Game/Time is freezing (Patch 1.68.154)

2020-12-09

This main issues were fixed in Patch 1.69.57/ 1.35. Already affected saves still give issues.

2021-02-25

Affected saves were fixed in Patch 1.71.86/ 1.38.

Father Winter doesn’t appear at Winterfest/ Endless Generation of Father Winter

Typically this issue comes with any of the following symptoms

• You had a winterfest and Father Winter never showed.
• The game/clock freezes (Info: If your Sim freezes but time goes on then you most likely have a deadlock between Sims somewhere. That’s a different issue)
• You can’t click anywhere. The clock stays on the current speed, you can’t change between Sims and the interactions menus are not appearing anymore.
• You get a lastException: Exception while updating the sim filter service.. (TypeError: apply_permanent_appearance_modifiers() missing 1 required positional argument: ‘additional_flags’)
• The usage of your RAM is insanely high (you can check this in your task manager)
• After a while the game crashes (this happens when the game has eat up all your RAM – yes, even if you have 64 GB of it)
• The game takes forever to load
• The game saves endlessly
• It doesn’t matter which household you play. The problem appears anywhere.
• The save game is compared to the backups a multiple in size.

Routing issues with Platform

• The game/clock freezes (Info: If your Sim freezes but time goes on then you most likely have a deadlock between Sims somewhere. That’s a different issue)
• You can’t click anywhere. The clock stays on the current speed, you can’t change between Sims and the interactions menus are not appearing anymore.
• The game saves endlessly
• The RAM usage is steady
• The size of the save game doesn’t increase significantly in size.
• You don’t get any LastExceptions.
• If you change to another family in the same save, the game works fine
• If you replace the house of the family with another, the game works fine.

Other unknown causes

Lags and Game freezes have a multitude of causes and can occur any time. It’s best to check AHQ for any known issues going on or to get proper help.