FASTFORWARD BUG

When I am in live mode, after about 15 seconds, when I attempt to speed up the game, my Sim continues to move around. When I try to pause forward, the game remains at 3x speed. After this occurs, I cannot click on the Sim, and the game just freezes, and I have to use Task Manager to exit the game...

I tried updating - didn't work

I tried creating a new, fresh The Sims 4 folder - didn't work

updating/removing mods and CC - didn't work

PLEASE help me, I almost lost 6+ hours of gameplay, and this has happened before, too