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ProfessorBagwor
2 years ago

CC hair Error: Cannot start because the required game data is missing or damaged

My game has been giving me the error: Cannot start because the required game data is missing or damaged any time I have any CC hair in my mods folder. I removed all the folders my mods folder and put...
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luthienrising
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2 years ago

@ProfessorBagworm Please try this:

  1. Drag the Mods folder to the desktop and delete the file called localthumbcache
  2. Run a Game Repair
  3. Start the game and exit
  4. Download a new hair CC file; make it a recent one, please
  5. Install that new hair in the new mods folder
  6. Start the game to test, preferably loading a new save
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ProfessorBagwor
2 years ago

This seems to have worked! But my old CC still breaks it. I redownloaded one of the CC items I know was previously breaking it and now it is okay with the redownloaded version. Is there anything I can do to not have to redownload everything?

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    luthienrising
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    2 years ago

    @ProfessorBagworm Are you using Curseforge? You can get support on how to use the app from Curseforge.

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      ProfessorBagwor
      2 years ago

      Most of my CC is from thesimsresource. I think I've downloaded things from curseforge before but I don't think it was hair

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        luthienrising
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        2 years ago

        @ProfessorBagworm Whatever app you're using that updates mods are your behalf should have a way to stop it doing that. None are supported here. You need to go find out how to stop the app from doing redownloading old content for you.

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