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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Re: [FIXED] Loading family just loads Map again

So I've had this problem before and just exited the game entirely and reloaded it before and it worked but for some odd reason nothing is working.....hopefully this gets fixed soon.

  1. Do you have this issue only on a particular save game or on all of them ?- both the automatic and my save aren't working.
  2. Can you start a new game for testing purposes ok ?- NO I CAN NOT AND THATS WHERE I LOST IT HOW CAN I NOT START A NEW GAME?
  3. Do the backups of the saves work (Here's instructions how to access them) ?- not understanding bc i can't seem to find the file/document or whatever I have windows 8 too but not sure how much of a difference that is.

Questions about your save game

  1. Have you been switching families or played one ?- I have multiple families on the one save and I'd like to switch between them to level their skills and stuff so i have ultimately have a lot of friends with sims i like. 
  2. Do you remember what careers/aspiration the Sims in your household were in ?- the last one I played had an entertainer career and it was a household of one. The other households are pretty big so that would be kind of a long list. I'm wondering if maybe too many families is the issue? but that really shouldnt be the case but the family i visited with the one sim had someone in the athlete career and i have two other sims who are in the business career (I think i know one is).
  3. Are there children/teens in your family ?- Yes there are in quite a few households i dont think any kids anymore but teens yes.
  4. If you started a new game and had this issue, did you put in an older Sims family or completly start over from scratch ?- I tried using an older sim family that I saved to the library but it didn't work (prob bc of the backup above or deleting saves but idk how). What did work was starting a new family and then can import the sims.
  5. Did you downloaded a venue/Sim from the gallery ? Once this new save started, I tried placing a house from the gallery but it didn't work at all. so the new save is of no use to me if i cant use the gallery. 

If i could find these save files maybe then things would work but I'm not having any luck and i did save all of my sims files. I tried the Vista but that didn't work and it also lags when trying to load like the moving outer shadow of the sim diamond thing lags and then returns to the map. It makes the sound like it did load but it doesn't.

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  • DolphinSSA's avatar
    DolphinSSA
    Seasoned Veteran
    11 years ago

    Same problem here. Suddenly no save games work.

    Maybe it has something to do with the option to let sims in other families (not the one we are playing) to age. Because I believe when the problem happened to me one kid should be turning into a teen in another family, and I had the option "let other sims age" on.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    Approved

    hmmm thats odd but what i noticed when i loaded up the game today it looked like the children from a household who were kids yesterday became teens today and thats where i tried to start but then it sent me back to the map T.T

  • Yeah that may be true! The children in a different household that I wasn't currently playing in aged to teens and that's when it stopped working. You may be on to something...

  • DolphinSSA's avatar
    DolphinSSA
    Seasoned Veteran
    11 years ago

    I managed to get my game working again!

    The item 4 "Do the backups of the saves work (Here's instructions how to access them) ?" did the trick!

    1- I made a back up copy of my "Slot_00000001.save" file

    2- I renamed my  "Slot_00000001.save.ver1" file to "Slot_00000001.save"

    3- I tried to play the game again, and it worked (I could see the updated picture of my kid who became a teen when I was playing another family)