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ansonnicole's avatar
6 years ago

All of my sims are sharing the action queue, the camera won't focus and more

Hi, this issue has been occurring for a few days now... I am unsure of the cause and need to fix it!

Multiple things at one time:

1) The queues of all the sims in the household appear in every sims' queue. For example, if Jack was to watch TV and Jill was to go to sleep, both of the actions will appear in both of their queues. No matter which household member does what, they all have each other's actions in their queue. Also, everything is the same but only the sim who was assigned the action does it, not all of them. And there is no maximum number of actions in the queue, it can't be full, picture 1 attached.

2) When I try to focus the camera on a certain sim, it doesn't move it to them. I have to manually move the camera and find the sim. For example, if I was looking at Jack upstairs and I double-clicked on Jill downstairs, the camera wouldn't move to focus on her, or if I was looking at no one, it wouldn't move to anyone. It doesn't have any indication that I've focused on someone even if it did, because it wouldn't let me, picture 2 attached.

3) When I am in-game and playing as a household in build mode, I can't go back to live mode otherwise it freezes. As soon as I press on live mode after being in build, the camera tilts and all of the buttons disappear and there is a red highlight around the screen as if it was paused. After that, I can move the camera and highlight objects/sims but can't exit the game without force quitting. It never loads and stays on the same screen, picture 3 attached.

4) The actions and emotions turn into blue squares, the portrait of the sim in the bottom left goes blank and when hovered over appears with blank text. This happens after coming out of certain modes like CAS or just starting up a game. I can't remove them or change it, picture 4 attached.

Now, I do have multiple mods downloaded but I have searched around online and no one has had these issues. I have tried removing all mods and repairing the game but every time the same issues happen. Please help! It's an absolute pain and I can't play. I use a MacBook Air and have had no issues until now.

Thank you.

10 Replies

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @ansonnicole

    After each update, most scripts mods and a large part CC will be spoiled and will spoil the game. Checking what broke down this time after the patch, and replacing these broken ones by a new updated version or deleting these is the price the player pays for using CC and mods
    Move the mods folder to the desktop.
    Delete localthumbcache.package file in the game, also delete all folders with the word "cache" in the name - important!
    Fix the game in Origin.
    Origin/Library - right-click on TS4 - option "Repair game"
    You have to wait until Origin will fix all packs, not only the base game.
    Turn on the game to create a new, empty mods folder and check if a game is working now without mods and CC.
    Check if there are new updated versions of the mods and CC you are using.
    Then copy from desktop your mods and CC and paste it in the new mods folder. First, paste script mods one by one every time checking if the game is OK.
    Do the same with CC but if you have a lot of this, try the 50/50 method. ( divide your CC into smaller batches for example 50 pieces in one subfolder and check these subfolders one by one)
    You need to find a culprit and either remove it or replace it with an updated version

    I don't work for EA

  • I’m having the same exact problem. I spent hours searching through my mods/cc, deleting any faulty stuff I could find. I repaired the game several times but every time I went back in every sim would have the same action in their queue. It’s almost like the game doesn’t observe every individual sim? Idk. But I don’t think my downloaded mods are the problem.

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @SwishyCat

    It is mods related error reported here a few times. Each time removing mods according to the advice described above helped

    Just take out the mods folder on your desktop and delete the folders and files listed above and you'll discover it immediately,

  • I am having this exact problem and it’s really upsetting me point where it literally upsets and stresses me to go into game. If there’s anyway to find out which cc is broken that would be amazing. I have a lot of cc and 30-40% of it is merged (which I know is not the brightest idea). But if you happen to find which mod is corrupting your individual game, please let me know what it is so I can see if I happen to have it and delete it if I do. Thank you.

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago
    @thebobasimmer

    The most common reason for this is outdated scripts mods so check them first and maybe you won't need to check these CC
  • shadowingaway's avatar
    shadowingaway
    6 years ago

    a bit late but i was having the exact same problems as described in the original post. i went through each of my script mods, and it seemed the ui cheats extension was the core problem. not completely sure about other mods, but after removing ui cheats my game is running as normal 

  • brittyharris's avatar
    brittyharris
    6 years ago

    I'm on Xbox and just started having this problem of the cam not going to the Sim I'm on unless I focus the cam.

  • kreatora's avatar
    kreatora
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago
    @brittyharris

    I don't know if you have the option to disable Origin in-game on Xbox.
    On PC it works like it:
    Open Origin. Select the Origin icon on top of the screen. then select application settings. On the right, select the "Origin in-game" tab. Then disable the "Origin in-game" function.

    I don't work for EA
  • zellzoy's avatar
    zellzoy
    5 years ago

    Having the same issue after not having played in a long time (doing update before starting).  The issue didn't start right away and I made sure to update MCCC and UI Extensions before launching but the issue persists even if I remove all mods and delete the cache files and relaunch.  It also seems to be affecting my first sim more than the rest, his action queue is entire blank no matter what he is doing,

  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 years ago
    Hey all, I'm locking this thread due to it being quite old.

    If having an issue then please create a new thread with as much info as possible.

    Darko

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