"Warning Sims 3 unable to identify hardware"
Hi Team, I tried to troubleshoot this myself using guidance from other discussions but still having issues. Can you help me? I repaired my game before creating this ticket. :) === Graphics device info === Number: 0 Name (driver): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU Name (database): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU [Found: 0, Matched: 1] Vendor: NVIDIA Chipset: Vendor: 10de, Device: 28a1, Board: 8dd0103c, Chipset: 00a1 Driver: nvldumd.dll, Version: 32.0.15.8131, GUID: D7B71E3E-6BE1-11CF-4F6C-DFAD0EC2ED35 Driver version: 8131 Monitor: \\.\DISPLAY1 Texture memory: 32MB <<OVERRIDE>> Vertex program: 3.0 Pixel program: 3.0 Hardware TnL: 1
Kids keep getting taken away
Hey! This issue has been occurring for a while now I took a long break because of how frustrating it's been. My sim kids in the game keep getting whisked away for no reason. This is happening to ALL sims in my game for some reason. Evry single time I load my game if there's a child or multiple children in that family they get whisked away one by one. Then I go to a different sim family and the same thing happens. Please someone help.
Sims 4 - Failed to Save
Hey, So pretty much starting today my Sims 4 game keeps saying failed to save after playing for awhile, but if I were to exit the game or go back to the menu without saving, I can go back in, and save without any issues almost instantly as soon as I load in the game, but it looks like after playing the game awhile it starts to say failed to save whenever I Try and save the game either automatically or manually, idk how to fix this cause the only mod I got right now is MC Command Center..Missing Objects Warning after travelling from University
Hello! If anyone could help with this I'd be really appreciative! I recently got the University Life expansion. After my Sim had finished their semester they tried to return home and I was met with the Missing Objects Warning: Some objects could not be loaded and were replaced. The UI is completely blank, no sims, no money etc. The house my sim and her family were in is still there with the extension I built, however her family is not there or in the UI. I've also tried her dropping out of university instead of travelling home when the semester ends however the same thing happens. If I go to edit town and then back out of it, it takes me to the game setup page as if I have opened a new file to make a new save with new family etc. My family is in my library however how they started where the sim I had at university is a child I have tried the following steps found on another forum post: Empty out your sims' inventories as much as is reasonable. Having a few items is fine, but not much more. Save the game immediately before you want your sims to travel. Exit to the Main Menu and lower all the graphics settings to the minimum. Turn off the in-game shopping experience and the interactive loading screens as well, then quit to desktop. Delete the five cache files in your user folder (listed above) again. Take your computer completely offline. You can sign in and put Origin in offline mode before disconnecting your computer and launching the game. Disable the Origin in-game overlay as well. Load the game, and once the clock has run for a few sim-minutes, send your sims traveling right away. Once they arrive in their destination, use "save as" to rename the save, then quit. If you want, you can first exit to the Main Menu and raise the graphics settings again, but be sure to quit to desktop before reloading the save. However this has not worked, still getting the missing items warning. I have also tried creating a clean The Sims 3 folder in the Electronic Arts folder and copying my save into the new folder. Hasn't worked. Also tried resetSim * and resetSim mysimsname, hasn't worked. I have the following installed: Expansions: World Adventures Ambitions Late Night Generations Pets Seasons University Life Island Paradise Stuff Packs: High End Loft Town Life Outdoor Living Master Suite I did have the following NRaas Mods however have tried removing them after the first couple times of this bug. Even with mods removed it still happens: Story Progression & Story Progression Extra Woohooer More Toddler Interactions I have no custom content! Let me know if you need any other info about my game, thanks in advance :)lots never loading in Raven Wood during the festival…
So my game has been loading a lot in Raven wood so I could go to the frog festive for over 6:29 minutes (and counting.) I had this same issue early today and had to force close my game (I only gave it 2 minutes.) now I wanted to see how long it would take… Up to 8 minutes now… the plumbob is still spinning i don’t have mods or cc. Yesterday I got Snowy escape but why would that crash the game with a never ending load screen? I’m up to 9:18 minutes trying to load in…I had to force quit the game again! I haven’t tried to travel to any other lots so I’m going to do that once my game reloads… Will post reply..with an updateBuild mode not working in apartment building
