Newcreast freezes when placing lots?
I never had this issue until Installed Get Famous, when I try to place a lot it freezes my game and I have to exit out of the game via ctrl alt delete, I moved my mod folder completely out of my game...
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@graceymanors Thank you for the additional information! I have just placed both from the 'world' and from within each lot each of these two gallery builds/lots in my game (please see screenshot of them in place). I had no issues.
Did purchase any game packs, etc., or add more content to your game over this time period? Is it possible that your game (or your computer itself) has become more taxed - more overloaded or stressed to it's capacity, in these last several months, and perhaps things like loading, placing and processing in this manner a larger build may cause a bit of an overload and freeze up your game &/or your computer?
If you suspect this may be the case you could try doing some things to relieve some of the load on your computer, since Sims is a huge game, and do things like free up as much ram as possible, clean up and compress the computer files, off-load certain large files to an external drive, turn off as many programs as possible on your computer while playing Sims, etc.
Tweak relevant settings in Origin and in your game to reduce load/stress on the system (ie: reduce the screen resolution, graphics and similar settings; play in windowed mode, turn off Origin in-game, play in 'off-line mode', etc.) You can also reduce the number of items stored in your game library, as these do live, along with your game saves that get larger and larger the more you content you have saved in your games, in your The Sims 4 tray. Please refer to some tips here:
The only one I bought was Get famous.
This is so weird, I can place any other lot, just not these two particular lots.
Laptop has about 65% of its space left as I only have Sims 4 on this laptop.
I placed large lots than this(high detailed mall 50x50) lot without an issue.
Edit: I went and moved my tray out.
I'm not sure if that's what fixed it or not.
But I managed to place the lots, but I did so via edit and place option(didn't notice that before)
@graceymanors Deleting the tray folder deletes all households, rooms and lots in your Library - which I'm sure you don't want to do. The tray contains your households and many items you will not want removed form your game. I recommend that you put it back and maybe just remove some things from the library - maybe some builds stored form the gallery and things like that.
According to the spec sheet you attached at the beginning of this thread the it does not appear the computer is the issue (but a fellow helper pointed out that you are one Windows 10 build behind and Windows Defender is failing to update, so that would be good to address.)
Honestly I had literally nothing in my tray except for these three particular lots, which I had Favorited also, which is why I was fine with deleting it.I'm a minimal player, in which I don't save rooms, households or lots often unless I really really like them, I don't even keep copy of my sims.😃
The computer just updated this morning.And updated a few weeks ago, says the updates gone through? I'm a little confused lol.
@graceymanors That's awesome! I'm so glad to hear that! Well, if your computer just updated it should have taken care of the update mentioned. If you want to make sure just go into Windows Defender and make sure it is updated.
I went in and checked for updates and the updates it updated to is downloading again? Although under "installed" updates, it shows it as installed?
Edit: Windows defender? Isn't that the virus protection? I have that disabled as I have a purchased virus protection I use.I don't see anyway to update windows defender itself.
@graceymanors That makes sense since you don't use the Windows Defender. If the downloader keeps prompting to install updates it may not be completing the updates. It can be a fidgety process, and I am not remembering all of the tricks I used to use to force and track these things since I'm on Mac only now. If you cannot get it to complete you can try letting us know. Other helpers may be able to advise, though I'm not sure this would be supported here since it is the Sims forum, but I could check if you end up needing guidance on it.
