Travelling to a lot deletes it.
To clarify, I have no mods installed, and I have repaired my game 2 times, however this issue persists and makes the game unplayable.
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Punch2daFace It sounds like the game is pushing this change (to use AppData to store the scratch folder) despite the setting. I don't know whether that's true for every player yet, but if it is for you, I'm not sure there's a way around it.
What you could try now is creating a new admin Windows account and playing there. Since AppData is specific to each Windows account, the new one might not be affected by whatever is breaking the game in your current account. That of course depends on whether the problem is in AppData or elsewhere.
Point is, create a new account, make it local (not tied to your Microsoft account or any email address; you can skip this step and answer some security questions instead), play in that account, and see how it goes.
If you have the issue in the new account, I'd like to know what files are in the scratch folder while you play and whether this changes as time goes on. The full path to scratch would be this:
C:\Users\[usernme]\AppData\Local\Temp\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
Clicking Windows key-R and entering %AppData% gets you partway there. And to be clear, there should be a scratch_[numbers] folder inside the scratch folder, with lots of small files inside, and both of these folders would be deleted once you quit.
When you first load the game, open the scratch_[numbers] folder, sort by file size, and note the number of files and whether any are essentially zeroed out (9 bytes or similar). Then when you encounter the issue again, take another look and let me know what, if anything, has changed. There will be too many files to effectively take screenshots, but you'll get the idea just by poking around.
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