Dangerously High Memory use and missing town files

by Guest Tue 27 May 2014, 14:28

So I downloaded The Sims 3 Late Night and all was good except for the fact that I had to uninstall all my data from the game. It worked good so I maxed out all graphics and quit the game. I went on to download Island Paradise. IP went quicker than LN so I was happy. I however was not happy when I loaded the game and all my saves were gone and more. I scrolled down the list and Sunset Valley (non torrent), Moonlight Falls (non torrent), Bridgeport (torrent), Isla Paradiso (torrent) and the store world ads were all gone. I was logged in to the site via the launcher and on the main menu, It said username and didn't show my profile picture. I exited out and windows was asking to shut down files to prevent memory loss. The game hasn't used up my memory since I got it in 2009. I assume I did something wrong in download but I made sure to follow the guide word by word. I have no problem with uninstalling the game since base game is downloaded over cloud via origin.

by **The_gh0stm4n** Thu 29 May 2014, 22:45

Availien wrote:So I downloaded The Sims 3 Late Night and all was good except for the fact that I had to uninstall all my data from the game. It worked good so I maxed out all graphics and quit the game. I went on to download Island Paradise. IP went quicker than LN so I was happy. I however was not happy when I loaded the game and all my saves were gone and more. I scrolled down the list and Sunset Valley (non torrent), Moonlight Falls (non torrent), Bridgeport (torrent), Isla Paradiso (torrent) and the store world ads were all gone. I was logged in to the site via the launcher and on the main menu, It said username and didn't show my profile picture. I exited out and windows was asking to shut down files to prevent memory loss. The game hasn't used up my memory since I got it in 2009. I assume I did something wrong in download but I made sure to follow the guide word by word. I have no problem with uninstalling the game since base game is downloaded over cloud via origin.

//MOVED

Hello,

All your "personal" information in the game, like savefiles, mods, custom content and even customizable settings are stored in the folder "The Sims 3", located in My Documents/Electronic Arts. And sometimes, when you update the game, the folder and/or some of its components can get corrupted or deleted. The only real way to prevent that would be that BEFORE you update the game or install a new expansion, you should just change the name of the folder into anything you like, so that the game doesn't "recognize" it. In general, it's also a good idea to backup this entire folder "The Sims 3" somewhere. Or, AT LEAST, you should just backup the sub-folder "Saves".

I'm afraid that - at this point - there is nothing much you can do, if you don't have a backup of the stuff, besides re-downloading/re-installing the CC; and starting over again.

About the memory issue, is your Windows a 32-bit or 64-bit version ? And how many GBs of RAM does your computer have ?

Dangerously High Memory use and missing town files

Dangerously High Memory use and missing town files

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