Sim's Dog portrait causing game to crash
I have a very old rotational play save and recently it's been crashing in the Manage Worlds menu. After a Sims 4 folder reset, a game repair, and hours of investigation, I've managed to narrow it do...
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@JonaO703 This isn't possible because I can't mouse over the lot without the tooltip with the family CAS portrait/household info popping up and crashing the game. Traveling to an adjacent house and choosing to "Travel to.." also crashes when trying to load into the affected family's lot. A few minutes ago, I backed up my saves and my sims directory, installed MCCC for the first time, and trying to get into the family's CAS by using MCCC also caused a CTD. Same when using "Edit in CAS" with shift+left click base game cheats when the bugged dog's owner is a guest at another sim's house.
@TrueMathsDo you have a way to get to where the dog is? MCCC has an option to delete sims in the Sim Commands menu. If you can get to the dog, click on it and select MCCC then Sim Commands, then Delete Sim. You'll get a "are you sure?" pop up saying this will permanently delete the sim.
@JonaO703Trying to access the dog in any way causes a CTD. It is definitely this dog, nuking all dogs with MCCC resolves everything, since I don't have to directly involve or load the dog. I am reticent to introduce mods into such an old save, though, and now all my sims' dogs are gone.
@TrueMathsI'm glad you were able to figure that out. Too bad you had to eliminate all the dogs though. Hopefully some new ones will generate, without that game crashing glitch though. Regarding effects from MCCC, you may want to delete the localthumbcache.package file located in the Documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 4 folder. This cache file can sometimes carry some effects from mods. Happy Simming!
