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mirandactyl
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3 years ago

Sims 4 crashes on startup after transferring Save File

Hi all. I occasionally transfer a really good save file back and forth between my two computers (desktop/laptop). I've never had any trouble with this, and my game is vanilla. I just copy the files onto a USB and paste them to whichever computer I want.

Tonight, I tried to transfer some save files from my desktop onto my laptop. My game was running fine on both computers until I pasted the save files onto the new computer. Once the save files are in the "saves" folder, my laptop will load the startup of TS4, but then crash a few seconds into the loading screen.

As soon as I take the save files out, the laptop TS4 runs fine again. I've never experienced this before. So far, I've tried:

  • Updating and repairing TS4
  • Updating Windows
  • Updating Drivers
  • Disabling overlay and advanced settings on Discord
  • Restarting the computer
  • Renaming the save files
  • Deleting the save files from the USB, reloading them onto the USB, and then trying to import them again

I'm at a loss here. Can anyone offer assistance?

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  • @mirandactyl  Does this happen with all the saves you're moving over, or just one?  How large are the problem saves?  And if you run one of the affected saves on your desktop, save your progress (thereby generating a new save file), and then transfer that, do you still get crashes on your laptop?

    Finally, please let me know whether OneDrive is running on your laptop and if so, how full it is, whether you deliberately use it or not.

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