I've been trying to fix this for the past 5 hours i dedicated for playing... my afternoon is gone, I'm frustrated af, and I thought I did something that broke my game (reinstalled my mods today and that's the only thing that works..) I repaired the game, reinstalled the sims, the ea app, the steam app and cleared the cache countless times.. I think it's time to give up and wait for a solution. Like it's crazy when I realise I own a game which I paid for more than 1k in this past decade.. just to be able to play the base game and not even my legacy I have since 2017 and I literally threw away this afternoon trying to fix the game... Thank you, EA.