So, I'm unsure how to approach these issues, but the Discord Mods led me here. It's a multi-layered issue, I believe, so please bear with me as I explain what and where this issue started.
It starts with The Grim Reaper after Life and Death dropped.
During the Event leading up to the pack, my Sim romanced the Grim Reaper, and after the drop it was to have a child with him to gain the Child of Grim Reaper perk and the Scythe birthmark (which are so cool!) I was under the assumption Grim was no longer able to join households and would not stick around, which I was fine with.
He rang the brother of this Sim and triggered a phone scenario about finding a ring in her bag. I didn't know Grim could do that and set it up that he should marry her, which led to him joining the household. I moved them into Mourning Mist Manor (Ravenwood) and that's when I first noticed issues within the game.
The issues were small and reasonably manageable, but very noticeable and frustrating. These included:
- The game would pause or stutter quite a bit at first, however some patches and repairs did make it less frequent.
- Sims leaving to go to work or school would stop outside the house and delete the Action. The button in the Job/School menu would not work to restart the Action; resetting the Sim did not fix it; and ensuring only one or two followable careers were active did not fix it either.
- The fence surrounding the house caused issues with Sim routing, where the Sim would only enter the premises if they went to the edge of the buildable area (if you look front on to the house, it's the corner on the left) and followed the fence back to the gate.
The second issue I found was in Ondarion, where my University Sim could not touch the presentation board. Much like the Work/School Action cancelling, the board would also cancel. The best I could get to 'fix this' was a work around to not do the board and just have the Sim study constantly on that subject.
This issue has not occurred in any other world, across any other save - just Ondarion.
The biggest issue I am having right now is that the game is not saving.
When I click on Save an Error code comes up (423:2a7d5db5:f4062171 I think) that says it cannot be saved.
I had lost 4 hours of gameplay and was particularly upset, but on reflection, I found this error had come up previously after Grim become playable.
I moved the sister of Grims' Wife and her family to Del Sol Valleys' Chateau Peak (World Famous Celebrity Sim). The family consisted of 2 Young Adults, 2 children and 2 infants/toddlers, then a Butler. I cannot recall the circumstances around the failure, however I know that for its' last save, everyone had aged up.
The newest version of it occurred well into gameplay of this house after I had played in 2 other households.
When I reloaded after attempting a force 'auto-save', I found it had become muddled up with some things from before and some things from after and it immediately failed to save when I exited. I went back to a previous save (thank you, recovery!) that was in the previous household and found that when I saved it also failed.
I turned it all off and went on the next day and found that the game was fine, however I did not play in the Famous Sim household out of fear it would wipe hours of gameplay or make the situation worse.
During all of this, I have used cheat codes (replenish needs, move objects, access hidden objects, and reset Sims), been in and out of Build/Buy, moved around the map and households, and I have never had mods or CC installed.
Please help me fix these issues!
Or if you have a decent work around, I could try!
