Batuu and University Crash
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC How often does the bug occur?: Every time (100%) What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Every expansion (Except Eco Lifestyle), every G...
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@Thanatos606 Do you have a lastcrash.txt in your new Sims 4 folder? If so, please either copy and paste it into a reply—use the spoiler tag—or create a .rar file and attach it.
Edit: Is the sim you're sending to Batuu currently enrolled in university? Please let me know either way.
There aren't any Sims 4 errors listed in your dxdiag, probably because the desktop window manager is crashing so often. For that, please run a couple of basic checks on your Windows system files. Here's how:
- Hit Windows key-X
- Choose either “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator),” whichever option is offered
- Inside the window that appears, copy and paste “DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth” without quotes into the window, and enter
- The system will start validating soon. If it throws an error, please list it here
- After it reaches 100%, hit Windows key-X again
- Again, choose “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator)”
- Inside the window, copy and paste “sfc /scannow” without quotes into the window, and enter
- Post the message you receive here
Restart your computer before testing Sims 4 again. If you get another crash, please look for related entries in the Reliability Monitor. Hit Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes. You'll see a list of errors and updates, with a column for each day. (Today is all the way on the right.)
For any errors that mention Origin or Sims 4 from after you run DISM and sfc, click "View technical details," then copy the information and paste it into a text document. (Notepad is fine.) You can attach the file to a post as you did with your dxdiag. Sometimes the Reliability Monitor doesn't update right away, so if you don't see any related errors, be sure to check back an hour or two. The timestamp on the initial chart can also be off by up to an hour, so that's not an entirely reliable metric, but the one within the technical details should be accurate.
There's no lastcrash.txt in the new folder. At least not that I could find.
The Sim I'm sending is not in University. I've tried making an entirely new character, moving them into a home, and sending them to Batuu and the game crashes within seconds or arriving.
Everything seems worse now. Now I can barely play the game before it crashes. Earlier, the game would run fine until I sent a sim to Batuu or would crash randomly at University, now I can barely load into a home before the game crashes. I can sit in the main menu or CAS for a long as I want and it's fine, but when I go into Live Mode it crashes within seconds.
I've attached a document that contains both the message I received from powershell, and the information from the Reliability Monitor.
@Thanatos606 CAS and the Main Menu are less demanding than live play, and they're also not writing data to your user folder, so it's easy to imagine various reasons why you'd only get a crash in live play. A useful test is to try to play while your computer is completely offline, as in, disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable. You can sign into Origin first and put it in offline mode before disconnecting.
It's a good idea to disable Origin in-game as well, although usually it causes crashes earlier in the process. Whether it helps or not, it won't hurt. In Origin, hover over your username, select Application Settings, then the Origin in-game header, and disable the option at the top.
Please also test in a clean Sims 4 folder, even if you've already been doing so. With each new test, let the game create a new folder, and you can delete it afterwards.
If you get another crash, please check the Reliability Monitor again, and let me know whether there are any new errors related to Sims 4 or Origin, or any other errors that happen around the same time.
I gave playing offline a shot (And made another clean folder first as suggested), and the game still crashed after about two minutes of being in Live Play. Didn't even go to Batuu, so now it just seems like Sims 4 itself isn't working anymore. I tried checking the reliability monitor, but the only new message there is about how "Windows was not properly shut down" due to me needing to force reboot it since the game hardcrashes my PC.
I've turned off Origin In-Game, tried offline, and ensured that my PC is fully updated and everything else. Not sure what happened. Started playing on the 11th and there were no issues until I sent a Sim to University, then it began crashing. Then when I started over (Assuming mods to be the issue) it crashes constantly.
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