11 years ago

Game Freezes but Animations Continue

Okay, I've given up! I've tried every single option out there that I've read! I updated all of my mods. I thought maybe installing Overwatch and Errortrap would help but they didn't. It still freezes! The past two times I've played, it's frozen at the exact same time, 7:43pm Sim Time. And considering the game is saved at around 5:00pm Sim Time, this doesn't leave me very much play time. I have done ResetSim * before too and it resolved it the first time, by this I mean it didn't freeze at the exact same time. But now, I'm having problems again. I read that it usually happens because a sim in the town or an NPC got stuck but how do I know when that will happen? There's no way of salvaging my game when it goes into this state, not even ctrl-shift-c. I've also read to save frequently to avoid losing progress but if it's going to happen 2 minutes after I start the game, then what's the point? I'm so frustrated with not finding any solutions. Ps, it's currently running and I can hear the crickets and I can hear dogs barking. Task manager says the game itself is running smoothly. I'm completely at a loss.

42 Replies

igazor
10 years ago
@CirceGranger - The issues most of those on this now well over a year old thread were facing were due to attempting to play on insufficient hardware or that which was not capable of carrying all of the EPs they were loading onto it. One was attempting to play in an unfixed instance of the Isla Paradiso world which is totally flawed and, for the vast majority of players, will not work well unless it's fixed up first.

There is no hard limit to the number of mods the game can carry. I have a midrange computer at best, by 4.5 year old standards even, and am carrying around 1,050 package files. About 250 of them are mods and scripted objects, the rest are just CC. My startup may be a couple of minutes longer than it would be without them, but other than that it's all fine. A limit of 5 or 10 seems awfully extreme.

It also depends on the mods. A simple tuning mod that allows, let's say children to stay up later at slumber parties or disallows some forms of autonomous behavior is read once on startup and that's it, the settings are applied. A very complicated script mod such as NRaas StoryProgression is going to require more overhead. Many mods, of course, are in between two extremes like that.
igazor
8 years ago
"PrimeElderDraxis;c-16619397" wrote:
Hey, this thread is quite old, and i don't know if this is still works, but i am having the same problem as the people here. I have a Heavy gaming pc that can run games like fallout 4, GTA5, and Cod ww2 at full graphics. However this older game keeps freezing for 12-30 minutes, unfreezes for around 5 minutes and freezes again (animations like the green marker above sims still work). I only have the late night expansion pack with high end loft stuff. No mods or cheats are currently enabled. Any Ideas?

You are not experiencing the same things that those on this thread were, at least not for the same reasons. One of them was working with a laptop that had 2 GB of RAM total (and wasted our time with that one on and off for years, I'm afraid). Others had insufficient processors or weak or no dedicated graphics cards.

Can we please get a dxdiag report on your current system so we can see what you are working with? If you could, send it up to Pastebin.com and provide a broken up link (use "h.t.t.p.s." or something like that) so we can read it.

How to run one: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information

Also, does it make any difference which world you try to play in (Sunset Valley vs. Bridgeport, for example)?