Continuous Crashing during household loading
The Sims 4 is unplayable for me right now. Creating a new household runs smoothly without any problems, but when I place them on a lot and then click to play that household, the game crashes without ...
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@LittleMissVirgo Please try this deeper test:
- Drag your whole Sims 4 folder from Document > Electronic Arts to your desktop.
- Launch Sims 4 and reset your Options.
- Start with New to test if your issue recurs in a new game. If you have any option other than New for starting a game, please let me know!
- If that works, start putting old content back: Exit and copy files out of your old Saves folder into the new Saves folder. Important: Don't just copy the old folder! You want to use the newly created folders.
- Launch Sims 4 and use Load to select an older save to test.
I don't want to take over this thread, but I've been having very similar problems for weeks. I've tried so many things, but 8 of my 18 houses/households are no longer playable. The loading screen doesn't stop when I want to go into live or build mode.
PS: I created my own post about my problem here about 30 minutes ago and it was marked as spam. It only has one post so far, mine. I don't understand it, that's why I'm writing here now. Sorry. My post said everything I've already tried. I'm really desperate. :/
@Romisto Does it work if you remove mods/CC? Please do a "vanilla" test: Drag the Mods folder to the desktop, delete the file called localthumbcache, open the game to test, and exit without saving.
- @luthienrising Thanks for responding... And yes, I tried that and so much more...
What I have tried so far:
- repair the game using the EA app
- rename my entire Sims folder and copy it somewhere else to generate a new folder after starting the game
- created a new save file in the game
- vanilla test (my 3-4 mods were never the problem, - without CC, but with mods in, everything worked)
- batch fixes through Sims 4 Studio
- tests with the mod: Better Exceptions (no problems with mods, a few CC duplicates (I solved them) and a single defective package file from Cicada ("Hout-Huis Master Bedroom Mattress Solids") which I deleted
- test with the mod: Lumpinou Milestone Fixes (FixForCCObjects & LoadOnPlayedButNotActiveSim) where I could not find any changes
- 50/50 method for mods and CC, but this is extremely detailed and has already cost me over 30 hours (my 3-4 mods worked without any problems, I was able to exclude many of my over 3000 CC files, but I haven't been able to conclusively find the errors yet)
- I checked the lists of Broken CC here in the forum, but found no matches
The error, if it is the CC, is probably in files from these creators/downloads: [novvvas] and "PC-TS4-BowedLiving"
Despite many hours of using the 50/50 method, I haven't been able to find the specific problematic files here.
And I haven't read anywhere about other simmers having problems with these creators/downloads. I've tried downloading the files again, but the problems are still there.
I really don't know what to do next.@Romisto Redo these steps in this order, please:
- Drag your whole Sims 4 folder from Document > Electronic Arts to your desktop.
- Run a Game Repair
- Launch Sims 4 and reset your Options.
- Start with New to test if your issue recurs in a new game. Please let me know if "New" was your only option and if this works, including for loading Build mode.
If that works, start putting old content back:
- Exit and copy files out of your old Saves folder into the new Saves folder. Important: Don't just copy the old folder! You want to use the newly created folders. Don't copy anything else back
- Launch Sims 4 and use Load to select an older save to test. Let me know if that works now, for build mode and for live mode. Please test in both households you've played and ones you never played.
- As another test, please move a household to a new house that you never loaded before and then see if you can load them.
