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JamJamsArt
4 years ago
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[FIXED] Game creating tons empty households/Save game bloat/Insane Lag

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 is your current game version number? 1.77.131.1030 Wha...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    4 years ago
    Is your game filling with empty households? We made a fix to clear the empty Households when loading the game.

    Fixed in Patch 1.82.99/1.50

    The Patch notes suggest that the game now deletes the empty households on loading the game. If this also means they shouldn't get created anymore in saves is unclear.

    If you still experience issues with them being created or not properly deleted, create a new thread.

    This is important to get a fresh me too count to see how many are still affected.

MikageYimiki's avatar
MikageYimiki
4 years ago

Hi guys!

I have a strange thing going on in my game. After getting Cottage Living I disabled all of my mods to play through the pack. 

After a full day of play, I noticed this: 

Empty households

The household manager is filled to the brink with empty households. I'm talking dozens and dozens of them, all unplayed households that are not in the world. I have no idea where they came from or why- they weren't there when I started the game. I don't know if it'll impact the game at some point, but it sure looks weird, so I figured I'd report it. 

Take care and happy simming! 

JamJamsArt's avatar
JamJamsArt
4 years ago

I found a temp workaround for this, but not sure as of right now if it is permanent (as in if the game won't just make new unplayed households) nore if it fixed the lagging issue I was having, and what I bet you'll be having soon. but my solution was to use MCCC (new version for the patch) to "delete all culled sims". it deleted all the blank households for me! i will update much later when i play the game again and let everyone know if this fixed the lag and if the game generates more.

unfortunately, this did not fix the issue completely..... still got the lag, although it's not as bad. instead of being every few seconds, its like once every minute or so, but still REALLY suck. the lag in question, though, isn't a normal one. it's one where the in-game time stops and i can't click on anything or pause the game/fast forward. characters stand where they were and do idle animations until the time goes again.

and i just checked unplayed households again, and they are ALL back..... so yeah didn't fix anything.

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  • Anska_Stormblad's avatar
    Anska_Stormblad
    4 years ago

    Before the Pond-Patch I had MCCs cleaner running and it too deleted about 50 empty households on a regular basis, though those never showed up in Manage Households or the Hidden Households. Many of them had recurring names: For example the Mayor Whiskers household was always listed. Mayor Whiskers had been adopted in this save file, but apparently there still was a Mayor Whiskers household somewhere, that was generated time and time again. 

    • JamJamsArt's avatar
      JamJamsArt
      4 years ago

      how do i set up MCCC to do a clean up regularly?

      • Anska_Stormblad's avatar
        Anska_Stormblad
        4 years ago

        The Cleaner Modul is the one I was referring to. It is pretty self explanatory, but if you have questions there is a link to the mod‘s discord on the page, where people can help you with the settings. =)

  • courtella03's avatar
    courtella03
    4 years ago

    I am having this exact problem…. have you found any solution yet? 

    • keekee53's avatar
      keekee53
      Seasoned Ace
      4 years ago

      Well I went back to my old save because welllll that is the save I want to play.

      I am still getting the error messages everyone else is getting even with the fresh install

      Here is my theory...

      When I removed everything, and uninstalled and reinstalled, I saw some weird fox households.  I was told that is a known issue.  Then I got the Duplicate Crumplebottoms also a known issue.  Anyway, I went back to the old save etc, I have the wild foxes challenge on and I don't know about everyone else but there seem to a a lot of new foxes coming to the house with different names.  I turned the challenge off because frankly I have a feeling that it is these foxes and possibly bunnies generating the other households.  Since turning off the Fox challenge the game is not as lagging but wow, it is probably going to take me days to delete all those households.

      If others could give a try that would be awesome to see if that is what is going on.  I don't use MCC to remove the households to test it out quickly.

      • Jooleeyuh's avatar
        Jooleeyuh
        Seasoned Ace
        4 years ago
        @keekee53 With these loading times--even in Build Mode--it's going to take me days to remove the Wild Foxes trait from all the lots! Which one of us will be done first?

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