The plumbob on the loading screen glitches out and is replaced with llama im

[puzzlezaddict]

@kdollasignnnn  Please move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop.  When you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.  The point is to see whether everything works in a clean folder; if it does, you can start transferring over your content.  Be sure to retest each time though, so you know right away if some file or files cause another crash.

[kdollasignnnn]

I did that, i'm still having the issue... I found out that it's something in the mods folder, and I tried the 50/50 method, and I still cant find it.

[puzzlezaddict]

@kdollasignnnn  If you started with a clean folder, you wouldn't have anything in the mods folder.  Please test in a completely fresh folder, newly spawned, with nothing in it.

[kdollasignnnn]

I did start with a fresh folder, and I had no problems. But when I tried to put everything back in to test it, the problem came back.

[puzzlezaddict]

@kdollasignnnn  Then put only a few files back at a time.  If that batch causes a problem, split it and retest.  It's a good idea to delete localthumbcache.package each time you test as well.

[kdollasignnnn]

Okay, so I traked it down, and it's something in my CAS folder... I just have to track it down. Is there a quicker way that I can find it?

[puzzlezaddict]

@kdollasignnnn  The 50/50 method is pretty fast.  Even if you have literally a thousand files to sort, it should only take ten tests to find one bad file, or eleven once you test one last time to confirm that everything else works.

[kdollasignnnn]

I've tried the 50/50 method 20 times, everytime I think I found the bad file, it still doesn't work, is their literally anything else I can do?

[puzzlezaddict]

@kdollasignnnn  It's possible you have more than one bad file, in which case you'd have to keep retesting until you'd found all of them and confirmed that the rest worked.  But since you know the game works with none of that custom content present, it has to be something in that folder.

Hopefully you're deleting localthumbcache.package as well, since that stores cached images and can complicate troubleshooting.

[kdollasignnnn]

Okay, so I've narrowed it down to 3 Test Folders, the first two were clean, the last one is the one with he bad file in it, I just have to search through it to find it.