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abs_clown_shoes
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11 months ago
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[PS] Scrolling too fast randomly

This issue has been happening since I purchased the game and seems to come and go. Lately, it's been every time I play and completely game-breaking, making me want to throw my console into traffic.

This issue was also never resolved but archived.

Re: [NEEDS SAVES] [PS4] Scrolling too fast randomly | EA Forums - 11316342

I've done two screen recordings of the issue. Nothing but closing and restarting the game fixes it now.

In the first video, I'm trying to select the fencing I want. I close out of the color selection to demonstrate that it happens even when trying to select a fence. Managing to click on the one I want (through luck) I now want the pink color. Same thing: just keep gently moving and as little as possible until I land on it by pure luck.

This happens no matter where I am in the game, regardless of menu, and it happens with the D pad and joystick on the PS controller.

The second video demonstrates that it happens on other menus as well. I am just trying to exit to the menu, not save. Eventually, I give up and save & exit because that's the only option I can land on to get me back to the main menu. Going back to the main menu has sometimes resolved the issue in the past, but not lately - it was still happening there.

It makes doing simple tasks like selecting dialogue for my Sim a major annoyance and more complicated tasks such as building anything an absolute nightmare. It happens the most in Build Mode, so this is my nightmare.

I have no mods. Purely vanilla game with only a few expansions. But this has been happening since I only had the main game and no expansions whatsoever, so I know it's not an expansion issue.

Yes, I've done the basics. Cleared space. Made sure the game is up to date. My system is also always up to date. Yes, I checked anyway.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit migrated bug report

Archived thread had around 168 me toos

Generally bugs still open in the archive do not need to be re-reported unless you have new info.

15 Comments

  • Can confirm this is still happening with latest patch. The problem its random. It will happen in create a sim can be a couple of mins or not at all and it tends to be create a sim the most. In live mode sometimes you can stop it by switching from live to build mode and back. But a lot of the time only way to fix it is to restart game.  It's very disruptive and has been going on for over a year now.

  • Hopefully people get more reports have about 6000 hours in the sims on PS4 but playing on PS5 now.  Create a sim is where it pops up alot after spending an hour making my sim only to not be able to fill in details to save them.

  • Hopefully the 150 laundry list helps with this issue. As this bug has been going on for 4 years now. There was a Reddit post complaining about this issue too. And I'm surprised this hasn't been picked up by QA as the bug happens all the time on my various PlayStation consoles while playing. It's not immediate happens after playing for a bit like an hour 2 during build mode, just clicking on stuff or placing furniture and decorating then when you go back to the selection it just speeds around and is impossible to use. And only way to fix it is to save the game and reload it which is hard when the menus are just speeding by.

  • I haven't figured out how to fix this, but I do have a workaround. This irritated me so bad that I plugged a keyboard and mouse into my Playstation and just use that. It ONLY happens when using the PS controller. 

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