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 any pop-ups. It simply closes. This has been happening for two days, and I've tried everything: removing all mods, repairing the game, updating, creating a new save file, lowering the graphics, and nothing has worked. Notably, when I started a new save and placed the household on a lot, I was taken straight to live mode and the game ran smoothly. But when I went to manage world and created a household to move into another lot, trying to enter that household crashed my game. I don't understand what's happening and am quite upset about this. I haven't played in months and wanted to get back into playing since finals are over, but it's literally unplayable.

@luthienrising Thank you for your time and help! The batch fix seems to have solved a large part of the problem. I was now able to use most of my CC files to get back into all 18 of the houses I played. 3-67 files (mostly chairs) are still being deleted and/or replaced by the game, but that's not a big deal. I hope I can now slowly start playing the game properly again. Thank you very much again!

@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.

@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.

@Romisto You can put Tray files back. There's no known current issue with having the Library files accessible in-game. Same with Screenshots and Videos. Don't put Options.ini back. Reset Game Options instead.

@Romisto For the CC, there's a chance your issue is something not compatible with DX11. You can switch to DX9 in Game Options to test that out. Sims 4 Studio has a batch fix.

Continuous Crashing during household loading

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luthienrising
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8 months ago
@Romisto You can put Tray files back. There's no known current issue with having the Library files accessible in-game. Same with Screenshots and Videos.

Don't put Options.ini back. Reset Game Options instead.
luthienrising
Hero+
8 months ago
@Romisto For the CC, there's a chance your issue is something not compatible with DX11. You can switch to DX9 in Game Options to test that out. Sims 4 Studio has a batch fix.
Romisto
8 months ago
@luthienrising Yes, I thought about that too. That's why I added "-dx11" to the "Advanced startup settings" in the EA app.
Romisto
8 months ago
@luthienrising The problem still exists. Unfortunately, I'm back at the point I was in the last few weeks.

So far, I've been able to test my CC files like this: 2,465 work without any problems with all 18 households/houses that I play.

Then I have three folders where individual files don't seem to work. Among them are 740 package files from [novvvas] alone, but I don't know which specific files are broken. In addition, files from "Cicada - HoutHuis-Part1(MasterBedroom)(Seperate)" and "PC-TS4-BowedLiving" are also causing problems.

Do you - or anyone else - have any idea how I can better find and replace the faulty files?

There are currently hundreds of items missing in some of my houses, so I'd be reluctant to continue playing. And I'm starting to feel like I need to test every single remaining file - but that would take days/weeks/months, since I always have to test all 18 households played.
luthienrising
Hero+
8 months ago
@Romisto You can try running a Sims 4 Studio batchfix for DX11 on your Mods folder. (Remove any default replacement CC temporarily first.)

If that doesn't solve the problem, you can check with the creators for more recent files. I know Peacemaker updated some files for DX11.
Romisto
8 months ago
@luthienrising Thank you for your time and help! The batch fix seems to have solved a large part of the problem. I was now able to use most of my CC files to get back into all 18 of the houses I played. 3-67 files (mostly chairs) are still being deleted and/or replaced by the game, but that's not a big deal. I hope I can now slowly start playing the game properly again. Thank you very much again!

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