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MercyLeigh
Seasoned Rookie
2 years ago

Doors stop working

Ever since the last patch, doors on my residential lots randomly stop working. I had this trouble a while back but it appeared fixed when I picked the game back up several months ago.  It happens on both Maxis built lots and ones I built myself--MOO was not used. Sims have used a door just fine to enter a room only to be unable to use the same door again less than a game hour later. Sims throw up the pathing error thought when it happens. It happens in both Oasis Springs, Willow Creek, and Henford-on-Bagley and to different styles of doors and gates. It happens on doors that are not locked. Sim age does not seem to matter. It happens on well decorated lots as well as sparsely appointed ones, established households and newly created.

Demolishing the malfunctioning door of the moment and immediately "undoing" that action seems to correct the issue for a time. I had to "fix" the same door multiple times in a single three hour session on one lot yesterday--a bathroom door in the original Caliente home in Oasis Springs, as well as two other doors, once each, on the same lot. I actually replaced the repeat offender with a completely different style door after the second failure and that new door did the same thing about twenty minutes later. I do not use any mods nor CC; I only have base game and Cottage Living installed. I purchased CL last week and it happened both before and after installing CL.

I am aware this was a known issue in the past but all the information I have found suggests it was a mod or CC issue which is absolutely not apropos to my situation. 

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  • MercyLeigh's avatar
    MercyLeigh
    Seasoned Rookie
    2 years ago

    Issue is still ongoing with latest patch. 

    I originally thought it only happened when a lot was initially loaded during a session and doors would stay "fixed" during the same session but I have experienced doors I "fix" during a session will again bug out. For example, I had to fix a bedroom door so a sim could go to bed, fast forward through sleep time, and door was again bugged when that sim woke up. I have had Sims walk into bathrooms and get stuck because between entering the room and relieving themselves the door bugs. I even tried a fresh save, started playing Johnny Zest--first time I have ever loaded that particular lot, and one of his doors bugged out within the first half hour of play. I replaced that door, quit the game and restarted my PC,  then did a quick and dirty starter home with only a front door and bathroom door and minimal furnishing to keep item count low and moved in a freshly created sim.

    That house lasted almost an hour before the bathroom door bugged. That sim never left their lot the entire time. I replaced the door (completely different style door) and quit after verifying it worked. I played only that household the next day for a couple of hours and replaced that bathroom door twice more.

    While no particular door style seems more or less prone to fail, it only seems to happen to internal doorways. At no time have I experienced a door on an external wall fail.  My two room/two door test house had the same, cheap base game door for entry and loo initially when it first failed. I replaced only the bathroom door with one of the two tile wide doors that should be an external door and it failed. My final session with that house and save involved adding a bunch of different doors to the external walls and another room and the room door and loo door both failed twice in a couple of hours of play--external doors always seemed to work fine (this was the only time I utilized door locks and only on some external doors)

    I did most of my testing with base game doors but Cottage Living doors are also susceptible.

    It is not cc/mods 

    It is not a corrupt save issue 

    It is not an age of save or duration of play issue 

    It is not a "too many objects" or "too full neighborhood"

    It is not a particular pack bug creep 

    It is not number or frequency of Sims using a particular door

    It is not a pre-made versus simmer-made building issue

    It does not appear to be a particular door(s) but it may have something to do with external and internal walls.

    The only thing I have not tested--since I normally get paid to bug test, is whether how rooms are built plays a part. Particular doorways, no matter how many times I change out their doors, seem more prone to fail. The little upstairs loo in the Caliente starting home failed often no matter the save although all internal doors for that house have bugged out at some point in play. One of my builds had four internal rooms with each having a door and three failed multiple times during play. The one door that did not--again, that cheapest base game door, was the only one of the four built using the contiguous wall tool rather than the room tool. 

    No, the latest patch did not fix the issue.

  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
    Hero+
    2 years ago
    @MercyLeigh A couple of typical next stephs that you haven't mentioned are worth doing:

    Refresh the whole Sims 4 folder. Drag the current one from Documents > Electronic Arts to the desktop, start the game, and try in a new save.

    Beyond that, Game Repair can't hurt.

    I have to say, this is an issue I've not encountered in playing the game over the years, so I suspect there's something going on in your installation (in the absence of anything in the Mods folder).

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