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KWizzle1996's avatar
3 years ago

Error code 801 but no mods or cc ... Please save my save!

Help save my 500+ hour save file! 

I was playing my Sims 4 yesterday and had 2 household members travelling to a different location. I had a situation happen outside of my home and had to turn off my game, so I pressed save and exit while my sims were out of household. I have done this before and had no issues when I log back in, I could just have the sims return home. 

When I went back to play, I had error code 801 every time when I go to click on my save. I have been in contact with EA support and read all of the threads here and there seems to be nothing to do to save this. The 5th EA advisor I spoke to just told me I have to start from zero. 

I tried the following ... 

- remove the mods folder even though nothing was in it. I don't use mods or cc

- repair the game on origin

- download ea desktop and repair on there

- move out each file at a time

- soft boot my computer

- troubleshoot

I tried to go reload old saves and it won't let me do that either. Anyone have any advise? I have accomplished so much on the last 579 hours I can't imagine this is it.

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  • @KWizzle1996 Just for testing as you say your old backups don't work either, does a new save work ?

    At what point exactly are you getting the error ? When you try to load a household or the save game itself ?

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