Game freezing on loading screen

artillerychelle wrote:This just started yesterday.  I was planning the game and everything was fine, I went to save, and I don't know what happened but the screen went black and it never came back.  I opened my task manager and forced the game closed.  When I tried to load the game again, it started fine, I chose the game (neighborhood/family) I wanted to play, and it brought me to the interactive loading screen.  The green bar filled about half way and then just stopped.  I restarted it several times, I restarted my computer, and I turned off the interactive screen.  Once the interactive screen was off, the green bar would load almost all the way to the end, and then stop.  The tips would keep reloading, but the game would never load!  I have taken out ALL of my mods and CC (even though I felt like nothing in there could be the issue because this came out of no where, not after adding something), tried the Ultimate Fix, and done a bunch of other "fixes" I've found and nothing has worked! Now I just don't know what else I can do.  I still can't load my game!

Edin ElDi wrote:Hello,


Did you remove all the gamecaches? The best way would probaAndly to start with a clean folder in "Documents", that would take care of everything. The downside is having to reinstall all your sims3packs, if you have any.

Carlos wrote:If you don't have a few of these folders or cache files, then just skip them and delete what you do have, instead. And yes, deleting or renaming the entire "The Sims 3"-folder under Documents\Electronic Arts will disable your saves too.

You can try looking into your "saves"-folder under Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3. Your save should have two versions: a "normal" one and another one with the .backup file ending. The normal one must be moved (or deleted), and then you delete the .backup ending of the other savefile, so that it looks like the one your previously moved out. With this method - if successful - you may lose some in-game progress, but the save may be "saved" at the end of the day.


Another possibility could be to try the "savefile cleaner" here:
http://www.simlogical.com/ContentUploadsRemote/uploads/1532/

Before applying that tool, make sure to backup your saves though ! Then apply tool, and try your game again.

artillerychelle wrote:
So I tried both of those options and it didn't solve the problem, so I have accepted the fact that that particular saved game is just done for and I created a new sim and am just starting a new game.  Now, in order to prevent myself from losing my entire game again, I want to back up the save folder/ every time I exit so that if something happens, I will have a back up somewhere else that I can use.  My question is, to do this, do I just need to copy the game folder that is in the Documents/The Sims 3/Saves folder and put it somewhere else on my computer, or is there more to it?  Like any other files or folders I need to save with it.


Thanks for all your help!

But again, make sure to do it regularly, otherwise it doesn't make any sense.

Tarac wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to use restore-points instead of backups. It takes less than a minute and, depending on the amoount of allocated diskspace, you can choose from many reverts of your folder by right-clicking on it and then click on revert to previous versions. (in my case 20 different dates and times)