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Anonymous
11 years ago

Sims 4 overwriting

Hi, I bought Sims 4 for PC this week and 2 players want to play. 

Player 1 set up their world and then saved and logged off.

Player 2 did the same. 

Player 1 played for a bit more.

Player 2 then couldn't find any of their world, it had been overwritten by Player 1.

We assumed player 1 had inadvertantly done something wrong and Player 2 set up their world again.  Player 2 played for 4 hours altogether and saved and logged off. 

Player 1 played again and did everything right, I was watching.  But the whole of Player 2's world is gone again and all of the saved games have player 1's player name under them.

What's going on and how can we use Sims 4 reliably for 2 players.

Thanks.

pc

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  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    11 years ago

    Are you trying to play on the same computer with the same user? The game code can only be accepted once by the EA authentication system. After that, the code is locked to that Origin account that was in use at that time. The game saves game data to the user document folder who is logged on to the computer. If the other person logs on as a different user then the save data will be saves to that users documents folder and shouldn't over write the other user saves. If you are using the same computer login you could use the "save as" option and load the appropriate save when the next person plays. Only one person can be logged into an Origin account at a time. 

    hth

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