[FEEDBACK] Game freezes when kids/teens go to school
by Sims4780Original Post
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all expansions bar vampires and luxury party and halloween
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? have a child and wait until around 8.30 am
What happens when the bug occurs? at around 8.30am every morning my sims freeze and time controls freeze just before the teens and kids go off to school making them late every day
What do you expect to see? at 8.30 teens and kids change and go to school without freezing motionless for a while
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
My teens and kids freeze EVERY time around 8am before going to school constantly making them late 
Jesus. This bug is almost a year old now and still no fix? Seriously? Has EA abandoned this title? 
Ok so I too have been having this issue. While there is no fix from EA yet, nor is there a sure fire work around, there IS a way to shorten the time it freezes for. I will first explain exactly what I have noticed happens when it is time for children/teens to go to school. Then I will explain my daily (in game) work around.
1- 8 am when children/teens have to go to school, the game freezes. Even if you pause the game time still runs for up to 3 or more in game hours then snaps back to just after 8 am.
2- for every action the child/children/teen(s) are attempting to do or have in que = more freeze time (as it will freeze for 30 sec to 1 minute or more per action the game has to cancel out so it can load the "Go to school" action. This is per child, so the more children you have = more actions to stop = more frustration ... lol
So if there is no action going or in que, the lag/freeze time will be minimal (30 sec - 1 min) per child/teen. So the more children/teens you have, the longer it will freeze for. As I have only 2 children the freeze time is not long doing the following process below.
This is the 1st part of what I do:
1- around 7:30 am I pause the game and cancel all actions on the kid(s)/teen(s).
2- select a spot outside further down the sidewalk to make the kid(s)/teen(s) walk to and "Go here". (you must manually do this for each child/teen)
3- un pause the game for about 5-10 in game minutes then pause again for 10 or so seconds (This is to help allow the system to clear the previous actions).
4- un pause the game and allow the "Go here" action to go into effect (if you have it timed right they will still be walking or just finished walking by the time it gets to 8 am game time). As long as they are doing nothing but walking when it reaches 8 am it does not matter whether or not they have made it outside the house.
The above (1st) part of the process should only take 30 seconds at most to do.
Now for the 2nd part:
5- at 8:01 or 8:02 am pause the game. It WILL pause, but everything will stop/freeze and the time will keep running. It will also still not show that the kid(s)/teen(s) are headed to school which is ok, as it will show that they are in just a minute or two.
6- At this point it will be stuck on whichever kid/teen you are selected on, this is normal. Now select on another kid/teen and wait till it changes over to the other one you selected on. This will usually take up to 30 seconds, maybe a little longer. (if you have only 1 child or teen, select on an adult member of the household). (also if you have more than 2 kids/teens cycle this step through all of them, ie.... select next one, then wait till it changes to that child/teen, and repeat to select though all of them)
7- change back to the 1st child/teen. You should now see the go to school action loaded into the que.
8- Select the next child/teen down the line till you have cycled though all of them a 2nd time. This is so that the game can have the "Go to school" action loaded on all of them. Once this is done and you can freely change between them you are good to go and can now un pause the game. (if you have only 1 child, once you can freely change between the child/teen and an adult you are good to go).
Depending on other things going on with the game/system this process usually takes me about 1.5-2 minutes to work through the freeze and get the kids off to school. If you have more than 2 kids it will take a little longer to work through. Also remember that the important thing to shortening the amount of time the game freezes is to have the kids doing nothing other than walking and to have nothing in their que.
I know that this is not a permanent work around, and that it is an extra in game daily chore to do. But it is much better (and for me, much faster) than having to exit and reload the game or switch maps, etc.... as sometimes when you enter back into the game it will still be at this problem time (8 am).
If this has helped you please Grant XP to show others that this worked for you as well.
Thank you and have fun out there 
