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ella_jovie's avatar
5 years ago

Help! Missing control panel and red border

Help! I don't know what happened but when I tried to play the game, my sims were not moving and there is a red border around the screen. 

As you can see there is NO control panel, no Sims to choose/click on, and i can't go into Buy or Build mode. When I try and go back to manage households the screen turns black (still with the red border) and the game becomes frozen so the only way to exit is to turn my laptop off. The game works fine until I click play household then it gets like this.

I already tried clicking tab, tab + shift, f9, f10, shift + ctrl + v

What should i do!

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  • @ella_jovie

    Mac or Windows?

    If you're using Mods move them out, trash the localthumbcache.package file then load up your game and see if it works properly. If it does a Mod is causing the issue, make sure they are compatible with the current patch level of the game.