Is anyone else experiencing their game not running well, like lag and freezes? I thought it was my particular game save so I copied the households and started a whole new game save with them (that was super tedious, BTW, along with fixing all the borked relationships). I didn't use the houses I suspected might be causing bug issues and I also repaired the game before I rebuilt that new save game. I'm just checking to see if it's a known game issue or if it's something on my end.

How bad is the lag and freezes? Cuz I have stuttering in my game like when I'm rotating the camera quickly in big lots.

The game does sometimes run into performance issues, but I wouldn't conclude that it's completely the game until checking a few things. Having a large tray folder (library) can cause problems for one. Having more sims in your world than your hardware can handle, having sims or households with a lot of items in their inventories, and using mods or custom content can all affect performance. If it isn't any of that, try running a repair on the game. Of course, don't forget to check that your hardware meets requirements and that your drivers are updated.If this all fails to point you towards a solution, then yes, it's probably the game. I wish I could say whether or not I've been seeing the same thing, but I haven't been playing lately.

They can be pretty bad, the lags and freezes. Frex: you're in a group and introduce your sim to four other sims and the convo hangs there for quite some time. I'll have to hit the debug and dump the command queue. At one point I wondered if I was having a problem with cc hair on the one sim so changed it out to safe hair but it didn't fix the issue. The problems are significantly disruptive, more than they have ever been for me.

"Catzilla;c-17212483" wrote:They can be pretty bad, the lags and freezes. Frex: you're in a group and introduce your sim to four other sims and the convo hangs there for quite some time. I'll have to hit the debug and dump the command queue. At one point I wondered if I was having a problem with cc hair on the one sim so changed it out to safe hair but it didn't fix the issue. The problems are significantly disruptive, more than they have ever been for me. simply removing CC from your sim doesn't necessarily rule it out as being problematic. Custom content works in mysterious ways and it's possible, though unlikely, for it to impact performance simply by existing in your game. The only way to test it is to remove it from the folder (or remove the entire folder) completely.

"Cupid;c-17212482" wrote:The game does sometimes run into performance issues, but I wouldn't conclude that it's completely the game until checking a few things. Having a large tray folder (library) can cause problems for one. Having more sims in your world than your hardware can handle, having sims or households with a lot of items in their inventories, and using mods or custom content can all affect performance. If it isn't any of that, try running a repair on the game. Of course, don't forget to check that your hardware meets requirements and that your drivers are updated.If this all fails to point you towards a solution, then yes, it's probably the game. I wish I could say whether or not I've been seeing the same thing, but I haven't been playing lately.This is really helpful. I did run repair game. no help. My PC meets or exceeds the reqs. The Library could be an issue. How do you copy that and store it somewhere else before you pare down the library stuff. It is a large save game but I haven't exceeded the sim count the game defaults to. My PC is pretty good (unless there'a hardware failure happening, which can happen).When I recreated the save game I did not add back the houses with the high inventory BUT the fact that there are many households in this game could be contributing to the problem.I'm not sure what constitutes 'a lot' of cc but that's also a possibility (but I didn't think I had tons).I'll look at the library save stuff first and then split the households into their own game saves and see if that is what's going on. Thanks for the suggestions, Cupid.

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Trykmi
6 years ago
"Catzilla;c-17212510" wrote:
"SiliClone;c-17212503" wrote:
How many files do you have in your mod folder?

I'm not sure, they're all split off into subfolders.
ETA: Ok, there's tons. lol. I'll start removing the ones I think are suspect first as I can identify those pretty easily. Then I'll have to go through and play the ID the cc file one by one. *cries*

It's not the size of the folder it's the number of files. I have 48 GB of CC in 20 files and my game runs without lags... If you have more than 2000 files in the folder the game starts to act up... the best thing is to merge cc.
EA_Joz
6 years ago
Hello @Catzilla I would suggest posting this in our Sims 4 Answer HQ section for more insight on this ?
Lolzarella
Rising Scout
6 years ago
@SiliClone, I don't have that many files or folders by a longshot but there is definitely some cc that I can dump.

Update: I chose to begin troubleshooting by removing the easiest to eliminate suspects first: the suspected problematic cc by a particular creator. So far, the game SEEMS to be running better but I'll test it more thoroughly. I'll take @Cupid's and @Siliclone's advice as well and lighten my library and cc game load as well. Thank you for the troubleshooting help and advice!
nikkibabyxo
6 years ago
After this last update, my game has been freezing on the traveling screen. The words still change so its not completely frozen but it just sits there and never goes to the destination. Any advice?
gamertherapy
6 years ago
Having this problem ever since I bought two more Expansion Packs just recently. In groups, such as Clubs, and at places like nightclubs, I can't get through a scene without having to pause and hit play repeatedly, or "debug object" on Sim after Sim. It's disturbing. I was wondering if it was one two many expansion packs for my Sims laptop (Dell Inspiron 5000) but maybe it's something else?
Lolzarella
Rising Scout
6 years ago
@nikkibabyxo Mine was throwing errors after getting to the destination. I haven't gone back to continue play testing my save game since I last posted but you could read the advice I was given and see if helps you out. Also, do as EA Joz suggested and bring the issue to the other board.

@Nushnushganay, I had something similar when I added new packs. Try running the Repair game feature on the Origin Sims 4 launcher, it helped me out. Look for the little settings sprocket thingy under the orange Play button.

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