Hi! I've recently been encountering this massive bug/ glitch that seems to happen in the ''122 Hakim House" in San Myshuno. I have built this apartment myself (no cc) and then moved a part of my household there with the split from household and move function. Next time I loaded the game, upon entering build mode, it functions normally for a minute, before it just stops. All buttons appear properly but they don't work: deleting walls (the ones inside the build, either with ctrl+b or with k will say ''Nothing to delete" ), adding walls, placing objects (upon placement the object disappears), changing the color of an object (it visually changes before reverting to the original color when i move to the select tool or any other tools) , placing objects out of the household inventory (clicking on my mouse just doesn't place it down), selling objects ( the object disappears, no money is being given to the household, when i move to another tool it appears again), undo or redo don't work either. When I try to exit the lot (to manage worlds, to main menu or to exit the game) it just freezes on the loading screen. The lot dimension appears as 0 tiles. I tried troubleshooting and testing it in several ways. When I took out my mods (I only use MC, Ui Cheats which are both up to date and around 50 clutter cc build mode items not present in this save), deleted localthumbchace, repaired the game, took out my tray files and took out my save files the glitch did not occur. When I put only the save files back, it happened exactly the same. This could be save file corruption but it makes no sense to me because it is a new save (started at the beginning of February, with only two generations played), my sims cap is on 80, i haven't used any rental proprieties and this glitch doesn't happen in other non-apartment lots. Could it be that the lot itself is the problem? I also tried evicting my household and loading it in build mode from manage worlds: the glitch didn't occur but when I exited the lot it was stuck on loading screen. Does anybody have any idea if this can be fixed or can help me with an explanation?
The Sims 4 — Save Failure After February 2026 Patch
Since installing the most recent February 2026 update for The Sims 4, the game has completely lost the ability to save progress. Gameplay appears normal while playing, but every time the game is closed and reopened, all progress is reset to a state from before the update. This occurs consistently and makes the game effectively unplayable. The problem started immediately after updating and has persisted without interruption. Before the February 2026 patch, saving worked correctly. The timing strongly suggests a direct connection between the update and the loss of save functionality rather than random file corruption. Extensive troubleshooting has already been performed following EA standard support guidance. All mods and custom content were fully removed and the game was tested in a completely vanilla state, yet the issue remained. Cache files, including localthumbcache and all cache folders, were deleted with no change. A full clean reinstall was then completed. The entire Sims 4 folder in Documents was removed, the game and all packs were reinstalled, the game was launched to generate a fresh user folder, and both brand new saves and previous saves were tested. In every scenario, the game still cannot save gameplay progress at all. Because the failure occurs on a clean installation with a newly generated user folder and no mods present, local corruption or user configuration issues can be ruled out with high confidence. The behavior matches a save write or persistence failure sometimes associated with Error Code 21 type conditions, where the game appears to function but cannot properly store progress to disk. However, unlike typical isolated save corruption, this failure affects newly created saves as well, which indicates a broader problem potentially introduced by the February 2026 patch. Community reports describing damaged or non persistent saves after the same update further support the likelihood of a patch level regression rather than an individual system fault, although only EA can definitively confirm this. The impact is critical because the core gameplay loop depends on saving progress, and there is currently no workaround despite complete reinstall and clean environment testing. For this reason, investigation by EA is required to determine whether the February 2026 update introduced a defect in save persistence, save file compatibility, or local cloud synchronization behavior. Please advise whether this issue is known, whether the update may have affected save integrity, and whether a fix or workaround is planned. I am available to provide logs, system specifications, or additional testing if needed.
