
Your game should now work, with all your progress, skills, wishes, lifetime rewards, relics, visa points, etc. Make a backup copy of your corrupted game, open the new game you just created, and copy the meta data files to your corrupted game’s folder, overwriting the existing ones. Exit The Sims and go to your Saves folder. §50,000 will automatically be added to your account.) Now save your game, being careful not to overwrite the old one. (If you don’t have enough simoleons to travel, open the cheat window (CTRL+SHIFT+C), type motherlode and press enter. If you traveled to a holiday destination (Egypt, France or China) on your corrupted save game, travel to that same destination on this one using your temporary sim’s mobile phone. Create a new town on The Sims 3, create a sim, and move him in. We won’t touch these.įirst, we need to create replacement files. The other files are the world data for your town and each of the travel destinations you have visited (i.e. Luckily, they can be safely replaced without loosing anything. They contain the information the game needs to load your town and are usually the ones causing the problem. Inside your Sunset Valley.sims3 folder, there should be three files called 1a5tf1l3.dat, Meta.data and TravelDB.package. Replace the meta files (World Adventures only) If this doesn’t work, restore the old Sunset Valley.sims3 folder and continue to the next method.ģ. Now rename the Sunset file to Sunset Valley.sims3. Backup the folder called Sunset Valley.sims3 to a safe location. If you can’t or don’t want to follow this method, please skip to the next one.)Įnter your Sims 3 Saves folder ( (My) DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe sims 3Saves). (This file isn’t always created, and if it is, will date back to when you installed World Adventures.

This method uses the legacy file created when World Adventures was installed. Use the legacy file (only if you have World Adventures) If it is less than 3 MB, the game is irreversibly corruptedĢ. If it still doesn’t work after restarting, check the file size. If it doesn’t load restart your computer. backup part) Now try loading your save game. Then rename Sunset Valley.sims.3.backup to Sunset Valley.sims3 (remove the. First move the Sunset Valley.sims3 file to a safe location. You should see two files called Sunset Valley.sims3 and Sunset. This is located at (My) DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe sims 3Saves. How old this file is depends on how often you save the game, but it is not usually older than a couple of days.įirst enter your Sims 3 Saves folder. The first thing you can do is use the backup file that the game periodically creates. At the end I also include a trick to prevent your town from being corrupted again. Throughout this guide, it is assumed that your sim lives in Sunset Valley. If you have the World Adventures expansion pack installed, use methods 2 or 3.

Here are three methods of recovering a corrupt town on The Sims 3.
