Game opens but keeps closing after I open it again.

I've had a similar issue. It started last night when I downloaded the new update onto my PC and before I had done that I had no issues. When I try to open the game it just closes the window and doesn't show up at the bottom as if I had accidentally pressed the windows key. It has really annoyed me too because I have done what everyone had been saying about, like turning my PC off, repairing the game, removing my mods/cc, etc. and nothing seems to help. 

Yeah not only that, but it works one day then doesn't the next even without the update. I swear it has something to do with the steam version vs the EA desktop. I've tried it on both my internal and external SSDs. Both had mods operating correctly. One was corrupted but I removed it without regrets. I even ran the game without cc and it worked for a time but I tried uploading a sim to the cloud and it kept loading as if my account was just stalling. Oh yeah all my saves were gone after the last game window problem. That was when all my mods suddenly said eff you and corrupted everything. At least all my crap is uploaded so I can re-install them. This wasn't during or after the mod malware situation either. I had updated crap but I ran a diagnostic software from curseforge itself and nothing was malicious. Every mod I have I trusted the authors. It saddens me to say I have to go on another hiatus from the game because of the same problem for years.

Oh also, I have requested an uninstall/reinstall button for curseforge so we don't have to go through our mods one by one to remove them. I've just been tearing them out of the folder itself which worked without exceptions for a while until recently. No wonder it's corrupted. Guess I ripped them too hard <_<

I ended up doing this because I ended up finding your post on someone else’s post. I did this and things worked fine.

So i then started added my mods and cc back into the game but when I went back into game everything was glitchy and taking ages to load up and when it did I kept getting pop ups from BetterExceptions saying I had issues with mods. 

Everytime I would come out of game and remove that mod or cc go back into game and it would do the same thing with almost all my cc and mods I had. 

I know this isn’t down to EA as it is from other simmers who have created the added content. But I’m just disappointed because I’ve not had any issues with mods and cc like this where I keep getting kicked out of the game. 

I can normally tell if my cc or mods are out of date due to the game menu having weird boxes when I try to exit - which doesn’t actually happen. It’s just like the game is in a very bad resolution and takes an age to load. I don’t have much mods or cc so it’s not like that’s causing it to slow either.  

@xo_noahs_ox  If you'd like help figuring out which mods are causing your issues, you can ask here:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/Mod-and-CC-Issues-Discussion-and-Support-1-102-Oct-31-2023-Game/m-p/13148088#M49850

This helped very much. My game works now. I even have created a vanilla save so I can go back to playing vanilla when I want to and I can just delete a save if they get corrupted again. I no longer need help this forum should close soon. Thanks again 🙂

@netherkrow  That's great to hear.  Your saves are here:

Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves

And you can drag the entire folder to the recycle bin if you want.  The game will create a new one.

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