Fix for endless household loading/Error Code 3/Game starts unexpectedly in Spanish. [VERSION 1.69.59.1020]

Hello all!

Are you getting any (or all?) of these problems in the game?


  You get an Error Code 3, at some point in-game

  Your The Sims 4 game starts up in a different language (than the one you used to play in)

  When loading a household, the loading screen never ends

  Or, if you try loading a household, you get thrown back into CAS

  When starting a fresh savefile and loading into a neighborhood, you have 0 funds (normally you should get 20,000 Simoleons so that your sim can move in someplace).

  If you get the glitch with 0 funds, and you try bypassing it with the cheat freerealestate on, it still won't help.


If so, there are a number of ways you can get around it.



1) One way of dealing with this:

Look at the guide here, and in particular from step #7 onwards (the step after applying the Toddlers-update):
https://www.games4theworld.club/t21806-must-read-how-to-install-the-sims-4-correctly

Follow the guide carefully until the end (and install all available DLC), and you should be able to play your game just fine.



2) A second way of dealing with this:

Since a lot of people forget to rename the "Game"-folder after installing the G4TW Toddlers-update, you could theoretically apply the fix at the very end as well (a.k.a. after installing ALL of the available G4TW The Sims 4 torrents/updates), provided you always download a fresh "Game"-folder from one of the download links at the end of this tutorial. Now, after you installed all the G4TW The Sims 4 torrents, go to where you installed The Sims 4 to. Typically that is the folder under C:\Program files (x86)\The Sims 4\Game

At first, change your existing Game-folder to Game_. Your folder will then look like this.




Now you have to simply copy the "fixed" Game-folder from one of the download links below, into your The Sims 4 installation. After which your folder will look as follows.



-- link(s) removed --


After you placed this fresh Game-folder, simply go inside, then under Bin, and start the game with your TS4.exe or TS4_x64.exe (the latter, in case you have a 64-bit operating system). I noticed the game now takes a bit longer to start up, but by this method I was able to load my old savefile.

Good luck for the time being!   (note that the above download link ALWAYS contains the "Game"-folder for the most recent DLC/patch; if you need folders for earlier DLC/patch versions, look below under 4).

Note that this fix also helps, if your No-Origin files are being purged by Windows Defender or any other "security software". Of course, you will need to add the necessary exclusions first, before you can safely apply that "Game"-folder.



3) ...and a third way of dealing with this:

Sometimes cache files and/or corrupted savefiles can come in the way and cause the issue as well, despite you having applied a "fixed Game folder" (many thanks to user @"Jessica_Revolver" for hinting at this possibility!). You can try renaming your folder "The Sims 4" under Documents\Electronic Arts, into anything. Then start up The Sims 4, and see if it lets you load up a household. If a fixed Game-folder was applied (correctly), it should.

You can then take the subfolder "saves" from your old/renamed "The Sims 4" and then transfer it to the folder The Sims 4, that was freshly created. Now start up the game and see what happens.

Does the game let you load into a household? If yes, then you can continue playing, or even transferring back mods/CC from your renamed "The Sims 4" folder.

Does the issue persist? If so, then the issue may be a broken savefile, and you have to consider starting a new game. It's worth noting in this context that savefile corruption appears to be a frequently-observed issue in The Sims 4, so we recommend that you back up your savefiles regularly. So make a backup of the folder Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves.



4) If your game is still in Spanish...

Try changing your registry entries manually according to this guide here, then right-click on your game's .exe file and choose "Run as Administrator".



5) "Credits"

A very special thanks goes to former Moderator @Shamrock, one of the old G4TW Admin's "creatures", whose idiocy (or deliberate sabotage ??) when posting the Toddlers/Vampires/Bowling repack has made this "endless loading fix" necessary in the first place, and necessary to be implemented in all future updates of The Sims 4 as well!

So once again, thank you so, so, SOOOOOOO much @Shamrock! You will never be forgotten!