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TAYTAY444555
Seasoned Scout
4 years ago
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[Mod Related] Game doesn't save/Time reset on transition/(Part) Progress lost

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030 Wha...
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TAYTAY444555
Seasoned Scout
4 years ago

@crinrict

Update from me! After testing everything all yesterday, a complete file refresh worked "PARTIALLY" for me, meaning that it fixed the reverting time but it didn't fix the lost relationships/points/abilities/etc. When I did my file refresh, I moved mods/tray/screenshots/options to my desktop and deleted all the remaining files in the sims 4 folder. After starting the game and playing with a vanilla family for 3 weeks, I did not encounter the bug and everything seemed as it should. Then I moved my affected save into the new save folder (still without any mods installed) and started it up. In my household, my last save came after my werewolf sim had her baby age into a toddler. The household photo still had my sim holding the toddler but upon loading in, that toddler was now a RANDOM baby and had NO relation to my sim. I also noticed that the time was at that infamous time and none of the other NPC kids aged up like they were when I last saved that game. My werewolf sim had no abilities despite being an apex, her relationships were intact besides from her new son, and her reward points were set to zero.

That's why I initially said that a fresh folder restart did not work because my game still did not pick up where it left off and things were still off. HOWEVER, I continued to play the household, got my sim pregnant again, and played the game for a couple of days so the NPC kids could age up. Went into manage worlds (which was a trigger for resetting the time back) and everything was good. Kids were aged up still and Time did not reset. Went into CAS (another former trigger) and everything saved fine once I returned to my household. So I saved, went back to the main menu and loaded back in and everything was STILL fine.

So I exited out and decided to add my mods back in such as CAS CC, Adult Mod, MCCC,UI cheats, and SOL even though it needs to be updated but it didn't cause any issue. With mods back installed, everything loaded in great and where I left off from that vanilla version. I went into manage world/Cas to edit NPCs...everything was fine it's just that some NPC also did not have a relationship set to their toddlers like my sim in the beginning, they also seemed to be randomized. After that, loaded in...played...saved...loaded again and time DID NOT GO BACK.

Conclusion: so a file refreshed worked but my game still suffered. Although time progressed fine after all that, I had to cheat back somethings that were still lost and redo things. I still have those 2 saves in the new folder, but I'm hesitant to move my other saves back in, in fear that something corrupted them. ALSO, MODS DID NOT IMPACT THE TIME REVERTING BACK! In my early testing, I still had the issue with or without mods installed. I really don't think WW has anything to do with it because even when I didn't have it in, it still went back to Tues upon coming out of mange worlds. ALSO, it seems like everyone loses something different after reading the replies. My sims still had most of their relationships and jobs/reward traits intact besides from her new baby. With mods that was an easy fix to cheat back but i don't know what caused this bug to begin with. The update came out on the 26 I think, and I know I had my game running that entire day so it didn't update until I opened it the following day. I truly don't know how it happened but after they release the hot patch soon, I will be turning auto updates off lol.

I'm interested to see if a file refresh works for you guys too as far as stopping time from going back. And for those who don't play with mods, this is a bad bug because you lose relationships, points, etc unless you are able to cheat them back

 
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SirkusAce
Rising Traveler
4 years ago

I did a full refresh, and it seems to have worked for the most part. I am now saving *SEVEN* times each time I save (Save as ..., Save x5, Save as ...) but I have *finally* made it past a week, even when testing fate and doing a few loading screen triggers like manage world, exiting game and reentering the game, only thing I haven't tried yet is CAS because I simply forgot before turning things off for the night. I had a hiccup, with time reverting to another day, ONCE after but I chalked it up to me fumbling a step on the saving process (thus why I now save seven times each time, hoping that will keep it in check. I do not for the life of me trust the simple single save at this point in time, even with apparent improvements.) I honestly don't know if it is fixed or not still but right now it seems to be smoother sailing, at least.

