My game will save, or at least say it has saved a new game but every time I go to the main menu it just shows the same old saves, I tried deleting the old saves in case I had too many save files but that did nothing. Now normally I would just run the game and never save but since this game will just suddenly decide to crash at the drop of a hat, that doesn't work with this game, so I really need a way to save.

Does anyone know what is going on and how to fix it, my system and game specs are in my sig.

Thank you for your time.

Okay I will give that a shot.

That is odd my new save files are in the saved folder under the name Taxestoohigh and they look like all the other saves and I started them today, but all it will show in the game is this old save file, I guess there is no way to load a saved game in this game period, that is how buggy it is.

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Okay I had to go in a manually delete every other saved game, but now the new ones are showing up, I guess there were just too many saves or something but when I deleted them in game, it wasn't really deleting them, but now it is, so everything is good.

I will post here again if this problem pops up again, talk about weird.

Good idea, I will be sure to do that in future. Some of these saved games were really old, when all was said and done I ended up free up about 35Gbs of hard drive space on my computer, I had no idea Sims 3 save files were so big.

Thanks for the help guys and I will be sure and take better care of my game in future.

It's actually perfectly okay to hang onto hundreds (or thousands, yikes) of old saved games if one wants to and can devote the drive space to it somewhere. Just not in the live TS3 game folder's Saves folder. That one maxes out somewhere between 50 and 80 of them, something like that, and the Launcher (or rather the saved game selector thingy, whatever it's called) can and will trip over itself and get confused with somewhere around that many.

I tend to keep my very old saves that I may wish to call up to see something that happened years ago on a different drive until I know in advance that I want to open/play one.

Thanks for explaining how that works, that is a huge help. I think in future I will move my older save files to my UBS thumb drive, that should be good enough.

Thanks again for the help and explaining what was going on.