#then encountered error code 12 while saving

[mercury101]

Tokyo Calling

[id-element0]

A Nifty Workaround for the Error Code 12 ?

Hi folks, I've been doing stuff other than sims 3 but the other day I opened my save and after a few mysterious CTDs it magically fixed itself so after playing for a while I tried to save and it gave me the dreaded error code 12. A few weeks earlier, when I had the error I decided to try something new and it seemingly worked. This time, I had the chance to test it again to see if it would work again. Now, it can be a coincidence or a fluke but it's worth trying. So, some testers are needed. Next time you have this error, please give it a try.

Basically, when I got the save error, on both times, I went into Edit Town mode and entered a lot and draw a wall or something then hit Ctrl-z, went back to Edit Town and hit Save As. Both times, it saved. I don't know if this was mentioned anywhere before. I don't remember reading anything like this but regardless, I believe it's good information. This is not the same as "Try saving in Edit Town/Map View" tip. Since there's an extra step which I've never encountered before on the internet. But, then I live under a rock, so...

It doesn't have to be an empty lot; it can be an unoccupied residential lot or a community lot. But error 12 is known to be followed by a CTD so it's safer to load an empty lot. Just put a wall or a fence somewhere, undo, go back to Edit Town and save as a new save. Hopefully, it's not a fluke. Because reset town thing is annoying and it doesn't always work. Spread the word if this works for you. Happy simming!

Update: I have 3 more save errors this week on different occasions; two of them occured while using @polrbearsims' method which is pointing the camera to the ground with nothing else in view while saving. Unfortunately, this didn't help much in my case, since my current save is really, really borked. I'm on thin ice here... So, in a healthy save it may actually help. Luckily, though, the empty lot method mentioned in this post have worked on three occasions and my game saved. So it can be used as a last resort if you're getting persistent save errors, as long as your game doesn't crash right away. Well, that's that.

Update #2: It seems like I finally managed to make my save stable enough to play for hours without a CTD. The last couple of crashes were apparently caused by my forgetfulness because I didn't delete the contents of CurrentGame.sims3 folder in my frustration. Heh. I only have one save error at the end of my long, long session. And I always save pointing the camera to ground as previously mentioned. The save error was really persistent and luckily my game didnt't crash. So I tried, tried and tried. My empty lot method didn't work either. So I let the game play itself. Dismissed the maid who was abusing the juice keg. Sent my sims here and there. And alternate between the two methods. In the end my game saved. I don't know if these updates would help anyone but I leave it here anyway. This will most likely be my last update. Thanks everyone for commenting and sharing.

[ag-superart]

Skeleverse!Ink: Age: around 983 Family: mom: Comet Comyet, brothers: Reaper Comyet [986] and Cross Comyet [985] partner: Error Queen, children: Gradient Errorink [14, boy] and Paper Jam (Pj) Errorink [14, boy], nieces/nephews: Grim [12, boy, Afterdeath]   Closest friends (in no order): Error, Dream, Blue, Geno [985], Fresh [983], King Multiverse (Multi), Error404 (404), Fatal!Error (Fatal), Gin (dead, they were like brothers but never lovers).

Skeleverse!Error: Age: 984 (around) Family: mom: Crayon Queen (Cq), brothers: Geno Queen, Fresh Queen, partner: Ink Comyet, children: Gradient Errorink, Pj Errorink, nieces/nephews: Grim Afterdeath Closest friends (no order): Ink, Blue, Cross, Reaper, Code, Nightmare, Horror, Error404, Multi, Fatal. (both Ink and Error are friends with the other sanses just not as close and they are also close friends with some of their aus/ams but I didn’t want to list them all) 

                        Ink and Error’s Backstory (my multiverse/au) 

Both Ink and Error grew up in the au where the comic Momma Cq took place, I call this au Comictale due to other comics (ex: Undertale Green on YouTube) being able to happen there. But onto the backstory of Ink and Error, we start when Ink was 2, him and his brother’s father was the god of death before Reaper and was killed by another god in battle, it is unknown who killed him. Due to their father being killed, at the age of 6 one year after their father’s death, Reaper was sent to Reapertale to begin training to become the new god of death. Comet and Cross made shore to talk about Reaper and show Ink pictures of him so Ink would not forget about his older brother, Reaper didn’t forget about his family. All went well until six years later, Cross was 11 and Ink was 9. That year was when disaster struck. No one knows what happened to the original XTale!Sans but something happened to him leaving XTale without a sans. Unable to bring him back with overwrite or reset X!Gaster decided to get a “new” sans, so at the age of 11 Cross was kidnaped and bring to XTale, this is one of the reasons why Ink does not trust Gasters. A year after Crosses abduction Ink and Comet met the Queen family and then all the advents of the Momma Cq comic took place. When Geno was 17, Error 16 and Ink and Fresh 15 disaster struck again. X!Gaster used overwrite and unknowingly caused a glitch known as an overwrite glitch to happen. The overwrite glitch teleported Geno to the save screen, teleported Fresh to a random au and turned him into a parasite, Fresh was lucky enough to encounter someone willing to be his host, this skeleton’s name is Nyan and him and Fresh are now very close friends, no one other then Fresh knows about Nyan. Back on topic, Ink and Error were teleported to the same au, Wingtale. (Wingtale is based off of the Wings of War au) 

