Modded game crashing when travelling

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I have experienced dozens of crashes in the last week, likely starting after the patch though I haven't kept track. I thought it might have been one of my many mods so I played without for a while and updated all my files. That didn't work so I repaired the game. I've enabled autosave on MCCC too, but the game crashes so fast sometimes that autosave doesn't help, as I have it set to save once per sim day, and my game can crash less than 10 sim minutes in sometimes.&nbsp;

It seemed random, as it has happened whilst in build mode, whilst my sim is reading a book, etc. However I have gotten stuck at certain "checkpoints" on a couple of occasions now, and its been after forming a group away from home and trying to travel back home afterwards. The first time was during a holiday, my sim was at the pub in HoB but she had formed a group for a "blind date" (simder mod). I disbanded the group and tried to return home, but the game crashed. I tried going to manage worlds and travelling home but it would crash that way too. The workaround I used was to take a different sim, travel to the lot with them, use MCCC to summon my sim and switch households using the door. This stopped that crash from occuring but my game has crashed numerous times since then. The latest travelling crash I have had is my game's current state. My sim was invited to "hangout with club friends" by Mortimer Goth (they are both in the Writer career so I put them in a club). After the event ended, I tried to have my sim return home by clicking the little house. Game crashed. I tried going via manage worlds. Game crashed. I tried going to the house next door. Game crashed.

I hope this gets picked up and sorted out soon. It's so frustrating and I'm losing the passion to play.

Edit - split from Mac thread, edited title (Bluebellflora)

yazplatt · Answer

@YazPlatt Forgot to add, I updated to the latest version of the game, and am running Sonoma 14.5 on my M1 MacBook Air 2020. All my mods get updated for patches too, and I constantly check modders pages for compatibility. I'm used to LEs in my game due to the UI mods I use, but I've never had it crash like this, so suddenly, so frequently and so seemingly randomly.

bluebellflora · Answer

@YazPlatt

MCC is a Mod and can break or cause incompatibility issues just like any other therefore you are not testing without Mods. You need to test a completely clean vanilla game by moving/renaming the Sims 4 folder, launching the game, starting a new save and playing for a while to see if your game still crashes frequently. Further instructions here on how to properly test - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mac/READ-FIRST-Sims-4-Mac-Help-Guides-and-Troubleshooting/m-p/4612394#M163

yazplatt · Answer

@Bluebellflora&nbsp;Hi, I think I mentioned in my first post, but my first assumption was that mods were breaking the game so I played without. Maybe I should have phrased it differently, but I did create a vanilla save to play in and the crashing persisted. When I thought mods were the cause, I used the 50/50 technique of slowly introducing my files which didn't highlight anything in particular. I repaired the game with no mods installed and still experienced crashes afterwards. MCCC is the latest thing I'm using to avoid losing progress when the game inevitably crashes. But I assure you, I've been playing with mods for years and the first thing I did after a crash was check my LEs, try to recreate the crash, try a workaround and then remove the mods completely to test. Not my first rodeo but it is my first crashing issue that doesn't seem to be fixed no matter what I try.

luthienrising · Answer

Hi @YazPlatt Luth from Mod Issues 🙂 The thing with the crashing with travelling and build mode crashes is both definitely something that some mods will do when broken. Can I get you to try one more really deep test? It needs precisely these instructions:

Drag your whole Sims 4 folder from Document &gt; Electronic Arts to your desktop. This will clear out any remaining effects of mods.
Launch Sims 4. 
Start with New to test if your issue recurs in a new game. Especially the scenarios you describes earlier.

If that works, start putting old content back:

Exit and copy files out of your old Saves folder into the new Saves folder. Important: Don't just copy the old folder! You want to use the newly created folders.
Launch Sims 4 and use Load to select an older save to test.

Let me know how that goes.

yazplatt · Answer

@luthienrising&nbsp;Thanks for the step-by-step. I tried this and thought I'd found an outdated mod (teleport any sim) that could cause the crash so I updated it. My game no longer generates a LE on launch, so that's an improvement. However, just as I got comfortable playing, travelling to different lots etc, my sim was invited to a City Living festival by Mortimer Goth and the game crashed again. The 50/50 process took so long hence my delay in replying, and yet again I have no idea what's wrong. I will admit though, I was unable to replicate the crash without my mods installed but I just got about 1 hour into playing with no crashes so nothing is immediately jumping out to me as the faulty mod. The trend I'm noticing is it happens when I travel though. I am only playing with 1 save at the moment so I don't know if the crash occurs in other save files. I have so many mods/cc that removing the cc would leave the game looking odd to say the least. I did my 50/50 crash tests in a new save with a cc free sim from the gallery. Maybe I'll try removing everything again and testing my active save file vanilla.

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