Except I don't have the feeling all my issues are related to sound .. But I'll give it a try
That's really interesting. I noticed some audio problems in my game so I'm not surprised if it's related. Can't decide if I want to play without sound though
Except I don't have the feeling all my issues are related to sound .. But I'll give it a try
That's really interesting. I noticed some audio problems in my game so I'm not surprised if it's related. Can't decide if I want to play without sound though
Nâh me neither, playing without sound is plum Repairing my game for the 20th time now, then I will try once without sound, see if it helps. If it crashes, I'll be downstairs playing something else. I've had enough of this lol
@SimTrippy , not sure was it you or someone else, who made the reference of Groundhog Day , but I'll most likely patch and dl SE tonight.. maybe I have to make a sim who looks like Bill Murray to test it
My love, my love, my fearless love, I will not say goodbye..
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
@SimTrippy , not sure was it you or someone else, who made the reference of Groundhog Day , but I'll most likely patch and dl SE tonight.. maybe I have to make a sim who looks like Bill Murray to test it
Yes that was me Still feels like that because every time I load that lot there she is, my toddler, standing next to her bad about to pass out, mom going to sleep and the butler texting in the basement instead of hibernating in his designated coffin!
Sadly, after playing for an hour, my game screwed up! The clock froze and so did the sims. I could regain control by toggling build mode and live mode but in the end, it froze completely.
I made a note of more differences in gameplay...
A sim autonomously upgraded the washing machine - a first!
Dogs cannot eat homestyle recipes.
Father Winter no-showed on Christmas Day.
Money tree reverted back to plant.
I think I'll give this game a swerve for now. Hopefully they can fix it soon.
I had issues after the patch myself. The game sound was skipping every 15 minutes during game play and it would crash in between 15-40 minutes.
If you repair your game you should be fine but, if you use mods, drag your mods folder to your desk top before you repair the game then place the mods folder back in the sims 4 files.
If you still have issues, drag the whole sims 4 file to your desktop and repair again then place the sims 4 folder back into it's respective folder.
Hope it helps ya.
I can't place certain objects such as beds or counters... Anyone else have this problem?
It says there's something wrong with the scriptfile or whatever...
Do you use mods? There’s a mod we can’t mention on the forums that starts with B, and it was causing issues like this. It has been updated, though.
I was just able to play the game by going in Offline mode in Origin! I've done all the other fixes that other simmers have suggested but nothing worked. All updates to Windows, drivers, Visual C++, etc. I did not do the one mentioned this morning about turning off sound in Origin. Since the patch I could only play for 5 minutes, game would freeze and I'd have to shut down my computer to get out of it. I just played for about 45 minutes! Game was a little buggy but no freezing. Had a child age up but "Blow out Candles" didn't age her up but "Make a Wish" did. Also Mom would cook and leave things in the oven. I've never had patch issues before, I hope this helps someone else! I may buy SE later today if I can continue to play offline with minimal issues. This has been so frustrating and sad. I hope you all can find a way to play as well!!
game suddenly shutting down causing me to lose all my progress, sound issues which are eerily familiar...? i applaud EA for yet another gamebreaking patch.... you guys DO realize patches are supposed to FIX issues, and not adding even MORE to the game right?
Okay so update 55 of potential fixes that work for now but probably won't last lol. I did just manage to play for almost 2 hours without crashes. Now my sound did go away at the end of it, BUT during those two hours I played, my sims actually behave somewhat normal again. I even took them to a restaurant and no unusual bugginess occured.
Why? Honestly I don't know. I just typed visual c++ redistributable into Google, went to the page since it was titled "Visual C++ Redistributable Packages", knew I couldn't donwload the c++ thingy because it's already the most recent version (which is what it tells me when I download it), so I thought plum it. Let's download that too It installed, I repaired my game and it worked pretty okay!
Then I went to make a sandwich and when I came back the sound was gone so I'm restarting now but still .. it was nice to play for more than half an hour or so without crashing xD Knock on wood though, coz I'm not sure trial 2 will fare as well.
Uhm... something unexpected just happened on my silent lot. It started to rain and a plant disappeared, as if it was harvested. I checked the planter box and it is a Chrysanthemum. It is 12:35 PM, and Fall (in season) so I don't quite get why the plant was technically reset without any sim harvesting or even being close to. Then I recalled this lot has a few Chrysanthemums in vertical planters, and I am 100% sure they were blooming this morning. Right -now they were reset too... Was it the rain?
I just read the work-around for those with crashing and it is to turn your sound off completely. Now my sound on my laptop hasn't worked in years and I don't ever use it so I did not get it fixed. Go figure it would work out to be a good thing!
I was just able to play the game by going in Offline mode in Origin! I've done all the other fixes that other simmers have suggested but nothing worked. All updates to Windows, drivers, Visual C++, etc. I did not do the one mentioned this morning about turning off sound in Origin. Since the patch I could only play for 5 minutes, game would freeze and I'd have to shut down my computer to get out of it. I just played for about 45 minutes! Game was a little buggy but no freezing. Had a child age up but "Blow out Candles" didn't age her up but "Make a Wish" did. Also Mom would cook and leave things in the oven. I've never had patch issues before, I hope this helps someone else! I may buy SE later today if I can continue to play offline with minimal issues. This has been so frustrating and sad. I hope you all can find a way to play as well!!
