ghoulia
Farmhand
Hey y'all. This is my first post here! Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place or I'm missing some obvious fix - I looked and did my best but there's so much to sort through, so I'm sorry if I missed anything!
I haven't played SDV in maybe a month, but last night I just tried to get back into it and was unable to. As of now, the game opens and seems to run fine, but it swiftly shuts out when it attempts to load my main save file. It doesn't have any issue running a new game, my two other farms (which have little to no progress, I think they're both in their first or second season), or a co-op. Just the one I've put 4 years and 200 hours into, which I have to say isn't the one I would have picked for this to happen to!
I've tried every fix I've found that I felt able to do -
- uninstalled and reinstalled
- backed up the game
- verified game cache
- checked that there are no problems with audio output
- removed mod and smapi folders (*whether or not these folders are in my game folder doesn't seem to make a difference - it doesn't seem that the game even tries to run my mods*)
I play on a Macbook, and I'm not that well versed in game file stuff, so there's a few things I couldn't figure out how to attempt. I did not manage to:
- launch the game in "administration mode" (?)
- the "gamedirectory/_commonredist"etc Vcredist thing
- go to "%appdata" - not sure how to do this on mac? can't find that on finder or in the sdv file.
I'm so scared of losing my game but I'm also scared to risk messing something up by messing around in files that I don't understand. Any help or advice is so appreciated - please be really specific though! Do not be afraid to explain things like I'm five, I'd rather have too much detail than not enough. Thanks in advance to anyone who can try to help <3
I haven't played SDV in maybe a month, but last night I just tried to get back into it and was unable to. As of now, the game opens and seems to run fine, but it swiftly shuts out when it attempts to load my main save file. It doesn't have any issue running a new game, my two other farms (which have little to no progress, I think they're both in their first or second season), or a co-op. Just the one I've put 4 years and 200 hours into, which I have to say isn't the one I would have picked for this to happen to!
I've tried every fix I've found that I felt able to do -
- uninstalled and reinstalled
- backed up the game
- verified game cache
- checked that there are no problems with audio output
- removed mod and smapi folders (*whether or not these folders are in my game folder doesn't seem to make a difference - it doesn't seem that the game even tries to run my mods*)
I play on a Macbook, and I'm not that well versed in game file stuff, so there's a few things I couldn't figure out how to attempt. I did not manage to:
- launch the game in "administration mode" (?)
- the "gamedirectory/_commonredist"etc Vcredist thing
- go to "%appdata" - not sure how to do this on mac? can't find that on finder or in the sdv file.
I'm so scared of losing my game but I'm also scared to risk messing something up by messing around in files that I don't understand. Any help or advice is so appreciated - please be really specific though! Do not be afraid to explain things like I'm five, I'd rather have too much detail than not enough. Thanks in advance to anyone who can try to help <3
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