Memory usage spikes and the game becomes sluggish after May 26, 2026

Since the Gallery search update, memory usage has skyrocketed, making the game so sluggish that I can’t play The Sims 4.

Even after going offline or disabling mods, memory usage still spikes above 4GB during downloads and gameplay, causing my PC to become unstable. Since there’s no way to bypass the Gallery, I can’t play the game in this state. This is a gaming PC, but the load is simply too heavy. I can’t even search the Gallery—it just gets stuck in an infinite loading loop. I don’t need a search feature that just slows things down and makes the data bloated, so please revert it to the way it was before.

PC Windows 11