[FIXED] Sim flashing [ Edited ]

[IceCrystalSky882]

My Sim seems to keep flashing after the new update on the 4th Dec. I noticed it after coming out of build mode and I had my sim continue their work with their book and it hasn't stopped since then, the sim just keeps flashing no matter what. It only stop when the mouse over the sim. So far it hasn't affected the game but it rather annoying. Please fix

[crinrict · Accepted solution]

Marking as fixed

Feel free to come back if it still happens

[crinrict]

Can you try if adjusting the lightning helps

I do see this too and there is a thread for a specific window here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/GTW-Shantilly-Framed-Windows-causes-Sims-to-flicker/... but it seems to happen everywhere now.

I'll add this on the next round

[IceCrystalSky882]

Putting the lights on auto seems to help a little, by making the flashing a little easier to deal with. Putting all the lights on makes big flashes and turning them off does the same. It only happens to the household sims, all the other sims seems to look fine and the flashing doesn't happen when they sleep.

[Hroun_88]

If I'm correct in understanding, this is a problem with the 64 bit client. SimguruBchick has already directed this to the attention of the devs here:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/863552/latest-patch-flickering-sims/p2

[crinrict]

Great. Good to know.

Thanks @Hroun_88

[IceCrystalSky882]

So if I was to change back to the 32 bit client it would stop?

[crinrict]

Worth a try.

You can change it in the Origin client. Click on game properties.

[onemug_infinitum]

Sometimes when my sims are standing there or sitting, doing something idle, they'll flicker like there's a bright TV playing in front of them. When I tell them to do something else, it seems to be fixed, but it's disheartening to break up a cuddle session for that. 

I tried to record it in some effort to show this, but the videos came out black. Not sure what's going on there, but in it I had one of my flickering sims looking around, wondering what to do. As soon as I told him to go "Pee Like a Champion", he entered the bathroom and it stopped. So it could be something to do with the lighting, but I'm not completely sure about that.

Also: On PC, Windows 10, was on Windows 7 a few days ago and still had the problem then. Not that it would be relevant, but just wanted to make any questions about that unnecessary.

[crinrict]

It's a known problem. Seems to be better if you run the game in 32 bit.

For me it happened in one house but I haven't seen it since I moved so it could be worse in some houses.

If it bothers you, I would suggest turning back to 32 bit. you can do so in your game propeties in Origin

[manzana0807]

I don't know if what I've seen is the same problem or if it's the light flickering issue I've seen mentioned multiple places. But it happens to me in 32bit and 64 bit. The flickering/flashing either happens in dark areas (primarily when Sims are sleeping) or if I have too many lights around. Replacing lights doesn't fix the problem. And it doesn't happen in natural light. Only indoors.

Never saw this before the patch. And my system is updated. I'm playing on a high-end Alienware machine that's only a month old. So I know it's not my pc. It happens on a totally vanilla game as well as with CC and mods in.

Meant to report this yesterday. I clicked "Me too" on the similar thread to this that mentions a window from GTW - but, I'm not using that particular window anywhere. It seems to be a problem with shadow casters and the game engine.