Game/sims Lagging, Stuck After Cottage Living Download

the lag occurs with me when i click on refrigerator, stove and computers.

At first the game was fine - building and such - nothing really lagged... Then when I got into the family I made - and was trying to set them up with their traits, objects I want in their inventory, relationship statuses, etc. It got really laggy. I cannot click on anything now (even in build mode) without some sort of lag. Some of the lags take a few seconds, others a few minutes... Yes I have CC but I never experienced lag like this before Cottage Living with my CC. (There was some lag sometimes - esp. in bigger households) but it usually was a quick fix by hitting pause and letting the script catch up... Now the lag is unplayable and effecting everything - not just certain things (like going to the toilet or going to bed, etc.) 

Well EA / Maxis did a Patch Update to The Sims 4 today... Did nothing to address or fix the lag though... I can't play the game until they correct this... It's too painfully slow... 

Yeah... 5 days later... still super and painfully slow... still no acknowledgement from EA / Maxis on this either... 

I’ve had the same lagging issues!

1) when my sims are changing levels or using stairs at any time the camera must be on the same level or they’ll just stand at the top or the bottom of the stairs. This can get really frustrating with larger households, as no one can autonomously do anything without me constantly checking that they made it up/down the stairs. It took me forever to figure out why it took so long for my sims to do things, and then I realized they were standing by the stairs all day!

2) I noticed some lag even before the update, my solve currently has been to open and close the game menu, that normally “resets” the lag when switching between build/buy and live mode.

Check this thread - some players (myself included) are encountering a bug where the game generates hundreds of empty households after playing in Henford-on-Bagley, which causes the save file to balloon in size (mine skyrocketed to 60000kb), which is what causes the unplayable lag. Unfortunately, deleting the empty households (whether manually or with a mod like MCCC, which is much faster/easier than going through and deleting all those empty households one by one) doesn't solve the save bloat issue.

If you still have backup saves that are a reasonable file size (like under 10000kb), I recommend backing those up before they get overwritten. If you reload one of those old less bloated saves, download MCCC, and use it to delete the empty households before trying to play the game again, you might be able to salvage your save that way, so long as the empty households don't generate again. Personally, I didn't have backups and I can't play my main save anymore because I can't get the size below 30000kb, even though the empty households are deleted and no longer generating. :/ 

Yes - I had some lagging issues before the Cottage Living Pack BUT - it was not as bad as it is now - afterwards. Before - My lags were usually with the Sims doing action (so as you said - using the stairs - going to bed - using the toilet) They would just freeze... Not do anything - put their hands up in the air and shake their heads... I found I could almost fix it - make the game playable - if I paused for a minute - let the computer / game think and catch-up with lag issue. NOW that Cottage Living is installed though... LAG EVERYTHING!!! Lag for the Sims to do any Action, Lag between switching Sims, Lag when I try to put an object into inventory, lag when I try to do things like add traits or select an action on the chart... LAG when I am buying items in the buy MOD. It is simply so laggy - I cannot play it this way - No fun. I am not sure if it is just using up too much memory now? This Game Pack may use SO MUCH memory - it is making everything lag... I have even had the game crash a few times (haven't had that problem with my new laptop on the Sims 4 at all since before Cottage Living.) I do use custom content and a lot of it... BUT when I removed the CC - It is still just as super slow... Is there a fix? Is EA or Maxis going to give us some help or tips? Are they even going to Acknowledge this is problem many of their users are having? All I know is I don't buy new things (packs, etc.) On a game that I cannot really even play... So unless this gets fixed - I won't buy anything further Sims 4 related (and I own EVERYTHING they have released up to this point...) 

Thank you!! 🙂 I will look and see if this is the issue and fixes it tonight! 🙂 

Oh wait - there isn't a fix yet though... See Maxis / EA NEEDS TO ADDRESS THIS AND HELP US!!!