Sims 4 Reset

[Lauro Pericles]

Youmay want or need to reset your Sims if they become stuck or unresponsive. There are two ways you can reset your Sim. To start, open the cheat window by pressing CTRL + Shift + C. Hold all these keys at the same time to open the window.

Product: The Sims 4

Platform:PC

Which language are you playing the game in? English

How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)

What is your current game version number? 1.90.358.1030

What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them

Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Click the homework for children and teens. Any command (breeze through, dominate, complete homework) resets the sim.

What happens when the bug occurs? Sim resets.

What do you expect to see? Kids and teens complete homework.

Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.

Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes

Please describe the patch or change you made. High School Years

I don't work or have any association with EA. I give advice to the best of my knowledge and cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your computer/game.

Please only contact me via PM when asked to do so.

1) bring up the cheat box like in the instructions above

2) in the cheat box type testingcheats on and press Enter (you should get a message that the cheat is active)

3) with the Sims that needs to be reset being the active Sim, Shift-click on the Sim and choose Reset Object (DEBUG) from the pie menu that pops up

4) turn testing cheats off by typing the cheat box tesintcheats off and press Enter.

This should reset your Sim if it is just a glitch in the Sim, household/lot, or save game file. But if your Mods or CC are causing the problem, you will need to test to see if they are the problem and then which one or ones are the problem. Then you will need to get the latest version of the Mod or CC that is the culprit as it is probably out of date! Mods/CC can become out of date any time EA releases a patch to the game like they did a few days ago! Good Mods and CC creators will update their creations to fit the latest EA patches, so you will need to delete the old version and replace it with the new version.

Also, it often isn't enough to just remove your Mods/CC out and repair the game... you will need to delete the local thumb cache.package file because sometimes bits of old/corrupted data will remain , even after you have removed your mods and this can still effect your game!

So, please do the following steps in order:

3) Fix you game in Origin by logging in and go to Library, then right-click on The Sims 4 and choose the "Repair Game" option from the list. Wait until Origin finishes repairing all your packs and not just the base game. If you are on a Mac it will just repair the base game.

5) Now you can try adding back items from your Mods folder one at a time checking your game each time to see which item is causing your game to not work properly. If you have a lot of items, you can try the 50/50 Method.

The CC creators will usually update the CC items and Mods after these updates, so when you find out which one is the culprit, you can get the updated version from whoever made that item of CC in the first place. You should try these steps any time you have problems in your game to rule out CC/Mods problems. It is the responsibility of the Mods/CC creators to update their items anytime EA releases a patch/update, and it is the responsibility of the people who use Mods/CC to make sure they are using the most recent version, which was on July 24 or near that.

After you delete all your outdated/broken Mods/CC and replaced them with the new versions compatible with the most recent update to the game, you can now move your Mods back into the game!

Please update us on your situation!

This has been making me want to demand a full refund from EA. They keep putting out packs for people to buy but won't fix the game. There's pathing issues, blocking issues, opening/closing build or photo mode causes even more FPS issues than normal play, every baby that is aged up gets stuck on you forcing you to OPEN Build mode to drop the bassinet on them to separate them, and worst of all this issue with queues not loading. My sims will stand in front of the bassinet of a crying baby just staring, or a kid I'm trying to disciple walks off and gets away with it, or I try to cancel an action that will take me away from my current objective and it stays in queue and acts on it making the sim go all the way up or down stairs or a ladder before saying oh I didn't need to do that, then ending up looping that a few times. So sick of having to pause the timer or pause to options menu before every action hoping its one of the times that will actually fix it. I'm on console so no mods. Its just the game that rapidly overheats my PS4 and external HD even though games with more detailed graphics and much higher action don't.

My main Sim has been stuck in the downstairs guest loo for two days now and I can't seem to get him moving (although all other Sims keep going about normally - even using the loo with him watching them forlornly as they sit there and then just get up and leave... ).

I've tried (numerous times) both:

* Ctrl+Shift+C / resetsim firstname last name / Enter

Stumbled on the idea a moment ago myself, as one of the other Sims was in a really foul mood - so I told him to go to the gym and chose the "stuck" Sim as the one to go with him. They both ended up outside the gym and, after a workout, are now both happily at home.

Thanks again for the assist !

@ayceikle If you're having a similar issue to this, please start a new thread. This one is old, and the causes could be very different. If you use mods, start at the pinned threads for current broken mods and issues.

What happened is that last week I had at least 8+ save files on the sims 4 one for different things like creating my own world, rags to riches, 100 baby challenge, etc. And today I got on early to find everything gone. And the only thing I can think of is that the latest update did something to my game.

When I loaded on this morning I also got the message that I had games downloading but I had all the packs installed already. So I found that strange. Nadnwhen I couldn't access my save files to play on them I exited the game. And went back on and it gives me that pop up message you get when you just downloaded a new pack. I've already came to terms that I can't get them back. But I want to know if it was the latest update that did this or just a one off thing.

@prince048633 What this sounds like is that you have an entirely new Sims 4 user folder. This can happen if Origin switches you to the Sims 4 Legacy Edition, which uses its own folder, or if the existing user folder is removed from Documents\Electronic Arts. The most common cause of that is OneDrive uploading the folder to cloud storage and simultaneously removing it from your hard drive.

Please check OneDrive for a Sims 4 folder, and for any saves inside. If you find some, you can move them back to the Sims 4 folder on your hard drive, and they should work, provided OneDrive hasn't changed their names. (If you do find saves but can't get them to load, let me know, and post a screenshot of the saves folder.)

However, the only surefire way to prevent this kind of data loss is to have a backup copy of the user folder, or at least the saves folder inside. You can periodically upload it to cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.), or copy it to an external hard drive or USB stick, and then if your data ever disappears again, you can just restore the backup.

Please load the game to the Main Menu, where you can choose to load a save or start a new one, and find the version number. (It'll be along the bottom of the screen or in the lower-right area.) If it ends in .1020 or .1220, you're running the standard version in Windows or macOS, respectively. A version number ending in .1520 or .1620 denotes the Legacy Edition.

If you are running the LE all of a sudden, and your computer runs Windows, please try to change back within Origin: open your game library, right-click on the Sims 4 icon, select Game Properties > Advanced Launch Options, and choose 64-bit from the dropdown menu. If you don't see that option, repair the game (in the same right-click menu) and look again. If you still don't see the option for 64-bit, please let me know what antivirus you use.

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