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LeafBlighter
4 years ago
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CC not showing in game?

Hello. Okay, so, I really need some help. My game was not working correctly. I could start the game, click the menus, edit my sim, enter into live mode. HOWEVER, when I was in live mode, I could sti...
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LeafBlighter's avatar
LeafBlighter
4 years ago

I did as you said and checked to see if it was reading the correct version/following the right path, and it is. So I followed your instructions and moved the sims 4 folder so it would create a new one, then slowly put my mods back in. A few more mods are now showing in game, however most of them are still not present. 

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puzzlezaddict
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4 years ago

@LeafBlighter  Just to confirm, none of the mods and cc showed up until you put them back, right?  If you add a number of mods cc items and only some show up, the usual reason is that the other content is outdated and incompatible with your patch level.  Please make sure everything you're trying to add is confirmed compatible with patch 1.80.

Another potential issue is that some cc requires an underlying mesh, which can itself be cc or belong to a pack you don't own.  So double-check the download pages for any requirements to use the content.

  • LeafBlighter's avatar
    LeafBlighter
    4 years ago

    I haven't touched the Sims 4 in a while, I guess I sort of just gave up on it, until today. I updated the Sims 4, checked that all my mods were in my Sims 4 mod folder, only one sub folder deep, not outdated or anything, they have their meshes, everything seemed in order. I loaded up the Sims 4 and enabled mods, closed out of it, went back in, mods still weren't showing up. However, when I checked the path it was using it showed my onedrive path. It didn't show this before, but it does now. I don't know why, but that's just how it's working I guess. Maybe life just hates me. Anyhow, I looked through onedrive and sure enough the CC that isn't showing up in game is the CC I don't have linked/synced with Onedrive. I'm pretty sure I just need to change the path Sims 4 is using but I'm not quite sure how to. I pray that I just need to unsync my onedrive, if that doesn't work then I honestly might go mad.

    Can someone please tell me how to get the Sims 4 to read the right path?

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    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @LeafBlighter  First, back up your Sims 4 user files: saves, cc and mods, anything you don't want to lose.  Then disable (unlink) OneDrive entirely:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

    Load Sims 4 and see whether it now reads the correct path.  If it does, great, you can put whatever files you want to keep into the proper folder and go on from there.  In the future, you can reenable OneDrive and stop it from syncing Documents; this usually doesn't change the path Sims 4 uses.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-which-onedrive-folders-to-sync-to-your-computer-98b8b011-8b94-419b-aa95-a14ff2415e85

    If that doesn't help, please open a File Explorer window, right-click on Documents, select Properties, then Location, and let me know what path it shows.  If it's pointing to OneDrive, you can change it to C:\Users\[your username]\Documents instead.

  • LeafBlighter's avatar
    LeafBlighter
    4 years ago

    I haven't tried the first method, however I did try the second. This was the message it gave me:

  • LeafBlighter's avatar
    LeafBlighter
    4 years ago

    Im trying to follow your first method, but it's like I can't back up my files because they just back up into one drive. Like, I can't get my files moved out of onedrive. I can't figure out whats my non onedrive folder and what is.

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    LeafBlighter
    4 years ago

    Update: I FIGURED IT OUT. I finally found my regular computer files and am moving my documents file out of onedrive and onto my regular computer folder/file/whatever. In approximately 3 hours my entire documents folder should be back onto my regular desktop. Finally... I even pinned my normal computer files folder so that way when I do download new sims 4 cc I can make sure to put them into the correct folder.

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