Game freezing
I think it's been a common thing from what I've seen in the forum. It's been happening more frequently to me in the last few days.
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mathumster385 wrote:Chivalrous42 wrote:
As for friend visits, I find I almost always freeze if I tap a third item in a neighbor's town. As long as I stick to two each I'm almost always ok. And even if I go back to the town later to grab the third, it still causes problems.
^ Exactly this happens to me too. :(
While I occasionally froze in friend's town without the monorail running. For me the town's I would freeze in had the monorail running.
To avoid freezing I would have to quickly navigate away from the monorail so it was off screen. Then I could tap 3 items.
I'm pretty sure in order to have the monorail running we can't get away with older devices anymore. I just upgraded and I'm not seeing any of the issues I was before. Doesn't matter if a monorail is running now on friend visits.
I've also taken Neglecterino's advice and disabled/stopped all applications (bloatware, non system apps) that I won't use on the device. TSTO and system apps are the only thing running.
ETA: Another couple things I did while freezing that helped:
- store all NPCs
- keep characters on indoor tasks where possible
- clear buildings of cash before trying to free up characters at recycling centres
- move all pics/music etc. to external card or off device/phone memory
- uninstall any downloaded apps you no longer use
Basically try to reduce animations as much as possible and free up memory. Lag was reduced a fair amount for me if buildings/tasks were clear and characters not related to the event were indoors.