When Ink and Error arrived in Wingtale, an au made completely of feather winged skeletons, they had also gained wings, both pares feathered, Ink’s being tan and rainbow feathers and Error’s being black and red. They were soon greeted by the Gaster of that au, Wing!Gaster, he had three pares of wings instead of the normal one pare and as soon as he saw Ink’s rainbow feathers he also looked at Error and noticed that he glitched. Wing!Gaster, without a second thought had Error’s wings ripped apart and him throne off a cliff into the shadow lands, a place where exiles are taken. “WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!!” Ink shouted with rage “It was for your own good,” Wing!Gaster replied “That glitch could have faded your beautiful rainbow feathers, and we don’t want that now do we?” Ink only stood in silence, Wing!Gaster never would care about Ink, only the rainbow feathers. A year and half later, after having to follow Wing!Gaster around like some kind of living trophy every day, Ink decided to sneak out of the golden palace and explore outside of it. He was exploring the shadow lands, which were more of just a bunch of old runes that were in the shadows of the mountains around them, Ink stopped, he had thought he heard something. Suddenly something ran out of the shadows, shouting Ink’s name, and gave him a big, glitchy, leathery winged hug. “Ink its you! Its really you!” the two continued to hug, “Error!?! I missed you so much! Are those leather wings! They are so cool!” Ink and Error would hang out every night, not that it really mattered in the shadow lands. They continued doing this for about six months, until they were discovered by a skeleton who worked for Wing!Gaster. The next day Wing!Gaster asked for Ink to come in to his throne room and before Ink could ask what was going on Wing!Gaster, SNAPPED, one of Ink’s wings off. “If you ever go to see that dirty glitch again I will take something much more valuable than a wing.” It only took about six months for Ink’s wing to grow back as a tan and rainbow leather wing. Soon after his wing grew back Ink decided to go see Error again, little did Ink know that he was followed. The two skeletons that Wing!Gaster had sent to follow Ink grabbed him as soon as Ink and Error had come in site of each other and dragged Ink to Wing!Gaster’s throne room. “I warned you Ink” Wing!Gaster said, Error had followed Ink back up into the palace this time and what happened next TRAUMATIZED Error. Wing!Gaster RIPPED out Ink’s soul and Ink, going almost emotionless as soon as his soul left his body, screamed and cried louder and more painfully then anyone had ever screamed before. Something else happened when Ink lost his soul. His rainbow feathers turned white, even on the wing that Wing!Gaster had snapped off that he kept in a case above his throne. Wing!Gaster did not like this one bit so, pulling Ink, with Error hugging his friend, Wing!Gaster took the two of them to the top of the mountain, to a ledge reserved for exacting people due to how high it was and because of how the air moved there it made it impossible to fly. Wing!Gaster then through Ink and Error off and walked away and to this day believes that they are dead. But that is not how this story ends, Ink and Error, a little more then half was down the mountain, were caught in many black strings. Thoughts were the strings of Error404 who had saved them and took them to Alphatale where King Multiverse gave Ink his vials and taught both Error and Ink how to use them properly. (you give Ink the yellow and blue vials to give him normal emotions, not pink and red that will turn him into a yandere, Ink is color blind when his vials run out) Ink and Error also became the gods of creation and destruction during their time in Alphatale, they didn’t stay there permanently though as they eventually went on their own paths but they still check in on their godly friends every so often.

Facts: 

After the first overwrite (the overwrite glitch) all of Comictale other then the neighborhood that Ink and Error lived in was paused so now the only people that could move where the ones in that neighborhood at the time of the glitch. 

After his mother and father got a divorce (his dad moved out of the country) and his mother killed in a shooting Uncle Asy adopted Decans and the two of them live in Cq’s house with Cq, Comet and Sour (they live there because of the overwrite glitch, see above fact)   

Uncle Asy is asylum!sans, a previous overwrite glitch caused him to be teleported to Comictale and age like a normal skeleton, Guardian (asylum!Papyrus) still follows Asy around and Asy’s mental health is much better. Decans, Cq, Comet and Sour all know about Asy being a former sans and about Guardian. He told them after the first overwrite.

Sugar and Sour were having a sleepover with the Queen brothers, Ink and Decans when the first overwrite happened, Sugar was teleported to Sugartale and him and Geno still keep in touch.

It has been almost 1,000 years sense the first overwrite and the people of Comictale (who are not paused) know this and so the the Queen brothers, the Comyet and Sugar. No one has aged physically in Comictale. 

Ink and Error are able to hide their wings and do so when around sanses other than Geno, Fresh, Reaper Cross or any of their friends from Alphatale, if their is anyone else around they will not show them.

Ink and Error are a part of the Multiverse Alliance, which is a group of Ink and Error aus/ams, the MA HQ is in accidentverse and they have a rule says that if you are outside of your multiverse (or in MA HQ) you are under a mandatory truce. 

Ink and Error met Dream and Nightmare before the apple incident, at the time Ink had Gin’s mask on over his face and Error was wearing his mask and had his hood up, they use these as discuses when doing god work and they have their wings showing when doing this too. Dream and Nightmare don’t recognize Ink and Error as Create and Destroy. (thoughts are the names they use when doing their god work) One reason they don’t recognize Ink and Error is because it has been more than 500 years sense then, they do remember the names Create and Destroy though because of how kind they were to Nightmare.

In my multiverse Dream knew that the villagers didn’t like Nightmare but he did not know about the physical bullying, the villagers would call Nightmare names and Dream did know about that, he would stop them whenever he could.

Geno met Reaper once in Comictale one night while Geno was in the hospital, Reaper could sense that there was something different about this soul he had been sent to reap so he gave Geno a choice of if he wanted Reaper to reap him the normal way or to just touch him, which even though it is slower it is less painful. Geno picked the second choice and when he didn’t start to die both were surprised and Reaper left saying: “You are special, I hope we meet again.”