Yes, everything under the NEW sims 4 folder was created by the game, it just crashes before launching; Even with all fresh/functioning files (like I tried with the clean game), the game still crashes before even starting.
Here's the recent crash log (I've redacted the session id and createtime for privacy):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <report> <version>2</version> <sessionid>[REDACTED]</sessionid> <type>crash</type> <sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.macarm64</sku> <createtime>[REDACTED]</createtime> <buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.118.257.1220-1.300.000.223.Release</buildsignature> <systemconfig></systemconfig> <categoryid> 0x1196bb8</categoryid> <stack> 0x1196bb8 0x6888 0x79808 0x78a3c 0x1edff0 0x1ad038 0x1a0c18 0x1088e4 0x6e0ddc 0x142f0c8 0x140ffec 0x13d1868 0x106303c 0x1275a10 0x10848f0 0x1083f28 0x2c80 0x2fd4 0x1798 0x56574 0xbf0c4 0xbf008 0x3508c 0x9f83e0 </stack> <threads></threads> <screenshot></screenshot> <memdump></memdump> <contextdata> Client Session Time: 1.44<br /> Num Save Errors: 0<br /> Num Load Errors: 0<br /> Current Game State: 0x0<br /> LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 1<br /> Origin Version: 13,584,0,6097<br /> Modded: False<br /> SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 26.0.1 (Build 25A362) GPU: Apple M1 macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0<br /> Architecture: arm64<br /> (baseaddr) 0x100238000,'The Sims 4' 0x184c32000,'libsystem_pthread.dylib' 0x184ac5000,'libsystem_c.dylib' 0x190e86000,'Metal' 0x113c6c000,'AGXMetal13_3' 0x184c78000,'CoreFoundation' 0x1864be000,'Foundation' (/baseaddr) </contextdata> </report>
Looking at your screenshot again:
There is a 9 minute difference between the core files loading and your saves, Mods and a few other files. Did you put your saves back into the TS4 folder after the game recreated it and that's when it again stopped launching? It's really important you confirm whether this happens in a completely clean TS4 folder, when the game recreates a new one, as opposed to with one of your saves. I think something in one of your saves is causing this because the lastCrash file has been created.
