Error Message

[danielcschwartz]

I just shifted my Sim family to Starlight Shores and sometimes, when I try to save the game, it appears: Error 12. I saw on the ReadMe that it means an Sim World error. What do I do???

Thanks in advance, Daniel.

[Andromache2013 · Accepted solution]

Oh, shame. Sorry and I hate to tell you this, Daniel, but... There isn't really anything you can actually do about Error Code 12.

I had it and well, to say the least: I had to reinstall all my games and stop playing all my saves which I had gotten really attached to. EA seriously stuffed this whole thing up. If you want you can view my post on this problem by searching Error Code 12 in the search bar. (It's the one by me - Girl007Fisher)

Also in your save files you might see BAD files (I did). You want to delete them immediately!

Look, I hope everything works out okay and please just move (if you have) your other saves (ones that haven't gotten the Error Code 12 yet) to a safe location so that should the inevitable happen - you've got some relics of the past. 

Really hope everything goes well for you and you don't have the same level of seriousness with this as I did.

Girl007Fisher.

[crinrict]

Error 12 is an out of memory error. 

Read all about it here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Save-Errors-Error-12-13-15-16/td-p/652/jump-to/first-unread-...

[Andromache2013 · Accepted solution]

Oh, shame. Sorry and I hate to tell you this, Daniel, but... There isn't really anything you can actually do about Error Code 12.

I had it and well, to say the least: I had to reinstall all my games and stop playing all my saves which I had gotten really attached to. EA seriously stuffed this whole thing up. If you want you can view my post on this problem by searching Error Code 12 in the search bar. (It's the one by me - Girl007Fisher)

Also in your save files you might see BAD files (I did). You want to delete them immediately!

Look, I hope everything works out okay and please just move (if you have) your other saves (ones that haven't gotten the Error Code 12 yet) to a safe location so that should the inevitable happen - you've got some relics of the past. 

Really hope everything goes well for you and you don't have the same level of seriousness with this as I did.

Girl007Fisher.

[danielcschwartz]

I just continued playing The Sims 3 normally with my saved game and the Error Code 12 stopped appearing.

[Andromache2013]

Lucky fish!!!! Have a great time playing and enjoying the Sims 3! :catlol: