Awesome. This fixed all my issues as well.

Thanks Pescado for fixing this in such a timely manner, I couldn't play the game with that awful problem.

Yet another person suffering from the sound mod. Only in my Island Paradise world, the custom world my legacy is in is thankfully completely bug free.

I have a few of the STFU bicycle mods, dear god I cannot wait until we can narrow down whats causing this and get rid of it.

I'm also semi interested in this. I was wondering if I bought Showtime, if it would be enough to open the SimPort type stuff, or if the game would get pissy that the rest of the game is blatantly arr'd.

The new test version for awesomemod is working fine for me now. I've played for an hour without a hitch. Everything is fixed, thank you.

If I might ask, are the people who are having issues with the game freezing/crashing using legitimate or arrrr'd versions of the game?

First job my new stylist got in Appaloosa Plains was to give a foal a makeover. Apparently, this baby horse was having a competition at work to see who had the coolest facial hair. I reloaded, and this time the job was to give a wild horse multiple everyday looks.

Of course, since you can't actually give a makeover to a horse... :|

Doing Radar All revealed a numerous amount of sims doing the "Take Tour of City Hall". All of them appeared to have been doing it for a great deal of time, as they were all miserable and their motives were all pretty much 0. I'm wondering if this is related to the fact that all my standing-around/dead sims end up by city hall. Though none of them were visible as they were all in the rabbit hole. Still, weird.

Hmm. Then my theory is most likely proven wrong, and I'm back to not having a clue why it's happening. I haven't been able to recreate the glitch again, it only seems to happen when I'm not expecting it so. I'll just wait until I have more information on it before bothering to theorycraft another explanation.

Were they standing at your active sim's place of work? Or were they stuck somewhere else? I am going to attempt to retrace my steps and see if I can force them to bug again. But mine is reliably behind city hall, which is where my sim works. If they weren't where your sim works, were they at venues that an active sim had recently visited? In your awesomemod config, do you have >NoCommunityStalkerSwarm enabled or disabled?

I have that feature disabled, so that community lots aren't derelict and empty when I go to visit them. I'm wondering if these sims aren't attempting to zergswarm my sim for some reason, and are caught standing outside his place of work even when he's not there? I'm curious now, so I'm going to see if I can test this and see if that is what could be happening.

I have awesomemod, obviously. Fully up to date and functional. I have Master Controller, Overwatch, Nointro, no mosaic (updated for late night), the birth control mirror, and Anach's Rich Value/Teen woohoo mods. I have multiple Stylist Sims objects, and multiple hair/skin/makeup mods, and everything from the Store. If I install mods that fall into the build category, windows, ect, they tend to make my load save game window hang, so I have nothing of that type. (A different issue I have made no effort to fix as I make do without.) All of these number less than 30, and have been fully decrapified before they were installed. I have all expansions, all stuffs, and everything is patched, up to date, and operational.

The next time I see this happen in my game, I will document it further. I'll add one of the sims to my household and see if it is a particular action they are stuck on, something I hadn't bothered to check. Unfortunately it doesn't happen very often so it might be a while before I am able to give any more information. I also haven't played any other neighborhood than Bridgeport so I can't tell you if it has happened in any other neighborhood.

Just wondering additionally, if I am the only person who has had multiple sims actually die during this error? As it only occurs on my the steps of my sims place of work, I usually notice it when my sim goes into work and pauses to mourn the many bodies. Also is there any way I can check what processes/files my game is accessing? Perhaps if there is I can check to see if my game is shitting any particular kind of brick at the time.

Edit: One other thing. I did install this. But it was after I had already experienced this bug once. It failed to address the issue, though I was pretty sure it wouldn't have much effect. It was properly installed and has had no real impact on my game, positive or otherwise. But just in case there is a connection..

I have a 3ghz quad core processor, a 1gb 8800 Nvidia graphics card, and 8gb of ram. Other than experiencing a flavor of this problem, I have had no issues running this game or experiencing slowdowns. And yet, I too seem to have issues with multiple sims in Bridgeport standing around doing nothing. Every now and then, as in, once every couple (real life) days, I'll spot five or so sims standing at the back of the city hall building, doing absolutely nothing as their motives decay away. If I do not reset them, they will eventually die. The first time I noticed this was when my sim was going in to work, and stopped to mourn the multiple dead sims laying on the steps.

I'm hesitant to say that it's my computer specs causing me problems, although I have not CFF'd any extra memory towards the game, as I was under the impression that it wasn't necessary. Just throwing it out there that it's not just stone age computers that seem to be having problems. I'll document it more thoroughly next time it happens, instead of just resetting them all. I didn't know there were other people experiencing anything like this until checking this thread, so I assumed it had been a mod conflict of some kind.