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Anonymous
11 years ago

Sims suddenly just stand there idle

I have played my 5 people family for some time, but suddenly my Sims seem to be entirely apathic. They stand there for hours, doing nothing anymore, standing around in an idle animation, but not movi...
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crinrict's avatar
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago

I don't have any issues with the birth unless my pregnant Sim is due to work at the same time.

Did you try replacing the hospital with a fresh copy ?

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CrimsonNephilim
9 years ago

I'm having this problem now as well.  I've tried all the troubleshooting solutions I've been able to find online, and it's still happening.  When I load into a household, the sims will work fine for the first few seconds, they just stop doing anything and just stand there idle, both controlled and non-controlled. 

Autonomy is set to High, I tried moving my households out then back in, evicted them then moved them back into the world via gallery, repaired the game, backed up files, deleted Sims 4 folder and let the game generate a new one, uninstalled and re-installed with no mods, and it's still happening.  I have no idea what is causing it. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    Hi @CrimsonNephilim

    did you also try a new save or is this all happening on the same save game ?

    Any special interaction it gets stuck on or just generally ?

    • CrimsonNephilim's avatar
      CrimsonNephilim
      9 years ago

      Generally and on the same save game.  I always save using "Save As".  I tried switching to different households and it happens no matter the sim I am playing.  All sims will be working fine, then suddenly they all just stop moving, but remain in whatever pose they were in mid-action.  I tried using the cheat "resetsim" and "sims.hard_reset", and it will get rid of any actions that are queued, but none of the sims will move.

      • crinrict's avatar
        crinrict
        Hero+
        9 years ago

        Could you try a complete fresh save to see if it also happens there.

        Are you using no custom content or just no mods in your game ?

        How big is your save game ?

        Could you post your Computer's DxDiag?

        To gather a DxDiag on your computer, please follow the steps here: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

        You can attach the txt file to your post directly.

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