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Re: Mods and CC Known Bugs and Issues: July 18th, 2023 Game Update

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
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? 1.99.264.1230
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Horse Ranch, Island Living, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, City Living, Get To Work, Realm of Magic, Vampires and My First Pet.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? You can find this by taking any sim from the ages teen to elder to the new world that comes with Horse Ranch and placing them in the park closet to the main stables. From there, click on the barn/stable and click either rescue horse or purchase horse.
What happens when the bug occurs? When the bug will occur, if you have mcc, better exceptions or xml installed one of them will trigger a pop up saying there was an error. After/before the error pops up if you have the mods installed the sim will t-pose and reject any action.
What do you expect to see? When I try to have my sim purchase or rescue a horse, she t-poses and rejects the action and simply does nothing.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. I purchased Horse Ranch

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I'm a big mod player, I use mods on a daily basis. Even after new expansions are purchased and installed I refresh/update all my currently installed mods, however after I got Horse Ranch, everything has seemed to not be working at all. What's broken the most is the entire point of the mod. The horses.

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SheriGR
Hero
2 years ago
@moonxskiesx It sounds like you will need to test and find out which of your Mods/CC is causing the issue. Since you have a lot ov Mods/CC you can use the 50/50 method. Directions for the 50/50 method:
Spoiler
Exit your game.
Move your Mods folder to your desktop. (Do not delete it – save this for later.)
Restart the game so that it will recreate a new, fresh Mods folder. Do not re-add your Mods/CC, but instead enter the game and begin a new, vanilla (no Mods/CC) game. Enter that new, vanilla game-save to confirm if the issues are gone. Now exit your game.
If that fixed the issue, now you need to troubleshoot your Mods/CC to find which Mods/CC are causing the issue.
Use the 50/50 method as follows:

Divide your Mods/CC from the folder on your desktop in half.
Add one of the halves back into the game’s Mods folder. Now re-start the game and see if the issue is still gone in the vanilla/new game-save you made.

If the issue did not re-appear with those added Mods/CC you can try adding the 2nd half from the desktop. If the issues did re-appear, try only adding half of those mods and see if the issue is present in the game…
Continue in this pattern dividing the folders’ contents in half then half again as needed to eliminate in groupings which Mods/CC are causing the issue.

Once you find the Mod/CC(s) that’s causing the issues, check with the Mod/CC creators for updates that may fix the issues.