. But I hope they fix it soon so people can access their saves <3

I highly suggest using "save as" so you can make multiples of the same save under different names. I have tons of the same save file with the duplicates so I never ever lose my precious game I started in 2014! You never know when your lone save file of all your hard work will become corrupted!

"MLadyAzzera;c-17525632" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-17525504" wrote:
I only have one save right now, working on the same save for 3.5 years (same family first generation but the kids are starting to become young adults and move out and they are almost elders). Around 1000 hours in this one save. I'm almost scared to open the game haha! fingers crossed the save will be fine.

I am in the same boat...unfortunately my 3 year save is GONE. I click on play, loading screen starts, and then BAM helllloooo desktop my old friend...I did not expect us to meet this soon again....

:'( :(

ALWAYS use SAVE AS! The gurus are working on a fix but in the future I'd recommend making as many duplicates as possible so you never lose your work. I also back up my saves on an external hard drive. I have had same save file since September 2014 because I make constant duplicates under different names.

I just hope an emergency patch can restore these saves. I remember when the Lydnsey Speaker was causing saves to corrupt. My saves corrupted and wern't playable then they released the emergency patch to fix them and they were playable again. It's possible they will work again if we get an emergency patch so I don't recommend deleting them yet.