Re: Time freezing & Resetting

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I do think this issue is the same: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/BUG-Time-freezing/td-p/3806607 but not 100% certain so I'll leave it as two threads for now.

Having same issue. It's making the game unplayable. Please fix this soon or I'm just going to refund it,

Thanks for the report

I am having this same issue. Only commenting so they know this isn't just 2 people. I have an 8 core processor so its not a lack of resources.

You should hit the me too button 🙂

I have the exact same problem.

It's really disappointing, it makes the game unbearable, happens to me every 2 or 3 minutes...
And same as the others, I have got a racing machine as a computer, it's not coming from the PC.

I hope that EA is going to fix the problem soon.

@JeremyPack1973 Merged your thread with an existing bug report. I don't know what's going on but hopefully EA can fix this.

Hi there !

i'm living in France and we are plenty of gamers who have the same f******  bug ☹️ . I tried everything ( erasing some file, reboot ...) but it's still not working properly ... Is there anybody who can fix the bug ?

Cheers 🙂

Hi,

I've been having the exact same problem for a couple of months now. The "freezes" are becoming more frequent, and are occurring on every lot that I've played. It's making the game almost unbearable to play, as my sims keep getting stuck numerous times during a sim day. Right now, the self-created family I'm playing with spends about a half of the time played being stuck in this "time loop". It's really frustrating! During this freeze the game clock keeps running, sounds come through normally and afterwards the clock reverts back to where the problem begun. The sims keep standing still, and it is impossible to get the sim, the game speed or objects to function.

I'm also playing with a new computer, so I don't believe it's due to processing issues. The game was running fine for a month or so after I purchased it, so it can't be about that. After reading some posts about the same problem by other players, the problem seems to have emerged after the update with the ghosts. I've also tried setting on the laptop mode, turning the graphics to a low mode etc. Nothing helps.

I really hope that EA can get this fixed, otherwise it's becoming impossible to play and enjoy the game I used to love so much.

Cheers.

Just ticked "Me Too", sadly. ☹️ I've started experiencing this problem after about 90 hours play-time without the issue. Only started happening for me a couple of days ago. Also, not sure if it's a coincidence, but (so far) it only seems to happen to the households I'm playing in Oasis Springs.

Hopefully someone's on the case at EA. It's already become a chore trying to play through this bug.

Has anyone found an issue with this yet? Bc I am having the same problem too and it just started happening after I downloaded a house from the EA community within my game, It's really frustrating bc it is happening so much that I am just wasting time waiting for it to unfreeze so I can continue playing. Please someone help!

Hi!

I used to have the same issue. Somewhere I read that this can be caused if someone in the world has a lot of stuffs in his/her inventory. It was the first time that I had played 2 households in one game (world). This 'time/sims stucking in loop' stared after creating the second household. After a few hours of game play I got really fustrated of this bug, and started to search for a solution on the web. I found this "too much objects in the inventory" explanation in a similar BUG thread  and since the first household has gardener sims, I thought I can give it a try. I started to play with that household, sold a lots of fruit and vegetables from the inventory, saved the game and changed back to the second household. And this freezing issue disapeared!

Btw this looping/freezing phenomenon never occured while I was playing with the first (gardener) household. Not even when I had lot more objects in the personal inventories.

I hope this helps to solve temporarily the issue for the players and might help in the debugging as well. :womanwink:

YES! Thank you soooooo much Marslakoo, cleaning the inventories of my played sims fixed the issue for me too! Hope this information gives EA some tools to fix the issue soon for everybody 🙂 

Just popping in to say this is an issue for me too. Big time. Game has no mods in it. I really hope they find a fix for it soon.

Lots of stuff in your inventory ?

I keep coming across threads similar to my issue but not quite. I hit the me too button, but wanted to give specific info. I have only been playing for a week and so far have only alternated between two sims so this could be an overall issue, but I have only observed this with one of my sims and only when she is sleeping in her own home during super speed. If I change the speed setting it goes back to the original time, but if I then go back to super speed it loops again.

Do your Sim have lots of stuff in their inventory ? If so, try reducing the amount.

Hey everyone !

I tried to take off everything in my inventory (of each sims) and it did not solved the problem :/ . Still stuck in loop ☹️

I this this problem is the same as this one: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/BUG-Time-freezing/m-p/3866259

Maybe the threads should be merged? 🙂

Still unsure if it's the same so I left it as two but it might be easier to merge them. Haven't really decided :P

So, I've been having this issue for some time now. And mostly it's just annoying, you have to wait to be able to continue to play (I usually just browse the Gallery while waiting for time to 'reset'). 

I'm pretty sure this happened in all of my saves (I have several). Also in the new one where the inventories of my Sims are practically empty. It does happen more often in Oasis Springs, of that I am sure.

As noted by others, it seems connected to moodlets and messages, maybe it's a sound thing. A sound is played when you get certain messages or when your Sim's mood changes. And I think time goes back to the original hour once the sound is played, or vice versa. I know you can turn sound off for the mood changes, maybe also for messages (not running the game right now, so I can't check), I'm not sure. I will try that (maybe others can try it too) and see if that's the problem.

This has been happening to me also.

The other day, before the last patch, I tried to save right after one of these episodes and the pause button didn't work. When it started saving, the screen faded as usual but everything was still moving....one Sim was still playing the piano as the game was saving.

Anyway, it never actually saved and I had to abort with task manager.

I've been having this problem since one of the latest patches... 2 or 3 patches back. Now it happens almost every single time I hit the fast forward button. I'm almost afraid to use it, as most of the time it slows me down more than it speeds me up. I think it might be more commonly triggered when one of the playable characters switches tasks, like waking up from sleeping, for instance.