Ideas

New Observer

10 months ago

Status:

Under Investigation

Severe lag after 1 hour of gameplay : requires restart

Hi, I'm experiencing a major performance issue that seems to affect a lot of players (I asked my community and many confirmed having the same problem). When I first launch the game, everything runs...

Rising Vanguard

4 days ago

Since last update the game has a major lag issue, animations and music is still playing but sims are stuck, bringing up save menu or going to manage world's and back to household usually fixes it.

Had a sim stuck like that, looks like she was reading to child but no green progress bar on the read to child action, after going to manage world I saw that the read to child aspiration was completed even though it didn't look like she did it. Usually resetting fixed the freezing or glitching outs but this seems to be a different kind of stuck than before so it doesn't help.

The time is still going when they are stuck but when they get unstuck the time often jump back several hours. But kids doesn't come home at 3 pm , more like 6 pm, the day after I don't get the school of work starts in an hour pop up until after 9am, a few times closer to 11am . So time gets affected by the freezing it seems.

onemorekayaker

Seasoned Hotshot

4 days ago

Since updating to the new patch, I've been having weird game performance issues - freezes where I didn't have any before. This happens whether I play with mods or not (I'm on PC).

It originally seemed like the May 12th patch had big performance improvements, and then my game started freezing at least once per day. When my game is about to freeze, it starts out like what Anma998 is describing - things glitch out. Like, most recently, my active sim was playing chess with a NPC, and doing friendly socials with them, but the friendship bar wasn't moving even though the "plus" symbol kept appearing over their heads. A few minutes later the game froze. There were no last exceptions, and this happened after I did a nuke and reinstall of all my game files.

There doesn't seem to be much of a pattern to when it happens, or at least, not any kind of reliable trigger for it. I'll update this comment if I can find one.

Edit: still haven't found a cause, but I did discover that switching to a different lot as soon as I see the warning signs (audio vanishing, things like friendship/romance bars not doing anything, etc) is enough to avoid the freezing.