deconstructing the 1am freeze
narutothealc:
the freeze only start after the 1am freeze and as he said, i didn't have this problem b4, now i updated the mod coz i stopped playing for like 2 months and its happening. how do i get the gamesave?
Mental Hobbit:
As this thread has shifted from the 1 am lag to freezes, I can contribute something:
I hadn't plaved TS3 for about a month. After updating AM a few days ago, I found out that my custom, destroyallhuman'ed neighborhood that I had always used to start new games didn't work anymore, it would freeze within seconds. Later I realized that destroyallhumans or destroyallnpcs always leads to an infinite freeze now. Eventually "exterminate 100" gave me a working neighborhood without too many fuglies. I guess there's a problem with creating some particular NPC causing this. It doesn't matter which story mode driver I use btw, I tried Indie, AM's and EA's.
I still have freezes once in a while now. In most cases, I can just terminate the process and restart. Once I had to take out AM and run a sim day without it though in order to get the game working again. (I have a save right before that reproducable freeze if it's of any interest.)
Another reproducable freeze I had whenever I switched to "suck up to boss" at the restaurant career. There was no boss on my Sim's relationship tab, maybe that's why.
Morphar:
Hurray!!!
Sorry, but you have the exact same problem as I and I have posted it in The New Bug Thread but Pescado can't reproduce it.
So it was working in an earlier release then? Was it before you patched the game to 1.4?
I have tested with the corresponding commands in Super Computer by Twallan and I get the same results. I can use his Force kill->NPC's though. I have also traced the freeze to somewere in EAxis code (I think).
I have also this spontanous freezes that you have. I can play for hours but suddenly it freezes. I use the Framelimiter to avoid overheating of my computer but the temperature is in control.
What about your hardware:
Processor?
Processor clock frequence?
RAM memory?
Graphic board?
Aqua:
I am also having this freeze problem. But for me, it is most times close to midnight. 0:07 or 0:08 is the favorite time for my crash. For me, it never happens when just one person of the household is still awake. Just when all sims are sleeping, then it might freeze. Freeze means that the zzzzz-icon is still moving, the same with the radio. Music is on. But even if i wait 20 minutes, nothing more happens. The clock is not running. So i have to close the game with task manager.
My QuadCore is just on 60-63 percent. So i dont think its something with the hardware.
So i save a lot before i send my sims to bed. When i reload the savegame, there is no problem for the next night, but there might be a freeze again the next night. And its always just a few minutes after midnight.
I played with EA-story mode, then i changed to Awesomemod Story Driver, but it is still the same.
NormaJean:
Same thing here
It isn't Awesome, its EA I believe
Haven't you ever noticed the phone ringing around 00:06-00:008?
You get the messages that 'put a name here' is getting old and maybe you need pay to visit
and when you answer/click ignore the phone, same message with another name appears
That what happens if the game keeps working
otherwise on the first ring from the phone the game freezes
Phone sound is still playing, radio is playing ect ect
Turning the phone off, removing it from the house had the same effect
I have the latest patch en AM, removed cache files ect
Aging on, AM story on, EA story on. indo enabled but not installed (in showconfig its shows as false however, prob. because not installed)
Freq saving and praying, cause when I save at 23:59 and de game freezes and thus I kill it...
when I load the 23:59 save, there is aprox 60% change it won't happen again for that night
turning the phone off doesn't do the trick, same story
Only thing different from you Aqua is that it doesn't matter if anyone is still up
Also tested with Sims week period in a 1 person small house and with a 8 person household: same thing, when phone rings game freezes frequently
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