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game freezes when baby is born
My sim is pregnant and when she has the baby the game freezes during the naming of the baby. the screen comes up to name the baby, but it check mark button stays unhighlighted and when you hover over it it just says you must assign a name even though a name has been selected. I tried originally to send her to the hospital on her own, then i went with her and then she had the baby at home. both with and with out MODs added. I tried to name the baby myself and to have it auto fill. I also tried to repair the game the game just freezes and I have to go into the task manager to get out of the game.Can't load my played households
Endless loading screen has been an issue for me since the marketplace update arrived and I haven't been able to load my 2 previously played households ever since. When I try to load my household it just keeps loading forever. Once I sat there like 40 minutes and it still wouldn't load. I have surfed all across the internet to find solutions but nothing has worked, and I feel like I have tried everything I could find. I play on PC, windows 11. Here's what I have tried: Disabled all mods Repaired the game in EA app Deleted lastException files and localthumbcache in The Sims 4 -folder I saved my two households to library and uploaded them in to a new game. Still wouldn't load either. Loading households works fine with NPC households. I read that the issue is because of the changes made in the familytree system. Well my households are as big as 6 generations. Any ideas? Please, I just wanna play ...
2 Zhaleh Amani’s in Game
I have never installed mods and I have 2 Zhaleh Amani's in my game. I repaired my game and she didn't get deleted unfortunately. I was hoping that this latest April 2026 update would help, but it didn’t fix it either. I saw someone else post this but they deleted their mods and got it fixed. Again I don’t have mods so that won’t work for me :/ Is this happening for anyone else?
Item saved from web gallery no longer available
I'm on PC and I've just updated my game today. When I was offline a few days ago, I went onto the web version of the gallery and downloaded a couple of items, but couldn't access them because my game was outdated. Now this message, "oops items from web version of the gallery is no longer available" keeps popping up every time I open my game and during random times in the middle of my gameplay. I've already tried deleting caches, removing the items I've downloaded from the web version, adding them back, nothing helped.
Can't open The sims 4 game again due to new update
I'm having trouble getting the app to open and work when I click on the game it acts like it's about to load then just snaps out again and I really don't know what to do I took all the mods out I clear the thumbcache, I just feel defeated with this game atp.Household memebers not recognised
My sim is unable to build a relationship with her household members (her child and a dog). She can interact with them normally, but the relationship level does not change/remains at zero. Also, if I try to hold a social event, I can't choose a host as there is no one to choose from. Removing any cc/mods, clearing the cache, and repairing the game have not worked. Any ideas on what could be wrong would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
Game freezes and time stops but Sims still move
I don't know if I'll be able to state my issue clearly, but I'll try. I start up the game, hit resume game, and everything loads fine. However, once I start clicking around or try to go to a different sim, the game kind of freezes. The Sims still move; however, time has stopped. I cannot click on anything, save, or use the quit button. I have to manually shut it down using Task Manager. I've tried removing my custom content (no mods), removing old files and caches, but I have no idea what to do from this point. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! :) [CM edit - descriptive title]Random sims spawning on my lot
Every time I try play lots of random sims keep spawning on my home lot. Whenever I try to get rid of them new ones just spawn in. It’s causing issues with the game as everytime I try to invite sims I actually want over they don’t come as I assume there are already too many sims at the lot. I’ve tried to repair the game, I’ve deleted the localcashe file from its folder and have also uninstalled and reinstalled it but it’s still happening. The lot is a residential lot with no lot traits that would mean there would be more sims there. Anyone having the same issue?
House stuck under science workplace.
My sims house is stuck under the science workplace and I can only see the house when zoomed all the way in. This happened after I entered CAS with my household sim but not editing anything. I've tried restarting my game and not saving but this keeps happening. Can anyone help?
Build Buy catalog and CAS won't scroll?
I don't know what to do. Sometimes (not every time) I open the game the catalog on BB or CAS won't scroll using my mouses roll. Similarly in CAS I can't zoom the camera further using the roll on my mouse which makes it SO hard to play. But then I can zoom the camera in live mode or BB w the roll on my mouse. This is a recently new issue and it's insanely frustrating since I mainly build on Sims 4. It doesn't happen every time, but when it does, trying to reopen the game won't fix it. Every time I open the Sims these days I wonder if it'll actually work this time. I've tried verifying the game files and its "all good" so what can I do? Has anyone else noticed the same happening? Borderline unplayable for me like this.
Issues with laundry day stuffpack
Hello to all ever since the patch fix for laundry day stuff pack the pack is still not fix when playing a new game (save) and i did everything in the solution thread delete cache files repair game rebuy in game washer dryer and i play with custom content and the mccc mod for sims4 please look into this issue and possibly consider a fix for that pack thats still not working thank you for looking into this issueFoundation Height Slider Missing
I just started playing the game, so unsure if it's user error, but I can't get decorative foundations to work. I've watched tutorials on how to adjust the platform height to add a decorative foundation, and a slider is referenced in the tutorials that I don't seem to have. It should show up on the foundations tab in build mode to the left of the swatches, but it isn't there. If I try to add a platform to a room or vice versa (walls on top of a platform), the walls extend completely down to the ground, removing the foundation entirely. I've tried all kinds of different orders of doing things, resetting the game, bulldozing the lot, restarting my computer and the problem still persists. Thanks for any advice!Household Disappearing
I am playing on PC via Steam, and recently started experiencing one of my households disappearing. I played as the household and after I saved then exited, I came back to see a different household in the menu. I clicked resume and tried to switch to the other household through manage worlds, but their lot is just an empty house, everything is there but the family. During this they don't show up in my played households nor my other households and aren't in the relationship panels of the Sims in the household it switched to (they're family, legacy save). I went back to the menu and recovered a save that had the family. I play as normal, save, exit - same thing happens again. Over the course of days now I've done eveything I can find on Google: verifying my files via Steam (a few times), clearing cache, trying to use "save as" instead of save, uninstalling & reinstalling the game - and sometimes I'd be safe and get to keep my progress, but eventually I'd end up with the same problem. I've exhausted all the information I can find and all the things I can think of and nothing fully fixes it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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