AwesomeHulkc4 So that we're talking about the same thing, please let me know whether a symbolic link to a Sims 4 folder works when it's here:
C:\Users\your username\Documents\Electronic Arts
or here:
C:\Users\your username\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts
Please also let me know what you mean when you say this:
Even when the link is active, the game appears to 'bypass' it and generate a fresh, physical directory on the C: drive.
If the symlink isn't where the game creates the new folder, then that's where the symlink needs to be. If the two ARE in the same location, that is extremely weird behavior—Windows shouldn't be allowing it. In that case, please let me know where this is happening.
I'm not sure why you'd get an Access Denied message when entering a command to create a symlink in either location unless OneDrive was being weird about permissions. And creating one should never cause a LiveKernelEvent of any kind. I do see the errors in your dxdiags, but they're kind of obtuse and not useful without a crash dump. However, creating a symlink is simply creating a very small file, so I can't see how it would trigger either of these errors without an underlying system issue. Unless... is it possible there was some leftover process still running from moving the Sims 4 folder elsewhere? Restarting your computer after moving the folder and before trying to create the symlink should fix that.
