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TheForestBabe's avatar
3 years ago

Sims4 won’t start if CC is in folders

I’ve been trying for hours to get my game to work with CC, but the game refuses to launch.

I’ve tried a gazillion different things, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the game refuses to launch if I put the CC into folders within the Mods folder.

as in:

Mods -> HairCC -> cc.package 

Does not work.

if I do it like this:

Mods -> cc.package 

it will launch and work 

Why is this happening? I only encountered this problem after downloading the EA app for Windows (I’m using Windows 11), and updating the game. I have almost 13gb of CC, not counting mods which I haven’t even tried to get to work, so having to remove all sort of sorting I’ve done will be a major hassle.

6 Replies

  • @DeanXeL 


    Yes. Same CC, only works if it’s not in a folder. Did this again with other CCs and the result is the same across the board. Game will launch if CC is put straight into the Mods folder. If I put the CC in a folder inside the Mods folder then the game will not launch.

  • DeanXeL's avatar
    DeanXeL
    3 years ago
    @TheForestBabe One thing I can suggest you to try is remove your entire mods folder, then relaunch the game, exit

    Then move your CC into the new mods folder, but don't replace the new config file.
  • @DeanXeL @I gave that a try and it seemed to work, but then I tried adding more CC and the results were the same.

    I’m starting to think the problem is something else entirely, as the game has intermittently launched a couple times, with different CC-folder ratios. However it takes FOREVER. I’ll turn and do something else and suddenly the music will come on and the game loads and plays normally. I tried again, and only placed around 200mb worth of CC in the Mods folder and left my computer running, and after maybe 20 minutes the game launched. The EA app and the game will also disappear from the task manager, so it gives me no reason to believe it’s actually trying to launch. Though, I know they’re still going in the background as I’m unable to move things in the Mods folder. I have to restart my computer to be able to use the folder again.
    I have never encountered the game to take any extra time to launch, and I can’t find any reasons why it suddenly is. 😪

    I’ve made no changes except having to get the EA app and update the game. 

  • @TheForestBabe 

    This sounds like the game is not reading the resource.cfg file.  What does yours look like? I have all my mods and CC in subfolders.  Most are two and three folders deep.  Everything shows and the game runs fine.  I have around 2,700 files at just over 5GB.  It only takes my game about 2 minutes to load into a lot.  My resource.cfg file looks like this:

    Priority 500
    PackedFile *.package
    PackedFile */*.package
    PackedFile */*/*.package
    PackedFile */*/*/*.package
    PackedFile */*/*/*/*.package
    PackedFile */*/*/*/*/*.package

    With this file, I can go as deep as 5 subfolders and the game runs fine.  

    Another thing it could be is a few broken files or files that conflict with each other (default replacements mostly) that the game keeps trying to read when loading.  I suggest you go through your CC to make sure everything actually works and you do not have conflicting default replacements.  One way to do that is to use Sims 4 Studio to look at every file.  With that program, you can view each item on a 3D model however, default replacements will not give you a visual.  Those will need to be looked at, one at the time in CAS.  When I last did that, I found a number of files that were broken and had never shown up in the game.  I also removed a lot of things that I thought were neat when I downloaded them but then never used.  After removing the broken files and the stuff I never used, I found that my game ran a lot smoother and loaded faster.  It will take a while to go though as much as you have but I think it might be worth it to you to make the effort.

    Hope this helps.

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