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Minegamer612
5 years ago

Sims 4 will not load past the plumbob loading screen.

So basically I have had this issue for a little over a week. Every time I try to play the game, it gets to the plumbob portion of the loading screen then crashes. The music will cut out and crash. I ...
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Minegamer612
5 years ago

Could I run it in a virtual machine?

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago

@Minegamer612  Yes, you could, but performance would be somewhere between bad and unbearable.  Most VMs don't have direct (or "direct") access to hardware or their own graphics drivers, so the game would be rendered in software mode only.  To give you an idea, I tried this once to see what would happen, and I averaged about one frame per second.

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    Minegamer612
    5 years ago

    Yea I knew that was going to happen xd. If I just can't stand it I will try it on another account. Nvm. I will just create another account. I thought it was going to be harder but it wasn't

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    Minegamer612
    5 years ago

    So I think my game is fixed! So I had to different sims 4 folders in my documents. So I deleted the one I don't need ad my game is loading fine now! 

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