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frbch
Newcomer
2 months ago

Stuck on save

I'm on a new save, building a house for my sims. Everything works super great and smooth, but the problem is that when I go to save i get stuck on the saving screen infinitely. I can close the game fine by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and opening the task manager to close sims, but it's just really annoying and hard to make progress.

 I'm assuming the issue is that when I go to save, something isn't fully loaded in and it freezes the game. I've found that making a few changes in build mode, then waiting for my computer to sleep a little, then going back to save works better but it's still excruciatingly slow to get anything done.

I have CC and mods, which to be honest I totally need to clean out (I just don't know how lol) but other people that I found online that are having the same problem, had no CC and no mods so I'm not sure that it's the issue.

I only started having this problem after installing the Life or Death expansion pack. I know a lot of other people have been having bugs with the pack but the posts I read from my specific problem were from a couple of years ago. I'm not sure what to try next, please help if u can <3

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    2 months ago

    frbch  This issue is sometimes caused or exacerbated by mods and custom content, so please remove your Mods folder and see whether you still can't save.  You can use "save as" rather than "save" so you don't overwrite your progress.

    Please also let me know whether OneDrive is running on this computer, even if you never use it.

    Separately, what do you mean by letting your computer sleep a little?  Are you restarting the computer after you close the game, or at least before the next time you play?  Not doing so can cause various issues that masquerade as something else, so it's always helpful to restart your computer frequently while troubleshooting.

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