deconstructing the 1am freeze
egon_weber:
My game startet to frozen up now, after using derelict of a car on public road, ad 2 babymilkbottles on my ground. Now will nobody move, it seems like the start in TS2, restart again, god dammit ea-games, they will survive on TS3, why do they so again send out in worldtrade a product, with so many falure??
Regards from Denmark! ;D
Greyform:
Quote from: Aqua on 2009 September 19, 16:54:28
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.
I frequently get freezes around midnight too, and it's been happening since before Awesomemod Story Driver even existed. I posted about it several times. Anyway, it stops whenever I turn off aging, so I'm pretty confident that's the cause. I still get other random freezes, but none at midnight (with aging off).
As an FYI, I tried uninstalling/reinstalling and using only Awesomemod. The freezes are still there. My computer is also a quad core, if that matters.
J. M. Pescado:
A mysterious, aging-related freeze, is believed to be the symptom of a corrupted neighborhood. AwesomeMod performs an extra preservatory step in aging to keep a sim's inventory from being lost, by creating a loop that waits until the sim respawns to return his items. In the event of a corrupted sim, the sim never respawns, and as a result, the clock will visibly freeze, while the game itself continues on. If this is happening to you, your neighborhood may have a corrupted sim on it. To verify this, shortly before the event may occur, do "setconfig debug on", and see if the last thing it says is "Waiting for X to respawn". That is your corrupted sim.
Greyform:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 October 20, 05:49:43
A mysterious, aging-related freeze, is believed to be the symptom of a corrupted neighborhood. AwesomeMod performs an extra preservatory step in aging to keep a sim's inventory from being lost, by creating a loop that waits until the sim respawns to return his items. In the event of a corrupted sim, the sim never respawns, and as a result, the clock will visibly freeze, while the game itself continues on. If this is happening to you, your neighborhood may have a corrupted sim on it. To verify this, shortly before the event may occur, do "setconfig debug on", and see if the last thing it says is "Waiting for X to respawn". That is your corrupted sim.
I'll try this.
The only issue I have with it is that this happens on every neighborhood I've ever made, no matter what I do (besides turning aging off). I suppose it's possible my Sims 3 installation itself is corrupted, but I'd like to believe it's something else.
Immortelle:
I've just started getting the 2am game freeze myself. Ever since I installed the Awesomemod, so I can only conclude that this is an Awesomemod associated prob. Its been doing this with all my neighbourhoods, and it is really quite annoying. But still I'd rather endure this than the alternative, which is sadly, no game at all. Although if there is a fix for this . . . .
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