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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Can anyone tell me what the crash report it is trying to tell me? I just reset Origin cache the day before yesterday in respond to constant crashing when playing the Sims 4, and it's still crashing. This is after almost a month of troubleshooting in other forums trying to figure out what's going on. Is it my Mac causing the crashing or is it the game?
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@AkennArt
Your game is modded so you need to test a completely new clean game to rule out any Mac or game installation issue. Move the whole Sims 4 folder to the desktop then launch the game and see if it works - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Sims-4-Mac-Help-Guides-and-Troubleshooting/m-p/4612394#M163
Your game is modded so you need to test a completely new clean game to rule out any Mac or game installation issue. Move the whole Sims 4 folder to the desktop then launch the game and see if it works - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Sims-4-Mac-Help-Guides-and-Troubleshooting/m-p/4612394#M163
@Bluebellflora I understand. The trouble with "if it works" is that my game loads, it always has. So it "works" in that sense. But when it crashes, it crashes very randomly. I can't seem to get the crashing to repeat in one particular instance so as to narrow it down using the 50/50 method. I just did as you suggested and my game loaded, so it "worked" in that sense, but it also loaded beforehand. Because the crashing is inconsistent, I'm trying to understand if it is truly coming from my mods or from elsewhere.
- @AkennArt
You need to create a new save and play for a while in the new clean game to see if it crashes, not just load it and then quit. Create a household, move them in, trigger some events. You could even copy one of your current saves into the new saves folder to see if that plays but the initial test should be a new, clean game. @AkennArt
I've found this previous thread of yours - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/Sims-4-Game-is-Crashing-RANDOMLY-Every-Single-Time-I-Play/td-p/13360095
How is the issue you're describing here different to that one? I get it is frustrating playing in a vanilla game if you're used to and depend on playing with Mods but if one or more Mod is the issue you have to play without it. It's an unfortunate consequence of adding 3rd party content to the game, you are dependant on the Modders to update their Mods and some Mods may conflict with others.Edit - Apart from the above linked thread, I have merged all your previous threads together as the issues posted are the same. If you experience the crashing in a clean Sims 4 folder, free of all Mods in a new save, and after playing for a while, then please post in the Mac forum but your Mac is not the issue, it is your heavily modded game ☹️
@Bluebellflora Okay, that is actually helpful to know it's purely just my game and not my computer. I was starting to thing I spent a lot of money on a new computer for nothing lol. To your question, I am having essentially the same issue actually, just a continuation. I did all those things previously described in my other post, it maybe worked for a bit, but now it's back to crashing.
I am more than willing to remove Mods to get to the bottom of this, I have removed over a dozen mods over the last day and a half. Plus I removed about 150 scripts from my game as suggested in that other post. Whatever is the issue is a very stubborn mod! I will do as you suggested and play a completely vanilla save file for a while. What would be next steps, assuming it does not crash on a completely vanilla game? Would the 50/50 method be useful? Something else?
