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My sim's queues and actions are completely messed up. When I load into Live Mode, my sim will act normal for the first minute or so, before they start telekinetically doing actions. (ex: playing with a cowplant from all the way across the lot) Then their queue will get a random action like "Get a drink". The sim will stand there stuck and the action will not leave their queue until I reset them. Other times, it'll say that they're currently doing an action that they aren't. (ex: the sim will be playing on their phone but it will say that they're reading a book) The actions also don't fill up at all when using the toilet or showering. The queue will say that the sim is doing the action, but the sim is still sitting down. If I manage to actually get the sim to do the action, the queue will either not show any progress or instantly fill up but never end and the sim will keep doing the action endlessly. When I reset the sim, whatever needs would've been filled while doing the action fill up. Then they stand there completely still, not even idle. All of the animals and townies in the world also freeze. The pause, play and speed buttons also stop working after a while.
At one point, I got stuck in an infinite loading screen while trying to get to manage worlds, because when I tried to get my sim to travel, she just infinitely yapped on the phone. I couldn't exit my game, tab out, or close my game without forcing it by exiting through the windows key and ending the task with task manager.
Im on Windows 11 PC. I have all of the packs, including Enchanted by Nature and I've removed ALL of my mods and CC. I didn't have a lot of mods. I've tried taking my mods folder out and placing it on the desktop, deleting the localthumbcache file and the avatarcache file, repairing my game, starting new saves, renaming my SIms 4 folder and letting the game generate a brand new one, removing my ENTIRE sims folder from the Electronic Arts folder and letting my game generate a brand new Sims 4 file, and absolutely nothing has helped even a little. It affects every sim on every lot. I don't know what else to do... I JUST got the game and I can't find any information anywhere on how to fix it.
UPDATE: Movie Hangouts is what's causing these issues for me! I opened File Explorer, scrolled down and opened "This PC", then "Local Disc", then "Program Files", then "EA Games", then "The Sims 4", and I removed the file "SP05", which is the Movie Hangouts pack. I put the file into a different folder and cleared all game caches again. When I opened my game, my sims and townies were behaving normally again. I made sure that it was THAT specific pack by isolating the packs in batches. If anyone else is having this issue, I hope this works for you. Just know that this will uninstall Movie Hangouts from your game.
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- EA_Cade10 months ago
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