This issue now seems to be fixed in the 1.68.154.1220 November 2020 patch.
Thanks all for confirming it now seems to be fixed. If you start experiencing issues again please post 🙂
I tend to be able to move the mouse even when the screen goes completely frozen, and still with the ingame pointer rather than the system one.
Yesterday I managed to play for several hours on a new save. Regular gameplay, on one of the premade lots. Made some minor build changes to it and added new furniture with no issue. I then made a new save for building, created a tester family, exited to manage worlds and went into a lot to build. Within twenty minutes it started freezing again.
Tonight I tested the linked fixes. iCloud is disabled already, I disabled retina display ingame, toggled laptop mode, enabled vertical sync, and reset my NVRAM. No change. The build lot now starts acting up within less than five minutes of opening it, some times less than a minute.
Have the same configuration and the same issue reported in the latest patch update.
I tested by running just Origin and the game with all other apps closed and still the same issue.
Tried everything listed in this thread and the Macbook 16" thread, nothing is working as of now. The game gets stuck every 15 minutes.
Even Big Sur update didn't help.
