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Anonymous
9 years ago

Recovering a hypothetical Auto-Save when my game crashed while saving??? Sims 4

Is there a way to somehow retrace my steps and recover the past FOUR HOURS of gameplay I just put in before I pressed "Save" and the game promptly crashed?? I really should know better by now, my game has been incredibly glitchy from the very beginning and this is not the first time it's happened. And I'm not proud of playing Sims 4 for such a long period of time. But I've never lost this much gameplay and I'd really like it if someone knew whether the autosaves kicked in over that entire period and if there's a place I can recover it all from. Otherwise I'll just keep being sad. Thanks!

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    The auto-save doesn't really auto-save when one would think it would. I'm not sure it even does save other than when you save anyways or at the start of the game.

    You can try though by clicking on the load button and then load the auto-save from there (it's called autosave).

  • Zoaea's avatar
    Zoaea
    9 years ago

    There is a little button in the loading area that says "recover" and I still lost about 2 hours but it looks like it maybe saves when you leave a lot? Ty for your advice, I recovered at least 3 of my 5 hours I think. T_T

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    Hi @Zoaea

    the autosave was removed a few patches ago.


    The recovery recovers the last backup which was automatically created when you last saved.

  • Zoaea's avatar
    Zoaea
    9 years ago
    Oh, so does that mean it would have picked up at that point regardless? How come the removed auto save? T.T
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    Hi @Zoaea

    yes, it would have picked up from the last time you saved manually.

    They got rid of it cause it never worked properly anyways. It basically only auto-saved when you saved anyways and at the beginning of each session I believe. Since it wasn't doing was everyone was expecting, I think they thought it would better to ditch it.

    If you want a working auto-save, I recommend using a mod. MC Command Center has that option.

  • troshalom's avatar
    troshalom
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago

    I was creating a custom house. My area lost power at 3:35 am. I know I saved the game prior to that power failure. When I go to look at the last save it says 12:47 am and it says the last family played is a family I wasn't playing.  I essentially lost 90% of what I built in that house, over 2 hours of work.

    I am a fanatic when it comes to saving, because of game crashes. Never in my wildest dreams did I think a power outage would wipe out over two hours of game play.

    Is there a feature in options that allows me to turn on autosave?

    • I was creating a house in Oasis Springs.
    • The household Custom Clubs is in Oasis Springs.
    • When my house lost power and my computer shut off, I was in Oasis Springs, playing the Custom Clubs household and had them visit the new house/lot I created. That was around 3:35 am.
    • I saved the game before I switched from the lot without a household back to the Custom Clubs household.
    • But the game lists my last save with the household two in My Shuno, a household I did not play on 2/21/2019
    1. Why did the game do that? 
    2. How can I find the last save?
    3. Can I recover what was lost between 12:47 am and 3:35 am?
  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    7 years ago

    When trying to load did you try the "Recover save" option.

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