This week’s game update was a big one. It added a lot of new things to the game, there were a lot of bug fixes, some new issues, including crashing across all platforms, particularly PS4, and broke a lot of mods. Here are links to my various videos on the update, as well as links to the update notes, bug reports, forum post re mod impact & various tweets re the issues.
Video overview of What’s New & Common Issues that Were Fixed
Video overview of New Issues
Video regarding the Crashes & Info to Provide to EA
Video overview of the Mod Impact
Also, if you’re on Windows, here’s my video on how to clear packs from your repair queue if your game repair is taking too long.
Here’s my video tutorial on how to prepare for game updates:
Video playlist with all videos on the update
Supporting Links:
Forum post tracking the impact of this weeks game update on mods/cc * https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/983508/broken-updated-mods-cc-snowy-escape-nov-2020
* only mods/cc that don’t raise the game rating are tracked here. If you use the 18+ Basemental mod, make sure you have the version released since the game update as it is causing Script Fail errors.
Tweets by SimGuruNick re EA being aware of the crashing issues:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruNick/status/1327120591418220546
https://twitter.com/SimGuruNick/status/1326687038649769985
Post by SimGuruNick on the Sims Forums regarding the Crashing Issues: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/983645/crashing-with-the-november-10-update
EA has indicated that they expect this to be fixed the week of November 20, 2020, per this in game message:
EA AHQ Reports as mentioned in my video:
General bug forum: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
Links for Reporting Crashing Issues:
Windows: https://tinyurl.com/yyunfluw
PS4: https://tinyurl.com/y4rmktyh
Mac: https://tinyurl.com/y2dkmgfw
XBoxOne: https://tinyurl.com/y2n5g9q7
PS4 Issues with Muting Sounds: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/CURRENT-ISSUE-Muted-Sounds/m-p/9716869#M10885
Routing Issues with Open Staircases: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-Open-staircase-cause-routing-failures/td-p/9716427
Sims not Aging up with Birthday Cakes: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sim-doesn-t-age-up-by-blowing-out-candles/m-p/9716468#M160343
Various Reports of Issues with Platforms (ie the new build item):
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Can-t-place-certain-objects-on-platforms/m-p/9723044#M160949
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Platforms-autonomously-raise-height/m-p/9719405#M160692
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Can-t-place-some-objects-next-to-platforms/m-p/9723604#M160989
Origin Issues due to Missing Windows files (Windows, links for the missing files are in this report): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/CURRENT-ISSUE-Execution-cannot-proceed-because-MSVCP140-DLL-was/td-p/9716597
Anti Virus, Including Windows Defender, Blocking Origin/The Sims 4 (Windows): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/CURRENT-ISSUE-Anti-Virus-blocking-User-Folder-Screenshots/m-p/9572695
Repairing Game Slows Down Computer & Takes Forever (Windows): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Client-Web-Technical/Repairing-game-takes-forever-and-slows-down-the-pc/td-p/9677317
⚠️Crashing Issues Still Remaining Since the Audio Crash Issue was Fixed⚠️
Despite the Nov 17/18 game update to fix the audio crashing caused by the Nov 10 game update, there are still many reports of crashing in the game.
⚠️ One of the main causes of this can be the Father Winter tradition (requires Seasons), the other cause can be platforms. ⚠️
Here’s a link to the bug report (screenshot is from there), EA is aware of the isssue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/CURRENT-ISSUE-Game-Freeze-Extended-Loading-Times-Save-Game/td-p/9721871
There is a mod that is supposed to prevent the Father Winter Issue, see link at the bottom of this document.
There are also reported issues of crashing on MacBook Pros with an M1 chip, here’s a link to that report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/CURRENT-ISSUE-freezing-in-CAS-on-Mac-with-M1-chip/m-p/9717611#M39297
If you’re on console and this doesn’t appear to apply to you, here’s a link to a summary of other issues on EA AHQ, I recommend looking there: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Consoles/Read-First-Current-Issues-Game-Issues-or-Crashes-Patch-1-34-Nov/m-p/9168420#M8414
Other Common Issues Seen Since My Video & Their EA AHQ Links:
Removed Sim Traits still appear in Sim Info Panel:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Removed-Traits-Still-Show-Up-On-Info-Panels/m-p/9724003#M161014
Sims Reset Using the Digitalistic Sketchpad (mod to help is listed at the end):
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-reset-using-the-Digitalistic-Sketchpad/td-p/9716492
Kittens/Puppies not aging up (mod to help is listed at the end): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CD-Kitten-won-t-age-up-even-with-treat-on-home-lot/m-p/9717664
Sims Don’t Autonomously Eat Leftovers/Keep Cooking when Hungry: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-cook-but-don-t-autonomously-eat-cook-more-eat-quick/td-p/9724949
Mods to help with some of the reported issues:
LittleMsSam Random mods includes one for the issue with aging up on a cake and with kittens/puppies not aging: https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175412067973/random-bug-fixes-a-collection-of-random-small-bug
Mod to help stop the Father Winter Issue, however it will not fix the save if it’s already happened: https://www.patreon.com/posts/leroidetout-stop-41967978 (look for the mod with Father Winter in the name)
Mod for the Issue with the Digitalistic Sketchpad: https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=649414
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