Device: Macbook Air, Apple M4 | 24 GB of Memory.
Old Saves: Had mods, yes... this started with those saves. I tested mods, removed them, tried to create sims and play... got stuck. I created one ho...
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Thank you, I started the troubleshooting process by renaming the folder (and I made sure no mods changed or added files), opening a new save, creating a house and placing the sim. That worked until I got to the third sim where it got stuck.
The problem is, this happens with any sim, it's not just at a certain number of them that it gets stuck! I screen recorded the process this time, it's a google drive doc. ( 1:41 is the problem)
I've also had this freeze happen when simply trying to go into manage worlds from live (as mentioned in the previous reply). There are no lastcrash or lastexception files from this happening. I tried to add more sims after the initial recording, and was successful up until the fifth sim. I recorded this instance as well, problem occurs at 0:38.
Super videos - thanks! There maybe some known issues reported in the bug forum regarding Manage Households, which is where your issues seem to be, did you have a look? Maybe someone else reading this thread can help with that. Have you tried making a large household in CAS rather than via manage household? Does it still infinitely load with a random number of sims created? I don't think this is Mac specific, more game related and some sort of endless game process which is getting stuck.
For this troubleshooting please stick with this new clean folder you tested in, a couple of things which have been proven to help with infinite loading screens on Mac - enable vsync in the game options graphics settings and play in windowed mode instead of full screen, although I don't expect these to be a magic fix it's definitely worth trying. If you can give the loading screens longer to try and load too that would be good, just another minute or two.
I found out what it was, it was literally just playing in full screen that bugged it! I changed mine to windowed and lowered the graphics to high and I haven't gotten stuck again. I was able to return to my initial folder after figuring this out. Thank you!
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