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LordNina22
Rising Novice
4 days ago

Endless Loading

Hi, I just want to add myself to this thread as well — I’m experiencing the exact same issue.

My biggest concern is that I’ve been playing on the same save file since 2014, with over 10,000 hours in-game and more than 800 families. I’m genuinely terrified of losing this save file because of this problem.

I haven’t even played with the new DLC yet — or rather, I can’t! All the lots in Everdew are untouched in my game, and so are the NPCs who live there.

I do use mods, but the only script mods I have installed are MCCC and UI Cheats. Of course, I’ve already tested the game without my mods folder, deleted my localthumbcache and also repaired the game through the EA App.

New save files seem to work fine — Everdew loads without issues in those.

I regularly back up my save files every few months, and I even keep copies across multiple hard drives just in case. Yes, I’m a little overprotective of my saves, as you can probably imagine! 

Unfortunately, all of my other older save files are affected by this issue as well. So I really, really hope this can be fixed — for the sake of my game... and my sanity!

5 Replies

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 days ago

    Could you please post any LastExceptions you get (not the MCCC Version, vanilla game version)

  • LordNina22's avatar
    LordNina22
    Rising Novice
    4 days ago

    Hi! I've tried everything I could to trigger a LastException file, but unfortunately, my game doesn't generate one when running in vanilla. I only get LastExceptions with MCCC installed — without it, there's simply nothing.

    Whenever I try to load into any lot in Everdew, the game just goes into an infinite loading screen. After a few minutes, I have to force-close it via Task Manager. So far, no LastException has been produced during these failed load attempts.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 days ago

    HI LordNina22​ 

    Would you be willing to share your save with me ?

    If so, please zip your saves folder and upload it somewhere like dropbox, googledrive or OneDrive and PM me the link.

  • LordNina22's avatar
    LordNina22
    Rising Novice
    4 days ago

    Hi again,

    First of all, thank you so much for offering to take a look at my save — I really appreciate your help!

    That said, I think I’ve finally managed to figure out what was going wrong. I read elsewhere that if a save file is corrupted, creating a new save while in live mode, then returning to the main menu and reloading the new save might help. I tried that a couple of times with no luck, even after removing all my mods, which is when I posted here out of pure frustration.

    But I kept testing, and strangely enough, on the 4th or 5th attempt, it suddenly worked — even without mods. The only downside was that I’d lost all my CC. So I started slowly reintroducing my content and found that the game still worked… until I put everything back in, and the issue returned.

    At that point, I was convinced it had to be one mod causing the problem, so I started the 50/50 method to narrow it down. It took me pretty much the whole day, but I finally found the culprit: the “Unhidden Traits” mod by Vicky Sims. As soon as I removed that and created a new save in live mode, everything started working again — Everdew lots are now fully accessible!

    So, long story short: it’s been a journey, but I’m incredibly relieved my game is working again. I hope this helps someone else who might run into the same issue. And again, thank you for your willingness to help!

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