@mjacks48 Does this happen in all saves or only the one? Do you use mods and custom content, and if so, does it happen with no mods or cc present? I'm not saying you need to abandon the save or the third-party content, only that this is a useful test to perform before jumping down the rabbithole of potential system issues.
@puzzlezaddict Only the one save. I did two things:
First I created a new household with Mods and CC intact and the game time did not freeze and crash it ran smoothly. I then went back to the "bad save" with mods and cc and had the same time freezing issues
@puzzlezaddict wrote:@mjacks48 Does this happen in all saves or only the one? Do you use mods and custom content, and if so, does it happen with no mods or cc present? I'm not saying you need to abandon the save or the third-party content, only that this is a useful test to perform before jumping down the rabbithole of potential system issues.
Now I just removed my entire Sims 4 out of Documents and on to my Desktop and created a house hold and ran the game with no issues (no mods no cc). Then I only put back my SAVED file that was on the desktop in the "new" vanilla game with no mods or cc just saved file and the game with this ONE saved file still froze time and crashed.
@mjacks48 Alright, you've established pretty definitively that the problem is only the one save. Do you see the same issues if you play a different household within that save? You don't need to save your progress; the point is to test. Please try a household in a different world.
Please also try moving your main household to a different lot, again just for testing purposes.
Thanks for the suggestions. So I tried 3 things:
1. Playing a different household in the same save : time stopped and game crashed
2. Moved main/problem household to a different lot within the same world : time stopped and game crashed
3. Moved main/problem household to a different world and different lot: time stopped and game crashed
I also noted that the game crashed at the same "hour" mark for each trial : 2:16 am
For kicks and giggles I turned off my anti virus protection: time stopped & game crashed
@mjacks48 It sounds like something is firing at 2:16 am, or close enough, that's causing the game to fall all over itself. Do you have Eco Lifestyle installed, and if so, have you been allowing sims to vote on NAPs? I'm not exactly sure when the commodities associated with NAPs get applied to sims, but that could be one cause. Another could be updating the eco footprint of the worlds.
If you do have Eco Lifestyle installed, try disabling it and playing the save forward, again just as a test. Here's how:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2017/03/disable-single-packs/
Please do test with no mods or custom content present as well. I know you already established that this save will crash with no mods or cc, but it's always possible that you're seeing multiple issues, so it's better to test with as simple a setup as possible and build from there.
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