Nitrozem If you get another infinite loading, or you can trigger it deliberately, the game might generate a lastexception file to go with it in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4. I'd like to see the contents of that file; you can copy the text and paste it into a reply if it's not too long. LEs often point to a specific trigger that can be fixed or that's a known bug.
I believe the game's graphics processing is a separate pipeline from everything else and uses its own CPU core/thread, so I wouldn't be surprised if fps stayed steady when the game overall locked up. But if something about graphics processing locks up, or more likely is caught in some kind of loop trying to resolve a particular issue, that would definitely cause an fps drop. Or the graphics processing is depending on some data that's lagging, or... I don't know, I don't work on the game and couldn't tell you other than to say I can see how this would happen only some of the time.
The other easy test would be to see if this happens on minimum graphics settings. Of course you'd never play like that, but if you can find one setting that's causing the problem, that at least narrows down the source.
Next time I play, I'll see if It happens again and I'll go to manage worlds to see if it gives me an infinite loading screen and a last exception. I'll also mess with the settings to, thanks.
Either way, if I find a solution or anymore clues/errors I will report back. Again, thanks for the help.
EDIT: Went to my tumblr where I remember posting about it when it first happened and it was on July 13th 2024. I was still on DX9 and I also had a different GPU back then. I don't know it that information would be useful, just taking note it also happened on DX9 and my old gpu.
