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

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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.

kreatora · Answer

@ansonnicoleAfter 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 modsMove 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 versionI don't work for EA

kreatora · Answer

@SwishyCatIt is mods related error reported here a few times. Each time removing mods according to the advice described above helpedJust take out the mods folder on your desktop and delete the folders and files listed above and you'll discover it immediately,

shadowingaway · Answer

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&nbsp;

kreatora · Answer

@thebobasimmerThe most common reason for this is outdated scripts mods so check them first and maybe you won't need to check these CC

swishycat · Answer

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.

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