Sim doesn't interact with others and instead starts dancing/twitching

Could you please provide the following information

-  Are you using mods/cc in your game ? Please remove them and test without them if you do.

 I dont use any mods or cc. Full vanilla game

Thank you for confirming. I merged your post with the main thread then.

Please provide your save game to EA: [INFORMATION] How to Send User Files to The Sims 4 Team | EA Forums - 5048472 

Whenever I try to play the Sims 4 game, the game has the Sims characters swaying, and the time moves off and on. I am not able to do anything in the game, and if I try to save the game or travel worlds to see if that could  help fix the game, I get stuck in the loading screen. Whatever I do to fix the game even going into the Sims 4 games settings it still does not work not even cheating. If possible please fix the Sims 4 game so I can play it again or tell me how to fix it, please!!!!!!! 

Could you please provide the following information

-  Are you using mods/cc in your game ? Please remove them and test without them if you do.
-  What platform are you playing on (PC, Mac, Playstation, XBox)
- Please also provide any LastException files in your documents folder. Upload them to either google or oneDrive and post the link here.

I have the same problem. Removing cc and mods doesn’t seem to work. I tried other things such as deleting localthumbcache.package and disabling my packs and the problem persists. None of my save files are playable.

i was able to fix this but i had to uninstall the game and redownload it onto my external hard drive and it worked fine after. im not sure what else can be done to fix it though i know uninstalling and redownloading is tedious. if you use mods you can keep them all just move your mods folder out of the sims directory before uninstalling and once reinstalled replace the new mod folder with the one you kept from the previous install.

I tried uninstalling and redownloading the game, and it finally worked! Just make sure you move your mods and saves folders to desktop before uninstalling.

Hi this is OP! i think i found a temporary workaround for this problem. I hope this comment reach ppl even tho it'll be way down there.

I just got a new PC (when i posted this report i was playing with a Macbook) so this is a completely fresh game, i haven't even transferred my saves, trays, etc so there are no mods or cache or anything that were suspected of being the problem. but my new sim still just started dancing with a townie despite playing on a fresh new save file on a new better device,  i figured the problem is not the device or with/wo mods. so i tried removing 'heavy' packs, i moved Discover University and Eco Living folders to my desktop to try playing without them, and it worked for a minute, my sim could talk with several townies but they still cant sleep on a bed they just stood freezing.

then I tried to move almost all my packs into the the desktop and tried to play starting with ONLY 6 bigger expansion packs (city living, cats dogs, seasons, get famous, snowy, cottage), and they worked perfectly no problems at all! so i gradually added more and more packs, then played the game, added more packs, played the game, so on so forth to see how far my game could take before bugging again, when sims started dancing again i removed the pack (i did this without restarting my PC for every try/reset, idk maybe i should but i was too lazy and impatient). They finally worked with several expansion packs, game packs, and stuff/kit packs, I'll list the packs that worked for me below.

after the game was stable-ish i started transferring my older saves, i literally just replaced the whole new Electronic Arts folders w my old one i didn't remove the old tray folders or cache or thumbnail.cache things or whtv and the game worked alright. i even added the (newer updated) mods that I used to have and they still worked well, only bc i wanted to prove if the mods are the problem but it were not. I've been playing for 2 hours and so far so good.

So i think the problem with this bug is probably if you have too many packs (??) i'm not sure. Removing the bigger packs like Eco Living, Get Together, For Rent etc i found helped a lot but i'm not sure if they're the main thing causing this problem? I don't think removing the smaller kits would do much unless you have like over 30 kits, and i found removing big game packs like vampires and wedding stories that had their own worlds could be significant as well. I could try removing Lovestruck (as it was probably the start of Bugs Era) and it would probably help but i refuse to play without it bc it's so fun and made me laugh a lot so i had to compensate and remove other packs that i don't play with that often.

But this shouldn't have to happen?? We shouldn't have to do this, i mean we should be able to play with any packs that we have and even now that i have a new waay better device i unfortunately still couldn't play with everything. So there's that I hope this helps, you can try mix matching your own packs and see how far your game could take. Good luck!!

Packs that I haven't removed:

EP: Get to Work, City Living, Cats Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Snowy escape, Cottage, HS Years (the next one i'll remove if i have to), Growing tgt, Lovestruck, Life Death, Business, Enchanted by nature

GP: Dine Out, Parenthood; Kits: Incheon, Blooming rooms, Desert Luxe, Pastel pop, Everyday Clutter, Book nook, Home Chef, Goth, Paranormal, Comfy Gamer etc (the kits aren't that heavy so having many kits is still ok i think. Bc having that much EPs with many GPs but few kits still won't work, so i compensated lots of GP so that i can have that amount of EP and many kits)