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Tired of Crashing
I’ve been playing one of the scenario games, the Nova Curious scenario. And it’s been great, running smooth. Really nice house, promotions. Once she had those things established I decided to try out the adopt feature so she could venture out. Worst decision ever. Ever since I adopted the infant; constant freezing, constant crashing, just so many issues. I don’t know if I’m the only one whose having issues with their world since adopting a child but whatever bug this is, in this feature… needs fixed because I can’t even play this world anymore at all..lilcxjames3 days agoRising Newcomer6Views0likes0CommentsLovestruck still broken. Dnt recommended for Console Users
I purchased love struck yesterday on Xbox series X.. I have probably have 85% of packs installed. After installing lovestruck yesterday my sims became unplayable. It just consistently crashed/freezing up. I tried hard resetting Xbox and uninstalling/reinstalling. Still the problem consisted. The last thing to try was to uninstall LoveStruck DLC… And now my game is back to normal but I wasted 40$. Why dosent ea have people to test the dlc? I mean real sim players on all platforms😒betas or something.. Requesting a refund now14Views1like0CommentsAll my saved datas has been deleted.
Hello everyone, Iyesterday I played the sims and saved. Today when I started the game the whole game I level I reached has disappeared. As if I have never played it before. The whole characters and buildings. (I play on the PlayStation 4) I restarted the game many times and it still the same. Is there any bug in the game actually? Is there any possibility to restore it? Could anyone help me please?Bukispuki6 days agoRising Newcomer28Views1like0CommentsGame acting as if new
I keep loading my game on my older Xbox One S and it keeps loading as if it's new, I have to restart the game to get my saves and even the shop to load. I reinstalled ALL packs I own plus Base Game and started it up AFTER shutting down my Xbox for half an hour. The game already takes minutes to load on my Xbox and now I have to double load it in order to even play it. It also resets all my personalized settings like adding the button mapping and help tips I've turned off I have to turn them off every time I load the game. This last time it crashed before I could reload it after it loaded as if I've never played it and I've had it installed since it was put on EA Play for free years ago.17Views0likes0CommentsPS5 - selection too fast
Usually when selecting social interaction or action command, or purchase it's fine. Every once and a while, I feel like I click something that makes the selection way too fast. Let's say you want to select Kiss; when you go to highlight the command, it is extremely hard to get the cursor to high light the desired command because it's zipping around. I feel like it's on me, like I did something similar to accidently selecting "Sticky Keys" on the keyboard. Sometimes I can correct it, by selecting either live or build (depending on where it's doing it), but other times I have to save and quit (which in itself, the too fast to select thing makes a challenge) and reboot the PS5 to get it to stop. A. Does anyone have any idea what I did to cause this? B. Is there away to fix it, without rebooting the game/PS5.rgalasso19 days agoNew Novice13Views1like0CommentsAll saves going to autosave and keeps going back to a previous save.
