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hyunjinsss
Seasoned Newcomer
7 months ago

stuck on loading screen

hi! i really need help. i played sims yesterday, worked just fine. after quitting the app, it took about 10 minutes to actually get qrid of the ts4 app in my opened apps.. since that, i cant load any household!! i click ''resume'' after i log into ts4, and it gets stuck on the loading screen. im so desperate to the point of crying atp, please help.. (FYI. i do not know what yall mean when u say "rename the ts4 folder" or "move the ts4 folder to get a clean copy" so if you say that, it will not help me at all.)

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  • hyunjinsss  Can you load a different household in the same save?  Choose Load Game rather than Resume, choose this same save, and then pick a different family to play.  Let me know whether it works, and we'll go from there.

    The suggestion to rename or move the Sims 4 folder is about the folder in Documents > Electronic Arts.  Moving or renaming it prevents the game from reading its data (saves, mods, etc.) but does not delete that data, so it's a useful test.  You don't need to do that now, but I might ask you to later.  So have a look through File Explorer on your computer to see whether you can find the folder.

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    hyunjinsss
    Seasoned Newcomer
    7 months ago

    nope, i cant load anything else.. it always plays the theme tune when a family loads, but my screen only shows the spinning plumbob...

  • hyunjinsss  Please try loading a new save (click New Game) and see whether it works.  If it doesn't, please move the Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts, as discussed earlier, and try again to load a new save.  This will remove, but not delete, your old saves and other user content.  You can restore it later, when the game is working again.

    If the new save does load fine, please open Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 and delete any files with lastexception in their name.  Try again to load a household in your main save.  When it doesn't work, close the game and look for a new lastexception file.  If you find one, open it (Notepad is fine), delete the first line of text, and then attach the file to a reply here using the Attachment (paper clip icon) button included with the other formatting options.