[CURRENT ISSUE] Game Crashes after November 2020 Patch

[mlmarkiewicz]

My crashing doesnt seem to have anything to do with music. I have tested this and have all mods & cc disabled. I checked the crash error and it said it had to do with not being able to find the pet swimming animation. It crashed every time I tried to load a lot with a pet. I was able to load and play for hours without crashing on a lot with no pets. 

I was able to go back to the lot that crashed the game after the pet had died. 

This is my experience, just thought I'd let you know! 

[LailaaJade]

Sinds the november update i cant start my game at al. I get this pop up with (0xc000007b) i never had this before. I tried repairing the game, deleting it and install it again removing all the CC en Mods but stil the same error pops up.

[leereed2009]

https://simscommunity.info/2020/11/13/the-sims-4-hot-fix-update-for-crashing-planned-for-next-week/

That's much faster than the last time something like this happened.

[rnau1980919]

My game crashes about 15-20 minutes into the game, I have no mods. Have tried it in several neighborhoods and game files. Same result

[leereed2009]

If you also could just come back and update the forum about playing on a lot without pets, that would be great. I think we could all deal with playing without cats and dogs for a week as long as we could play the game in general. 

[EHarvs]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zRvGanJt_Dp1HFqiN-HEkGLj7bj6sZRR?usp=sharing 

Hi, 

My issues are that in any save it crashes and that I cant upload anything to the gallery. Also when opening the sims the screen glitches for a second. I hope you can see what I mean. and try to fix this. 

My user name on origin is EHarvs and use any save 

[ImSands]

Started having random crashes to desktop after installed Snowy Escape this morning. I was running pretty much fine right after the Nov Patch. Im not sure if I should be posting this in this thread or some other threads. 

The game starts lagging, the audio seems to be stuck on a noisy scratchy loop, eventually the game freezes and then crashes to desktop without any kind of error message.

I do normally use mods, but as always after patching and adding a new EP, I removed my mods folder, removed tray and deleted local thumbnails cache. So the crashes are happening with no mods at the moment. 

Im on an existing Save (only one played Sim, and pretty much vanilla world). I've attached the requested files. Hope this helps. 

edit: this forum won't let me attach the lastcrash file.

Config.log

[Epoodle27k]

I have a windows 10 and my games worked perfectly before this recent update, now it crashes, not in buildmode yet i havent experinced that but only when im out of build mode and actually playing, in my files i have the lastcrash.txt. I am not using any mods or cc i dont like to have them in my game for it makes my game glitch and bug out, i took all my mods and cc out of my game months ago. Id say after 30 minuts to an hour it crashes but i cant be for sure, its on old save files and new games that ive started. 

[leereed2009]

@Epoodle27k Ok. So there are multiple things this forum has suggested. Turn off your Internet Access, update your Microsoft visual settings (link is here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads )and I have heard that some people have luck playing on a lot with no pets. Please give these a try and report back so we can all figure out what works for PC users. Also try completely turning off your audio. It seems to be a contributing factor in crashing.

[Chickensim4]

@crinrict Mine always seems to happen when I on the sims profile to see the sentiments