In-game camera causing random crashing
I wanted to Me Too this message and add to it. I am running on a macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 (iMac). I have suddenly encountered a strange crashing issue when I'm moving around my in-game camera and my sim...
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Yes, I've done the 50/50 method through my Mods folder about 3 times now over the last week trying to fix various performance issues; I also ran the Better Exceptions report to find more corrupted files to remove. I was actually able to find some outdated/bad mods that I deleted, but nothing came up related to this crashing issue. Like I mentioned, it crashes on that particular lot even without any mods in my game (discovered this doing the 50/50 method).
I just got done playing with that household for the past 4-5 hours. It didn't crash, but I also didn't move my camera much. On the penthouse lot, I kept the in-game camera at an angled birds eye view and at a distance with the walls cutaway, which kind of sucks for immersion, but it was at least playable that way. When I took those sims to other lots, I could move my camera around freely and it didn't crash. This issue is very particular to this one single lot, which makes me wonder if it is a bug in the game.
@AkennArt It's still likely to be some kind of corruption on that lot. Try saving the lot (or rooms, but I think this one is a Penthouse) to the Library, bulldozing the lot, then re-placing it from the Library. That might clear any lot glitches.
All this testing has led me to believe that the Sims is just a game with a lot of strange quirks. 🥴 I'm currently testing this now: I bulldozed the penthouse build (saved to my Library first), exited out of my game back to the Main Menu and made sure I saved the game first. Went back to the now empty penthouse lot, started twirling around my camera, and when I lowered my camera down as far as it could go, down to the sims' eye level, and started twirling it, it crashed. So I opened back up my game, went back to that same empty penthouse lot, kept the camera at roughly a 45 degree angle or so, and have been twirling all over the place, no crashing. Isn't that so weird?! Whatever the glitch, it's only affecting one specific camera angle on one specific penthouse lot in one specific save file. That's why the selfie camera glitched to when I rotated it horizontally, because it's a camera angle also at the sims' eye level. I wonder if I should just come to expect stuff like this in the game...smh haha
Anyway, thank you @luthienrising and @Bluebellflora for your time and attention to this!! I may not be able to get all the aesthetic photos on this lot, but at least I can see my sims up close again. 🙃
@AkennArt
You’re welcome! If you upload the penthouse lot to the gallery I’ll happily download and test in my game 🙂- @Bluebellflora Unfortunately the latest patch just dropped before I could do so and now my game is offline with no access to the Gallery because I am not ready to update it given all my mods and cc. Once I patch up my game, I'll test the issue to see if it's still there. If it is, I'll circle back and upload the lot to the library. Thanks!
