I just tried a couple of my previous saves and I can't get beyond the initial game loading window. I can get past the EA loading window, but when the actual game starts to load, I get "game has stopped working."

I tried putting a copy of an exported family from the original game and it still crashed at the game loading screen. This file was exported before any corruption happened. I had played that family before and after the export. I'm out of ideas now.

The only explanation I can offer is that household, and therefore the game it came from, is really dependent on something being there that once was, but no longer is. In some cases substitutions are made; a shirt or tree that no longer exists in your current setup will become a different shirt or some garden type object. But for some things there are no substitutions. For example, a family of horses cannot possibly load up without Pets; a WA world without the WA EP, etc. Some of the EPs have objects in them like bridges and staircases and things like careers, traits, and skills for which there also no viable substitutes. Seems reasonable that the same could be said for certain premium store objects and mods. You can't just yank Consort's Grow, which is a core mod, out from under a household or a game, for example, and expect everyone to adjust themselves properly as there is a proper removal procedure that must be followed first. AwesomeMod might be like that as well. I'm afraid that only you would have more clues as to what might have been in your original game's environment that now no longer is.

Yes, I found that out. Some of them come from custom worlds that I d/led which I can d/l again (I think) and some of them came from EA worlds like Riverview which I'm having an awful time re-d/ling. It used to be that when I clicked on the d/l button in the store, it would go to the launcher/downloads, but evidently that has changed as well. I guess I'm having an awful time trying to wrap my mind around this new interface.

I just wanted to update here that I *finally* got all of my EA worlds and content into the game. Now I'm trying to remember how to put custom worlds in. :