- We smoothed out the frame rate stuttering that sometimes occurred a few minutes after launching the game.
Fixed in Patch 1.108.289/1.94
Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues.
I also just noticed tihs is marked as solved. Nothing has been done about it.
EA Staff (Retired)Hey all,
First of all, sorry for the confusion about this issue being marked as solved. For sure, the post from SimGuruIcarus was not a resolution for this issue and we have removed the solved marker from this thread to make that clear.
Also, I can confirm that this is something our team is still looking into, so please don't think we forgot about you! 🙂
As it seems it is not that easy to reproduce the issue so we would like to hear more from you:
Which packs do you have installed for The Sims besides the base game?
Thanks all!
Happy Simming! 🥳
@SimGuruKuxikuGet to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Dine Out, Vampires, Parenthood, Jungle Adventure, Spooky Stuff, Laundry Day Stuff, Vintage Glamour Stuff.
I've posted some links to videos throughout this thread as well that show just how badly the game runs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbKDXzLVTsw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0bpnfKkzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7r7qjAlKA4
This is on a PS4 Pro as well, so I can't imagine how people on standard are getting by.
@SimGuruKuxiku I have Get Together, Seasons, Cats and Dogs, City Living, Get to Work, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood, Vampires, Dine Out, Toddler Stuff, Spooky Stuff, Cool Kitchen Stuff, Kids Stuff, Laundry Day Stuff.
I play on a regular PS4. When I only had the base game, city living, and vampires my game wasn't too bad but after each new pack added the problems get worse and worse.
My game starts having issues as soon as there's 3 or more sims in the household. Delay in queued actions, quick freezes that cause all queued actions to stop or all sims to reset. They can be on small lots or the large lots, it doesn't seem to make a difference. However Brindleton Bay is very bad for fps drops and stuttering. I am playing on windenburg isle and there are a lot of fps drops and stuttering. I've played all the base game neighborhoods. Load times are so bad too, I rarely bother leaving my home lot to visit any of the other neighborhoods or do much else with my sims, which is a shame. There's so much to do but the load screens are very long and sometimes time keeps marching on while you are waiting for the load screen to start that it'll take several in game hours to get somewhere.
I just added a toddler to my household and now the queued action delays and long delays when swapping sims. Just from adding a third sim to the household. When I have more than two sims in a household, I have to pause the game whenever I swap to another sim, otherwise so much time lapses and it takes so long to swap sims that they could be on the other side of the lot before the swap completes all the while the game seems frozen while it's swapping sims.
Edit: I forgot to add that if I use lot the conival lot trait or any aura objects with the auras on it also causes bad lag and game delay. Expiring buffs also cause bad delays, the buffs will take way longer to expire because the game effectively freezes until the buff expires. Half the time I have to press the pause or menu screen to let the game play catch up.
@SimGuruKuxiku it is December 2020 and this is still an issue. Not quite sure what else is needed. I have all but one expansion pack (snow escape I think is the name), all of the game packs and and all but the below stuff packs
my first pet, bowling night, vintage glamour, backyard, romantic garden, spooky, perfect patio and luxury party.
I play on my ps4 and not only does it lag loading but while playing. And also my tasks that I have my sim doing will disappear after the sims sits frozen for like 5 minutes. It glitches all of the time and lags terribly.
Yup still happening on PS4, I click cancel interaction -> sim goes 5 MINUTES (real time!!) before realizing they even had such interaction in the first place. 😂👌 If this is what EA games are nowdays, I will gladly quit buying your games. I have collected every single Sims pack, and I mean literally everyone of them, both on PC and console. Now, this makes me wonder; gaming console made specifically for gaming, lags more than my toaster of a computer? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I am experiencing the same problem on PS4, but I have noticed that if I disconnect from the Internet, at the console level (disabling internet in-game doesnt help), the lag is significantly reduced. It almost disappears. On top of that, I always clear up the cache when I start the game (L1+R1 while loading).
