I will not be responding to this thread on a regular basis. as I have all the tips I have compiled on this first post. Please do provide as much info as you can though Issue Sims stand around idle for a while while waiting to do the command they were given. Steps to reproduce the issue Unsure Info about the issue Seems to mostly happen when your computer takes a long while to calculate the command. Happens a lot on lower spec computers Happens a lot on trying to fertilize plants or fish with bait if you have tons of plants in your inventory Happens in large houses Happens if you have tons of custom content and mods and a long played save game. Things you can try Empty out your Sims inventory. Make sure you fulfill the minimum requirements of the game Reduce the amount of mods and cc you use Play in a smaller house with less art pieces and stuff lying around Information Needed If you have this issue, it would be great if you could provide the following information: Basic Information about your computer (CPU, Operating System, Amount of RAM, Graphics Card, Hard Drive Space). This is not to blame your computer for the issue but to see what kinds of systems this issue is occurring on) Screenshot of your graphics options Information about your custom content. How many GB of Downloads do you have ? Please add the following files to a .rar or .zip archive and then upload them to a 1-click hosting service (e.g. dropbox). These files can all be found in the following folder: Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\ After uploading, please post the link to the file in this thread. the entire saves folder

I am really cross with this bug or glitch or whatever it is. I have just updated my graphics card, still have the settings on low and it is still no use. I have no mods, gone offline and used both 32 and 64 bit. I have lost 3 babies because the adults wouldn't feed them in time.I have a large house, with lots of plants- but when that option is available to me, why shouldn't I? It is an EA problem, so why should my game have to suffer because they can't get the bugs out? I'm really cross that I can't play my game due to a bug that appears to have been around for about 3 years if you read the forums. Are EA doing anything about this?

For me the biggest most frustrating lag and one that doesn't seem to be getting fixed is Sims doing a lot of Standing around, for example; send a sim to the fridge, get a serving out go and sit down, in the game this takes a good few hours for the Sim to do, they go to the fridge get the serving out, stand there for ages, walk to the table place the food on the table, stand there for ages before sitting down, its not smooth, one action to the next. This lag is becoming so annoying and frustrating for me personally it is actually making me not want to play the game anymore until the issue is fixed.

My sims often will stand around staring for up to an hour doing nothing even though I have several actions in their queue. 1. This happens to sims with empty inventories 2. Also, with incredibly small houses and very few items 3. I have no mods on this game 4. Processor: AMD A6-4400M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.70 GHz RAM: 6GB (almost all useable) OS: Windows 10 430 GB of HD free5. I don't have time right now to take screen shots and edit them and deal with file folders today. I'm mostly just really tired of it.

Alright, here's another complaint about lag in The Sims 4. I've been searching for so long for a fix for this lag, but nothing seems to work. In addition to the base game, I have all 3 expansion packs, spooky stuff, toddler stuff, and parenthood. I have some cc (not that much) and most of it is merged to reduce lag. I have 5 mods, 1 of which is to help reduce lag, but clearly it's not working. I update my mods every time a new patch comes out. I've run my game without cc/mods, and it still lags. I feel like I've tried almost every trick in the book at this point, and nothing is working. Some things have worked, but only for a short time. The lag consists mainly of my sims just standing there doing nothing for ages, while the time progresses. Everything is frozen except the clock, so it wastes so much time of my Sims' days. Also, my sims take longer to perform actions than normal. Even after the circle around the action in the queue is green, meaning it is complete, my sims keep doing the actions. When I cancel actions, it takes forever for them to actually stop. Like my sim will be walking towards the spot where they have to do the action, but the action doesn't cancel until they're right about to do it. And sometimes when I cancel a Sim's action and switch to another sim, the action that i cancelled is no longer cancelled. I guess my Sims just don't like listening to me. Another thing that I've learned to live with is the time constantly changing. I like to save the game once all my sims are asleep. The game is in super speed, and when I click on the menu button, the time jumps back a few hours. The time will read 5:30 am and the sun will start coming out, but when I go to save, it goes back to 2:00 and dark again. I really want to figure out how to fix this lag, since I've already spent so much time and money on this game. For a game that was lacking so many things that The Sims 3 had (open world, create a style, cars, etc.), you'd think that it would at least run smoother, no? I don't think the problem is my computer, since the game used to run so smoothly on it. (I also refuse to believe that the problem is my computer because I have a crippling fear of spending money so I don't wanna buy a new one) It seems like the lag gets worse with each patch they release. I've been playing Sims games for 10 years now, and it really sucks to have to deal with this much lag from a game that I've adored forever. The Sims 4 base game sucked, but at least it didn't lag. But here we are 3 years later and it's reached the lag level of The Sims 3. Someone please help me lol.

