Game Help:Intermittent Freezes
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Issue & Symptoms
Freeze/Lag
- stop-n-go jerky motions, trees swaying, background moving and music playing but Sims frozen
- freeze when entering a catalog category
- freeze when entering CAS
- freeze when switching to Build from Buy or vice versa
- game freeze and never recovered and have to be terminated in Task Manager
Causes
Some known causes
- broken CC: [1]
- overcrowded towns and saved games
- derelict vehicles
- clothes-changing
- stuck due to routing, uneven ground from road to Lot thresholds
- CC worlds with bad routing
- script mods with specific actions at specific times
Solution
data collection & analysis, collect known workarounds