I'm not quite sure what happened.
So let me try to explain this the best i can.

1. I open my game using the origin launcher, and all seems to work fine
2. The maxis loading screen also works fine
3. I select a world, or press create new world
4. The screen loads fine until 99% , where it freezes and refuses to load the game

This is where i need help.

My game is patched at the latest version.

I have quite a lot of custom content, which may be the issue, but from what i can see it's all up to date, i deleted it before updating, and then redownloaded it, so i'm not quite sure what's happened.

This is merely just a guess, but the few times I have had this issue myself it has been due to me downloading a Sims 2 package by mistake and placing it in my Mods folder. I am not saying this is the case, but you can debunk that with this tool http://modthesims.info/d/387006 and it will scan if you have any conflicting packages in there.

I'll check that out, if it's not that ill come back

It always takes ages for me, and at the same spot..but for me it is clearly = too much CC for my lame machine. Oh it does end up loading and plays fine...

@NikolettaSophia Please do so even if it works, it would be nice to know if someone else finds your thread and this was what was causing it :-)

The problem was conflicting CC

Goodie I am glad the issue is resolved. And happy simming!

While I completely agree with you and that this should be the first thing to do, I wonder that if she took out her mods folder - and then loaded the game and it worked, wouldn't she still have to go through her CC anyway to find the bad piece of CC causing this issue?

Knowing that it is caused by bad CC is one thing, but isn't the real troubleshooting when you have to find out what specific piece of CC that is causing the 'stuck in loading screen'? Please correct me if I am wrong.

Yes, I clean my save(s) with it before every game play, or after..if I am not too sleepy.
A vanilla game for me, loads quick, and no lag at 99%.
This only starts happening when I reach a certain amount of CC, be it .packages in the Mods folder, or installing Sims3.pack. Whatever the CC extension...if I have a lot, it does this.
I have no conflicting mods, and even though I am not patched to 1.67, every mods I have is made for my patch level.
This is the price to pay for not having a real amazing gaming computer.

I agree Thank you for the clarification, I find it quite useful.


Have you tried merging your packages if you have a lot of them? That way most games load quite faster as the game reach each "package" so if you have 10 merged packages instead of 100 individual packages, you should feel a difference My loading is unbearable without it I play a medieval themed game, so the CC gets quite heavy on my poor laptop :P

I have this problem a few times and can say only one thing - this is cause of mods, which isn't updated to your current game version. If your game version e.x. 1.67 but you use mod who is made for e.x. 1.55 (and isn't officially comfirmed that it runs good with latest patch), the game stuck and won't load up. Try to search outdated mods in your mod folder.

Hi Nemiga, I actually didn't know that an outdated mod could also cause this But the Original Poster already solved her issue, it was a conflicting package that caused it not to load :-)

how do you merge packages? I think that would be quite useful to me

Hi Nikoletta Personally I use S3PE to merge packages, but some use other tools to do that. I believe CCmagic should be easy but I haven't tried with that. I used this tutorial here http://club-crimsyn.dreamwidth.org/28336.html and both lagging and load time is at least 60% better in my game than before. But it depends on how much cc you play with.

But as a rule, I never merge any of the following package files: Mods, already merged files, skin or default replacements.

I hope this helped you Otherwise feel free to send me a message.

Yes! I merge together a few things.
My 13 NRAas mods are together, clothing is together, mods are together, cars all together also.
I do it by category, adding packages to the merged ones once i test and see it works good.
But yeah...you'd see my computer specs, you'd understand....it won't get better than this.

There are certain mods that I cannot merged. If I do, they stop working. So, I have no choice to keep my 21 skintones packages (including default ones) unmerged.
Same for sliders, which I suspect do not work as well once merged, and I have 32 of them. Default replacement in general, apparently aren't supposed to be merged I read somewhere...and I have 2, eyes for sims, and eyes for pets.
So! in my package folder, I have 18 loose packages, and 3 subfolders : Skintones,Sliders and Default.
A total of 73 package files...this seems like the best merging I can do without breaking anything.

I just noticed that the OP is set on interactive loading screen too. I just began to use this and found it very fun. Alas, this is another thing that makes my loading time longer. So..I disabled it.