sims 4 closing at startup

It is a problem with the saves. Looks like when the game loads it read the last saved game before the menu screen even comes up. If you copy over your saves to a different folder, leaving your save folder empty, you can probably start a new character and play as I have been able to twice. As soon as you put your old saves back in the save folder, and try to load them, it crashes the game. Since that has become the last save you accessed, it will just auto crash all over again on start up. It is definitely caused by the update.

So I can't put my old saves back? I don't really want to start a new one because my main save file is the one I usually play on

.I haven't been able to get my old saves to load.  I imagine that EA will come out with a fix for this

So basically we can't play the game if we're playing in the save files that we might have spent 100's of hours on?

c4it1inn​ bmcmvox​ ajjilolme​  You can try your old saves too.  The problem may well be the household preview on the Main Menu, not the save itself.  Please see this for further information:

Game crashes on launch after update 4/29/25 | EA Forums - 12138651

I hope it's the household preview and that is fixed be EA as I have tried the process with at least 5 different old saves, some are quite  old and none of them load. My main save has atleast 600 hours on it and over 2000 hours across all of them

bmcmvox​  If you create a newer save (with your old saves removed), that newer save should be the one previewed at the Main Menu.  Then you can add back your older saves, while keeping the newer save in place, and see whether you can load the saves with the Load Game button.  That's what I was asking.  If it doesn't work, choose Load Game and then select a different household from Manage Worlds.

No, it doesn't work. I tried loading them from inside the game after I added them back in but when I select them from the main menu, the loading screen appears for a second, then backstreen, then crash