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Akira Maruni

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Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« on: June 23, 2018, 12:51:58 AM »
Sorry if my English is bad.

First, I choose to move my sims from Oasis Landing (subs. Hidden Springs) to Moonlight Falls, I choose to save my sims without save their house and create new house in there. After that, I create a family with two pets and move their pets to my family (and I kick him from my household), so I have 11 household.

The game is better while I leave in there than live in Oasis Landing. At first, the game is normal, but at 1.07, the clock is stopped but time progression, game, and animation is continued (when I check his school schedule, their school is start two hours again). Suddenly, the clock is changed to 10.07 and there is no any notification about their career before 10.07, so 8 from 9 sims are late to work. Well, I'm too tired to continue the game and close my game.

Today, I start my game and there is some abnormal things.
• Usually, after I enter their game (after loading the save), I need to wait around a minute. But, the clock is start when I enter it (this is abnormal thing).
• After some seconds, my game is stopped but the animation still play and I wait it around 10 - 20 minutes and there is no any respond.

Right now, I attempt to reset all of sims in my town and check any old saves (I always do routine save). But, do you know why this is happened ?

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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2018, 01:07:47 AM »
I've had this happen several times to me and semi-recently too. If the game freezing, but animation is still playing it may mean that you may need to start over.

However, if you haven't yet. Try evicting them and then moving them right back in, as a way of "resetting" them.

If that doesn't help and sometimes it doesn't. What I usually do when this happens is save my family and house to the library and try them in a new game save.

If that doesn't really fix the freezing/animation still plays thing, I export both the family and their house and start a new Sims 3 folder and a new game with them.

I had to do this recently with one of my families. I started playing an older game save and found it getting really glitchy. So I exported them, created a new Sims 3 folder and new game and it's been running smoothly ever since.

The links below can help with anything I talked about above.

Reset Town, Individual Sims and/or Evict Household
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=20732.msg401812#msg401812

How To: Save a Household
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=19060.msg356789#msg356789

How To: Save a House/Community Lots
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=19062.msg356791#msg356791

How To: Save Sims 3 Files From the Library (Exporting Files)
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=20751.msg380782#msg380782

Sims 3 Factory Reset (What & Howto)
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=20732.msg401814#msg401814
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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ?
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2018, 01:57:14 AM »
I just do reset from resetsim * and total reset with NRAAS. But, after some second the game starts, the game is freeze but animation still playing, I'm waiting right now. So, I think that I should go back to my old save before I add my pets to my house. I'll try it. Hope that my old saves doesn't get damaged.

I think, the reason why this is happened is my household is full with 9 sims and make it severe with adding two pets. Ugh... Unfortunate thing when adding the pets to my household... 😭

*I'm jealousy when I see my (handmade) neighbor has horse and cat... :(

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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2018, 02:03:29 AM »
Freezing is to be expected when you've got a house full. If you want to troubleshoot the game, you can go through their inventories and get rid of extra stuff. Same with the family inventory.

If you have a big house with a lot of landscaping, freezing and lag can happen with that too.

Here's a troubleshooting tips post you can look over to see if any of that helps.

Relieving Freezing and Lag
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=20732.msg422978#msg422978
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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2018, 06:53:40 AM »
I'm sure there is another factor why this can be happened... ._.

So, I choose to go back to my old save which I haven't add my pets yet...
Now, the clock is stopped at 1.27 while the game is working as normal and time progressing is working... ._. Fortunately, before 1.27, I've saved my game (so, I can take directly when there is a bug).

*update:
suddenly, my game is freeze for five seconds and give report that 18 vehicles are removes and the clock is changed to 6.28 and freeze at 7.32 (animation still playing) ._.

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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2018, 02:56:56 PM »
This may be because the game save has become so large that it gets stuck. I am not sure how to fix that other than start over with the family in a new game.

However, if you go to Nraas and explain the issues you've been having with them, they might know of a fix or work around to the issues.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/page/messages/Chatterbox
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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2018, 11:32:48 PM »
Not too big... The ratio (maybe) is 1:2...
The loading and game is more faster in Moonlight rather than Oasis, so that's why I like to live in there...



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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2018, 11:46:36 PM »
What I am trying to say is that the freezing but animations still playing and clock freezing from time to time is a sign of the game becoming too large and could become corrupt because of that.

Like I've mentioned before if you want help with that you'll need to talk with someone over at Nraas to see if they can help with that.

They maybe able to help you clean up your game to where it's not doing the freezing/animation still playing thing.
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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2018, 06:08:53 AM »
I think that maybe there is another member will answer this with their experience. But, I hope that when I try to create the new family which made from my saved sims in my gallery in next time, I won't get any errors anymore... Somethings like my game doesn't permit me to go anywhere when I make big mistakes except I create a new game...

Anyway, thank you for your answer 😂

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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2018, 09:25:04 AM »
Oh yeah, twice again what I wanna to ask

1) Fortunately, I have saved my family on CAS gallery aside save on household gallery.
So, if I create a new family and take the preset from CAS gallery, are the memories, career, belongings aren't saved ?
If yes, I can start a new game with my old char although all of their memories and config are lost.

2) I wanna to backup my house only. Do you think, it'll be bugged if I try to kick all of them and then backuping the lot (so I don't need to waste my energy) ?
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Thanks a lot 😂

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Re: Game Freeze but Animation Still Playing ? + Clock Error ?
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2018, 02:30:23 PM »
When you you save your family to the library it saves their skills, and items they had in their inventories.

Not sure about memories as I turn that off. It's known to cause problems (like freezing and lag) to have memories turned on.

You can start a new game.

You can backup their house as well, just evict who's in it and save it to the library. It shouldn't be bugged saving it to the library.
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