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abbyjane6045's avatar
3 years ago

My Sims Can't Interact With Other Sims or Travel - Please Help!

This is a brand new save that I just started. I have CC and a couple of mods downloaded but nothing that has caused my game to bug out in the past. I have just downloaded the free DLC Tarac and all of the DLCs offered. I have done this also on a previous computer and it didn't cause any problems. There are 3 sims games, the offline DLC, online DLC and my regular sims game. All 3 games have had the same issue. My sim can't talk to anyone, the action appears and then disappears and the sims reset without completing the interaction. I have tried to get my sim to travel as well but the action doesn't even appear. I have tried removing the cashe files in my folders and I am hoping that there is another way to figure out this problem without removing my mods and going through them. I have tried resetting my sims as well and it didn't change anything. Please any ideas would really help. 

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  • Try the following

    • Close the game
    • Rename Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old
    • Start the game. All your content will be gone now as the game created a new folder. All your saves/.. is still in the old folder so not to worry
    • Start a new save game
    • Check if you still have the error
    • Report back with your results for further steps on how to get your stuff back.
  • Hi thank you so much for your help my sims can travel and interact again. How should I get my stuff back?

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @abbyjane6045 You can now start to copy back things from Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old to the new Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 folder that was created.

    First only copy (I suggest to copy so you can go back in case anything goes wrong along the way) the content of the folder Saves (these are your save games). If you are prompted if want to overwrite a save, decide if you want to keep that testing save you just made or not. If not, just overwrite if, if you want to keep it, rename the save to a different number that isn't taken.

    Test just your save game with nothing else added back. If that works, you can start copying back the rest. If not, check back.

    You will need the following folders

    - Tray (your households and lots you have saved to library)
    - Custom Music (if you added any)
    - Screenshots (if you've taken any)
    - Videos (if you've taken any)
    - ConfigOverride (if you made any although I recommend redoing those)
    - Options(.ini) (although I recommend to just redo your settings in the game)

    Now test again. If that still works, you can put back your mods. Put them back in groups and make sure they are still compatible with the game.

    All other files are recreated and not needed.

  • So my sims can travel again, however, they still cannot interact with other sims. I have put everything back into my game, what do you recommended I do to fix this? 

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