Why are deliveries destroying my game?!?
This is now the 3rd time in a row that my game has stopped working immediately after a stupid “delivery”. Something they claim will make my life easier is destroying my game. The households stop load...
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An SDX does not change the game version number. A patch does. You mention that reinstalling changes the game version this points to that you have the problem mentioned here: Please see this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/CURRENT-ISSUE-Anti-Virus-blocking-User-Folder-Screenshots/td-p/9572695
@jpkarlsen I already white listed everything sims related after the 2nd time it did this. I was hopeful but no luck. Still did it yesterday after the most recent delivery. It doesn’t happen after a patch. They download fine and the game works fine afterwards. Only deliveries are causing it. The second that delivery notification pops up prompting me to restart it’s game over despite everything working perfectly right up until the delivery appears. It’s happened immediately after the past 3 consecutive deliveries so I don’t think it’s probable that it’s a coincidence. I’m not sure how the game version document fits into the issue at this point. I just know that it’s wrong and that’s the only thing I’m noticing that’s out of the ordinary when this happens. I did attempt to manually change it last night but once I opened the game it reverted back to what it said before. Next time I’m just going to delete it and see if it regenerates with the correct data
Only a patch updates gameversion.txt and as what you shoved in the screenshot was an older version than the current version which is 1.85.203.1030.
You also wrote that changing the version number manually was reverted by the game which means that the latest patch has not been successfully applied. This again leads to problems with the SDX deliveries as they expect the latest patch to be installed. This points to that your antivirus is blocking necessary changes to the game. If you post what antivirus you use in the thread I linked to someone there can hopefully help you setting it up correctly. After that i recommend to again uninstall and then reinstall the game to see if it is fixed the next time there is a patch. One is expected in the near future.
