So ever since the latest sim update, I am unable to select any objects/actions. All I can do is watch my sims slowly starve to to death and the toddlers and child are ALL in the red.
It's really getting frustrating, is anyone else experiencing this?
(I turned the pc on and off, my mouse and trackpad are both working outside of the sims)
I'm having a similar problem, I'm not sure if it's exactly what you were experiencing, but my game also becomes unresponsive after playing for a while (anywhere between half an hour to five plus will cause my game to start reacting slowly/strangely on my laptop. Not sure if it happens on my desktop? Will have to test later.).
I can click things, but my sims ignore any commands, as if I didn't select anything.
For example, one of my vampire children died in the sun because he wouldn't take the command to move inside and simply stood in the road in front of his house until he burst into flames. :'(
I've also had a child taken away because my sims didn't take the command to feed them and stood there while time flew by. My sims will eventually stop taking care of themselves and die of hunger with full autonomy on.
I've had to reset games/not save after disasters like this, as I obviously don't want to accept tragedies by technical difficulties.
(Heck, I even wasted 10 IRL hours of my day teaching my sim husband to cook up Ambrosia to fix my OWN accidental sim death from "frozen in time syndrome" because from my save-point I'd die immediately from sun upon loading in. XD)
It's pretty frustrating to watch your sims die horrifically like that while they stand still and ignore your commands to save their life, I'll admit.
I have NO CC or mods. Just the base game with Vampires, City Living, Get to Work and Get Together expacs. Resetting individual sims via cheat does not help. Restarting game does help temporarily. If I remember correctly, this has been happening since before the last patch or two for me. I'm running Windows 10 with above recommended system specs and use Razer Cortex to help boost the game, nothing else I can think of that would affect this besides NVIDIA gfx settings, maybe. (which I've tried to change around, no noticeable effect?)
Also, the only thing that helps keep my sims alive is testingcheats on >mailbox>fill household/world needs>disable needs decay. At least with that, they won't die, but they will still stand there or continue the current action indefinitely unless I switch to another sim and speed up the time quickly from 1x to 2x and back. 3x time will fly by with no action from the sims, strangely. It's almost like all the sims are paused while game time passes.
@jessicalowe0095 wrote:
So ever since the latest sim update, I am unable to select any objects/actions. All I can do is watch my sims slowly starve to to death and the toddlers and child are ALL in the red.
It's really getting frustrating, is anyone else experiencing this?
(I turned the pc on and off, my mouse and trackpad are both working outside of the sims)
Are you using any mods ? Did you try this: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Sims-4-game-breaking-bug-can-t-click-anything-beyond-the-UI/m-p/3455949 ?
@hiddlestonerwrote:
use Razer Cortex to help boost the game, nothing else I can think of that would affect this besides NVIDIA gfx settings, maybe. (which I've tried to change around, no noticeable effect?)
Did you try without that as well ?
Does that only happen on an existing save game or do you get the same issue iif you start a new game for testing purposes ?
@crinrict wrote:
Did you try without that as well ?
Does that only happen on an existing save game or do you get the same issue iif you start a new game for testing purposes ?
I've tried several combinations, but not all that I can think of yet. It takes a while to start getting an error, so I've given a few new saves several hours of playtime to test. All without Razer Cortex running this time.
My results for this round are as follows. I can't replicate the bug when I play a new game file in a small, single or two-story lot with a small household. It seems to be happening more frequently in lots with the combination of many sims and/or basements/double-basements. The more items in the house, the worse it seems to get.
It's when I start playing a house with 5-8 sims AND a house with basements and multiple levels. Also, I seem to be able to trigger the bug if several events are happening at once, such as 2 or more children returning from school, adults leaving/coming home from school and an event such as the pizza delivery person or a housekeeper. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but all of my sims are vampires, as well.
When I get the chance I'd like to further report back and see if this happens with a single story house on a lot and multiple sims in the household.
The households I have frequently been having an issue with are my two households' 7-8 person vampire family. Even after saving them to the bin/library and starting a fresh game with them and a new house, I'm having those issues, but not with a family of two aliens and a simple house.
Looks like you haven't posted your specs yet.
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.
You have both a graphics chip and a card in your computer.
Did you make sure the game runs on the card ?
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4/Setting-Up-a-Graphics-Card-Gaming-Profile/td-p/5704790
Crinrict isn't available at the moment, so I'll be answering this post in the meantime.
Make sure to update the card as well.
