I have updated my game, the hot fix of March 18th, and my game still doesn't launch with cc installed. I still get the message "Failed to launch game" when cc is installed.
Ideas
Update (and my final one - I'm done struggling)
My mods work fine
My build buy CC work fine
My CAS cc is the problem for the game to read. I started with 4 individual files and got the error. I have tried every single suggested fix and it might work once and then it's a rinse repeat of errors (WITHOUT changing anything in my folder) I now have a large amount of CAS cc back in added in various ways. new folders / fresh download / in a folder or just loose in mods folder. No difference. My game loads with an error 3-4 times. On the 4th or 5th time it loads and everything is in my game. My game runs smoothly and no issues. If I close that and open again, back to error for 3 or 4 times. The CC is not broken otherwise it wouldn't load SOME of the time. I have now had the same batch of cc in for 24 hours and it's the same thing. 3-4 times of error then it loads.
I am not doing anymore trying this or that. The game should load the way it loaded on Monday just fine. The only thing that has changed is the changes from EA. And all I keep seeing is the CC bug is fixed. Something is wrong with how the game reads or loads CAS cc. Once it loads it works fine. if it was a CC problem it wouldn't load ever OR the cc wouldn't work in game.
Good luck EA, I'll see you when it's fixed.....or not.
I agree but for me it's affecting all CC randomly, trust me i've tested it. Clothing, build/buy, face and body, makeup, genetics, hair, everything, it's all behaving the same: sometimes it will load the game, sometimes it won't. There's no specific rhyme or reason. Nothing to pinpoint.
Yes!! AND it’s almost guaranteed not to load if you have all of your mods in. It’s so frustrating!!
I agree, im done struggling. I'll send my electronic arts folder once it takes HOURS to upload to the drive so I can share it but other than that i refuse to do anything else. everything was working fine and this is EA's issue not ours. Some people are having this problem and some aren't? I'm going to take a wild guess and say majority of those its working for are having to mess around to get it to work the way it should OR they are still playing in offline mode without the new update. I should have done that.
My theory is because this is such a random occuring error (something I have never encountered before after an update), meaning the game loads sometimes and other times it doesn't, is that it's probably affecting a lot more people who play with CC and just haven't noticed yet because it hasn't happened for them yet. Because some people had it happen right away and have been used to doing tests after updates, they are noticing it because they're trying to start up the game a lot more. If you read through the comments a lot of people have been trying workarounds that work for a while and then don't, because I truly believe this is a change that happened to due the update and how the game is now reading CC files, and is not something that can be fixed by changing folder names, the resource file, localthumbcache, etc. Believe me I tried it all.
Of course, many aren't yet aware of the full extent of the problem. This includes weekend players, those who haven't updated at all, and probably thousands more who are (unfortunately pointlessly) searching their folders for broken custom content/mods. EA still hasn't acknowledged that they made a mistake. Thanks to everyone contributing temporary workarounds – but I, too, will not change my PC settings or any other software, or potentially manipulate game files, for something that worked perfectly until March 17th.
Don't bother. I sent EA my sims folder for a different bug a couple of years ago and they never responded
Literally gonna crash tf out
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