Sims won't interact with objects or each other
All Sims in my game, played or unplayed/other households, will not interact with objects or each other. Things appear in the action queue but the Sims just stand there, start dancing (no music is playing), or even do the animation but not directly near the object??? Like, I see Sims doing the animation of rifling through the thrift store racks and the clothes on the rack move, but they're standing outside the building, not in front of the rack.
If my Sim is sitting on the couch and I click 'sleep' on a bed, it shows my Sim as asleep in the lower left corner but they're actually still just sitting there on the couch. Vendors and mixologists also spawn for food stalls and bars but they spawn far away them and just stand there; ordering food or drinks does nothing.
This is still happening after resetting Sims, disabling mods/CC, repairing the game, restarting the game and my computer... The only thing I've found to work is swimming in pools and watching TV. Otherwise, Live mode is pretty much unplayable. CAS and Build/Buy work just fine.
I only started experiencing this after the 7/23/2024 update (PC: 1.108.289.1030), though I can't say for sure it is the issue. I'm also not sure if these are all separate bugs or part of one big problem but either way I can't play the game normally :(