[CURRENT ISSUE] Sims 4 already running
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This is a common error that is usually caused when Sims 4 cannot access the user folder in Documents > Electronic Arts. It can also be triggered by outdat...
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I have restarted my game, looked up videos on YouTube to help get it working, unplugged everything and plugged them back in, and even uninstalled the game and reinstalled it.......I'm out of ideas.
@DAVIDD1799 If OneDrive is running on your computer, whether you use it or not, please try pausing syncing. You can see the option by right-clicking the cloud icon in the lower-right corner of the screen.
If that doesn't help, please move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, if it launches, a clean folder will spawn with no content. (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.) Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just let me know whether you can get far enough to start a new save and play in live mode for a bit.
check through the Task Manager if any Sims 4 processes are still running as background, you can safely "kill" them manually unless the game is stuck at the save. Normally the processes should stop but due to Windows architecture sometimes it keeps running. Re-boot helps in 99% cases. Advice: don't rely too much on MCCC auto-save, do this manually as often as possible
