Re: Continuous Crashing during household loading

This didn't work. I loaded into the main household fine, but when I went to manage worlds, placed another household, and then clicked play on that household, the game crashed.

@LittleMissVirgo Please try this deeper test:

1. Drag your whole Sims 4 folder from Document > Electronic Arts to your desktop.
2. Launch Sims 4 and reset your Options.
3. Start with New to test if your issue recurs in a new game. If you have any option other than New for starting a game, please let me know!
4. 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.
5. Launch Sims 4 and use Load to select an older save to test.
   
   
   

I don't want to take over this thread, but I've been having very similar problems for weeks. I've tried so many things, but 8 of my 18 houses/households are no longer playable. The loading screen doesn't stop when I want to go into live or build mode.

PS: I created my own post about my problem here about 30 minutes ago and it was marked as spam. It only has one post so far, mine. I don't understand it, that's why I'm writing here now. Sorry. My post said everything I've already tried. I'm really desperate. :/

@Romisto Does it work if you remove mods/CC? Please do a "vanilla" test: Drag the Mods folder to the desktop, delete the file called localthumbcache, open the game to test, and exit without saving.

@Romisto Redo these steps in this order, please:

1. Drag your whole Sims 4 folder from Document > Electronic Arts to your desktop.
2. Run a Game Repair
3. Launch Sims 4 and reset your Options.
4. Start with New to test if your issue recurs in a new game. Please let me know if "New" was your only option and if this works, including for loading Build mode.

If that works, start putting old content back:

1. 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. Don't copy anything else back
2. Launch Sims 4 and use Load to select an older save to test. Let me know if that works now, for build mode and for live mode. Please test in both households you've played and ones you never played.
3. As another test, please move a household to a new house that you never loaded before and then see if you can load them.

@Romisto Yep! Add mods back in in batches. Check them as you go for updates and installation instructions. If your Mods folder has an overcomplicated organization system, this is a good time to fix it. I find that a single folder per creator is good for finding duplicates.

@Romisto You can put Tray files back. There's no known current issue with having the Library files accessible in-game. Same with Screenshots and Videos.

Don't put Options.ini back. Reset Game Options instead.

@Romisto For the CC, there's a chance your issue is something not compatible with DX11. You can switch to DX9 in Game Options to test that out. Sims 4 Studio has a batch fix.

@Romisto You can try running a Sims 4 Studio batchfix for DX11 on your Mods folder. (Remove any default replacement CC temporarily first.)

If that doesn't solve the problem, you can check with the creators for more recent files. I know Peacemaker updated some files for DX11.