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dslepenk
Seasoned Adventurer
5 years ago
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Constant crashing after Cottage Living installation - please help!

Hello,  I downloaded Cottage Living this past week and tried the game out this weekend. The first day, there were no major issues. I noticed that there were lags when switching into build/buy mode a...
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    dslepenk
    4 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict I found a solution! 

    Basically I just stopped playing Sims for a while due to the crashing, but during this time I remembered that when I got the new expansion pack I also used Sims 4 Studio to update my mods. I had updated my skins to make them compatible with the recent update, but after this update the crashes began. 

    I went back to the original versions of the skin files and re-downloaded those instead and the crashes have since stopped. It looks like the files which were modified using Sims 4 Studio were for some reason breaking the game. This is odd because I've never had issues using Sims 4 Studio before, but I'm glad to have finally isolated the issue!

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dslepenk
Seasoned Adventurer
5 years ago

@puzzlezaddict I looked into the size and it does look like most of the files are in my mod folder. I don't have invasive mods, but I do have quite a few skin / CC / Build/Buy items that I've not had issues with before. I did try to remove the gameplay mods and play without them, but the crash still occurred. The issue is, I'm not sure how to test the game without my mods - one of the periods of playing that I had was over 2 - 3 hours long with no crashes. 

I did as you suggested and tried playing with a clean folder. It seems to run smoothly - but as mentioned, sometimes the crash would occur several hours in so it's difficult to tell if the game would crash after a few hours of playing. 

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TheSuperWolf100
5 years ago

Cottage living got removed from my account when they tried to fix the pre order bonuses 

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