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RJEB1994's avatar
7 years ago

[XB1] [PS4] Loading Screen Advances Game Time

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? The top line says sp10.72 but my xbox app info says version 1.15.2.2300
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All expansion packs, all game packs, and all stuff packs that are available to console up until island living
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game normally with gallery sims placed in empty houses. Play with game settings set to long life, and 28 season days and auto age unplayed and played sims. Save the game and exit. The next time you load a saved game as it loads it will advance the game time and the game time will be forward several hours from the time you saved the last game.
What happens when the bug occurs? During the initial loading screen while the game loads your current save file game time advances while the loading screen is loading. I saved my game while the game clock said 4:35 AM. I loaded up my game and after it was done loading the gane clock now says 1:48 PM and my sim is standing next to the bed still in his pajamas. We missed an entire prank day and an entire festival because of this bug and now I no longer have time to do what i was going to do before my sim has to go back to work the next day.
What do you expect to see? The game time should remain paused during each and every loading screen and only resume when the loading screen is done loading and you have full control of the screen.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

Hopefully this can get fixed as my sim misses out on entire days because of this bug.

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  • Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:Sony Playstation 4
    Which language are you playing the game in? English
    How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
    What is your current game version number? 1.49
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Seasons, Get Famous, Get to Work, Parenthood, Nifty Knitting, Bust the Dust, Vintage Glamour, City Living, Vampires, Dine Out, Cottage Living, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Dream Home Decorator, Paranormal, Spooky, Spa Day, Cats and Dogs
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Travel using any means ex: phone or ask on date social
    What happens when the bug occurs? Sim uses phone to travel and the transparent overlay and loading circle appear while the in game clock continues, Sims may even queue up things and go do them in the time the screen sits like this. This can be anywhere from 15 in game minutes to 2hrs in game.
    What do you expect to see? The sim make the call and the game pauses, you see the transparent overlay and loading circle for a brief moment before the travel screen appears
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

    I couldn’t find anything on this exact bug so here is my report. I find myself playing this fun game of “Try to pause just as the Travel initiates” and it’s pretty inconvenient! Is it just me? Why won’t it just pause? :,(

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @VixenFox Could you please add a video of this to your report ? Sounds like a lag with the travel screen.

    Looks like there's already a thread for this so NVM-

  • PoptartJuniper's avatar
    PoptartJuniper
    Hero (Retired)
    4 years ago

    @VixenFox I've merged your post into the current bug report for this issue. Please click the "Me Too" button at the bottom of the first post on the first page of the thread.

    Please provide your save to the team as requested in this post earlier in this thread https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/XB1-PS4-Loading-Screen-Advances-Game-Time/m-p/8015914/highlight/true#M96990

    You just save your game to a USB and upload it to one drive or google drive and share the link with SimGuruNick

  • VixenFox's avatar
    VixenFox
    4 years ago

    This happens in any save for me, even a brand new save. My boyfriend might be able to help me upload one of my saves later, I think he has a USB I can use. I will sit there while the sim makes the travel call and press play pause hoping it lands on pause when the travel initiates. Sometimes over 2 hours in game passes for me as well! 

    (CM: Multiple posts merged. Check out this post for tips on how to edit and add more to a post.)

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