I did the 50/50 method and narrowed it down to any custom content that has something to do with CAS does not allow my game to load in. All my other mods work perfectly fine and the glitch goes away if CAS custom content is not in game but that's unplayable for me so I'm going to wait for EA to come out with a patch or for other players with the same issue to come forth with their solution. But in the meantime, for others having this issue it's CAS-cc related.
@JllGreen Hey, I'm having the exact same problem. It is so frustrating because my game was working perfect with all my mods and cc. I'm able to play for a bit, hours even, then it will happen. I don't' save, exit the game, delete the usual files in the sims folder, can play for a bit then it happens again. I thought it was related to custom bathtubs, but it happens even when my sims don't bathe, they all get stuck in their current outfit, and their UI and thumbnail picture disappears. I'm wondering if it's related to the last small update because it only started happening after that I feel.
BTW, What do you mean by "CAS-cc related items? like clothing/accessories/hair cc? I hope they come out with a fix soon. It's crazy that more people aren't' having/reporting this issue.
Hey, I'm experiencing the exact same now. I thought I fixed it by removing a UI "fixer" which overrides the sims ui faces when they make emotions and make it more realistic, but then the glitch occurs into hours of me playing, so it's something that I'm just having to work around.
When I was doing the 50/50 method, I realized that by taking out all of my custom content that related to cas (like hairs, clothes, accessories, teeth, etc) that would make the sims load and change their outfits, and even sims who were invisible populated again. I even played with a new save for like 3+ hours with no custom content on, and the glitch never happened (maybe it would've if I played for longer but I'm not sure), so I figured it has something to do with cas-related cc. That's unplayable for me since I heavily rely on cas-cc to make my sims how I want them, but that's what I figure it is.
I'm seeing a lot more people have this issue in some youtuber's discord so hopefully it gets more attention and we get a patch pretty soon.
