Exit Stage Left, Please.
friendlyquark:
This happens to me occasionally as well, though never for more than a minute or two. It usually seems to be the computer thinking about how to do something and then it unfreezes again. If you are having it happen for an hour though, that sounds like you might have a more serious issue.
funkilla:
Mine did it yesterday, though it was only when I first booted up the game after patching and updating AM and deleting appropriate caches. It didn't last long (5 minutes as compared to an hour/half hour as reported by the OP), but I, too, couldn't scroll, but time did stop. Fountain still ran and the tree leaves blew and the music kept playing, but my sims and time were frozen.
Zazazu:
Any of those who are having the total stops, do you also use FPS Limiter? I just started using it yesterday and have had no total stops since.
airilina:
Yes, I've been using the FPS limiter and the booter along with AM.
It happened again today (I started a new neighborhood since my last one was borked). After a wait, I shut down through task manager, restarted the game and it happened again after about twenty minutes. However, this time I am only playing one sim and she was taking a bath. My guess is another sim in the world was trying to go somewhere and just stopped the whole thing up.
funkilla:
I don't use the FPSlimiter (though I used to - I forgot to reinstall).
Today while playing in the first vacation world (this is my first time playing WA), halfway through a French tomb, it froze/stopped. I waited a bit, and it took ages for it to recognize a change - changing speeds, pause/unpause, etc. And then as soon as it changed, it would progress for a second and then freeze again. I found that minimizing and restoring made it snap to again, but like before, it was only for a second. Fed up, I just saved while it was paused (as I could actually click and scroll and view stats and all that without the freezing while on pause, but not on normal play).
I'm pulling this theory out of my ass, so if its completely illogical and have no background, its because I'm not a programmer and didn't test it - but I have the setting on AM to autosave while paused, and to leave it unpaused after saving. If the other people who are experiencing this have similar settings, then perhaps it is AM waiting for the game to go in pause to autosave at the same intervals of which it lags up (i.e. mine is set to autosave every 15 minutes). I don't know, but maybe I'm just seeing some correlation that isn't there.
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