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[PS4] Crashing During Travel, Save the Game, Exiting CAS/Build Mode Patch 1.37

A now patched bug was introduced with Seasons in November 2020, please make sure you aren't affected by this older issue first [Fixed][PS4] Sims 4 Freezing/Random Crashing Endless Loading.

For All other issues please see this thread [Read First][Current Issues] Game Issues or Crashes

These crashes are not reproducible crashes, they happen without warning and at different times during gameplay. The issue is a memory issue that was patched for PS but after adding a few more packs and patches it seems to be occurring again. Please share your saves as requested here: Save Request Post 

This issue is most common with:

  • Original PlayStation Consoles
  • Owning a lot of packs
  • Very old Saves
  • Saves with lots of played households
  • Lots of items in builds, including the use of lots of different packs in builds
  • Lots of Sims in relationship panels of played sims because of lack of game relationship culling (Think friend of the world on a sim without aging on, etc.)
  • The use of large lots (50x50, 64x64)

Deleting everything from sim and household inventories for all played sims may help with the crashing.

Saving your played sims and households/houses to the library and placing them down in a new save may help with the crashing.

A help thread with more ideas that may help to reduce crashing is here Autonomy and Simulation Lag 

These crashes can happen randomly, and are not reproducible. Please always submit a video, a note and a crash report when the game crashes using the PS4 Report Tool on your console.

If the crash is specific, you can reproduce it, or it comes with a specific error code like 102, 122, 134, etc (CE-34878-0 is not a specific error code) please post a bug report in the bug forums.


The following is general troubleshooting for the PS4.

1. Turn off Your system completely, let it sit for a few minutes and power it back on. 

2. Make sure your game is up to date. 

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  • Go to the PlayStation home screen. 
  • Highlight the game you want to update and press the Options button on your controller.
  • Select "Check For Update" and install any updates that are available.
  • Reboot your PlayStation 4.

3. Make sure your Console system software is up to date

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  • Select Settings at the top of the PlayStation home screen.
  • Choose "System Software Update" and allow any system updates to install.
  • Reboot your PlayStation 4.

4. Uninstall and Reinstall the Game. 

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Go to Settings > Application Saved Data Management > Saved Data in System Storage > Delete.

Select a game or application.

Set check marks beside the data you wish to delete or Select All.

Select Delete > then OK to confirm your decision.

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    3 years ago

    Hey all,

    This issue was resolved in Patch 1.70.

    Please be sure to fully close and update your game- if you're still having crashing issues once your game is fully updated, please create a new thread here so we can investigate further.

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