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Souleater3174
New Rookie
1 month ago
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Game Is Spamming Autonomous empty task bubbles

First of all I have no mods installed, never have, and yes my game is up to date with the latest update.

My game crashes at seemingly random times after my sims get locked into a task queue. The most recent one happened when I had an adult sim, toddler sim, and child sim at home. The child sim was sitting in a chair doing her homework and I was trying to get the adult sim to pick up the toddler to give her a bath. All of the sudden all three of my sims froze and get I can hear the task sound (like when you select a task for them to do and it pops into the far left queue area) non-stop. I click on my child sim and all the sudden that task queue bar on the far left goes all the way up to the top of my screen, but there were no task bubbles actually in that panel so it was just empty. After this my game completely froze. I couldn't exit out of the game or alt F4 it either. I had to shut off my computer in order for the game to actually close because even after trying to force quit in task manager the game screen just went white and wouldn't close. It seems like the game got overloaded by a bug with too many tasks being queued (even though I didn't queue them). This has happened multiple times in the past few months and it's always randomly. 

Edit By crinrict: Adjusted Title

10 Comments

  • Hi Souleater3174​ 

    Could you please provide the following information

    • What platform are you playing on (PC, Mac, Playstation, XBox). Please pick a thread tag for that.
    • Is there any pattern on what interaction could spawn like that (there's a few known ones) or is that just random ? Like is the situation similar to the one you described or does that not matter ?
  • Souleater3174's avatar
    Souleater3174
    New Rookie
    1 month ago

    I play on pc. No, there’s no pattern of what interactions. My child sim was sitting in a chair, and then it just randomly happened where the task bar expanded and the game froze. It’s happened other times in the past in similar ways where my sim is just doing something and then they all freeze with the task bar expanding. 

  • Megahue's avatar
    Megahue
    Seasoned Adventurer
    24 days ago

    I am not sure if this is the same issue. Since the 23 March 2026 Hot Fix,  my toddler Sim repeatedly queues the same interaction endlessly. It fills the left side of my screen and keeps on scrolling. I tried to create a new bug report.  Should I post my report here?

  • Malconten's avatar
    Malconten
    New Spectator
    7 days ago

    I'm experiencing the same issue with the task queue spamming up seemingly infinite tasks, sometimes it's the same task over and over like trying to chat to someone. It seems like it's happening when my sim is sitting in a chair(Arrrmed Dining Chair) fitted to a desk(WOODen desk classical) with a pc(All-in-One Powerfull PC). I don't yet know if it's the specefic furniture or something, but very often the task spam prevent the sim from doing anything untill I save and reload.

    Trying to add tasks manually when it's happening does seem to place the manual tasks ahead of the autonomously generated task spam, but the sim doesn't do them and the manual tasks, aswell as the autonomous generated tasks, cannot be canceled.

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    4 days ago

    Hi all,

    If you're experiencing this issue, could you please attach a DxDiag to your post as well as your crash log so we can look into this a bit further? Thank you! 

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