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(SIMS 3 HELP) A serious error has occurred while loading "mygame.sims3".


Question Posted Tuesday July 3 2012, 12:45 pm

What is this?? I literally bought Late Night, Generations, and Ambitions only about 2 weeks ago. And I got Pets this weekend, and it worked fine. I just played and saved the game last night, and when I opened it today for the first time, I got this error. And I restarted the application multiple times, and I'm still getting this error.

Dear god, let this be fixable. I don't want all the time I spent on that town to go for nothing. If I have to lose the game I don't even want to play Sims anymore, and I want a refund. If this issue isn't fixable then what's the point of starting another game when the same thing could happen to it in the future? This is ridiculous. After spending so much money on expensive Sims games, people shouldn't have to put up with this BS

I didn't even download anything yesterday or today, so it can't be from some conflicting file or anything. I'm completely at a loss.

If it makes any difference, I have Windows Vista, too. And I downloaded my games from Amazon.

Images of the error:
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Additional info, added Tuesday July 3 2012, 12:50 pm:
Also, my only antivirus program, Norton Anti-Virus, isn't affecting anything, because it's subscription ended about a month ago, so that can't be it, either. .

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KlutzyKim answered Tuesday July 3 2012, 4:50 pm:
I've been playing the Sims since it first came out in 2000 so I know how attached you can get to a family. I've personally never had this error pop up before. I've had other errors, but never this one. I'm going to give the usual (probably useless) advice. Though I have done a little research and I've found some links that might be useful to you.

-Have you downloaded custom content? If so, you may have downloaded a bugged/corrupted file that is causing the game to have this error. I suggest erasing any CC you have and redownloading it one at a time and checking your game. That way, you'll know what works and what doesn't.
-Is your game up to date? Try downloading the latest patch if you have not already.
-Do you have enough memory/video on your computer to handle all those Sims 3 games? This might also be why.

Things that I've found:
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location) (People giving advice to this person with the same problem as you. Nothing seemed to work for them but it might for you)
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location) (This one seems the most promising. Scroll down a bit and NicCool45 will make a post about deleting cache files. Doing this help fixed an error I had in my own game once, though not this error.)
Or there's this [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)

I hope something in my reply was able to help you, I totally understand how frustrating Sims 3 errors can be since I've had my fair share of them to deal with. I think the game is worth it though.

If worse comes to worse, you might have to delete the family, uninstall and then reinstall all the games. Annoying? Absolutely. But your saved game may be corrupted and this will be the only way to fix it.

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