Long pauses
kirtai:
Is everyone having this problem using Indie Stone? I wonder if that's the issue...
Louisb:
I've got problems similar to many described here.
Back when my sims were adults interacting with a toddler, it took ages for them to get anything done. The adult would be commanded to, say, put the toddler in a crib. The adult would pause, then approach the toddler. The toddler would pause, then move a few feet (to get into position to be picked up?). The adult would pause, then pick up the toddler, then pause, then approach the crib, then pause, and then put the toddler into the crib.
The problems are less extreme but definitely still noticeable when it's one sim acting alone. For example, a teen needs to get to the bus. He'll step out of the house and onto the porch, often pausing mid-stride immediately before, in, or after the doorway. He'll reach the top of the mini-staircase leading to the ground, then pause, then descend the staircase, then pause, and then sprint to the bus.
Each pause lasts a couple of sim-minutes, so performing tasks can take sim-hours. It doesn't just affect active-household sims, either. When the paperboy comes through in the morning, he'll pause before he sets down the paper and then again before leaving. When the mailman comes through, he'll pause in front of the mailbox before and after inserting the mail. When I was robbed by a burglar and the alarm went off, it took all night for the police to arrest the guy and survey the house.
I'm playing 1.4.6.2 Mac, using AwesomeMod, a bunch of store-content from the pudding factory, and a handful of minor mods (better body sculptor, no intro movie, teen autonomy woohoo.) No IndieStone.
tms:
Quote from: Larku on 2009 August 21, 12:11:00
Ever since I removed all my CC Hair, Removed a few useless mods.
I haven't had the trouble anymore. I also cleared out a lot of the Sims3pack DCcache and so forth, Reinstalled.
Everything has been good since... except that Riverview Borked on me.
Yeah it seems you're the only one who's having the same problem as me.
scandalicious:
Quote from: kirtai on 2009 August 10, 12:39:03
I am having this same issue, just so you know. I tried adjusting the graphics properties, thinking it was some sort of overload that was doing it, but no good. Just started this weekend, and I did mega-update this weekend. So, I don't know if it's the patch or what. I'm calling it the Excorcist Bug myself, because the most common issue I have is that my sims will freeze, mid-action, all except their heads, which slowly look from side to side and their eyes roll around. Quite freaky, actually. So, yeah, me too.
I've seen that! It looks freaky. Especially when it's one of the SV babysitters watching my poor vulnerable chil'rens! But... for the record, I don't have awesomemod, any mod, cc, nor any patches, on my current install. <_< (I'm getting there. It took me about a year to consider Auctioneer, and even more for Carbonite.) Though I wouldn't call it a vanilla copy.
Anyway, I normally go on a process killing spree when that happens. Mixed results, and a few repeat offenders. However, all of these alternate remedies and circumstances have me wondering, well, a few things actually. Poorly summed up as: wtf do they all have in common, aside from running the sims 3? Is it just that the system is on its knees at the moment, for various reasons? Or is everyone just waving chicken bones to "fix" it?
Larku:
Well, I was hoping all the cc hair I use to have was causing it, seems not. The only thing I can say is everyday I play sims 3 it does it after five or ten minutes in. I honestly don't know whats causing it, but it is discouraging me into playing sims 3 for a while. I can't get anything done without five or so minutes in the game freezes, for me that is a few sim days. I recently cleared out my patterns to see if it was that, no go. I've cleaned out a lot of my mods as well, still no go. Rather it's EAxis relate or AM, I hope it gets fixed at some point.
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