That stupid "game freezes but effects and sounds keep going" problem, again.
Claeric:
I'm sure there's a thread on this already but I couldn't find it (I thought it was "The pause that annoys", but that's not it.)
Anyway, the issue: Game pauses, but there are effects still going (water, trees) and sounds still playing (birds, water, wind, music).
But the game is frozen. Can't click, move the camera, anything. USUALLY it stops after a second or two. It has started happening almost CONSTANTLY in my Sunset Valley and I dont know what to do about it. I have tried Fixall and using Fixall regularly. Nothing. I have cleared caches repeatedly. Nothing. I have removed all CC. Nothing.
I don't know what to do. D:
I DO have a save where it is happening consistently. It starts at 4:30. The sim is gardening and will continue. At 7:46/47, he has bladder failure, and the game will freeze for a second or two. Would that help? Should I upload it?
lordrichter:
You know, it is not unusual for the game to pause for a length of time while it takes care of stuff in the background. My impression is that the script portion of the game is pretty lame in the concurrent tasks department, so if something is happening to a Sim that occupies a locked block of time, Sim action will freeze until it is done.
Your freeze is pretty short, so I have little hope that this will work, but if you can PAUSE the game (press zero or P to pause) and interrupt the freeze (unpausie resumes the freeze), then you can confirm whether a script running against the gardening Sim is what is doing this. You have to use the keyboard to pause, do not trust mouse clicks. There will be a delay between the key press and the response. Once you have control of the game while paused, simply reset the Sim.
If the pause comes after the freeze, it is not as easy. If the pause is ignored, your problem lies elsewhere.
Fixall will not touch this. Resetworld will fix it if it is due to a Sim action, but to me that is diagnostic, not corrective. You need to find the Sim causing the problem and see what they are trying to do. That is easier said than done if it is not a household Sim.
That is my comment on this matter.
Edit: This was discussed in the well-named "Exit Stage Left, Please" thread: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18227.0.html
Claeric:
It is absolutely not the game pausing to load something, as it only happens ocasionally. That is to say that it does not happen in every game file on a regular basis, but sometimes, the file will start doing it CONSTANTLY and meanwhile never do it ever beforehand. So it's not a regular, common, everyday game action. And you cannot change the speed or pause, no. It's a total freeze.
I will try resetworld. This save has shown me that it is happening at 7:47 consistently regardless of what the sim is doing, so it should show whether it worked or not. (it also is happening cross-household.)
Edit: It did not freeze when I did resetworld and has not freezed in 24 game hours. (Before it was doing it every couple hours or so, if not more).
:|
lordrichter:
I expect that your game freeze is too short for the Pause trick to work. I have good luck with that when the freeze is much longer. It usually takes a few seconds for the pause to happen after pressing P. When the freeze is long enough, it actually does pause during the freeze.
This just makes your problem harder. If you can catch it while IN the freeze, you can examine the state of the game that caused it, to a certain extent. After the freeze, it is too late and before the freeze, it has not happened yet.
Resetworld before the freeze will likely prevent it, but will not show you where the problem is. You could save just before the freeze (7:40 or something) and systematically reset each sim you can find, one at a time, one Sim per game load, and wait to see if that prevents the freeze. If you have 100 Sims, that is 100 reloads, 100 resetsim commands, and guaranteed madness. I have never been that dedicated.
If you can find the Sim you can find out what they are doing. If you know what they are doing, you might be able to identify what the problem is. If it is caused by a Sim action blocking, that is.
Claeric:
Well, I have a sim I suspect may cause it (after I used resetworld, it told me a sim from a previously played household had an error and his "work and school crap" supreme commander interaction needed to be re-queued. Re-queueing it didn't make it freeze again, but that may have been it.
As long as it isn't a constant issue (like I said, it starts out of nowhere) and I can stop it (by resetting everybody), I guess it's fine if I can't find the EXACT cause. At least now I know it's because one sim was doing something stupid.
Edit: Nah, it wasnt that sim. But resetworld did fix it anyway.
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