So last night, my game broke. All my saves were saving as autosave and I couldn’t make a new save and rename it. When opening any save, the game would keep going back to the same day and time. I never found a solution for this and I know others have had the same issue. The only way I’ve found a solution for this is to save absolutely everything from your game(households, houses and buildings) to your gallery and start a new game and then place everything exactly as it was. I get this will be super annoying to you all but it’s the only work around I’ve found so I can play my game again. I’m now able to save different save files and play as normal. Just bear in mind that you will lose relationships with sims that you have previously interacted with apart from household sims and there will be new game quests. I really do hope there is another solution to get this solved for the rest of you but for me, I’ve just gone ahead and done this and deleted all my older save files. I can’t help but think something corrupted my save?danis28052111 days agoNewcomer19Views0likes0CommentsNew Content Installed
I recently started experiencing this, and haven't been able to enjoy a game without it freezing my Playthrough and popping up. Constantly. I have restarted my router and that gave me just a one day fix, uninstalled the sims and reinstalled it, turned off my power block and turned it back on. Nothing. It's still happening. It has also being disconnecting my Xbox Live and saying it has something to do with my internet but I checked my internet connection, and nothing is out of place? I'm getting fed up with this and just want to enjoy my game again without this happening every minute I'm on.q4oy5hdx9k3l13 days agoNewcomer6Views0likes0CommentsGame is unplayable
Hi so I play the sims 4 on Xbox series x and it’s been fine up until two days ago. I was updating my sims house and I had almost finished when suddenly I hear a buzzing noise and then the screen went black then dashboarded me to Xbox Home Screen. Every time I’ve tried to play it the same thing happens when I’ve selected what family I want to play! It’s unplayable and I have all the dlc so mad that I can’t play. This needs fixing asap! I’m bedridden and this keeps me sane. Please get this sorted!!!nikkibrown8616 days agoRising Newcomer17Views0likes0CommentsLove struck has ruined my game (XBOX)
I downloaded lovestruck midway through a family I’ve been playing (sent the daughter to uni and then bought lovestruck) (also want to add I use cheats, NOT MODS), and now my sim goes invisible, the interaction system is invisible, my sim keeps repeating the ‘celebrate celebrity’ action because her mum is a global superstar level, I can’t even access the cheat interaction system because it’s also invisible, I can’t reset my sim. My game has gotten extremely slow and laggy and I just really want to save this without having wasted my money or have to delete all of my saves, if anyone can help or needs more detail PLEASE ASK. I just want to fix this, EA do better when releasing a pack3ldvgim12v5w17 days agoSeasoned Newcomer40Views1like0CommentsI don't know what to do...
Hi, I'm new here but I've been playing The Sims for a long time. I've been looking for posts or anything relating to my situation but I've not found anything to hit the nail right on the head so I figured I'd just write my own and vent my frustrations. I've been seeing that a lot of people have been having major issues after the latest update, but none of them have completely aligned to what's happening in my game. I'm really busy so I don't get a lot of time to play games anymore, well imagine my disappointment when I get on my PS5 to play The Sims 4 today and I pretty much can't do a lot. I can't go into build mode without it completely breaking the game, I'll try to build a room or even rearrange the furniture and it works for the first few things then completely stops working, I'll try to move something and it will just disappear but the game still says it's there. Going back to live mode doesnt fix it, it actually breaks more, it will stay paused and wont let me pick any sims or do any actions. When i go to manually change the speed it does nothing. I can't save either, it takes forever, I'm typing this out waiting on my game to load. I've restarted the game multiple times. I've restarted my PS5 multiple times. I'm just frustrated because I just played this earlier this week and it was fine!!! Can anyone help me please!Zeldagirl04192220 days agoSeasoned Newcomer33Views1like0CommentsSims 4 Not Saving On Console
I think I’ve made a comment about this before but I haven’t been able to play and enjoy Sims like I usually do for the past two or so weeks because the game will save once but then after that I get “error code: 0” or another one when I try to switch households.Ashiya1324 days agoSeasoned Newcomer45Views0likes0CommentsPS4 Wonderland
