Is anyone having this issue after the latest Origin update?, just now I booted up The Sims 4 and this happened...

I've checked for updates, repaired it with Origin, removed my CC and done every trick in the book and none of it helped.

You're in luck! I was scrolling through my tumblr dashboard and saw this.
From a quick skim it looks like that's your problem. I hope it helps!

Disabling Origin in-game is the way to go. However, you should take a look at this and see if it can give you a more permanent fix/you can give EA some feedback.

It seems to have been caused by the update released today.

Same. I think I was the first person to post about it (I did it yesterday... my thread's still up). I thought I was alone, until today. Now EVERYONE is having this problem.

Thanks. This worked for me!

Here's EA's solution: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin/INF...hread-id/131815 FakeHousesRealAwesome put it on the other thread, but not this one.

That looks to be the exact problem. Just now I got a patch for TS4 that might fix it anyway, but just in case I disabled Origin in-game.

Anyways, thanks for the help guys.

I downloaded today's patch, and now the game won't start at all.

Edit: Once I removed my whole Mods folder, it started.

I tried just removing my Game Mods folder, and putting the rest of the clothing, objects, etc., back in, and it wouldn't start again.

So I guess I have to do the 50% exercise.... *sigh*

I tried the 50/50 but it's not working with ANY CC or Mods.

Edit: Started working with some CC, must start the aggravating process all over again, which is super frustrating because whatever conflict with CC/Mods didn't happen until after the update.

So they made a patch that conflicts with CC? How neat EA...

so what am I supposed to do? I've taken all of my CC out of the game folders but now I don't even want to play the damn game if I can't use it. Anyone know how to fix this problem?

Fishy, there are several solutions to the issue:
1. Firstly, make sure your mods folder is removed from your game. You then need to see if your game starts up okay without the mods, and if it does then move on to step 3.
2. If it doesn't start up, then you need to click Origin>Application Settings>General> Scroll down to the bottom and tick the box to update to beta software.
3. Once your game is back to normal, you need to sort through your CC and find the culprit(s) we have an ongoing list here: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=551495
The best sorting technique is, if you have folders, test each individually folder until you get the folder causing an error, create another folder somewhere else on your computer to put potential risks (the files in the folder causing corruption) as a holding place, and then another folder to put the culprits. Depending on how much CC you have you can do it one by one until you find the error, or by fours or even tens, the problem is though, the higher the amount you're sorting the more tedious the tracking becomes.

Hope this helps!

Take a look at this thread, guys. We're all having problems due to the recent patch (you can thank @TMBrandon above for the post and details in the thread):

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=551495