Game freezes or crashes after less than a minute of playing

@Bluebellflora Hi, I'm having a similar problem. I'm not getting an error message but out of nowhere, my game kept crashing after being open for a minute or less. I reinstalled origin as i saw that as a suggested solution on here. Then i ticked the vertical syncing or something bc i have an M1 chip. I restarted the game and then it seemed to work again. But, when I restarted the game for some reason it suggested I keep playing an older save, eager to see if it worked i just clicked the "Resume" button, loading up my older save. It works fine, but when I switched over to the save I was originally playing, it crashed in the exact same way.

Long story short, I'm trying everything I can on how to fix a crashing game and so I came across your reply and I was wondering how i could try this. How do i make a new sims 4/saves folder without it messing up my old folder? Without losing any saves? Sorry if this is a dumb question but I've never messed around with the folders and im scared to cause even more problems with my game.

@Tea-to-Infinity

Move the Sims 4 folder from your Documents folder to the desktop or rename it then load the game and a new one will be created. Quit the game when you get to the main menu, no need to save as the folder will have been recreated. Now copy the problematic save into the newly created Sims 4 > saves folder and load up the game.

@Bluebellflora

Thank you for the quick reply! I followed your instructions and at first glance it seemed to work, the game started and the lessons lady started talking to me and everything, so it was obviously a "refreshed" game. But then it crashed in exactly the same way again...

I played some more with my old save before i tried this, and it works fine... It could be that it's in the "before" stage of the bug showing up. My current save also worked fine for hours before it suddenly became unplayable. But I'm very confused.

I'm going to stop trying to fix this for today, but any help or advice is very very welcome!!!

@Tea-to-Infinity

When exactly does it crash/freeze? Is it at exactly the same point every time? Live/BB/CAS mode?

@Bluebellflora

It's in live mode, not always at the same time but pretty consistently within the first minute. I've tried the load different households and it crashes pretty immediately every time. At some point I loaded the same household a few times in a row, gave my sim the same action every time (invite someone in at the door) and it crashed every time my sim walked through one of the interior doors. This made me think it might be a graphics issue and something moving (the door opening) is causing it to crash. In another household it crashed while i was hovering my cursor over something in the bottom menu and while loading the extra information pop up-thing, it crashed.

It hasn't crashed during BB or CAS mode or in the manage world menu or any menu for that matter, but I haven't spent a lot of time investigating this either. Or spent a lot of time in these modes at all since it started crashing.

(I'm using "crash" only but sometimes it still manifest as freezing)

Another weird thing that I noticed is that after a crash, the Origin window shoots off screen and I have to quit and restart the program to get the window back. I'm not sure if it's connected, but it doesn't happen after a freeze + force quit of the game. Only after a crash.

If you need more information, please don't hesitate to ask. I'm very eager to fix this. Thank you.

@Tea-to-Infinity

Thanks! Could you share the save with me so I can test it? Upload it to a file sharing site such as Google Drive/Mediafire etc and PM me the link.

Are you using Mods? If so please list which ones in the PM.

@Bluebellflora

Hi! I've sent you a PM 🙂 thank you!

@Tea-to-Infinity

Thanks, I'll take a look later 🙂

@Tea-to-Infinity

Yep, crashed for me too! There must be something dodgy with that save causing it. Have you tried playing a backup of it?

@Tea-to-Infinity

Thought of something you could try... Load the household then go to the map screen and move/evict them. Try them on a different lot and see if it still crashes.