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tisziny
Rising Novice
3 months ago

crashing and infinite load screens, I got it all!

my main/favourite save won't load. 

it was the only save I had in my game for over a year, the only one I played. Me and this save survived the update last week (even with the 7k mods I have). Everything was playing fine so I decided to get in on the EA sale and get the Life and Death pack. I restarted the game and could load into a household okay, but saving or going to manage worlds gave me an infinite load screen. Then it developed to just getting infinite loading screens when trying to get further than the main menu, or I would get to the world maps but trying to select a household gave me the infinite load screen

I've been trying different troubleshooting things. Taking all of my mods out makes the game crash before I can get the main menu, so I can do even less without them

I could start a brand new save with all of the mods in it and it works pretty much perfectly. But I want to play my old save, it's got so much progress in it and challenges I'm working on 😫

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  • tisziny​  It means the mods' presence isn't the problem.  But the mods may be causing a problem in one save and not the others due to differing circumstances.  For example, you could imagine that the RPO mod would only have certain effects in a save where an active sim is pregnant.

    It's typically too difficult to parse and prove these varying effects, at least for anyone who isn't a mod developer, which is why most users simply need to keep testing until they find an answer.

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    tisziny
    Rising Novice
    3 months ago

    so I just have to go through the mods until I can find what's blocking me from actually loading my save? aka the mods are the problem?

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    tisziny
    Rising Novice
    3 months ago

    I have taken out every single mod (except for the two that I need to have in the game or else it just crashes) and I still cannot load into any of the households of my main save. I go from the main menu to the world maps, and then when I try to select ANY households I get the infinite load screens. Regardless of which neighbourhood I try to access (oh and a couple of households will crash the game rather than loading at all, so I'm still stuck on crashing or infinite loading aka Hell)

    Can this be fixed?

  • tisziny​  I don't know whether it can be fixed, but I'd like to see a new lastexception with just these two mods present.

    And I'd also like to know whether any combination of mods added back allows you to load a household in this save.  I realize this would take some time to test, but you can force the game to close when your household hasn't loaded in the first few minutes, maybe double however long the normal loading time is.

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    tisziny
    Rising Novice
    3 months ago

    My game isn't generating a new lastexception, but it is creating a lastcrash- will that be any use?

  • tisziny​  No, unfortunately, lastcrash files are mostly unusable by those of us who don't work for the studio.  And if you're not getting a LE, and you can't load ANY household in this save, with or without mods, I'm not sure what else to suggest.  I guess you could try placing a new household in the save to see whether it works, and only (try to) switch back to one of your main ones after playing the new one for a bit.  But it may be that this save is too broken to use, at least until EA or a modder figures out how to handle the underlying issue.