I've been working on this lot for about 20 hours in separate sessions. It's a community beach lot in a tropical vacation neighborhood. Had to mess with cfe a good bit but there are no slanted walls or anything that looks off, and the edges are unmodified. I started up the game and entered the lot today, did nothing but add furniture to the inside of a building, left to neighborhood view and see the disaster I've attached in a screenshot. I can still enter the lot and it looks perfectly normal there. I have not done anything but build in-game since starting the lot, and there were no changes to my custom content, settings or computer between today and when I saved and quit yesterday (the last time I played before this happened). Doesn't seem to be happening with any other lot.

I've followed the instructions for game problems - removed all my CC, deleted all my cache files, went to patch my game and all the patches said it was already up to date. None of this has fixed the issue. I doubt it's fixable, but this is a large, complex lot I've put a ton of time in so I'd really like to not lose it.

The only other problem I'm having with my game is that I've been getting this in Hoodchecker for about 8 months. Looked into it more today and I'm pretty sure it's related to a multiple pollination technician I made/modified using this tutorial: http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2541

User File Warnings:
Sim has no Character file: 0x0036 SimID=0x0088940D
Sim has no Character file: 0x0037 SimID=0x0088940F
Sim has no Character file: 0x0038 SimID=0x00889410
Sim has no Character file: 0x0039 SimID=0x0088940E

This is the only other occurence of this issue I could find, but my user startup file does not have boolprop testingcheatsenabled true, and the solution they found doesn't work for me.

http://uoem.com/forums/threads/corr...t-preview.7800/

Is there anything I can do to salvage this lot, and should I be worried about corruption now?

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System Information
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Time of this report: 7/24/2017, 21:57:28
Machine name: XPS420
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_ldr.170512-0600)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
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User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
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Native Mode: 1280 x 1024(p) (60.020Hz)
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I hope somebody more informed comes along, but it seems to me that it is a graphics issue and not a game problem. So you have been looking at the wrong solutions. I also think a thumbnail refers to the pic in the build, buy or lot catalog, so it is not that.

Things looking weird or wrong in hood view is not uncommon, it may need you to change some settings, since I believe that is a good graphics card. You may need to change some of the graphic rules. Have a look on Leefish here: http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5446.

The four sims without character files are probably a set of pollination technicians (or whatever they are called), - it is normal for those not to have character files, should not be a problem.

They had both issues with the thumbnails and the issue I've got - one of the photos attached shows it. Doesn't seem to be the same cause though.

I'll try that when I get off work.

Okay, that's good to know. I've been playing this neighborhood for two years and built it myself so it'd suck to lose it to corruption.

Thank you!

Let us know!

Something's gone wrong when the Lot Imposter was generated. Can't say what - it might be related to your graphics card. The white colour (picture's a bit small and I can't tell) is possibly the default texture the game uses when stuff goes wrong. The first thing I'd do is go back into the lot, change something (anything) and then resave. That forces the game to update the Lot Imposter.

The sims with no character files are your poll tech mod and are not related.

Trouble with thumbnails is quite common and can be fixed by simply deleting the Thumbnails folder in My Documents\EA Games\The Sims - though that's a bit annoying to do as the game will then spend the next few sessions regenerating them. Have you tried shift-clicking on the thumbnails (or is it shift-right clicking) - that allows you to force them to refresh one-by-one.

My thumbnails are fine; its just the neighborhood view issue. I did delete my thumbnail folder anyway though.

Yeah, I doubted it was related but I'm glad to know that's normal and fine.

I'll try everything when I get home and update. If its still doing this after I'll try to post a better picture.

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it!

Edit - Changing something on the lot and saving fixed the issue. Very glad it was that easy, though I feel silly for not thinking to try it first. Thanks!