Not sure if this is the correct topic, I am occasionally getting severe lag, game appears to freeze for a min or 2, its always after changing game speed. When the game catches up my Sim is usually doing something else, so the game seems to keep playing during these freezes. She is living on The comfy cubby lot in Newcrest 20x15, in a small single storey house. Her inventories are empty, she only has 1 painting and 6 plants. My mod folder shows at just over 1MB, removing it and repairing game does not make any difference. Restarting the game fixes the lag, so long as i do use fast speed again.

crinrict

Hero+

10 years ago

[WORK IN PROGRESS] Sims take a long while to do interactions

I will not be responding to this thread on a regular basis. as I have all the tips I have compiled on this first post. Please do provide as much info as you can though

Issue

Sims stand around idle for a while while waiting to do the command they were given.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Unsure

Info about the issue

Seems to mostly happen when your computer takes a long while to calculate the command.
Happens a lot on lower spec computers
Happens a lot on trying to fertilize plants or fish with bait if you have tons of plants in your inventory
Happens in large houses
Happens if you have tons of custom content and mods and a long played save game.

Things you can try

Empty out your Sims inventory.
Make sure you fulfill the minimum requirements of the game
Reduce the amount of mods and cc you use
Play in a smaller house with less art pieces and stuff lying around

Information Needed

If you have this issue, it would be great if you could provide the following information:

Basic Information about your computer (CPU, Operating System, Amount of RAM, Graphics Card, Hard Drive Space). This is not to blame your computer for the issue but to see what kinds of systems this issue is occurring on)
Screenshot of your graphics options
Information about your custom content. How many GB of Downloads do you have ?
Please add the following files to a .rar or .zip archive and then upload them to a 1-click hosting service (e.g. dropbox). These files can all be found in the following folder: Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\
After uploading, please post the link to the file in this thread.

the entire saves folder

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FabyRuth2
10 years ago
Hi! I have a similar issue (dunno if its worth making it in a new thread), the action is not canceled, but there r looooong pauses between everything a sims does. For instance, i give the order "grab a meal" so the sims walk to the meal, Pause, grab the plate, pause, walk to a sit, pause, sit, pause, start eating pause, grab a bite, pause..... Every pause are like 30 minutes sims time. i had sims that die starving and from extenuating for never compliting an action, cos it takes soo much time that they pee on theirselves, fall sleep, miss work... Their bars are most of the time in red cos it means hours of the day just to go to the toilet.

I have this issue since te update before Get together.
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
Are you using mods or custom content ? Do you have lots of stuff in your inventory.
ceunon20
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
After the 7/01 patch my Sims are taking a lot of time to start their actions.

Normally we put the actions in qeue and the Sims suddenly start a new one when they finished what we choose to do before but that's not happening.
They are taking between ten or fifteen seconds to start almost everything and because of this some actions are being canceled but not always.

After all I noticed some conditions to happen:
- Have more than 4 Sims in house.
- If the house is too big. For example two floors above ou below in a 40/30 lot or larger.
- Community lots are free from this bug.
- Visiting another house above the 40/30 don't stop the bug. Just if visit alone with no friends or family.

I have some examples in the videos below.
The game is not paused.
I don't have ANY CC or Mod.

Video 1:

https://youtu.be/PxbPBEnrY74

Video 2:

https://youtu.be/8TRL3BeS1kg
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
Could you post your specs for these kinds of reports ?

I'm not sure what to do with this yet as it's a performance issue and not a bug per se.

Amount of stuff in your inventory has a big influence on this kind of behavior.
FabyRuth2
10 years ago
I dont use mods nor even cc. I keep the inventaries almost empty
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
Hi @FabyRuth2

I have split your thread now and moved to the general forum

I'm listing your thread here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Performance-Issues-Compiled-List-of-Threads/m-p/5095265/highlight/true#M20841

Could you please provide the info asked in that post in here.

Thank you.
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
@ceunon20

I've moved your thread to the general Sims forum and listed here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Performance-Issues-Compiled-List-of-Threads/m-p/5095265/highlight/true#M20841

If you have any more info to add, please do so.

Please also add the info asked in that post to your thread.

Thanks
ceunon20
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
Are you talking about my computer specs?

GeForce GTX 765M 2,00GB

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @2.40 GHz

16,00 GB RAM

I think it's not the performance at all.

This problem is so similar from another one here in forum what I can't find the topic anymore.

Sims are getting stuck when they start their actions. Like in this videos from greenXen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHJJHo71qE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHJJHo71qE

Maybe you can merge them.
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
No, I'm not going to merge. I made a collection thread and I want everyone to have their own thread on this.

I want YOUR video, YOUR specs and YOUR information. Not someone elses.

This is not a bug in the conventional way. Maybe performance is the wrong word but it's not a bug either. It's more of a symptom of something that needs tweeking.

Check the post I made where I linked your thread. That's the info I need.
ceunon20
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
Ok.

Info about the issue:

- All these infos are matching with my problem. Less about the detail of computer specs.

- I noticed that happen when I have a lot of plants in my lot. Gardening is one of the activities what stuck my Sims too but not just fertilizing.

- Just in large houses.

- My save game is VERY old. I'm playing in the same savegame since I start to play The Sims in 2014.

Things you can try:

- I emptied the inventory of all my active families. It's little better now but not enough.

Computer Specs:

GeForce GTX 765M 2,00GB

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @2.40 GHz

16,00 GB RAM

Windows 10

Information about CC:

- No custom content. Not anymore.
But someway the game could be having a problem even for taking them out and play in the same old saved games?

The Sims 4 Save-game:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0oummDS-DPgQVo3V0N6WXRaMGM

PS: I will record more videos. And now with the menu of my Sims.