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You can try moving your "The Sims 4" folder to your desktop or renaming it to something else then starting the game so a new one is created. If it runs and you can enter a lot, then copy your saves folder from the old one to the new one and see if it works then. If it does, then you can add in your old mods and tray folders to get you back to where you were. If you have problems then, you probably have a bad mod which will you have to hunt down and update or delete.
If that doesn't work, try doing a repair.
Hope this helps.
I followed your advice and created a new sims folder, but the problem persisted so I repaired the game. It doesn't work either.
So now it's probably the bad mod problem... But how can I have a broken mod when I moved all of them out of the sims folder and even disabled mods in the game?
- CGrant563 years agoHero+
To make sure I understand what you did and what happened.
When you created the new user folder after moving your current "The Sims 4" out of the Electronic Arts folder or renaming it and starting the game, and using the New Game option, did you go all the way through and create the obligatory sim and place them on a lot and get the error at some point in the process? If you did, when did it show up? When you tried to place the new sim? Or were you able to successfully place the new sim on a lot and didn't get the error?
Or did you get the error in your current save when you moved or copied it to the new user folder? Did you move or copy your mods folder when you moved or copied the save folder? The save needs to be tested without mods and CC in the game just to make sure it's not the save itself that has the problem.
Based on what you said in your first post, I'm inclined to think this is a mod issue. But if you created a new user folder and then a new game save and still got the error without mods and CC enabled and nothing but the resource file in the Mods folder, then it might be the game itself and the repair should have cleared it up. Though, sometimes it does take more than one repair attempt. So, you can try another repair or even two to see if that fixes it.
Hope this helps.
- 3 years ago
So… I did go all the way through and created the obligatory sim and placed them on a lot. In that time, there was no error showing.
I did get the error after placing my saves and tray folders back to the new sims game, still without mods. And I found out that two of my three saves showing the same error after wanting to load the household. Both of them I played with mods (before, not now, I still have mods out of sims folder) and the third one, which I played all the time without mods is okay…
So maybe I had a broken mod which broke my saves… Is there any solution to a broken save or should I just delete them and start a new save?
Thank you for your help
- CGrant563 years agoHero+
You welcome!
From what you describe, I have to agree with you. Broken mods (and even some that are not broken) have been known to corrupt a save if they attach any data to the save file rather than saving their data separately. That does sound like what has happened since the save you didn't play with mods isn't broken like the other two. Once a save gets corrupted, usually it's best to just delete it and start over. Hopefully, you should have copies of any sims you made still in your library and any lots you built and saved along the way, so you don't have to start from scratch.
Hope this helps.
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