[ARCHIVED] Autonomy and Simulation Lag
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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.
Really? So you have noticed that too many objects on a lot is causing the problem...
i don’t know if that’s the case- did someone from ea developers confirmed that? I don’t have too many objects on my lot- maybe it’s subjective thing- how many objects are “too many” and how to measure that?
Ive noticed one strange thing.... maybe I could record that next time- when my sims are stuck there is something instant what fixing this problem instantly- I have a family with two adult sims and one child. When they freeze all I am choosing a child and for example giving it an order to for example “go here” or do whatever- just do. In that moment all sims are unblocked and doing things normally...
How many objects are "too many"? I don't know. It seems it depends on the computer hardware. Putting items on the lot is increasing the workload for computer
This lot seems empty enough to work properly.
This is my home lot. I have that issue in this lot.
And this is my library. Game works much smoother in this lot.
