Ever since the Sept update my game has been very glitchy and lagging. When I click on objects and other sims there is a huge delay before the actions actually come up and some of the actions just do not work or when they are almost finished with the action it glitches and they do the tpose and just stand there and it doesn't finish the task. I've updated mods, deleted mods, and tried the game without ANY mods and the problem is the same.
puzzlezaddictSorry! I believe I did it right this time. I deleted it, removed my mods folder and now this is what I got after loading the household. Thank you !
brayleighms Did you ever use a custom freelance career? It would have been removed with your other mods, but if it's still working, you could put it back, temporarily, and change your sims' careers to something else.
From what I understand, from asking for advice (because I don't think I've seen this LE before), this particular error isn't harmful and should go away eventually. In the interim, using "save as" might help, or it might not.
How bad is the delay when clicking right now, with all mods removed, except possibly the freelance career if you used to have one? If it's manageable, then waiting it out might be the best approach here. But if not, the LE might be a distraction of sorts, with the real problem elsewhere, and we can go back to system-level troubleshooting. In that case, please provide a fresh dxdiag.
puzzlezaddictI think I have a freelance chef mod but I wasnt using it in the save. The delay is at least 5 seconds (which isnt bad but in sims time it gets annoying) Here is a new dxdiag :) Thank you
brayleighms The issue here is that it's difficult to say whether this is purely a save issue, or only partly a save issue and partly a system issue. Five seconds of delay in one save vs. none in a new save is a strong suggestion that something about the main save is the problem. On the other hand, it's still possible that this save is taxing your system enough to bring out these symptoms where a new save does not. So I'd like to go at this from both angles, at least for one more round of troubleshooting; feel free to complete these steps in whatever order you like.
For the possible save issue, please try playing a different household within this save, preferably one you haven't played before. If that household is fine, have them visit your main sims. If that's fine too, switch back to your main sims and see how long it takes for the delay to reappear. You don't have to save your progress through any of this.
Separately, please save your main sims to your in-game library and place them in a new save. Quit to desktop before loading that new save. Let me know how it runs.
For the system side, your current dxdiag lists a number of somewhat-generic Windows errors. So regardless of the results of the tests listed above, please run a couple of basic checks of your Windows system files:
Restart your computer, hit Windows key-i, select Update & Security, and click the box to check for updates. If any install, restart again afterwards.
If you're seeing this same delay in clicking in any instance other than the original one (your main sims in your old save), please try playing in a clean boot:
The one service to leave enabled is the EABackgroundService, which the EA App needs in order to run. Disable the rest as described.
When you reboot your computer, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down any service that doesn't absolutely need to be running, for example anything from MSI Afterburner to RGB software might still be enabled. If you accidentally kill a critical process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer again.
Don't open anything other than Sims 4 and the EA App while testing, not even a browser window. If the clean boot itself doesn't help, repeat the test except with your computer offline. You can sign into the EA App and put it in offline mode, then disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable before pressing Play.
I realize this is a lot, but since the basics haven't helped and nothing in your dxdiag or LE points to an obvious problem, it might take some digging to get to the bottom of this.
puzzlezaddictthank you very much for your time and info! I will try this throughout today and post an update here
this has been a lot of testing, so I want to say sorry for the trouble!
