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JackOnYourBack
Seasoned Ace
9 days ago

Game froze/ crashed and showed a different household

So I was playing last night because of the event, even though I should not because I'm risking my saves.

I played in my rotational save for all premade sims that is on round 16, now I believe the biggest reason it has made it so far is because I create a new save (when saving the game) least once a sims week (when I move on to another household), instead of just using the save button (also don't have much clutter and keep inventories at a minimum). 

Now, the game started to lag a lot in the second household I played for the game session. I did more of the "Save As", but it started lagging when going into build mode and exiting and then when playing. One sim got the action queue going on forever all of a sudden (you know when the light grey indication of the action queue keeps going up with nothing to fill it). And a child sims that just aged up get a strange reaction to the servo over and over, like he was stuck in a reaction glitch. I reset all sims but that did not work.

A few minutes later then game froze completely. I waited about 5 minutes and then went to task manager. I have several desktop screens (or whatever they are called - windows 11) so when tabed out to another screen to click on task manager, I got back pushed back into viewing the game on the other desktop view.

When that happened the game changed, now I was in another household (one I had played before), but it was still frozen and all that. It was so strange. It literally looked like that was the household I had been playing just when the game crashed. It was frozen like the other household, but I was actively plaing this house now. 

I repaired the game but have not looked at it since. for the game to "move me over to another earlier played households in the game", I'm wondering how this save/ that other household is in regards to corruption... 

I do not have AA but I noticed that they game go severely more unstable after I bought For Rent and Horse Ranch. For me though i'm not entirely sure For Rent/ resent update is all to blame. Maybe it is just simply me having so many packs/ sims 4 systems working at the same time.

Althohg I do have the slow reaction in build mode when I build or am in a lot that is a residential rental. I have a decent PC by the way, so it is not a pc issue. Just wanted to mentioned that as I have come accross several issues on the forums that could be attributed to a low end pc (as well as game bugs). 

I play on pc with no cc or mods

I have all expansions up til For Rent except High School Years
All stuff packs
All game packs except Dream Home Decorator and My Wedding Stories
I only have a couple of kits that were free at one point

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4 Replies

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    24 hours ago

    Hi JackOnYourBack​ 

    do you know what he's trying to queue ? There's a known issue with dancing doing this but I'm unsure if servos engage with that. You could try banning stereos to see if that helps though.

  • JackOnYourBack's avatar
    JackOnYourBack
    Seasoned Ace
    2 days ago

    I did load into the save again earlier this week, it started getting slower and slower and then the game froze again. Waited 5 minutes and then used task manager to close the game. But this time is looked "normal", it did not go the another household (but then again, I was not able to play long enough to switch household. This was the only household I played in that session).

    I noticed that the servo in the household gets the action queue glitch still, with it growing with nothing filling it. The visual look is like something is added to the action queue, but nothing appears and the grey outlining of it goes up to the top of the screen and out of sight. If I kept the servo occupied with something that I added to the queue after resetting him, it worked. But if I left him alone without a task, it would happen again. 

    I repaired the game and started it again, this time I split the house without entering the household and it worked better this time. No slowing of time or noticeable slow reaction time of the game like before. I guess the servo is a lost cause for some reason.

  • JackOnYourBack's avatar
    JackOnYourBack
    Seasoned Ace
    4 days ago

    yes I did. Since the game feels so unstable I save more than I normally do, but I always save a "Save As"/ new save file before switching household, so that they game is as fresh as possible in the new household. Which is why I though how the crash happened this time was very strange. 

    I have not checked the save since it crashed, but I guess I have to check if the gameplay is still there. I'll have a look and report back when able.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 days ago

    Hi JackOnYourBack​ 

    did you save your game before switching families ? Was the gameplay from whatever you did afterwards intact and just the family changed or did you loose all progress ?

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