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jnars's avatar
2 years ago
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Game stuck on loading

Eversince I updated - once I start game from EA, my game is stuck perpetually loading the home screen. Similar to @SuperblySimk, the screen continues to cycle through the tips, and the plumbob continues to spin. It also isn't crashing-but it will not load the main menu at all.

I've tried: 
1. repairing
2. uninstalled, reinstalled
3. tried the 'taking out The Sims 4 file out to desktop' and restart game
4. offline mode

5. check on malware exceptions

Nothing seems to work yet it seems T_T

  • @jnars  Your dxdiag lists recent errors from McAfee and Panda Security.  Are you running both antiviruses at the same time?  That's never a good idea: two such apps can conflict and cause more problems than they prevent.  So please choose one and stick with it.

    For now, however, please test Sims 4 with neither antivirus running at all, at least temporarily.  As long as you don't do anything else at the same time, your computer should be safe.  The idea is to figure out whether simply removing one and setting exceptions in the other is sufficient to fix the problem.

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    jnars
    2 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, attaching the dxdiag below. And as for the onedrive, i tried looking for it on windows search and it seems to be there, but I'm not logged in nor have I ever used it before. 



  • @jnars  Your dxdiag lists recent errors from McAfee and Panda Security.  Are you running both antiviruses at the same time?  That's never a good idea: two such apps can conflict and cause more problems than they prevent.  So please choose one and stick with it.

    For now, however, please test Sims 4 with neither antivirus running at all, at least temporarily.  As long as you don't do anything else at the same time, your computer should be safe.  The idea is to figure out whether simply removing one and setting exceptions in the other is sufficient to fix the problem.

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    jnars
    2 years ago

    Yay! That solved it - thank you so much. 

    Apparently the two antiviruses were Panda and AVG. Took off AVG, and the game loads perfectly now. 

    Thank you so much! ❤️