My original file is beyond saving. I am pretty sure I accidentally killed it somehow during the first attempt at cleaning out the mods and testing with it, because it simply won't load anymore, or if it does it is so astronomically slower than anything else on a fairly competent gaming PC, I consider it as infinite loading. With or without mods, I tested a few times back and forth before abandoning it entirely.
What I am talking about appearing to be functional now is the fresh save file I made after the file refresh, with the same characters technically speaking but taken from the very first gallery save I had of them, dating back before I had any issues (and I suppose before anything other than CC eye colors had affected them).

There's so many variables presenting themselves I don't know whether to cry or laugh. There were no babies in the picture for me so I can't comment on that, but reward points, skill progress and work progress were casualties in the worst scenarios for me. I did not notice anything relationship wise but my active household was basically all best friends for quite some time prior, so it's hard to tell, I am awful at paying attention to relationships with NPC's as I usually don't care much for them.

  • ItsOnlyBecky's avatar
    ItsOnlyBecky
    4 years ago

    so when i finish playing, i save the game, then when i exit, i choose "save and exit." so it saves twice. however, when i open the game again, it's back in time a bit. for example, last time i played, i aged up my twins from baby to toddler and i had my dog taken by the pet care worker. my new toddlers were working on leveling up their skills, and one was taught to howl by his warewolf dad (which is ADORABLE, btw). then i opened the game again the next day, the toddlers were babies again and my dog was there. now i have to do everything again. i have some cc (mostly hairstyles and clothes) but no mods. i removed everything and tried it again... it still does it.

    edit: also, all my family members are 5-star celebs, even the new toddlers, AND i lost the level i got in my wolf pack, AND my new toddlers don't know anyone in the family, even though the dad AND the teen twins (yes i has 2 natural sets of twins... i thought it was weird too) all helped care for them.

  • ftrodrigues1's avatar
    ftrodrigues1
    New Adventurer
    4 years ago

    Can't test right now, but just to let everyone know that some are finding out that the problem lies within the woohoo interactions in general, not just mod-related. I don't know if there's any other romantic relation broken as well but apparently even if you Woohoo/Try For Baby in a vanilla game, the save won't work and time will reset upon the next load. If anyone could check, that may be a lead.

    The way it reverts back is so odd. It's like, only the time moves back to the prior valid save, not the state of the game in general. The game loaded at the lot I last saved, with the sims I last played with, and even some of the progress checked. It just reverted the time back to the time it was at the last valid save.

  • HimmitLane's avatar
    HimmitLane
    4 years ago

    this same thing has been happening to me since yesterday. I don't even want to play now, since there is no point if it's just going to keep taking everything back and getting rid of any progress.

    • n3tnvqo14j4y's avatar
      n3tnvqo14j4y
      4 years ago

      yeah it's really disheartening. i hope that they fix the bugs soon.

  • IrianaBrawley's avatar
    IrianaBrawley
    4 years ago

    Hi, I know the new sims high school pack is broken and some of the problems it brought but my game won't save. Like I will play from Sunday to Thursday and save a lot but as soon as I go to cas and exit there its Sunday again the only thing that saved was the changed I made on cas. I don't know if that's going to get fixed or if its just my computer. 

    • Phantomlover1717's avatar
      Phantomlover1717
      Legend
      4 years ago

      Hey @IrianaBrawley,

      I've moved your post to a more relevant board than EA General Questions.

  • Setogirl's avatar
    Setogirl
    4 years ago

    Whenever I travel to another lot the time rewinds. For instance when I travel to a lot at Sunday 7am, it'll be Saturday 8pm when the sim arrives from the loading screen 

    • jpkarlsen's avatar
      jpkarlsen
      Hero (Retired)
      4 years ago

      @Setogirl 

      Move your Mods folder to the Desktop and delete localthumbcache.package. Then test the game in a new save.
      If it works now check for updates to your Mods and CC. Add it back a little at a time while testing until you have found all that are broken.

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