Lighting mods crashed my game, removed them but still crashed!

@rhrhmm After you removed the mods, did you also delete localthumbcache? Also, if this involved Reshade or Gshade, you will need to consult with those programs' own support about how to fully remove them.

Hi! Thanks for your reply 🙂

So I forgot to delete my localthumbcache file, it seemed like it contribute to the crashing. But I am not entirely sure as I played the game for a while (using the Build/Buy mode as I was decorating my house) then I minimized the game window (I keep the screen of the game in window mode as I heard it improves the performance of the game) and I did some work on my laptop, there was no problem with minimizing and going back to the game but then I left it minimized for a while and came back but then it crashed. I am not sure if the same issue persists or is it just because I keep minimizing the game's window.

And no I don't have Reshade or GShade as they make my game very slow, sadly ☹️

@rhrhmm Do you get crashing if you recreate the Mods folder?

Move Mods to the desktop and rename it. Delete localthumbcache again. See if you still get a problem mod-free. You can "save as" your save so you have an easy-to-find backup with all your CC/mods etc. intact.

I tried again as I thought it was due to minimizing the game for a long time, however, that's not the case as I kept playing for a while but no use.

Hi!

So I did as you said and the game ran pretty normally (I honestly don't know If I kept playing for a longer time would the game crash or not), so it seems like there is something in my mods. But this is very weird, because my game was very good up until I decided to mess up with those lighting mods. Could it be possible that one mod corrupt other mod files?

@rhrhmm If running vanilla (empty mods folder) is fine, then it's likely either you had a corrupted Resource.cfg file or some other problem in your mods. That could include the lighting mods you added, which might have had files you missed or something similar. You can try putting mods back in to see how it goes. Narrowing these problems down is often trial-and-error.

Hi again!

So I repaired, uninstalled then reinstalled the game but the issue persisted even with only one custom content file in the mods folder. However, there is a point that I may have forgotten to mention, I lately turned on the laptop mode, can it clash with lighting mods or any other mod? As I tested the game while turning off the laptop mode and it seemed running "fairly".

Furthermore, is there a way for EA to read my LastCrash files? Maybe this could also help.

@rhrhmm EA can use your lastcrash files for future game fixes, but the rest of us can't use them to tell you what's broken about your CC.

Laptop mode will definitely cause issues with some content. You particularly can't use alpha CC with it, though I haven't hear of crashing issues and I'm pretty sure all the lighting mods are designed for non-laptop mode too. Normally I'd expect visual problems with laptop mode, not crashing, but it could be new behaviour. If you need to run on laptop mode for performance reasons, you also need to limit your use of mods and CC for performance reasons.