Game crashing, mod related
Hello,
My game rarely experienced crashing until I downloaded the Horse Ranch, Jungle Adventure, and Romantic Garden Stuff packs last week on sale this winter sale season. Now I can't play for ve...
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@AkennArt Because not all mods that are broken get reported anywhere and because updated mods can still have problems, please test without mods. Exit Sims 4 then drag your Mods folder to your desktop. Then delete the file called localthumbcache from Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4. If you think you might accidentally forget to exit without saving after testing, copy your Saves folder to your desktop too, to back it up. Now open Sims 4 and see if you still have the problem. If you don't, you can start the process of figuring out what from your Mods folder was causing it. If you do still have the problem, we can start working on what's causing it.
@luthienrisingOkay, I'll go my Mods folder again and keep adding stuff back until it crashes. I'll report back later today...
@luthienrising Okay, circling back to this, so I've spent all day testing my mods and it has not be very fruitful. I was able to repeat the restaurant crashing with something in my subfolder for Somik & Severinka's Cooking mods, but when I continued piecemeal testing each item in that subfolder, all of a sudden it didn't crash. I don't think it's because the issue is fixed though. Crashing still seems to be very random, it does not boil down to any one mod. I have been unable to isolate it by loading the game with just a few of my mods in at a time. This time, instead of testing with a mod, it doesn't crash, removing it, and then testing with the next set of mods, I just kept the 'cleared' mods in my Mods folder so the game was being run with the same mods over and over with new ones added back each time. I just cleared the localthumbcache file each time before loading the game. Still the crashing is very unpredictable--at one point it would crash, then at another point it won't. I have never run into this issue before. Usually a 50/50 method has always done the trick, but I am not able to narrow anything down going through my mods over and over again. Is there another way to test that I might be missing?
@AkennArt Cooking mods can be very fussy. Make sure, when you are in, that you delete all the plates and food related to them. Then try removing that mod. I'd advise just deleting everything from the creator and redownloading, including checking for any new installation instructions, known conflicts, and known mod issues.
@luthienrisingOkay I've continued trying to get to the bottom of this and I still cannot narrow down what the mod issue is. I tested my food mods again, particular Somik & Severinka, early today and this time my game did not crash with them. I continued through my 50/50 method, testing clusters of mods at a time, and leaving in the Mods folder anything that didn't crash the game. I thought I was narrowing it down to TwistedMexi's TOOL or BetterBuildBuy mods (I was actually excited and hoping one of them would be the issue), but when I removed both of those mods to see if my game would NOT crash with them removed, it still crashed. So now I'm back at square one with the mods I tested earlier today that did not crash my game. But what I'm finding is that there is no singe combination of mods in my game that causes it to crash. My game will crash with a mod in it or with a mod removed. For example, when I thought the issue was S&S, it crashed when the entire S&S subfolder was in my game, but did NOT crash when I put each separate file back in my game bit by bit. For Twisted Mexi's mods, it crashed with them IN my Mods folder, and still crashed with them REMOVED from my Mods folder. I'm not even sure what to test anymore to isolate the issue. There is no consistent through-line that says every time this mod or these combinations or mods are in my Mods folder, the game crashes. The only thing that is consistent is that it crashes at the Restaurant lot type. And to be fair, it sometimes crashes outside of that, but not consistently, so I'll chalk that up to some other mystery.
Does that still sound like it is a mod issue or a game issue? Also, because I know how important it is to update mods, I went back again today through the Broken Mods page (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/Broken-Obsolete-and-Updated-Sims-4-Mods-1-103-Dec-5-amp-14-2023/td-p/13271095) to double check for updated mods and made any necessary updates before all this. Finally, I have been testing all of this on a single restaurant that was previously cleared of all used dishes.
I appreciate you engaging me, I just wish I could prove how thoroughly I've been going through my mods to try to solve this.