August 2019 - last edited August 2019
Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often - usually after 2/3 photos on the tripod, sometimes even sooner.
What is your current game version number? 1.54.120.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? With a subject on the mark, switching poses, the newest camera and the tripod.
What happens when the bug occurs? The game sort of freezes. You can hover over the buttons for the camera, but clicking on them does nothing. If you Alt+F4 to try to force a crash, a save or quit option comes up, but you can't click any of the options.
What do you expect to see? For it not to freeze.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? No
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. After installing Maschino SP.
I am having the exact same error. I haven't yet tried the cheaper camera that someone else mentioned hasn't caused them issues. My sims are in an apartment in San Myshuno, not supernatural sims. I lost an entire save because of the crash yesterday, and today I've had to close it down a couple of times by force. It's making being a freelance photographer pretty hard.
***EDIT: To update, gave it a try with a camera from the base game, didn't seem to have the issue. Not sure if it's just the new camera or I got very lucky. It certainly seemed to almost lag with some of the taking photos and changing poses however.***
August 2019
I have been having the same issues with the camera and tripod. In a photo shoot while changing poses everything just locks up. I had to use the "task manager" to shut down the game. I'm also having trouble getting my freelance photos back from the client. I wait until I get mail which is when bills are delivered. Then I check the build mode inventory and I have about 20 photos in the inventory. About 6 of those give me the "freelance" option and I can upload them to simstagram but it doesn't complete my job tasks.
August 2019
I've seen older posts about this exact problem but either it is still around or has come back with the Fashion Photography. The camera when in photo mode freezes and no longer accepts mouse inputs. I can move the mouse around and all the buttons "highlight" when I scroll over them but I am unable to click anything and it remains frozen indefinitely or until I force quit the game. This seems to be consistently caused by frequently changing a sim's pose. I've run into this at least 4 times now and every time occurred when I quickly flipped through pose options. Usually this is because I'm using the "basic" pose options to flip randomly through all poses when i don't have a set idea in mind. Eventually after too many clicks (sometimes as few as 3-4, but usually it's a bunch) the game completely locks up and is no longer interactable. The game still considers itself running fine and I can almost quit the app using the quit option on my Mac, however the "save and Quit" menu pops up, but unfortunately the mouse still can't click on anything. I've tried everything I could think of, using keystrokes instead of the mouse, changing mice or input device, but the only option is to force quit the game.
I may be able to recreate this event in video, however, being that this is my second bug report today I've had to document, I'll wait to see what you say first because I wanna get back to playing.
I'm on a Macbook and I do have CC, but the CC doesn't seem to factor as even base outfits still cause this event and I have all packs and extras except Dine Out, Parenting and Toddler, Vampire, Jungle, and Strangerville. Every other pack available is on my system.
August 2019
This happened to me too, had to restart and lost all the pictures I'd just spent at least a half hour taking
August 2019
August 2019
@Hyperion_Rail Sorry for your frustration. Can you please try the following so we can fully confirm that your CC is not causing the issue? Please do each step exactly as laid out and do not skip any steps, even if you have already tried any of the steps before. This way we will know if you need a bug report in place. Thank you.
If it was Mods/CC: If this fixes the issue I would recommend that you check with the Mod and CC creators to see if there are any known issues with their Mod/CC clashing with the recent update and if so do they have an updated Mod/CC that will address the changes in the game's code from the update. You can then re-add your updated Mods/CC one at a time to see if one was conflicting with the function/causing the glitch - but do not re-add the old config file from the old mods folder, as it is possible for it to have become corrupted also.
Let us know how it goes. Thanks!
August 2019
August 2019
Had this issue three times so far. It seems to happen randomly and it didn't matter if I used the option "take picture of sim on subject mark" or "take picture of" or just "take photo"
August 2019
August 2019
I have this issue too.
It doesn't happen all the time, completely at random. Have repaired my game, deleted my cache files, nothing.
I click a few poses and my game just won't register clicks anymore... super annoying. I hope EA fixes this because it's one of the biggest reasons I even bought this half assed pack.