Hi, I have the same issues. Hadn't played for a while. Yesterday I installed all updates and startet my game. My last savegame opens up, but I can't let my sim go back home (she is on a journey). When the loading screen comes up (home should be loading) nothing happens. Screen keeps loading and loading. I repaired the game, I moved the folder as you described it before and I can play with a brand new save game. I put my old savegame in the saves folder and deleted the new save. The "old" save doesn't work again. It keeps hanging/malfunction. I don't use mods.
My dxdiag is also ok (no failures found). It also doens't work with DirectX9 nor directx11.
Yesterday my sim could get home when I played fully offline, but from there I couldn't do (click) anything. That save is totally broken (doesn't load).
So I think one of the updates (maybe the grim reaper challenge) destroyed something. When will there be a fix from ea? Or how can I get my sim and all my rewards, etc. back with a new working savegame?
I'm also having the same issue of not being able to go back home. even trying to go home through the map crashes my game and leaves me stuck on the loading screen.
