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Anyone else have major bugs/lag lately?
Thenyoukissme
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Lately my game has become near impossible to play. Mainly with sims not following commands or standing around doing nothing or just bugging out. I thought it was just my computer at first until I watched the latest video from sim supply and saw he was having the same issues.
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I do try to keep an eye on inventories, but inventory management is just terrible in this game. At the very least, I wish that we could set threshold amounts for produce items and have produce and fish automatically stored in the fridge.
Another major bug I bumped into last night was my Sim's own failing energy moodlet was waking him up. I'd command him to sleep (while at red energy), he'd lay down, then wake up, like they do when another need like red bladder state wakes them up. The only way to get him to rest was to watch him experience energy failure and pass out, and even then, it wasn't enough to get him functional. I eventually just had to close out the game for the night and hope that today he's fixed.
Then there's the Toddler->Play interaction with adults. This has been glitching out HARDCORE, no matter who's doing it. The toddler just locks into place, and the adult has the slenderman arms as they go through the animations as if the toddler is participating in the play interaction.
I've had this issue too. Very annoying.
It’s as little as my Sims unable to throw garbage out in their yard because “no trash can exists” (despite there being one RIGHT next to them), to as big as Sims still freezing in place and the clock running back and forth with nothing going on. Additionally, Sims blatantly ignore my commands and act autonomously, even with the setting turned off.
It comes to a point where I close the game out and avoid it because I can’t be bothered to play a game where I feel like I’m fighting against it to get some enjoyment.
But at least now I can play Sims trivia with my Alexa while my game is doing its own thing. /s
It started happening a lot with my toddler, actions would go ignored and cancelled. The Sim would randomly teleport around the house, the Sim would freeze in place, but time it still passing, and motives going down. It is incredibly annoying to waste sim hours on one action that shouldn't take very long.
This is something I find pretty game breaking, and makes me just want to close the game. I would love for EA to fix this, I'm hoping it is something they are actually working on.. Given the past few updates, and that this seems to be a issue with the game since it launched.. My hope is fading. I will once again need to look to the Sims community to fix things.
Exactly this. It's been an issue for years but I don't even see it acknowledged. It was my reason to mostly stop TS4 and go back to TS2 and TS3 because it's simply game-breaking - If your Sims are literally just standing there, bobbing their heads and not reacting to anything then what can you do? It also happened more and more often.
I had a mod for the simulation lag installed but it stopped working at some point (I don't know if it's updated by now), but I wonder how people can enjoy their game without that mod. I heard that not everyone has that issue, but with the issue I find the game unplayable. There's no workaround like other bugs where people can say "But then just don't use the item/career/trait/interaction!" The only option for me was either "Wait for the game to work again, play a few minutes, wait again." or "Stop playing."
The other recent thing I have noticed is that collectibles do not seem to be respawning. Was already not pleased at all that they changed a lot of the collectible spots to those dirt spots for pets that only have worthless repair parts (in all the worlds - not just Brindleton Bay) but now the few decent collectibles either change to those dirt spots after the first dig or just don't respawn. And I just reset my Sims folder, and repaired the game (which takes forever now with all the packs) prior to starting this new save.
What seriously annoys me is, so often, I have already paid for something and then they come along and change what I paid for with an update or a new pack. Previous pack's game play features should not be changed or disappear with new packs and updates - I payed for those game play features and now no longer have them. Seems every update or new pack - we lose some game play feature we used to have.
-The standing around bug which is usually fixed by going into buy mode for a few seconds
-1$ bills, reported on the bug forum
-Triplets being born any time a played pregnant sim is not in the active household when the pregnancy concludes. I think I reported this one too.
-Constant Last Exception. Can't be my mods as all have been updated very recently, so the only thing it could possibly be is old CC but I haven't got around to checking for new versions. It's irritating but I can work around it.
The rodent cage bug is posted on AHQ here. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-MFPSP-Rodent-Cage-Breaks-Game/m-p/7259787#M79999
Can you please go to the link and press the me too button and maybe add a comment about it.
Also a warning, don't delete or sell the cage because your game might completely break and you'll have to quit without saving.
@Evie0602 I've already done so. I really hope they fix it soon.
It seems like there might be many factors that cause lag in the game. And yes one is having too many things items in a sims inventory.
Seems like on some lots after a few minutes the FPS degrades. I load up the 40x30 penthouse and start at 90 FPS, then within 10 minutes goes to 30-60.
Sims 4 Answers HQ
I'm going to go ahead and close this thread now. In future please make sure to post any bug reports or technical issues you have to Answers HQ