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nutmegprime
Seasoned Newcomer
12 days ago
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Mod Related

Sims Frozen and Unable to Click Anything after Opening Small Business

Opened a small business selling art. For the first few openings everything was fine. After a while, I noticed that after opening the small business, at the 3-4 hour mark (as in the business had been open 3-4 hours Sim time), the sims on the lot would stay still. Pressing pause or fast-forward did nothing. I couldn't click on any objects either. I could enter build/buy mode, but going to manage worlds caused it to stay on the loading screen for a long time. Clicking "save" or "save and exit" just led to the saving screen being on forever. My only fix for this issue is force quitting the Sims 4 app. The freeze only happens when opening my small business.  I don't think it's my mods or cc because it only happens when I open the small business.

Basically:

  • Sims stay frozen where they are
  • Time frozen
  • Pause & fast-forward doesn't work
  • Cannot click objects/sims
  • Can still enter build/buy 
  • Clicking manage worlds leads to loading screen that takes forever (no point waiting because at that point it's not going to load)
  • Click save or save and exit leads to saving screen that takes forever (again, no point waiting)
  • Only solution is to force quit and lose progress

Does anyone know why this is happening?

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  • Please test your issue on a vanilla game

    To verify on a vanilla game, move your mods folder to the desktop and delete the following files from your user folder.

    -  localthumbcache
    -  Any lastException Files
    -  Any LastCrash files.

    Test a backup of your save as you will loose all cc on the save and see if the same error occurs, then report back.

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    nutmegprime
    Seasoned Newcomer
    10 days ago

    I moved my mods folder to my desktop and tested on a vanilla game and my usual save. I was able to open a small business for 12 hours without it freezing like before. That means the issue is with my mods or cc.

    I just don't know what it could be because all my script mods are up to date, and the problem only occurred after opening the small business a handful of times. I think there were 4-5 times I was able to open the small business without it freezing and that was with my mods and cc installed. Then suddenly it started freezing out of nowhere.

    Is there anyway to know what mod or cc is causing the problem? The last time I tried the 50/50 method was when I had crashing problem. I tested with a vanilla game but strangely, nothing crashed as I was testing it. Then I went back to my usual save and it never crashed again. I thought that maybe repairing the game and changing the graphics settings fixed the problem and the crash had nothing to do with my mods or cc. 

    At this point, I'm thinking of just removing my mods folder every time I want to open my small business, and then putting it back when I'm done.