How to get out of lag without restarting in The Sims 4!

Idk why but this video made me laugh so hard when you fps went back to normal. I have hundreds of games on my PC and the only one I've pirated is Sims 4 because it runs like SH*************T

I play on console so it does this all the time😭

Is these working???

Just open the notifications tab and clear it

I would simply use the "press exit button" tactic, but that hasn't been working for me lately, and it's just silly that I play games with twice the graphics quality of this game and can run them at 90fps. I'll definitely try this method...actually, right now XD

this work for me, but i got tired of fps drops so i bought more ram, now problem is gone

Dealing with this a lot lately. Sometimes I can't shake it off and it makes me not want to play anymore 🥲 or at least buy anymore expansion packs.

the lag in my game is sooo bad 😭 tysm for this video and to the peeps in the comments giving suggestions 🥰

I see that this works for a lot of people, but not for me. I have to check my task manager.
I wish it was that easy for me, lol.

Doesn't always work. It seems it ''depends'''.

wow thanks so much this is still working in 2023 😊

my lag is never that bad loll

I have a PS4 with very long loading times (20 to 30 min). It has always been long and is glitchy. My library has been wiped at least 3 times, losing all my lots, sims, and games. I have spent over 800 dollars on packs etc and with each one, it gets more glitchy. All my others games on my PS4 work fine but with sims 4 I feel robbed.

Interesting

Ugh sims 4 is so frustrating

wtf it works XD

I thought i was the only oneee I have the same problem so I just open the menu, close it and it fixes. But I think it happens because of the graphics settings being too high or something.

didn't work for me, opened every tab thing. What do I do?

This happens to me so often, I usually get so upset that I just close the game, delete the cache and saves and when I open the game again (after creating a new save) it doesn't lag, it seems that whenever my game auto saves it makes my game lag

I had 10fps max, so i tried open/close calendar and my 120fps came back like it used to be ! I was out of ideas but never expected to fix it with a calendar... THANK YOUU

Does it work in ps 4 ?

This happens to me as well, i have already seen numerous threads about this. I try to save my game frequently and if the lag occours, i exit the game and open it again. Do graphics settings trigger this kind of lag? In my game this lag is triggered by the notification wall and the animations of the user interface. Once it happened when my sim arrived home and the salary notification appeared, the other time it was caused by the opening of the career panel. Since then i keep my notification wall clear. It just seems that UI related things (switching into buy mode, opening tabs, animations when gaining a skill and notification related animations) really trigger this.

Have the same problem too on mine had to restart it and it fixed it but it came back later its just very weird even my pc is supposed to handle the game pretty smoothly sometimes but now its just worse it gets around 120fps and it just drops to 50 and 20 i have good specs on mine RTX 3090 32gigs of ram and I9 processor i hope EA will fix this problem soon

Didn't work for me on ps5 but when I clear notification and save the game that works 👍

It just won't work...I'm freaking crying man.

options menu - save - done 😂

This game is terrible -.- Lag , lag and more lag and more bugs

Like y is the sims 4 so laggy? & i had the nerve to think it was my laptop

BRO YOUR HOUSE IT'S BEAUTIFUL

i usually switch the cameras and it works

Omg this video appears on my timeline when i need it so bad lol thanks!!

Changing screens in bottom-right info-panel works for me

I play on a med-crappy laptop and pressing esc, waiting a second and then pressing it again works 90% of the time. Sometimes, if it's simulation lag and not game lag, I'll pause the game and wait a second, or even save while paused as a last resort. These always work!!

Also, in my personal experience, some particular mods make my game lag. Oni's food mod combined with Gran's cookbook make my cooking interactions lag as hell. With scco (the cooking overhaul one ykno) it was a nightmare. I also downloaded the "no empty venues when arriving" by weebersu(or smth like that, the dude that makes the more cas columns mod) and that also made my game lag a lot

So yea pressing esc helps a lot, but also maybe keep track of the mods you have in your game, in case they might be making a lot of difference

I usually just save and give the game time to catch up, which is essentially what this is doing.

I just go ahead and save and that always works

I just press save and it workes fine after

Thanks for making this video I also experience game lag on Sims 4 PS4 it helps to try different things I also stopped the lagging but when it does it again I know how to stop it and console players should avoid using the skill building cheat it will lag your game after using it 2 times I avoid using that cheat after it had caused my game to lag

i just hit the M key to go to the map for traveling and then cancel it. 💀

All I do is save and then remove all my notifications, then my game is back to normal :)

I often see LilSimsie simply opening the Options Menu and closing it really fast and it works for her. But I wonder if it has to do with her computer specs, if just doing that doesn't work for everyone.

In my case (laptop) I just need to press ESC twice owo

On console what I do is I’ll go to the controls screen, that usually works.

I keep on saving until the game goes back to normal. Sometimes it doesn’t work tho. 😂

I do that too but it works instantly, now though if the lag is that bad, I would open task manager and check my CPU, get rid of any widgets or browsers that are open and make sure it’s lower than 40%. It makes my game run faster.

I just laughed so hard. That's crazy!

I can confirm 100% that this does NOT work for PS4!

I always just save. That’s all.

Really? Really? I'll try that later, thnx 👍🏻

I’m confused what did you do? 😃

Ooh hope this works