Severe lag after 1 hour of gameplay : requires restart
Hi, I'm experiencing a major performance issue that seems to affect a lot of players (I asked my community and many confirmed having the same problem). When I first launch the game, everything runs smoothly. Menus like Needs, Inventory, and Aspirations open instantly. Build/Buy mode is fine too, with maybe a tiny freeze the first time, but that’s normal. The issue is: the longer I play, the worse the game performs. - After around 30 minutes, the menus start to feel a bit slower. - After about an hour, the game becomes extremely laggy: - Opening the Needs panel takes a few seconds. - Build/Buy mode freezes for 5–6 seconds before opening. - The Eyedropper tool has a delay of around 2 seconds. - UI and general interactions become very sluggish. The only fix is to completely restart the game. After relaunching, everything is smooth again — but only temporarily. After another 30–60 minutes, the problem comes back. This isn’t a hardware issue. My PC setup: - Intel Core i9-12900K - 64 GB DDR5 RAM - NVIDIA RTX 4090 - Game installed on SSD - No mods, no CC - All expansion packs installed I also tend to play fast-paced, usually on speed 3. In one hour of real-time gameplay, I can go through 10–14 Sim days. It seems like the game is slowly filling up memory or cache that never clears unless I restart. It would be great to know if this has already been reported or tracked by the dev team, because it makes long play sessions really frustrating. Thanks!
[HSY] Issues with active highschool UI/ Showing as Holiday UI
It seems like in the newest update High School Days got an update how it displays the school day, by making it like the Holidays from Seasons, I've found a few bugs with this, number 1: When clicking to leave there is no time left how long the school day will take, but there are empty spaces. Number 2: School Starts/Lunch ends... has no actual time when it ends And last 3: (Don't have a screenshot for this one) When you got a task complete the new one won't show up/it won't update till you switch to another sim and back. Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title Seems there's several issues with the new Highschool issue. Currently checking with the CM how Maxis wants this. Issues Time Missing for Task GUI and when leaving early Holidays causing tasks to disappear for multiple Sims: [HSY] High school tasks will not be displayed on holidays | EA Forums - 12138219 Llama Icon New tasks not showing on UI without switching Sims.
[HSY] [S] High school tasks will not be displayed on holidays
I have applied the latest update for the PC version (1.114.46.1030), but when I go to school on a day when a holiday is set, the high school tasks do not appear. Only the holiday tasks appear. I tried canceling the holidays, but this only resulted in the holiday tasks disappearing, and the high school tasks did not appear on that day. My grades were not displayed at the end of the day either.
UI Turn ons/Turn offs broken
In CAS when trying to add turn ons/turn offs the ui lacks numbers and like/dislike buttons. Not sure what happened in the 2 december 2025 update, but I doubt this was what they had in mind. Playing on PC, never used mods or CC. Edit by crinrict Workaround Please see this post for a workaround: UI Turn ons/Turn offs broken | EA Forums - 12981725
[RL] Scandal Icon not going away when cleared/Moodlet time getting longer
I have this purple exclamation point in a cloud that periodically flashes. Now, I thought it had something to do with a scandal that my Sim got involved in, since I think that's when it started. In any case, the scandal has since cleared, but I'm still getting the repeating purple exclamation point. Can anyone shed some light on this... sort of making me batty that it won't go away. Note by crinrict: Temporary Workaround can be found here: [RL] Scandal Icon not going away after cleared scandal | EA Forums - 13185522 Use the following cheat (does not disable achievements as you don't need testingcheats): traits.remove_Trait Trait_Hidden_Scandal_Secret_VFX
Can't disable packs on EA App/Steam
After the newest patch the game ignores the command to manually disable packs on the EA App. That's a problem because I don't want to activate every pack at once for all my save files and have occults running around. I want to play with just a few selected packs, which fit the individual save file's theme and its storyline. Edit By crinrict: added missing thread tags (my own testing)