Sometimes my game will save - sometimes it's Error Code 0. I always start a new save and never have more than 3 saves going at a time. The visual quality of the game has been so random. Sometimes its fine for 5 or 10 minutes, but then degrades into blobs of color - such that you can't see wall art at all - that sort of thing. Other times the game is fine for hours. Sometimes restarting the game resets the "timer" on visual quality... sometimes it loads already screwed up. It used to be that the game would crash when traveling about half the time. But if it was going to crash it usually did so before the world select screen. Recently, I've made it to the world select screen and the game only crashes once I choose a destination. Sometimes I make it to where I am going - but usually only after several tries. The game will randomly stop. It isn't frozen, and time keeps moving, but all the Sims will just stand still for a minute or two. When this breaks, any actions they had in que vanish. This seems to happen a lot just before a holiday pops up - but that isn't always the case. Randomly, sleepy sims will get into bed - fast cycle their "sleep" - and pop instantly back out of bed without actually fulfilling their need. It takes several tries to get them to stay in bed and actually sleep. This also happens with sims and toilets. They will pop on and off the toilets and it takes several tries to actually empty their bladder.Sim4Lorn24 days agoRising Traveler10Views1like0CommentsSave Files Gone
I'm playing on playstation 4 and for some reason my Save file disappeared, I have never seen this before, I played everyday this week and the only day it keeps saving is August 12. I even try making a new save but it disappeared and I can't even fix it because I don't have that option on playstation 4. Is there anything I can do the next time I make a new save?Breville10112 months agoSeasoned Traveler41Views1like0CommentsCan’t access City Living
I’ve just updated my game, and all content from city living is gone. I play on PS5, have no mods or anything. The game crashed as I was playing it, closed the game down, and it says unable to access content, it says on the sims app I own the content, but my ps says I have to repurchase it!29Views0likes0CommentsGlitches | Crashes | No Interactive Play
I posted about a week ago that I could not log into my game at all. Well after finally being able to log in I tried starting a whole new game after uninstalling and reinstalling - I did save my previous household (which actually kept my skills, and household funds). Well I was finally able to start the gameplay and it’s still so messed up, I have 2 sims sitting on the same chair - super glitch, and 2 other sims unable to move at all. They are just stuck 😩.. have we gotten any feedback from EA when we can actually play the game? It’s been well over a week and the whole game is just broken. - PS this is on Xbox console.Random freezing and flirting
My game randomly freezes and it takes about a minute for it to be useable again. My sim who has romantic boundaries set, is in a relationship, keeps getting flirt with (sim they’re not in a relationship) wants which goes against the set boundaries.R3D6262 months agoSeasoned Newcomer74Views2likes0CommentsI cannot load a specific save on my Ps5 edition.
I’ve been trying for a couple days to get a specific save to load off of my PS5 Sims 4 edition. I have gotten two other loads to play, but just not the specific one I want to actually play. I have restored licenses four times, I have restarted my PS5 countless times and I have even deleted the Sims 4 and re-downloaded it. I also tried instead of using autosave to load, I used the last manual save I made. For about a week, I have been having problems with loading in, but I was able to shut down the game, restart the ps5 and do it again. Probably did that once or twice every session. Now it just straight up won’t load at all. Last time I played, all of my sims were frozen in place and resetsim was not working. It gets stuck at a specific spot in the load screen (see picture). A couple days ago, I did buy the spa day pack and then there was a giant update after I downloaded that for more context. Not sure if that’s a coincidence or if the new update was causing issues? Maybe it’s because the save is a legacy and there’s just too much stuff going on for the game to handle? There are other things I have tried to do in the actual game using a couple of different sims to get their way into the build at least and try to “switch control to” the other household. TL;DR I have exhausted all efforts known to myself that would work to get a specific save to load. Seeking out other options, people who have had this issue, or for EA to step in and fix the game.blawsems2 months agoRising Newcomer42Views0likes0CommentsGame issues since installing Lovestruck expansion pack (XBox)
Hoping someone can help me resolve the issues I’m dealing with since installing Lovestruck. My sims can no longer pay their bills. I receive a notification of the amount due but if I try to click on the mailbox or pay through the phone there is no option. My sims also keep disappearing. I can still control them but they’re invisible. I keep resetting them which works for a while until it ultimately happens again. The last issue I’m running into is the dating system is broken. Anytime I try to initiate a date or interact with someone I don’t know I’m unable to access the full social menu. The only options I have are to tell a group story or give a funny gift. This happened all of a sudden for sims I have a relationship with and also strangers. I’ve tried restarting my game multiple times and uninstalling/ reinstalling the pack and nothing has changed. I’m playing on XBox so I’m not sure if there’s anything else I can try. Thanks in advance!8f4346446100ebf92 months agoRising Newcomer35Views1like0CommentsStuttering
My game will not stop stuttering I play on Xbox for the last few months it has been getting worse it also crashes a lot I lost a 10 yr save that was super annoying up and until changes were made to the control function it worked fine the game isn’t fun when it’s frustrating and crashesSimplistic42 months agoSeasoned Newcomer19Views1like0Comments