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I was wondering if anybody else has had this issue or currently has this issue. I was playing all morning without issue until I updated. Now anytime I try to open my game and load up a save it acts like its a new save (I have to select my save through the load save option), It takes me to the selecting a season and a world, and the lots look like the picture below. I removed my mods folder, deleted my local thumbnail cache file, and repaired my game through the EA app with no success.
Update!!!! I might have found a solution. So I tried a solution that I used for a different problem last year. I found out from a very old forum post that sometimes the game version text file in your game folder doesn't update correctly. The solution I found that worked for me is that I opened my game and on the bottom left of the home screen it has some numbers, that is the game version that the sims is trying to run on. You're gonna take a picture or write it down then go to document>Electronic Arts> Sims 4 then you're going to look for a txt file called game version. make sure that the numbers are exactly the same as it is on the home screen of your game without the "DX11". (for some reason mine had Japanese or Chinese characters in them instead of numbers???) then you're going to save the file. After that my game seems to be running fine. I hope this works for everyone who seems to be having this issue :)