Serious lag/loading issues
Hi everyone, I've been having a lot of issues with Sims 4 the last few days. I do not have any cc or mods. On Friday, my game wouldn't load and was stuck on the second loading screen after the main menu. On Saturday evening, I was finally able to get the game to load, but with serious lag (5-10 second delay). I uninstalled both the Sims and the EA app and reinstalled both, but I am still having lots of trouble with it. Everything takes so long to load that the game isn't even fun to play anymore. I've tried following several methods online and cleared cache, restarted my PC, and uninstall/reinstalled several times. Any tips on what I can do, or is this a platform-wide problem? TIA
No Romantic Interactions
Ever since I have downloaded the lastest patch and Life & Death, my sims can not perform romantic interactions anymore. The only one they can perform is "Offer a Massage". I thought that there were too many sims in my household, but that was not the case. My sim was able to perform romantic interactions with a new sim, but that did not last long. How can I have my sims kiss, hug, flirt, woohoo, and go on dates again?
Display Keeps Failing While Playing the Sims 4
Hello everyone, I built my partner a gaming PC so that they could play the Sims 4 after their old computer died. Originally, everything was fine. However, the computer keeps randomly "crashing". What specifically happens is this; My partner will boot up their computer and start playing the Sims 4. They will play either on one of their various challenge playthroughs or a new household, play for as long as a couple of hours or as little as fifteen minutes before the monitor goes black and seems to cease receiving input from the PC. The PC tower itself remains on, as does the monitor, but we lose any ability to interact with it via mouse or keyboard. No matter how long we wait, the monitor does not receive any input from the tower until we turn off the computer and reboot it via the power button or unplug and replug it. After looking at various other tales of SIMS 4 shenanigans, I did the following things each time it crashed: -Updated the graphics drivers. (I keep updating them every time there is an update available). -Tested the graphics card and its power cables to make sure it was getting enough power. (It is.) -Created a config override file to include the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 (my partner's graphics card) as an accepted graphics card, complete with proper coding for max allowable settings. -Did a graphics-card test with Furmark2 x64 on high settings while monitoring temperature and power usage (all were well within safe parameters). -Repaired Sims 4 whenever there seemed to be a problem, or the option was presented. -Switched input cords, which I regularly check. -Regularly air-dusted the PC and inspected the graphics card without damaging it while cleaning with approved tools. -Run the Sims 4 in windowed mode with lower settings. While all of these fixes seem to temporarily alleviate the problem, the crashes have returned and are getting worse no matter what I do. At this point my partner can no longer play the game for longer than 30 minutes without the monitor suddenly going black . I've run two Dxdiags, one without the Sims 4 open and the other with the Sims4 open, but I've been unable to get a Dxdiag when the screen goes black and the game appears to crash. I'm at my wits end and I am starting to wonder if we just have to buy a new graphics card. The only other information I can provide is that, sometimes, when the screen goes black, a red indicator light appears on the graphics card. However, it is not flashing (which would indicate power failure). Instead, the light is a steady, unblinking red. And it only appears for a few moments before turning back off. I should also mention that the computer ONLY does this for the Sims 4 game. I've installed other video games of various sizes to test using my own Steam account (only to test on days where my partner is away before uninstalling them) and I do not see this specific problem with any of them. I've also taken a day to just run Furmark2 on as high settings as it will allow, and the computer ran fine the entire time. After turning it off for a few hours, my partner then went to play the Sims 4, played for thirty minutes, and had the monitor go black and lose all of their progress. At this point, we are only able to get the Sims 4 to run for a maximum of 30 minutes (usually it's less than that) before the screen goes black. Any help would be appreciated, as I don't think we can afford a new graphics card right now. I've attached the DXdiags I generated to this post. The one with "Sims" included in the title is the one I generated while The Sims 4 was running. Any help at all would be appreciated.
Crashing With Lots
Every so often I set up a new 'base save' with all my favourite community/residential lots transferred from game saves I have played. And every time I do this I have frequent crashing problems. It can happen when I am loading a lot or when I am saving a lot or when I am placing a lot. There is no pattern to it other than the fact I am going into a number of lots one after another. So today, for instance, I went into an old save and loaded a community lot, saved it to my library ready to transfer, loaded another lot, saved that one to my library, tried to load another lot and - bam - CTD. A bit later I had loaded a few lots in the same way and it was going well, tried to save one to my library - bam - CTD. Etc etc. Sometimes it will happen with a lot and I can go back to that same lot later and it doesn't happen. It's not a new thing, it happens every time I set up a new game save. It's like the game will only let me transfer a couple of lots before crashing and then I have to start the game back up before I can carry on. If anyone has any ideas, it will be greatly appreciated xx PS. I have no cc or mods whatsoever.
[LD] Hallow Grounds: Lights get stuck very bright after flickering
Hallowed ground light flickering changes color of all lights and candles to neutral white afterwards. Interestingly, when the lights flicker because the lot type is set to haunted it does NOT mess with light colors. Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit bug report at AHQ.[LD] [GT] Party invites for ruins/van haunt take place at graveyard instead
When your sim is invited to "something crazy going on down at _____" it keeps going to the graveyard in Ravenwood even when the stated location is the ruins or the von haunt estate. Also, when you go to the graveyard rave, no rave items appear on lot (dj booth, bar ect). I had to place them myself, otherwise everyone just stood around at the gate. Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Titlecannot turn off the game
hello, today I played the sims 4. everything is fine. I saved the game and went to the main menu. I can't move anywhere from it or turn off the game. there is no way to do it manually. macbook cannot be turned off or restarted because the sims is always on. how to turn it off?