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maceyxreneex
2 years ago

Unable to interact with sims, time lagging

Hello!

I am at a loss and don’t know where else to turn. A week ago my game started freezing up every few seconds, time would pause and lag really bad. I thought it was cause my computer storage was almost full. So, I bought an external SSD. Followed the instructions from a YouTube tutorial, and installed my game on the SSD. The severe lag was still happening, so I decided to try disabling mods and see if that would fix it. I tried to load my household after disabling mods and it would never finish loading. It was stuck on the loading page for like 20 minutes before I finally closed it out. I then decided to factory reset the game, started a new vanilla save folder and the game worked okay. So, I slowly added my save/tray/mod folders back in. I then tried opening 3 different save files, the new one & 2 old ones, and then noticed that not only was my game lagging, I was unable to interact with any sims, only objects. When I click on my sim or any other, nothing happens. I read that the Health care redux mod or adeepindigo mods have caused this problem, so I removed all adeepindigo mods which didn’t fix it. I then decided to try the 50/50 mod folder method, I removed almost every single one of my script mods, but nothing has fixed it.

I’ve spent the past 4 days trying to fix it and idk what else to do. Has anyone else had this problem ? Any suggestions on how to fix it? 

thank you! 

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  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @maceyxreneex You'll need to play fewer guessing games on the causes and be more systematic, unfortunately. Not being able to interact can be an outdated mod, but it's also often a mod that's missing files it needs, so an installation issue. Lag issues can also be related to this and to duplicates of mods.

    1. Start by dragging your whole Mods folder to the desktop and deleting localthumbcache.
    2. Check the Broken lists in Broken/Updated Mods for ones to outright delete from the old Mods folder; you won't be reinstalling those till there's an update for them (if there ever is).
    3. Start the game and exit. You now have a fresh Mods folder to gradually reintroduce content to.
    4. Next, redownload your complex mods (like adeepindigo's) and set up a fresh installation; double check installation instructions to make sure you've got all the pieces. Redownloading into a fresh Mods folder will help you with that part plus with avoiding duplicating. Delete the old versions from your old Mods folder to remind you you're done with those ones. Test as you go. (Keep a backup of your Saves or exit without saving.)
    5. Once you've got those going, you can add batches of other content. Consider fresh downloads of any script mods, and make sure you aren't copying over duplicates.

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