[ARCHIVED] Game Freeze/ Extended Loading Times/ Save Game Bloating

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Unsusually long loading-times

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Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? Dansk
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? Newest from 17/11-2020 update
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Pretty much all of Them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? For me the problem is when I launch a save from the main menu. Initializing the save takes a very very Long time (so far have been waiting 20 minutes and it is still loding). Music is playing, the texts are rolling and sim icon spinning but thats about it.
What happens when the bug occurs? Same as explained above
What do you expect to see? I usually have a loading-time of 10-40 seconds. This is really annoying. I cannot play the game because ir wont load!
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? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. 17-11-2020 patch update

Uploaded a photo of the loading screen. It just keeps loading and loading

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November 2020 fixed update

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game loads up then takes ages to get into my household then completely freezes after 2 mins. Can’t even exit out of the game.  Never had any issues with sims 4 update before. 

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Re: Unsusually long loading-times

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@ZofiaPetSki Merging this with the main thread on the issue

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Crin

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Re: Unsusually long loading-times

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Those who suffer save game bloat, do you have Seasons? In the save file I mentioned earlier there are 6662 hidden townies with Father Winter trait.

 

Edit: It might be helpful to keep Clement Frost (original FW) alive and employed or to cancel any Winterfests before it even starts.

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@kusurusuHow can i find those secret people? Lol I looked at households section but as you mentioned before nothing was different, i mean they are all from the past. Do i need to use some mods like MCCC? And do you think we can get rid of “future father winters” by just eliminating “father winter” choice from Winterfest or do i need to delete Winterfest completely? :/

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Re: Sims still freezing after update 1.34

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This is happening to me as well. The only difference being I play on PC. It’s like time literally stops in the game.

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Re: [CURRENT ISSUE] Game time stops/ Game Freeze/ Extended Loading Times

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I had this same issue. After the update on november 10th, the game would take a long time to load into my save file that existed before the update. Sometimes I would just stall out where the time would stop, but I could hear the sims audio and they would still be moving a little. When I looked at the task manager, I could see the sims quickly taking up 100% of my computer's memory, so I'm pretty sure it's a memory leak issue. I also had to force quit out of the game.

It was so bad that I was eventually only able to play max 5 minutes before the issue presented itself. My save file was also giant for this household and new saves seemed to not have this issue.

After the 17th update didn't fix the issue, I ended up saving my house and my family to my library in the gallery and starting a new save with them. You lose NPCs, exact season days (if you have seasons), household collections and maybe some other stuff I didn't notice. I played for about an hour without an issue and my save file looks to be a normal size. SO hopefully this fixed it and helps someone else too!

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@JuliaChang93Not sure how to remove them after they spawned (given they don't appear in manager), but yeah, removing FW tradition (if possible) should be enough to prevent bug.

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Re: [CURRENT ISSUE] Game Freeze/ Extended Loading Times/ Save Game Bloating

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I am having the same problems my game loads up and I can play it for about 5 mins then it just freezes. I have no mods I’ve never used mods I have updated and repaired I even uninstalled and reinstalled but nothing is working I can not play at all and now getting a message come up it won’t let me attract photo 

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@SimQARobo thanks. very frustrated there's been so many issues recently Frown
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