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Late Night Glitch - Sim Pauses
chrismandotcom
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Hello, There is a SERIOUS glitch in the new Late Night Expansion.
Glitch is simple and frustrating. Basically when my sim is given a Action, he stands.... waits.... and acts after about 40 Minutes. THEN he moves and freezes mid walk/mid action.
Attached is a video from my game play
Ive been through the forums and have seen this is a problem with others. I have Re installed Night Life. I have Removed All Custom Content Manually by pulling it from the directory. And STILL it doesnt work properly. Installed is Sims 3 Base Game, World Adventures, and Late Night. I NEVER had this problem with World Adventures or the base game.
Also, Is there a patch or something ? Because Auto Update has NOT found one.
Glitch is simple and frustrating. Basically when my sim is given a Action, he stands.... waits.... and acts after about 40 Minutes. THEN he moves and freezes mid walk/mid action.
Attached is a video from my game play
Ive been through the forums and have seen this is a problem with others. I have Re installed Night Life. I have Removed All Custom Content Manually by pulling it from the directory. And STILL it doesnt work properly. Installed is Sims 3 Base Game, World Adventures, and Late Night. I NEVER had this problem with World Adventures or the base game.
Also, Is there a patch or something ? Because Auto Update has NOT found one.
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It is like everything is jumping on me. There are 1 or 2 second jumps all the time. This gets really annoying when my sim is running or even driving to a job. I noticed it happening more and more lately. Even when she is sleeping, the zzzzz's jump as well.
In my case, it is my computer, though. I'm getting a new one. =P
EA FIX THIS PROBLEM PRONTO!
Yeah, I just got that too after reading about it in another thread. It only found 21 cars in my game, so I doubt it helped much. But I'm keeping it anyway, it has some other features I like. And it's also reassuring that this is not a Mac issue only, PC people are experiencing this too.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Edit: Nevermind, I searched and found instructions (nothing that specifically mentioned Mac install), but it works! I noticed an immediate improvement, 1,186 cars removed :shock:
Here:
http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?topic=4685.0
I have the same problem; Sims takes forever to do small things, its difficult to make them happy and get skills, and it seems impossible to have a job in late night if your sim actually want to go out. Im already a bit bored playing LN because of this, so hope it get fixed soon. Does any of you also have problems about empty clubs?
I have been participating in the Late Night forum about the bugs and glitches, and it seems as there is awareness about the freeze issues. But if you think they dont pay attention here, go to LN and post the problem. There is a sticky about LN problems and there youll find different links where you can post different issues, as pausing/freezing.
Just remember to write your on a Mac
Im very disappointed too. It looks like Windows Users are having this problem too. So overall they are ignoring us.
One (celebrity) sim was asked to go dance at a club for 3 hours. He got out of work at 6 and I had "go to club" waiting in his queue. I think it was around 9:30 by the time he got there. Then he wouldn't go upstairs. He just stood in the lobby. I told him to "go here" (into the club), I told him to go to one floor via the elevator, I told him to go to a different floor, I tried to get him to walk into the elevator in hopes it would just take him up. He just stood in the lobby twiddling his thumbs, thinking about stuff, yawning, being hungry, for like, 3 more hours. I finally, FINALLY got him to go up to the club. I was about to tell him to go dance when I realized there weren't 3 hours left before the club would close. So I sent him back home.
Meanwhile, his girlfriend was asked to pass out flyers at a bar for work. The place opened at 5. I had her leave work at 4. It was like 7 by the time she got there. Like 10 Sims, including bartenders and bouncers, were standing outside, mostly crying about how they had to pee and/or were hungry. After watching her stand around in the lobby for a little while I decided she could just as easily pass out flyers on the street, since that's where all the NPCs were stuck anyway, so I had her leave the lobby and go back outside. That took, oh, two hours. I had her pass out a flyer. She just stood there. I queued up a few more flyers. She stood there for hours and hours and hours. Finally around 2 am I decided to send her home. She did not pass out a single flyer.
Most of the time I now send sims home by doing "resetsim firstname lastname," because it just takes too freaking long for them to go home on their own. That puts them in front of their building. Of course it usually still takes another hour or two for them to get upstairs, and for them to get in bed. It was around 5:30 am before both of these guys finally went to sleep. Meanwhile, she didn't do her work, and he didn't get the celeb credit or whatever for dancing in the club. This has happened, like, 20 times.
The subway system does NOT help, because now that Sims have like 1-3 hours of lag before doing an action, the subway is just more actions, which stacks up the lag. If my sims are lucky enough to catch the carpool, it takes them straight to work (and once they finally get IN the car, and begin the action, the action happens without a problem), but that almost never happens because they can't make it downstairs that fast. I could send them down earlier, but usually they're exhausted from having gotten home at 5:30 am.
This isn't even counting the REAL glitches I've had, like the time one got stuck in the elevator for an entire day (it was after that that I learned about resetsim), or, you know, when I had to reinstall the entire game before it would even open. It's now working properly. And it's FUN when it works! I love Late Night. I would love do all the things in it. I am in love with high-rise living (the elevators, when they work, are groovy), I love the dance clubs, I love the celebrity stuff, I love the mini-quests you're asked to do. It's just incredibly, incredibly laggy, and every time I play it I'm usually in a horrible mood by the time I'm done. Like now.
The lagging between actions problem has existed since the base game. This is not something that ever happened in Sims 2 -- not that Sims 2 didn't have plenty of moments of slowness, but that pause between actions was just not how the game was constructed. But though the lag has always been there in Sims 3, it has been minuscule. Now it's just getting ridiculous. Add to that the fact that the elevators often don't work and are very slow, the fact that the bars close before you can get them to do anything, and sims insisting on riding the subway at ridiculous times (sometimes when they're right next to the building they want to go to! Yet they run in the opposite direction, to the train), and it's just an extremely frustrating experience.
I also think some of the meters are off -- I don't think their expensive bed is making them any more rested than the cheap bed was doing, and my Athletic sim spent like 8 hours on the treadmill (he was asked to go work out at the gym for 4 hours for celeb points, and once he finally got up there hours later, he did 3.88 hours on the treadmill and then was too tired to continue -- AAAAARRGGGHHH) and hasn't even reached one athletics skill point. It does seem to me that their needs are deteriorating faster than normal, but that's harder to quantify. (In any case, though -- I LOVE the feature of World Adventures that need decay slows way way down when a sim is in a tomb doing a quest -- I wish they had chosen to make this happen at the clubs/bars as well. And also not to have open such limited hours.)
I'd say a patch is needed, yes please. If NOTHING else, a cheat along the lines of moveobjects that allowed us to move sims around outside of their home lots would pretty much fix everything. Of course, I'd have to manually move them everywhere, which is stupid, but at least it would allow me to avoid the $@*%ing elevators and subways.
I feel so silly working myself into a lather over tiny imaginary people and their tiny elevators and subways and dance clubs and movie flyers and treadmills and toilets and cooking manuals. This is only a game -- I know. But I sit down to play it and have it be fun, and it is fun, and I want to do it, and then it starts throwing little annoyances at me and before I know I'm swearing at a little robot to get in the f&^@ing shower before I kill him.
Sorry for the rant -- it's been building a few days now. :P
ETA: Forgot to add that the old problem of the 3-speed not working very well is back. I am back to keeping a book at the computer desk so I can read it while they sleep. Bit of a momentum-killer.