Fast Forwarding freezes game

I'm experiencing the freeze too while environment still moves. I play on PC. I disabled all mods and it continues to happen when I fast forward. I'm able to use alt + f4 to save but there have been times when I've had to quit using task manager.

Time stops in my game but sims stay in place but keep moving and the outside moves and changes but the game won’t save or move and time is stuck at the same time. I have to restart my computer to get out. Ive repaired the game and cleared the cache MULTIPLE times and nothing is helping. Is my save corrupted or how do I fix it ???? It’s my legacy save !!!!

My game is constantly freezing since the last update every time I press the forwarding button. At first I thought it was because of my CC and mods but I already have all of them updated so I tried without them and is still happening. I don't know what else I can do and it's very frustrating. I cannot reset the sim and also cannot click on anything when this happens, I can't even save the game and I have to force to close it.

I leave you here an attachment to my latest file in case that you need to check on that.

I hope that this can help to find a solution

The freezing is happening to me too, when all my sims are asleep and the game automatically goes into the fastest time mode. Game just gets stuck, can’t click pause, or any sim, or any menu. Have to force close without saving, Only play with MCCC and taken that out, still same issue. Makes the game unplayable basically.

I’m hearing that MCCC is the issue.

No, absolutely not. MCCC can trigger it because of the marriage settings but it is definitely a game bug since February patch. 

Every time I log into the game, it completely freezes after about two minutes. All of the Sims just stand in place, and the entire simulation stops. I have to power off my system and restart the game every time. This is the most unplayable experience I’ve ever had with this game. — I literally cannot play. Is a fix currently in the works?

Exactly! That's whats happening to me too but just a few seconds after starting the game. It's so frustrating😭

The time buttons are stuck and not working. Sims are still moving when live mode is “paused” and also when you go into build/buy and the “save” screen. The controller buttons “R2 and L2” are supposed to slow down/speed up/pause the game and they’re not working, I have to physically click on the time button slots, which aren’t working 

Reset Sim is not working either 
I attached 3 videos

This issue started after the update on 2/12/26

I’m also playing on a PlayStation5 

Is anyone else having issues with the game not pausing correctly after the latest update. (The hot fix for the Feb 3rd update)

(game still plays animations and sound, but time does not progress)

I’m trying to play in my legacy save but at some point if I’m careful with triple speeding my game essentially is unresponsive. It’s like that build mode bug where it doesn’t register what you’re doing and you have to for close the game; only it’s happening in Live mode.

It happened last night and again just now and I don’t want to keep losing my progress (I save every sim night but it’s still frustrating)  I have a backup of my save from before the update if something went wrong with patch but I just finished my new legacy house and she’s about to have her baby. I don’t want to go backwards. Everything was relatively fine before this, it was a bit laggy but I’m 40 gens in so I’m used to it at this point. Is anyone else having an issue? Or is my save done for :(

And no I do not use mods or cc I never have. I am an PC windows 10 user on dx9 (my pc can not run 11) And I apologize if I put this in the wrong place or if I didn’t provide enough information this is my first post. Just add a comment if you need additional info!

I’m editing to add additional info on my hardware and state that I did not play the original Feb 3rd patch as I didn’t update on patch day then heard there were issues with stair railings so I waited, so I’m not exactly sure which patch may have caused this.