Hello. This is the story of my battle against broken CC.So a couple of days ago I've got a very annoying problem where when i put any CC hair on my sim, his icon starts loading forever. Like this:https://c.radikal.ru/c29/1807/d7/c5db2e986bdd.pngEven if i afterwards chose any maxis hair, the icons still wouldn't load. Then when i tried going in game mode the sims portrait wouldn't show up.https://d.radikal.ru/d04/1807/22/c980ebae6453.pngI tried deleting all of my hair and that solved the problem, so i tried putting them in one by one and deleting all of the hair that causes the bug. The thing is that when i tried loading the game with all of the hair that was still working, the problem still occurred. I have no idea whats going on and it seems like i'll have to play from now on without any CC hair which is a huge bummer. I've repaired my game multiple times, reseted the Sims 4 folder... nothing seemed to work.Today, when i just now tried to load my household, it wouldn't. Yesterday it did, today it doesn't. The loading screen loads forever, even after that jingle you get when you arrive on a lot. Starting a new game didn't help - i simply couldn't save my sim because of the forever loading icon.Now its even not the hair anymore. I ran the game without the hair and the problem still occurred. So this basically means that i can't play the game with cc anymore? I'm annoyed. Im frustrated. I don't know if i'll ever be able to play with CC again. I tried fixing my game through S4Studio, that didn't help. My game worked just fine only last week. Now its a nightmare.

Have you tried deleting the localthumbcache? It's safe to delete and will regenerate the next time you play your game.Also have you tried starting a new save game to see if your cc works in a new game?

For what it's worth, if this all started 2-3 days ago, before the July 10th patch it may serve to think back those two to three days and remember if you did anything to the game or the machine. That this just abruptly happened "out of the blue" something is clearly different. Did you install any other software in that time frame? Checked for malicious software? At this point, since you have tried all the fixes and resets and the CC people assure you their material is fine, then another factor is in play here. Are you the only one who uses the particular device on which you play your game? Not to make light of your situation which is no doubt frustrating, what you have here is somewhat of a mystery and, well, in the spirit of the venerable Sherlock Holmes, you need to look at the "impossible". Rule that out and what's left, "however improbable, must be true."EDIT: I must confess I merely skimmed this thread so perhaps I missed it, but before anything else, did you try to restore/run a save made before all this started happening? Kind of like the Windows troubleshooting option of "Last Known Good" run of the programme. If everything runs properly you may have a buggered-up save. But that is a mere wild guess.@catitude5 I think I read you correctly about "disable patches" If that's the case, "bravo!" I do that as well. I refuse to let the patches run (by launching "offline" until I know the major mods that I depend on to render the game playable for me such as MC Command Centre-- are properly repaired. ) And now that patches seem to be popping up more frequently than once per month, even,-- I wait all the longer. We, myself and my roomie who play separate games on the same machine, did not allow the "Pets" prep patch nor anything thereafter run until late May. By then all the mods and such were fully updated beyond "hotfixes".

"Park;c-16601160" wrote:For what it's worth, if this all started 2-3 days ago, before the July 10th patch it may serve to think back those two to three days and remember if you did anything to the game or the machine. That this just abruptly happened "out of the blue" something is clearly different. Did you install any other software in that time frame? Checked for malicious software? At this point, since you have tried all the fixes and resets and the CC people assure you their material is fine, then another factor is in play here. Are you the only one who uses the particular device on which you play your game? Not to make light of your situation which is no doubt frustrating, what you have here is somewhat of a mystery and, well, in the spirit of the venerable Sherlock Holmes, you need to look at the "impossible". Rule that out and what's left, "however improbable, must be true."EDIT: I must confess I merely skimmed this thread so perhaps I missed it, but before anything else, did you try to restore/run a save made before all this started happening? Kind of like the Windows troubleshooting option of "Last Known Good" run of the programme. If everything runs properly you may have a buggered-up save. But that is a mere wild guess.@catitude5 I think I read you correctly about "disable patches" If that's the case, "bravo!" I do that as well. I refuse to let the patches run (by launching "offline" until I know the major mods that I depend on to render the game playable for me such as MC Command Centre-- are properly repaired. ) And now that patches seem to be popping up more frequently than once per month, even,-- I wait all the longer. We, myself and my roomie who play separate games on the same machine, did not allow the "Pets" prep patch nor anything thereafter run until late May. By then all the mods and such were fully updated beyond "hotfixes".I just can't take it anymore. I'll wait until the next EP, maybe. I no sooner get one problem solved, they create another, and all my work is for nothing.

