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Raitor5's avatar
8 years ago

One specific Sim can't be loaded

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.48.94.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Not sure
What happens when the bug occurs? The played Sim becomes unloadable. The game freezes on the loading screen of that specific Sim. All other households remain intact.
What do you expect to see? I got invited by another Sim for drinks. The game froze on loading and my Sim did not load again after restarting the game.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

Hello,

I encountered a literal gamebreaking issue.
I got invited by my romantic interest for drinks and when the game tried to move there, it froze. After that I was not able to load my Sim anymore.
Even trying to load an older save file didn't work. Trying to move the Sim didn't work either. It was just that specific Sim. Other households loaded without any problem.
The Sim was still in the world and could be encountered by other Sims without issue or freezing.
Using cheats, I was able to temporarily add my Sim to another household. It worked and I seperated them and moved the Sim back to the old lot and it started working again.
However, since then that specific Sim is prone to that happening again.
I tried removing all Mods and custom content and it still didn't work.
The Sim is World famous and a Grandmaster vampire.

It appears that it is a character specific issue and I don't know what triggered it, but since it happened the first time, it happened a couple times.

I found out I can also make it load if I move another Sim to my household instead, it seems the issue is just that my Sim can't be the selected one and then it loads.
The odd thing is that it doesn't seem to be the save file, but the Sim itself that is affected since I can load everyone else, but not that Sim and I can't load older Save files of that specific Sim either that worked before. Something is wrong there and I can't figure out what it is.

As I mentioned, I removed all custom content and it still didn't work. So far I have not encountered that issue with any other Sim.

5 Replies

  • HI @Raitor5

    I'm moving this to tech for troubleshooting

    It's really hard to tell what corrupted the Sim.

    Did you try anything to fix the grandmaster issue on this Sim ?

    Could you upload your Sim to the gallery ?

  • Raitor5's avatar
    Raitor5
    8 years ago

    Thank you.

    Yes, I did try to find a mod to fix the vampire issue and I did use one, but it didn't happen immediately and even after I removed it I couldn't load a save game of before I used it.

    I did not edit any xml files though, unless the mod did it permanently without me knowing.

    I am not the one who made the Sim (my wife did), so I don't feel comfortable uploading it. I hope that is not an issue.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 years ago
    I understand.

    I'm a bit unclear, do you still have issues with the Sim nor or are you just scared it might happen again ?
  • Raitor5's avatar
    Raitor5
    8 years ago

    At the moment it is fixed, but it happened a couple times already.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    8 years ago
    Would you be willing to share your whole save privately with me ? Just upload to google drive or onedrive and PM me the link.