[ARCHIVED] Autonomy and Simulation Lag
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This thread is to collect information about Simulation and Autonomy lag in the game and give you some tips/tricks how to handle it. Please share any information you...
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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? Every single one except My First Pet and Laundry Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game for 5 minutes
What happens when the bug occurs? Simulation constantly freezes. Sims stand in place for a while even though they were assigned actions.
What do you expect to see? Sims doing actions as they were assigned without the simulation freezing and leaving sims idle.
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. 06/19/2018 - PC 1.44.77.1020 / Mac 1.44.77.1220
The "issues with time/clock" bug is back with the seasons patch.
Its pretty much this bug: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Issues-with-time-Clock/m-p/5095254#U5095254
Tried fixes:
• Removed CC
• Started new save file
• Reinstalled the game
• Lowering ingame settings
I've had this problem since the toddlers update. Not a singel patch has ever never helped with this. I don't have any cc or mods installed, never had...
The problem of all the weird stuff ON TOP of basic lagginess (time jumps, loading screen time warping, ...) has been present since original launch and isn't a regression of any recent patch. The reason more and more people see it with each update is because the inherent cause is the Python core script running too slow, and each update and expansion tends to put in more game logic which takes more CPU power to run, hence increasing the risk that this bug is triggered. Basically, the cause of this weirdness is how the game appears to deal with any lag of the core script code, resulting in time jumps and loading screen time skips when this clearly shouldn't be happening.
Of course fixing this wouldn't address the lagginess in itself, but at least all the irritating and weird glitches of the game clock that come with it.
I have this bug too. And I have Intel core i5 6500, AMD Radeon R9 380X, 16 GB RAM. I don't think this bug is by slow PC.
Well, I'm not a Sims dev, I only poked around the code a little so I could be wrong. However, if you have a slower tier i5 and/or there is some routing trouble or similar going on in the Sims 4 code amplifying the issue (which wouldn't surprise me) then it would still fit the big picture. Python, which Sims 4 uses for the core script, is slow and single-threaded (only uses one CPU core), so it's not particularly hard to run it against a wall if a couple of factors come together - and the game doesn't seem to deal particularly well with it when that happens.
