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merielol
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6 hours ago

Game wont save

Every time I start a new household and try to move it into a new lot, it doesn't save and goes to the world menu (doesn't even show an error message). I tried to load an old save, but it crashed. When I reloaded it and tried to save, it showed error code 533. Exited to the main menu and had the WWW glitch from when there's no played household. I've gone through my whole mod folder, and tried playing without it (no difference), tried repairing the cache, repaired the game in general, and now completely deleted and then redownloaded the entire EA app. Still no difference. Is there literally anything else I can try?

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  • Also I need to add, if I don't save the new household to my gallery then I just permanently lose it due to this glitch. I have probably lost 2 hours of work so far from forgetting to do so. 

  • merielol​  Please try a completely new user folder.  Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop.  When you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you've moved but temporarily unread by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just start a new save and see whether you can get into live mode.  If so, please try to save your progress.

    You don't need to spend much time creating the sims since this is just for testing.

    If you get an error code again, please post a screenshot.

  • update: removed entire mods folder  + new user folder and game is now working. Now time to test for which cc/mods are causing it :D