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sberyy_cat
3 years ago
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sim disappeared and game glitch

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Rarely (0% - 9%) What is your current game version number? . What expansions, ga...
  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    3 years ago

    @sberyy_cat 

    You can try recovering your save to an earlier version from before your issue appeared.  Just go to the Main Menu.  Click on Load Game.  Select your last save.  Click the recover button just to the left of the Delete button.  Then select which version of the save to recover.  Select the recovered save then load it by hitting Play button.  If that doesn't work to get you back to where you were before the issue appeared, then do it again with the next choice for recovery.  Depending on how many times you saved the game earlier, you can have up to 5 versions of your save.  If you recover all 5 versions and the problem is there in all of them and you have no other save files, then you'll have to abandon the save and start over.

    Hope this helps. 

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sberyy_cat
3 years ago

i don't think i have backups but I'll try and my sim is completely gone my other sims relationship with her disappeared there is no trace of her😣

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CGrant56
Hero+
3 years ago

@sberyy_cat 

You can try recovering your save to an earlier version from before your issue appeared.  Just go to the Main Menu.  Click on Load Game.  Select your last save.  Click the recover button just to the left of the Delete button.  Then select which version of the save to recover.  Select the recovered save then load it by hitting Play button.  If that doesn't work to get you back to where you were before the issue appeared, then do it again with the next choice for recovery.  Depending on how many times you saved the game earlier, you can have up to 5 versions of your save.  If you recover all 5 versions and the problem is there in all of them and you have no other save files, then you'll have to abandon the save and start over.

Hope this helps. 

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    sberyy_cat
    3 years ago

    OMGGG thank you so much lol i only played sims for almost a year so there's still things i didnt know about the game. i got back to an alright point in my game so it's fine!!

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      JonaO703
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      3 years ago

      @sberyy_cat   Hi!  I'm very glad you were able to get your save back.  There are a few things I wanted to mention here. As @SimmerStar4 was suggesting, it's a good idea to regularly create backups for your saves if you're worried about losing anything.  You can get the save location for any save from the Load Game screen.

      Use this to identify the file path, then go to your TS4 saves folder, copy the actual save file (you may want to copy all versions), and paste it into another folder either on your PC / Mac or onto a thumb drive.  Then if you encounter a problem and can't recover an in-game save, you can copy that saved file back into your TS4 saves.

      Something else that @SimmerStar4 mentioned that is also important ... You want to make sure your mods / CC are updated to the latest version of the game.

      Lastly, while using the WW mod in particular, you should only save your game when you are in Live Mode or Build Mode.  Saving the game from Worlds View may cause some issues with the game.  This is related to an update a while back that changed how the game saves.  It could impact other mods as well.  Happy Simming!

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