Game "freezing" during build buy and unable to save

@Ploofchan  Please update your graphics driver.  Go here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/

Choose GeForce, 10 series, 1050 ti, Windows 10, and you'll see a driver dated September 17.  Download it and run it as an admin: right-click the download and select "Run as administrator."  Choose the Custom (not Express) install method, and check the box to perform a clean install.  Restart your computer after installing and before trying to play.

If this doesn't help, please try switching to DirectX 11 mode.  DX9 is a check box in the graphics options, to the right of post processing.  If you don't see the check box, open the EA App game library, click Sims 4 > Manage > View properties, and remove anything in the command line box.  It looks like you tested DX11 mode before, but it would be useful to do so again after updating the driver.

@BlackheartEros  Please test with no mods or custom content, as in, move the Mods folder to the desktop and delete localthumbcache.package.  You don't need to save your progress.  Just let me know what problems, if any, are still present.