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puzzlezaddict
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2 years ago

Re: Save won't load

@Dia4lit  As a test, please try playing in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just let me know whether you can get far enough to start a new save and play in live mode for a bit.

If this works, you can copy one of your saves from the old Sims 4 folder to the new one and test that too.  But don't add any other content to the new folder, at least not yet.

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  • Dia4lit's avatar
    Dia4lit
    2 years ago

    Yeah, I can play new saves (but when I move my save into that new folder it doesn't load, though). Actually, yesterday I found out I can even play with other households in the same not loading save. So I thought my played household was the issue. I deleted them, I used a previous version of them I had in my library but when I place them, even on a different lot than before, the household doesn't load. It doesn't make sense. I used that version of my sims to create a new save and it worked fine, the household loaded. Now the same version of them doesn't load?!

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    Dia4lit
    2 years ago
    @Dia4lit This is absurd. I don't get what's happening. I went back to another save where I have all of my heirs, it's not a played save. I just save my heirs from the played save and throw them to the other save to keep them alive and take photos. When I did it for my heir he was still a teen, I aged him up to take some pics and that's it, I exited that save and never entered it again in weeks. Now it doesn't work there either. I tried to save that sim to the gallery and have a friend of mine download it and when she tries to put him in her game, she has the same problem as I am: the game gets stuck but she still hears voices and stuff, like if it loaded correctly. It makes no sense, I don't get it! This sim from this save worked, I didn't use it in weeks so it shouldn't be corrupted and I haven't played with it. So why he doesn't work either?! I'm going insane trying to fix this problem because it makes no sense at all!
  • sabcrews's avatar
    sabcrews
    9 months ago

    Having the issue listed here and I have a last exceptions file in my Sims4 folder.

    Hadn't played the Sims I'm using in a while, added them from my gallery to a save where the main Sim died and I didn't wanna start over with the lot.

  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
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    9 months ago

    @sabcrews If you remove mods, does it load? 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.

  • sfaantje's avatar
    sfaantje
    9 months ago

    I have the exact same problem. Since the last update I have to make a new save every time I wanna play bevause I can't load my save (even if it's from an hour ago). I play WITHOUT mods =) So that is also clear.

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