Ideas
You would think after longer than a month of not playing because of this one issue it would be fixed with the nov. 4th patch. But no.
It's actually super disappointing that this thread has so many votes and comments and the issue actually has been going on for MONTHS, then when they drop an update for 150+ fixes this issue still CONTINUES. If you're new to the Sims, let me tell you the money you will spend on expansion packs and kits and whatever else this company pushes is NOT worth the headache and the amount of problems you'll have to deal with this game.
This issue persists without a single crumb of custom content or mods, so please don't say remove them. Already tried that. Several times. Did everything else, there's really not much left to do as I've verified many times it's not any of my mods and it's definitely not my computer.
It is getting ridiculous that we all know that whenever a new patch, update, kit, expansion etc will break something in the game and it seems the devs can fix things that don't really affect gameplay like shadows and cas items but can't fix things that have a real negative impact on the game like this bug. Or it takes months or years to fix something it's just so frustrating. In my vanilla game yesterday I wanted to see if Evergreen Harbour maker spaces were really fixed this time and my sim just stood outside the building with his needs going down and the list of things I'd assigned him to do apparently getting done because I was getting the aspiration points for them. But I had to zoom out on the map and make him travel home when his needs were getting in the red because he ignored the go home command.
Windows laptop with direct x 11, no mods or cc ever, vanilla save.