Endless Loading Screen when Returning Home from Vacation

[Trip]

[originally posted to the official forums, by the way]

My main save game has an issue with traveling. Getting there works just fine, and the vacation worlds don't lag at all. I thought that I had a perfect virtual vacation to China until it came time for them to return home. They got to the loading screen, and it hanged. It hung for an hour before I called it quits.

I decided to try a few different scenarios:

- Going back to a pre-travel save and having them travel to China again, and then return. Still got hung up on the loading screen.
- Going to the same pre-travel save and having them travel to Egypt instead. Still got hung up on the loading screen.
- Starting a new game with a new family and having them travel to China. Getting home worked fine.

Any other suggestions? I don't want to have to start over on this file, but I really want to travel as well.

Also, a DxDiag in case it is needed, hosted here at Pastebin.

This is for a dynasty file, so I'd rather not use a mod fix if I can help it. Anything else...I can get it approved.

[MrsFlynn]

Hi Trip,

It sounds like you may have a bugged save file. So try this, if you haven't already.

1.) Load pre-travel save.
2.) Save As new file.
3.) Close Sims 3.
4.) Reboot computer
5.) Load Sims 3.
6.) Load the new game file.
7.) Try traveling to see if it still hangs up.

If you've already tried this. The only other suggestion we have is to evict the family, save it to library, and load it into a new game.

Use Save As (Give it a new name) often, specially before traveling.

I hope this helps,

MrsFlynn

[Trip]

Hello there!

I should be getting to bed, but I'll try it in the morning.

EDIT: No luck. I also tried to travel from an even earlier save, with the same results.

EDIT 2: The earliest save that worked was way too early for my liking, so I'm giving up on the file. Ah well.