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 🙂
Just a thought... Because I was just having lots of freezing on a particular lot in my save...
Could this issue maybe have something to do with the new way the game treats/calculates windows and doors? That broke cc windows for one, but maybe the calculations (or something way too technical for me, I don't know much about this stuff tbh) the game now makes, somehow mess up the way the graphics cards in our iMacs work? I dunno...
The lot I was having the issues with (save file I sent to @Bluebellflora ) is a lot with cc windows that I 'fixed' for the time being by placing Basegame windows on top of them with bb.moveobjects on.
@znijnz Definitely goes along with an earlier theory that something in the the more recent patches is triggering this to happen. If only they could figure out what. I don’t know coding or technology either but I personally have never had a game just not work like this. Even sims 3 wouldn’t do this particular problem to my Mac which is so bizarre to me.
Update from today’s attempt to play.
I’ve been staying away from the game in some hopes maybe it will fix itself (silly I know)
but this is interesting, and still bizarre but today my game gave me the rainbow wheel, red screen, then pixelated screen but much to my surprise fixed itself as in my game came back on screen and worked for a moment but then another rainbow wheel came and completely froze.
I feel like my game wants to work but something is holding it back!
@znijnz It’s honestly so odd and so frustrating. I just wanna play sims 4!
do we think this issue will be addressed/fixed in a patch that will most likely come before the snowy escape release?
Yes, so is there any update from EA yet?
Yeah is there any update from EA regarding if this will be fixed before Snowy Escape? I would love to play it as soon as it comes out but scared that this issue will still be there. I'm honestly scared to play the game sometimes because of this issue.
I haven’t had an operational game in pretty much 2 months now.
Very disappointed in the lack of updates and action from EA on this.