"Koteyka;c-16601213" wrote:@Park, i haven't installed any software and I'm the only one who uses this computer. Yes, i've tried to restore a save made before the CC glitching and it didn't work either. And i've also tried a new game to make sure that it isn't just one save bugged.The only thing i think might've caused it the mod i downloaded called "Outfit Tools - Copy Any Outfit v2b" by scumbumbo. It had custom cheats and i used one of them called "reset.bathing" which helped with the issue that sometimes while showering sims would wear clothes. I thought that might've for some reason break my game, but i deleted the mod and yet the game is still broken.Also after that i ran through the S4Studio fixes i never used before like "Disallow CC for shower", "Disallow CC for Aliens", "Disallow CC for townies" and "Disallow CC for vampire". Maybe that has something to do with the issue, i don't know.But i really really doubt that those things could break the game. Because if the mod causes issues (especially a scumbumbos mod) people usually point that out pretty quickly. And CC fixes... i mean, they're supposed to fix the game, not ruin it!They ruined it so bad, I had to pull everything and start over. Without CC this game isn't fun at all. They are like a big snowplow running through you game.

@Miki i did restart the sims folder. My CC/mods break quite often so i already know all of the methods to fix them and use them at least 2-3 times a year. I started this thread because i tried every single fix possible and none of them worked. But thanks for the reply :) @Park an average Syrian hamster is about 5-7 inches. A Russian dwarf hamster is only about 3 inches.

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Pahndamonium32
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
"Park;c-16610631" wrote:
"Koteyka;c-16607891" wrote:
@Miki i did restart the sims folder. My CC/mods break quite often so i already know all of the methods to fix them and use them at least 2-3 times a year. I started this thread because i tried every single fix possible and none of them worked. But thanks for the reply :)

@Park an average Syrian hamster is about 5-7 inches. A Russian dwarf hamster is only about 3 inches.

Regarding the little creature.. Almost a mouse, but much cuter. Not sure how long they last, though. The smaller the shorter they say, at least with mammals.

Regarding the issue of record, since you tried everything with no results I'm afraid you're going to have to uninstall and reinstall the game from scratch, setting the Saves folder aside at the very least. Of course see if the new game launches before reintroducing Saves because based on what I have seen personally with old saves, your "endless-load-and-music" issue is when you loada corrupted save and at this point, sorry to say, they may all have been ruined.

Hope to be wrong on that one. As for Mods folder, save it for reference but after that .. I would start over and only with ones that worked before Scumbob's mod.

He is usually rated quite well but if trouble started after that one, well, there lies the culprit, I'll wager.

If you do this also set aside your tray folder or you will lose all of your Sims and Houses. You may want to set aside your screenshots too.
The_Real_Koteyk
8 years ago
Okay guys, i've created a new CC pack from scratch (for some reason its even bigger then the old one lol) and now everything seems to work fine. Thank you for all of your tips, i really appreciate that so many people responded. :)
CR2356
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Very interesting and good to know you did not have to delete the whole thing and start over. I suppose you already know in the future to be wary of whatever you put in there. Modders test their work with the game and some of the larger mods, but I doubt they have the time to check their work with every mod or CC out there and/or all possible combinations therefrom. A "larger" CC file means you probably missed something the first time 'round.

Some unsolicited geek advice: If not already done, you should consider a disk image backup of your entire system. This preserves everything on your HDD/SSD. Those are usually used when cloning a hard drive but have other useful attributes. Update it regularly and if anything like this happens anywhere in the system not just this game you can roll back the entire machine to where it was, preferably when it ran well, and you can go from there will less fuss and frustration and detective work which wastes a whole lot of time as you now know..

I do disk image backups all the time as a solution to really bad malware such as ransomware. If one of their bugs should get into my system I simply zap the whole disk and restore an earlier image. All gone ransom ware all gone encryptions.. and the best part, No Bit coin For Them!

And I mean disk image not the standard "backup" that comes with Windows. Saved to an external drive and offline, it is untouchable. "Backup" saves files and settings but not programs. A much more cumbersome proposition.

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