Thank you so much for pointing this out to me! I was given this laptop by a family member not long ago and hadn't noticed I wasn't getting any updates. Took me a good few hours to find a fix online as Windows Updater itself was corrupted, but it's all sorted and up to date now. I dread to think how much longer I would have carried on without picking up on the lack of updates, so thanks again.
I've attached a screenshot of my save files - all the visible ones are the same save game. Hadn't realised I had so many as MCCC autosaves for me, could too many saves be an issue? Regardless I've stopped saving now.
@remedialcha0s Your saves list looks fine, and the fact that you have a lot of saves shouldn't have any impact here. The game should only load data from the save you're playing, otehr than the thumbnails from the other saves at the Main Menu of course. On the other hand, it's not going to hurt anything to move your older saves elsewhere, and it might make keeping track of the saves easier for you. Whatever you prefer is fine.
Your save was using most of your computer's memory but not all of it, and I wonder if the RAM use keeps going up until you really can't do anything at all with the save. It's difficult to tell from one screenshot, but you can keep an eye on the Task Manager once the save starts to lag and see what happens.
It's also entirely possible that this save's RAM use is fairly stable but that it's high enough overall to cause problems. In that case, try playing this save immediately after restarting your computer and without opening anything else, other than the EA App of course. It can also help to put the App in offline mode. Other than cutting off access to the Gallery, this shouldn't affect the game at all.
HI, it's OP again. I never managed to solve the issue but played a different save file outside of Britechester for a while. I almost forgot about this bug, but now I'm having the same issue again in a different save file (but in the uni dorm, same as before). Launching the game just after booting my laptop up gives me a couple extra minutes before the bug appears but it happens every time. I'm wondering what could be causing it? ☹️
@remedialcha0s Please let me know how much memory Sims 4 and your system overall are using, now in this new save, when you run into the issue. A screenshot of the Task Manager's Processes tab would be enough; you can put the game into windowed mode (but don't minimize it) to check.
Please also list which dorm, how many sims are under your control, and how many roommates there are on the lot. I'm wondering if there's a pattern. Additionally, if it's not the default in-game dorm, please let me know whether you built it or downloaded it, and if the latter, the creator and lot name so I can check it out in the Gallery.
I now play university for the first time, and I've got exactly this bug too. Two Sims of mine moved into the dorm on a Saturday, and on Sunday (somewhere around 2 pm) the game froze, but the sound was still going on like voices from sims and trees were still moving in the wind. But I couldn't click anywhere, couldn't save or travel.
It is very annoying and disruptive, and I haven't figured out what causes it. I checked with my mods and without my mods, it was still there. Then I let the game create a new Sims 4 Folder, and it was still there with and without mods. Only when I started a completely new save and let Sims move into the dorm (with my mods) and fast forwarded like 4-5 days, and no game freezing. So I don't know if my precious 6year old save file is corrupted, but I am not willing to start over just for university. Otherwise the savefile works fine.
So my "workaround" is this:
1. Every few real life minutes I save, so if the game freezes again, I don't lose much progress. (Important: First I check, if the Sims are not accidently frozen in their looping animation. Only if they can move freely like walk somewhere, I save)
2. When the game freezes, I have to force my computer to close the game or completely shut down the computer, because sometimes I can't even access my desktop anymore. After that I open the game again, and load the latest save. But I don't let the Sim continue what they were doing before the game froze. Instead I cancel, what the Sim is currently doing and travel with him to another lot. So the game will not automatically freeze again.
I played one full week of university and my game froze like 5-6 times. But luckily I saved so often that nearly no progress was lost the entire week. Maybe this is helpful to someone else who has the same problem. 🙂
Some infos:
I play 2 Sims of mine, there are 8 nonplayed students as roommates. The University is Britechester.
When you look at the map of Britechester, there are two dorms on the map, one at the top and one at the bottom. I live in the bottom one.
I replaced the default dorm with my selfmade dorm, no CC used.
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