Sims 4 feels exhausting to play.

"Naus;c-18075474" wrote:

"haneul;c-18075381" wrote:

"Naus;c-18075367" wrote:
Sims 4 BARELY functions as a life sim game. Sims simply don't obbey your commands, actions are dropped, they spend hours doing nothing. And on top of that, the AI doesn't really work. It's just a BROKEN game at this point.

Even The Sims 1, as hard as it is to keep their motives in the green, is way more fun to play. The Sims 4 is just a frustrating game through and through because it simply doesn't work.

I don't have the issues you describe. The Sims aren't supposed to drop commands or lag out. Sorry the games act like that for you. Have you tried repairing it?

LOL. YOU don't have those issues, but most players do. That's why the mods that supposedly fix simulation lag are so popular. The game barely functions for most players, and it has nothing to do with our PCs either. I have a custom built gaming PC that can run most modern AAA games. It's also not something I figured how to fix. Sims 3 doesn't run well out of the box, but can easily be fixed and it runs like a charm. There's simple no way to make The Sims 4 work as it should.

Maybe you didn't play previous Sims games, so you don't notice how bad the simulation runs, the facts actions are dropped, etc. But that's something that happens to most players nowadays, and mods are no longer good at fixing it. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

I'm not discounting your experience. I'm just saying that it's absolutely not mine, that a lot of people don't play with any mods, and that maybe there's a way to improve the game for you too. I'm also on an extremely powerful gaming desktop that can run all modern games (i9, top of the line SSD, my gpu has 11GB of ddr6 ram, etc.), so that probably helps me a bit. But I know that the Sims franchise is fickle. I had major issues with Island Paradise for Sims 3 despite being on a fairly powerful gaming computer back then too and despite trying every mod/workaround there was to fix it, it was impossible to fix on that computer. In the end, I had to uninstall that pack and then I was back to my lag-free high settings experience.

With Sims 4, I've been very fortunate and not had any big issues. My experiences with Sims 2 (corrupt saves and other bugs) and Sims 3 were so much worse. I've had minor issues with the Sims 4 behaving oddly in the past and repairing the game fixed those for me. My Sims don't stand around doing nothing and they don't drop actions. Your situation sounded extreme to me, so I tried to make suggestions. I don't know what you've tried to fix your game.