All sim households disappeared
Since my game was updated, my Sims households have disappeared. I can't load any of them, and none are visible in my household. All my sims have disappeared.
edited title for visibility. -puzzlez...
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sarinabaig katiexo130 clfxowordd KateR558 ThundaPri Kiwuska KurshaKray20
To be clear, is it the case for all of you that you see the saves themselves, and can choose Resume or Load Game and load... something, but the sims themselves are missing? If not, please clarify your own issue so this doesn't become a collection thread of several related but distinct issues.
For all of you, please let me know whether you use mods or custom content, and whether it helps to remove the Mods folder. It is possible that even removing mods after the fact won't help, so I need to know whether mods were ever present in these saves.
You can also try loading a backup save:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/recover-backup-save-game/
Same issue here it just seems that the update broke the sim household loader for most of us.
We can load in to our saves just fine. (they are visible)
We can load our households just fine. (they are no longer visible on the map once clicking on their house)
Once in to the house hold the bottom UI bar is lowered and stretched out beyond your view.
At first i thought it was because i play in windowed mode but that is not the case.
(For some odd reason the game just loads better in windowed mode then fullscreen)
There seems to be some simshousehold load in error going on due to the Grim Reaper event integration.
Because the sims do not get loaded in, you can not interact with anything and simply load in an empty household.
Mods really do not affect this as even newly generated households with a cleanly reinstalled game/EA launcher does not resolve this. I have a few nephews who are not to happy that their little buddies no longer exist.
I've had a different issue with the previous event as well.
On a new PC with newly installed sims does not give you the reward items/traits etc.
Which left me to simply mod them in as a work around.
So do i just stop playing the sims every time there is an event to save guard my sims housholds from harm and then simply mod in the items afterwards ?
Because these events seem to have very little if any at all debugging before going live and are not retained by your account once you upgrade to a new PC.
I assume it gets retained if you upload your households but why not to your account instead?
I happen to resolve the issue for me atleast by deleting the sims 4 cache data folder.
There might have been copies in there after the update i guess?
