The Pronouns Update seems to be draining a lot of CPU Power
On May 24th The Sims 4 did a surprise release of the Customizable Pronouns Update. The Update integrates a feature within Create A Sim where you can now edit Pronouns for each Sim you make, allowing customization of pronouns. From he, she, they to your own.
This update has rolled out for everyone, although the Pronouns Feature is currently only available for English speaking users.
Nonetheless, the Pronouns Feature itself isn’t the problem. It’s the latest version of The Sims 4, which seems to have had a significant impact on the game’s performance.
Considering that Maxis had to rewrite a lot of code, something’s went unnoticed behind the game’s code. Players have started reporting massive Lag Spikes for The Sims 4 all across our platforms. There’s also a hot discussion happening at EA AHQ, with 41 people who already reported the problem in just over a day.
What’s happening after the latest Update? Players have described the following:
- My game never froze like this before but after this pronouns update my game freezes every couple seconds and stays frozen for almost 30 seconds at a time, and if I try to click anything on my screen a message pops up saying that sims 4 isn’t responding. I don’t have any mods or cc, I have tried repairing game and clearing cache, none worked. – nasgodlyy
- After latest update the game started to have long loading time in every few seconds. (My friend has the same issue after update.) I’ve tried to update my computer, check viruses etc. and restart the game and the computer, but it did not help. – asrhana
- My game loaded just fine, but as soon as I entered game play, every time I click on my screen, it says Not Responding and I get the circle of death for about 30 seconds. Yesterday, before the update… I had zero problems. – abeeric
- CPU Usage keeps fluctuating but highest it goes is 76.2% – annibutterfly8
Did you have lags before this update ? If so, where ? Hardly any lagging before, now it lags when I try to click things on the main page for resuming/starting new game, in the game mode, etc. Will freeze for 10 seconds or so, play for 10-30 seconds, then freeze again, etc.
Where does the game lag now ? Everywhere or specific areas ? Everywhere
Do you play a fresh or an existing save game Existing game
Are you using mods/cc and if so, have you tested without them ? No, never used
For Sims 4, CPU ranges from 50-60%, GPU mostly stays at 0, but I noticed it spiked every once in a while for 2 seconds to some random number (7, 15, etc.) and then immediately returns back to 0
The update has just recently been rolled out, so it will be hard to pin point right away what could be the root cause of this. However, folks at EA HQ including EA Experts and Players are working together to find a solution and probable cause of this.
Considering that the issue is still fresh we might not get a reply right away from The Sims Team about the issue and its potential workaround. We’ll keep you updated as soon as we know more!
I’m always having lag in CAS/Build Mode. Sometimes you can stop it with the menu pop up with ESC. But then after a while it may not work anymore and so will the button. Its weird, the game just won’t use ESC anymore and I have to manually click the menu button in the UI instead. The arrow keys will also come and go where I can use up and down but not left and right.
Is it only English versions with this problem?
“Rewrite a lot of code”
Bruh it’s a find-and-replace text replacement that I *guarantee* they didn’t do by hand, and a new UI element
This is the kind of stuff they learn during their first semester of their IT degree
They’re just incompetent
So glad it wasn’t just me. My issues started right after patching, and I never have any issues otherwise. It started with the black screen of death so I rebooted everything. After that, lags and mini-freezes. Was about to do a reinstall today, but I’m loading up Civ6 instead.
This is exactly why I wait at least a week or more before patching. I was almost tempted to patch since this one didn’t break mods like some bigger ones usually do. This is very unfortunate and frustrating.
This game is simply getting old. Especially for the amount of content that keeps being injected into it, but it is old anyway. There’s only so much fixing you can do after a while.
Sims has just fell off. I use to love it then I liked it then I only played it because I put a lot of money into it and now I accept I wasted all of my money on a game where all they care about is money.Is Dine out fixed? No..bro its been years. Give up on the game already
Haha! This takes me back to TS3 days! That game used to lag so much it wasn’t funny! Nowadays TS3 runs decent on a gaming pc or laptop!
Same problem with me. I hope it doesn’t take long to find the error.
Not trying to offend but was there seriously that much demand for a pronouns update out there?
Also when did simmers get so picky and hard to please, it’s no wonder every update breaks the game.
It seems due to my save being a fresh one, I didn’t experience a lag issue. However, here’s hoping a fix will be deployed for those who are suffering from the issue ASAP!
I’ve been having the exact issue where mine kept freezing! I tried everything – repairing the game twice, restarted my pc twice, disabled mods – I even reintalled my game (with mods still disabled) and nothing improved. Before the update, I could run the game fine with 3GB of mods. I want to play this update, but now Im disappointed I can’t play.