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MassacreWolfe
6 years ago
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Almost All Files Corrupted Upon Moving To New Computer

So my laptop's been breaking for a while, ya? Well I got a new computer and y'know transferred all my WORKING Sims 4 and even Sims 3 mods over, but when I tried to load up Sims 4 it said one of my mods were corrupt. Deleted it, tried loading again, a new mod is corrupted. This goes on and on for half an hour before I say screw it, because clearly it's not going to let me play any time soon and I'll just end up deleting all my mods.

The mods that don't work have no image, while the working ones have the WinRAR image in the folder. All the mods show up and work just fine on my laptop, but on the new computer it says they don't work and that they're 0 bytes. Both are PC, both run on Windows, I don't understand what the problem is. I tried repairing the files via downloads, cc cleaners, WinRAR itself, and I've repaired and reinstalled Sims 4 countless times. I tried downloading one of the corrupted mods from it's original source and it still said it was corrupted. Then I tried a few more and got the same result. I know for a fact that the mods aren't outdated since my laptop is updated to the most recent patch as well and the mods work just fine. 

I've tried moving the Sims 4 folder to the desktop and getting a clean one. I've tried moving just the Mods folder to get a new one. Still doesn't work. 

And I know my computer can handle mods, as my Steam mods work just fine, and so do my downloads from the sims 3 exchange. 

My computer's just being extremely selective with WinRAR files, as I have over 1,800 Sims 4 mods/115 Sims 3 mods and only 15 of them work. 

I don't even know what to do because I was able to easily transfer all these same mods to my best friend's computer a while ago, and when I take out all CC the game will load. 

I've spent 10 hours trying to get this to work and no progress has been made. The only other things I can think to do are reinstall Origin or uninstall WinRAR (I tried updated WinRAR on my new computer and it was still acting like this)

I have a i7 intel core, 16GB RAM, 2GHz CPU, 4 processors, and 2TB of disk space. 

Is it my computer, or is it some other problem?? Should I just give up because without my mods I just can't play the games...

I can provide a screenshot of the error message if you don't know what I'm talking about.

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  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    6 years ago

    @MassacreWolfe Your desktop model says it is a SFF which means small form factor. There may be restrictions installing a video card. First installing a graphics card may (probably) require a power supply upgrade. Many SFF desktops use a none standard power supply. Most PSU's for SFFs will only increase the output a little and usually not enough for most moldern graphics cards. A SFF may not even have a PCIe slot for a graphics slot. Even is a SFF has a graphics slot you may only get a low profile card to fit in the slot. I do not use mods but a new mods folder should have a file resource.cfg. To add mods all you should have to do is copy the uncompressed mod file into the user mods directory. If the mod works in another computer it should work in the new computer. What confuses me is file corruption. I am not an expert on mods. I read somewhere you may have to delete some cache files but I don't see why the corruption issue. Try one mod and do not leave the compressed file in the mod folder. Winrar should work but Windows has a built in .zip file uncompreessor but you have to use Winrar if the file has the .rar extension.

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @MassacreWolfe 

    You need to do a little cleaning. Move the jpg images somewhere else. Also move the zip (winrar) files somewhere else. Only resource.cfg, package files and ts4script files (if you have any) belong there.

    Your Graphics is below minimum requirements. Try setting graphics to low and see how that goes. The CPU and RAM are fine.

    There is no such thing as being halfway on one version of Windows 10 Either the upgrade fails or it succeeds. In your case it failed as you are still on 1809 instead of 1903. 1909 will begin rolling out later this month.

  • MassacreWolfe's avatar
    MassacreWolfe
    6 years ago
    @jpkarlsen well i moved the other stuff, but i can't even run the sims 4 to do anything settings-wise. I keep getting the error message that the game won't run because all of my cc/mods are corrupted.
    None of the remaining files have an icon.

    Welp at least now I know that the failed update's not the issue...
  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @MassacreWolfe  According to the dxdiag your graphics is below minimum requirements. This game requires a minimum 128Mb of dedicated graphics. So at the very least you will probably have graphic issues. You will not be able to run this game at resolution like 1080p using the integrated graphics unit. As far as the issues with mods, move the games user directory to your desktop. There will be no user data the next time you start the game. After you successfully start the game the next time the game will recreate the required user files with out mods. If the game starts and runs then the issue is with the mods.

  • MassacreWolfe's avatar
    MassacreWolfe
    6 years ago
    @roberta591 welp i'm looking into upgrading the graphics card then, because i have a lot of higher scaled games and the site that sold me the computer lied to my face

    However, I've moved files in the game's directory so many times in so many various ways.
    But the problem is, the mods aren't the issue, they work perfectly fine on my laptop and my best friend's gaming desktop, and when I try to redownload them from their original sites it still says they're corrupted, and there's no way that all of them are outdated.
    The game works with the mods on other computers that are updated to the latest patch, but on this desktop it says the mods are corrupted no matter what I do and will work only without the mods.
    It's only happening on this computer.
  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @MassacreWolfe Your desktop model says it is a SFF which means small form factor. There may be restrictions installing a video card. First installing a graphics card may (probably) require a power supply upgrade. Many SFF desktops use a none standard power supply. Most PSU's for SFFs will only increase the output a little and usually not enough for most moldern graphics cards. A SFF may not even have a PCIe slot for a graphics slot. Even is a SFF has a graphics slot you may only get a low profile card to fit in the slot. I do not use mods but a new mods folder should have a file resource.cfg. To add mods all you should have to do is copy the uncompressed mod file into the user mods directory. If the mod works in another computer it should work in the new computer. What confuses me is file corruption. I am not an expert on mods. I read somewhere you may have to delete some cache files but I don't see why the corruption issue. Try one mod and do not leave the compressed file in the mod folder. Winrar should work but Windows has a built in .zip file uncompreessor but you have to use Winrar if the file has the .rar extension.

  • MassacreWolfe's avatar
    MassacreWolfe
    6 years ago
    @roberta591 I'm not entirely sure what happened, but after I moved them all back to the mods folder little by little they just all started working. It might've been that my computer or the usb I used couldn't process large chunks of mods at a time??
    I think that worked, so thank you o.o
  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @MassacreWolfe 

    Your PC does support 1 low-profile PCIe x16 so you can upgrade with a standalone graphics card.

    Search google for "low profile graphics card". it does not have to be too expensive to run the Sims 4 well.

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @MassacreWolfe   I have found that the flow control on some computers is bad when you are transferring large files. Usually on older computers when I was transferring movies that were like 700Mb or larger.

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