[ARCHIVED] Autonomy and Simulation Lag
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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Seasons, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get to Work, Get Together, Dine Out, Jungle Adventure, Outdoor Retreat, Parenthood, Spa Day, Vampires, Backyard Stuff, Bowling Night Stuff, Cool Kitchen Stuff, Fitness Stuff, Kids Room Stuff, Laundry Day Stuff, Luxury Party Stuff, Movie Hangout Stuff, Perfect Patio Stuff, Romantic Garden Stuff, Spooky Stuff, Toddler Stuff, Vintage Glamour Stuff.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Playing the game.
What happens when the bug occurs? Within 5-20min of gameplay
What do you expect to see? Even with Autonomy enabled Sims will from time to time stop doing anything without direct input. On occasion specific needs become frozen. For example one of my Sims was fine, until I told her to have a water balloon fight, after she finished she stood there doing nothing unless I gave direct input. Later she froze on the toilet with her need meter not increasing, after cancelling Use Toilet the need remained at nill. Then other household members began having the same issue with their AI not doing anything.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Sims 4 Seasons installed.
Since installing Sims 4 Seasons and it's pre-launch patch my sims will occasionally loose their Autonomy, even with it being toggled on and off and back on again via the options menu. They simply just stand around idle not willing to do anything.
Examples being my sim's son finished having a shower then stood in the bathroom from 4am to 8am (In-game time) until the game sent him to school
His mother stood idle in the backyard after a water balloon fight until she was starving and I had to tell her to get food.
And the father finished a jog with the dog and stayed at the other side of the local area by a stream until I realized he didn't return (6 hours in game time)
After this all began I noticed from time to time some needs will become frozen. The mother's toilet need is frozen at nill, the Father's hygiene meter isn't dropping and the son has lost the need to sleep. None of them have any perks.
Same for me. I have lessened it by removing all mods but it is still happening, my time also stops when my Sims are stuck in interactions. It is not a game crash, I can eneter build mode and build I can click on things too but my Sim and time is just stuck. My PC exceeds the recommended requirements.
This started after installing the latest patch and SeasonsCould you post your Computer's DxDiag?
To gather a DxDiag on your computer, please follow the steps here: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
You can attach the txt file to your post directly.Also try a new save for testing and delete all cache files
I've attached my dxdiag.
Physically the only new thing on my PC since I last played Sims 4 before the new EP/Patch was I upgraded the CPU from a i3 to i7.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Expansions: Get to Work Pets Game pack: Parenthood Outdoor retreat Stuff packs: Toddler stuff Celebration pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Tell your sims to do something, and they will stand idle for hours before doing something.
What happens when the bug occurs? My sims stand around idle for no reason when I tell them to do something, with hours passing.
What do you expect to see? I expect to see my sims fulfilling their tasks.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Prior to the latest update, I had no issues with this. I’ve turned my graphics down, I’ve repaired my game and I’ve even put my game into 32 bit mode and none of it has helped.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Expansions: Get to Work Pets Game pack: Parenthood Outdoor retreat Stuff packs: Toddler stuff Celebration pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Tell your sims to do something, and they will stand idle for hours before doing something.
What happens when the bug occurs? My sims stand around idle for no reason when I tell them to do something, with hours passing.
What do you expect to see? I expect to see my sims fulfilling their tasks.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Prior to the latest update, I had no issues with this. I’ve turned my graphics down, I’ve repaired my game and I’ve even put my game into 32 bit mode and none of it has helped.
Hi @xKla
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Could you post your Computer's DxDiag?
To gather a DxDiag on your computer, please follow the steps here: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
You can attach the txt file to your post directly.Hi,
I Have same problem. I giving my DXDiag.
I don't have any modes. I have all expansion packs, game packs and lot of stuff packs.
I'm having the same problem, but I don't have the seasons expansion, it just start happening after the update, they just stand there and doesn't do anything unless they're fulfilling a need, I even started all over and deleted every single thing, and I have over 300 GB of space available
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Svenska
How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Dont know
What happens when the bug occurs? The sims stand and does nothing until you press esc and it does one step of the thing its doing, for example when going to the shower, first it goes and stands in front of it, press esc, then goes inside and showers, when done keeps on showering until pressing esc, then goes out of shower and stands there.
What do you expect to see? The sim doing the whole task itself to then go and do the next
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
note: All sims stops doing things, only the chosen sim does things when pressing esc.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Polski
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Full EP, SP, GP
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I have seen that many people having the same problem. I have also seen a thread about this bug saying to start brand new game, erase sims inventory, low graphics etc. nothing helped me and the thread was locked. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Time-freezing-amp-Resetting/td-p/3806607 Or https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Time-freezing-amp-Resetting/td-p/3806607 And finally: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Issues-with-time-Clock/m-p/5095254#M47862 Nothing helped me.
What happens when the bug occurs? Sims freeze and time is going forward as usual. They having activities on queue but they doing stuff they did in second they freezed. For a minute saving file and again loading it helping to fix it but minute (our minute) later they freezing again.... starting new vanilla game didn’t help.
What do you expect to see? Some answers that finally could help. I bought just pets and my first pet to finally get all sims 4 expansion packs and now I regret that now...
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
My specs:
intel core i7-6700HQ CPU
2.60GHz
memory: 16GB
I have MC command center.
I guess the count of the objects in the current lot causing this problem. Whenever i start a new game with empty lot or with a lot containing less object, it works smooth. In time i am filling the lot with object and the game starting to lag, sims are freezing, standing like mindless zombies. I don't know. Those were just what i saw in the game.
I don't think the amount of objects is the problem. My sims literally live under a roof with essential stuff (bed, toilet, fridge, table, etc). No extra decorations or anything. They don't even have walls, they live in the confines of a hedge.
I only started seeing this issue when I installed seasons. I previously had a home with a huge basement and loads of stuff in it for another family, that never froze like it does now.
I'll see if I can get a video of what happens tonight when I play. Like I put in my nug (I love how my phone corrected 'bug' so I'm leaving it) report; my sim yesterday got stuck repairing a fridge for 4 in game hours as the 2 kids sat on the bed with plates on their laps just staring at each other.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get to work, seasons, jungle adventure, outdoor retreat, laundry day
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? It just randomly occurs
What happens when the bug occurs? All sims go to a standstill doing whatever interaction they are currently performing. It's like the task everyone is doing never ends. Time still passes in game (sims will be late for work/school because they are in an endless loop of cleaning a plate). My sim was repairing a fridge and got stuck doing it (all the other sims on the lot, 2 children, were also stuck eating on the bed), I was clicking on everything trying to get them to move and interact with stuff but they wouldn't, I couldn't even get them to cancel the action. He was repairing this fridge for like 4 in-game hours. I have found 2 ways of temperarily fixing this: 1) entering and exiting build/buy mode (doesn't always work 100% of the time), 2) clicking on a different sim in the household and choosing another action for them (eg. 'go here' - again doesn't seem to work 100% of the time).
What do you expect to see? Sims should interact with things until the green progress bar on the action fills, not just continue that action after it's full, and then carry on with the rest of their action queue.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Seasons. This bug was even picked up on by The Sim Supply (James Turner) in his YouTube 'Seasons Rags to Riches' series of videos.
This bug is really annoying. I'm expecting a sim to starve to death or something at some point because they can't progress their action queue to get to the fridge! ☹️
