Sims 4 feels exhausting to play.

"Naus;c-18075506" wrote:

"haneul;c-18075493" wrote:
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.

Sims 2 and 3 were far from perfect, but their issues were manageable. Isla Paradiso was super laggy like you said, but it was fixable following a guide to delete the problematic families. Sims 2's corruption was also manageable if you knew what to do and what not to do.

I've been dealing with simulation lag and Sims not doing what I command them to do since City Living came out, but in the past I was able to mitigate the problem with the Simulation Lag Fix mod. But since last year, the various Simulation Lag fixes don't seem to be working. I also tried the game without mods, and uninstall and reinstalled, etc. and nothing makes much of a difference. The game is broken beyond repair at this point. Maybe a patch will fix it, but patches have been making things worse and worse lately. I wish I could play one of the earlier versions of the game, before City Living came out.

I think I had the situation with Island Paradise that you're having now. It was not fixable for me. I tried everything that was suggested multiple times. I installed the map fixes. I deleted the families. I used mods. I looked into the routing. I did all fixes multiple times on multiple installs and in different combinations. It never worked. So I'm sorry your Sims 4 is so broken. If you've tried the mods and uninstalled/reinstalled, cleared your cache, repaired your game, tried different combinations of packs -- there's not much more that you can do (as you know). It's just unfortunate that the game isn't designed to be more stable. Too bad this is a live service game and there's no way for you to roll back to a stable version for your PC. I know the feeling from Sims 3 and I just lucked out this time and am stable without a need for the simulation lag fix mods. But at any time, a patch could come and ruin my experience, so I'm very careful about how I install patches.