This user has the following games installed:
Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life
Sims 2 UC - Neighborhoods not loading? Freezing at "creating magic"? Subhood generation issue?
Hello all! I haven't posted here in a while, long time no see ^_^
I am using an HP Laptop running Windows 10...
So, for starters, I'm starting on a fresh game. Uninstalled my old game (that was corrupted...oops...shhh-) using Revo Uninstaller, so it was a clean uninstall. Reinstalled it today, booted it up.
I had never had problems with the game loading prior to this, mind you- My old install pre-corruption ran fine (as fine it could be lol). The issue is: The game loads to the neighborhood selection menu just fine. The tutorials work just fine; they load quickly and everything. However, when I try to load any of the base game + EP hoods, the loading screen ALWAYS, without fail, freezes on "creating magic." As of writing this post, it has been loading for about... 3 hours.
This is a completely vanilla, fresh game. My mods are all backed up and stored in a folder on my desktop. I've already tried deleting cache files with no result. Running as administrator? You betcha. Compatibility mode? For sure. Have I tried the Origin "repair game" feature (that I'm skeptical even works)? Yes.
This has to be some sort of issue regarding hood generation. What's curious, though, is this doesn't affect the Tutorial hood...which doesn't load any of the hidden subhoods (Pets, Magic, Hobbies) AFAIK. SO, this has to be an issue with subhood generation, right? Specifically the Magic one??? Is it like corrupt or something or are my files just broken??
I'm taking literally any suggestions here, please help because I really miss playing
And you may ask yourself, "Am I right? Am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself, "My God! What have I done?"