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Small_Sharkness
2 years ago

Game taking ages to save

This has only started happening within the last day or so, but I was playing on this family and everything was fine. Then all of a sudden I went to save and it was taking ages. I ended up waiting for longer than an hour and after it was still saving I gave up and just ended the sims task.

A couple of things I've noticed with this: It only started happening after I moved my sims to another household. And it only seems to happen if I've done anything in build mode. After I moved them in I started redecorating and went to save and that's when it was taking ages. I've played with them on live mode for a bit and saved and it doesn't seem to happen then.

As you can tell it's quite frustrating when you've taken all that time to redecorate and the game just sits in saving for hours.

I made a new save to see if the problem still persists and the new save was fine. Even went into build mode and did similar things and it only took a few minutes to save unlike with the original save.

I also had mods and cc downloaded but have since taken them out and again I'm still having the problem on the original save.

Any help with this would be extremely appreciated!

4 Replies

  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @Small_Sharkness So, it sounds like you have an issue with that particular lot or build. Try saving the lot to your Library, then bulldozing, then putting it back in from the Library. With some luck, that will clear the glitch.

    Also, when you remove mods and CC, make sure you're also deleting the localthumbcache file.
  • Small_Sharkness's avatar
    Small_Sharkness
    2 years ago

    Thank you for the reply!! 

    So I tried doing the things suggested and for context the lot I've moved the household into was the 888 Spire Apartments in San Myshuno. I saved all the rooms to my library individually, bulldozed the lot and then started placing the rooms back. 

    Weirdly I'm still having the saving issue but only when placing the last three rooms. Now these are the ones I started updating the decor in but I still don't understand what could be causing this glitch.

    I was just wondering if there is anything else I could try before I maybe try moving them onto a different lot or if that would even work in this case as well?

  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    Do you have CC included in that decor? You might have some CC issues. Try building it with game content only.

  • Small_Sharkness's avatar
    Small_Sharkness
    2 years ago

    No, I did at first and took it out as soon as I started having the problem.

    I also noticed that I had their photos on the walls and thought they might be causing issues and took them down.

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