I was thinking since you were able to play offline, should I go ahead and download the patch and my new ep to see if I have issues and if I do, just play offline? I am worried that if I download patch and ep that for some reason if I go offline it still won't work. What do you and others think I should do? I don't want to play without sound, so would prefer not to use that temp. fix. Thanks
Tbh I'm starting to think that my very new save got corrupted somehow. Played in another, much older save, and it didn't crash whatsoever. Also had none of the other issues. Tried the save I made for this pack again, crashed right away. So I copied the family, put them in the same house in a new save, works perfectly fine. At this point I'm wondering if something about the patch corrupted our current saves lol. Dunno if this works for anyone else, but it's worth a try
Tbh I'm starting to think that my very new save got corrupted somehow. Played in another, much older save, and it didn't crash whatsoever. Also had none of the other issues. Tried the save I made for this pack again, crashed right away. So I copied the family, put them in the same house in a new save, works perfectly fine. At this point I'm wondering if something about the patch corrupted our current saves lol. Dunno if this works for anyone else, but it's worth a try
I will have to test your theory out tonight as I'm one of the fortunate who has had no issues so far. I've only been playing saves I made prior to patch. I'll have to make a new save and see what happens.
I have not downloaded my SE yet, so I'll test the new save before I do. Also, I still have not put my mod folder back in, but I only have the one to keep Vlad away.
My game seems to be running smoothly since the update, but I find that clicking the button to have them take care of their needs no longer works. Has anyone else noticed this?
Tbh I'm starting to think that my very new save got corrupted somehow. Played in another, much older save, and it didn't crash whatsoever. Also had none of the other issues. Tried the save I made for this pack again, crashed right away. So I copied the family, put them in the same house in a new save, works perfectly fine. At this point I'm wondering if something about the patch corrupted our current saves lol. Dunno if this works for anyone else, but it's worth a try
I'm playing my regular save, and it seems to run just fine now that I unabled the sound in Origin. It used to crash, also after updating Windows.
I hate playing my game with no sounds, they are so essential to environment and feel of a busy home. The only aspect that benefits from this awkward silence is when in CAS and everyone are shutting up, LOL. Yes, elders and vampires, I'm looking at you!
Ugh...unfortunately I have run into the game crashing bug. Thankfully, it only seems to crash around the 2 hour mark, but it was definitely a shock to lose 2 hours worth of progress!
(Totally my fault, I am horrible about saving consistently!)
My game seems to be running smoothly since the update, but I find that clicking the button to have them take care of their needs no longer works. Has anyone else noticed this?
Ugh...unfortunately I have run into the game crashing bug. Thankfully, it only seems to crash around the 2 hour mark, but it was definitely a shock to lose 2 hours worth of progress!
(Totally my fault, I am horrible about saving consistently!)
I save at least once every sim day. Sims 3 taught me that.
My game seems to be running smoothly since the update, but I find that clicking the button to have them take care of their needs no longer works. Has anyone else noticed this?
Yes, but only sometimes. I haven't figured out what situations cause it to stop working.
My game has crashed twice, I do not have the new pack but I did allow origin to download the patch..it crashed once while building, then it crashed while in game play, and closed out the game.
My game would randomly crash without any error messages. I tried repairing the game but that didn't work. Updated my mods but that didn't seem to be an issue.
I read a suggestion to play in offline mode so I did. My game haven't crashed for an hour which is a good sign. Or maybe I was lucky.
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That's really interesting. I noticed some audio problems in my game so I'm not surprised if it's related. Can't decide if I want to play without sound though
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Nâh me neither, playing without sound is plum
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
Yes that was me
I made a note of more differences in gameplay...
I think I'll give this game a swerve for now. Hopefully they can fix it soon.
If you repair your game you should be fine but, if you use mods, drag your mods folder to your desk top before you repair the game then place the mods folder back in the sims 4 files.
If you still have issues, drag the whole sims 4 file to your desktop and repair again then place the sims 4 folder back into it's respective folder.
Hope it helps ya.
Do you use mods? There’s a mod we can’t mention on the forums that starts with B, and it was causing issues like this. It has been updated, though.
Here's what I did (might not be related at all xD):
- Went to this page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/search.aspx?q=redistributable+package.
- Donwloaded DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
Why? Honestly I don't know. I just typed visual c++ redistributable into Google, went to the page since it was titled "Visual C++ Redistributable Packages", knew I couldn't donwload the c++ thingy because it's already the most recent version (which is what it tells me when I download it), so I thought plum it. Let's download that too
Then I went to make a sandwich and when I came back the sound was gone so I'm restarting now but still .. it was nice to play for more than half an hour or so without crashing xD Knock on wood though, coz I'm not sure trial 2 will fare as well.
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I was thinking since you were able to play offline, should I go ahead and download the patch and my new ep to see if I have issues and if I do, just play offline? I am worried that if I download patch and ep that for some reason if I go offline it still won't work. What do you and others think I should do? I don't want to play without sound, so would prefer not to use that temp. fix. Thanks
I will have to test your theory out tonight as I'm one of the fortunate who has had no issues so far. I've only been playing saves I made prior to patch. I'll have to make a new save and see what happens.
I have not downloaded my SE yet, so I'll test the new save before I do. Also, I still have not put my mod folder back in, but I only have the one to keep Vlad away.
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I'm playing my regular save, and it seems to run just fine now that I unabled the sound in Origin. It used to crash, also after updating Windows.
I hate playing my game with no sounds, they are so essential to environment and feel of a busy home. The only aspect that benefits from this awkward silence is when in CAS and everyone are shutting up, LOL. Yes, elders and vampires, I'm looking at you!
(Totally my fault, I am horrible about saving consistently!)
Yes same here.
I save at least once every sim day. Sims 3 taught me that.
Yes, but only sometimes. I haven't figured out what situations cause it to stop working.
I read a suggestion to play in offline mode so I did. My game haven't crashed for an hour which is a good sign. Or maybe I was lucky.
Look here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/983645/crashing-with-the-november-10-update
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