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How To Save The Sims 4 While Frozen, Explained

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Giovanna De ItaBy Giovanna De ItaDecember 28, 20232 Mins Read
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Knowing how to save The Sims 4 while your game is frozen is one of the first tricks any franchise player should know. Imagine that you have already spent hours customizing your sims, putting specific traits to each one, and even filled your household with custom content. But when you’ve been playing for a few hours, your game gets stuck, and you have yet to save any progress. All your work hours can be in danger of being lost, but don’t worry; there is a way to avoid such a catastrophe.

Sims 4: How To Save the Game While It Is Frozen

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Although the Sims 4 has been out for a long time, it’s not free from occasional bugs and errors. So, if you are in the difficult predicament of losing all your progress because your game is frozen, the most effective way to save Sims 4 is by using Alt+F4.

This shortcut is only for Windows players, but if you use Mac OS, you should press Command+Q. Even though your Sims 4 game is frozen, it will open the pause menu, and you will only need to press the Save and Exit option. When you reopen your game, your progress will pick up where you left off.

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This trick is in case you have not saved your Sims 4 game, but as a preventive measure, it is better to save your game from time to time. There is no way to activate autosave, but players manually press Command+S on Mac OS and Ctrl+S on Windows to save the file. Others use mods like MC Command Center to activate scheduled save intervals for the Sims 4 so they don’t have to deal with game crashes. But if your Sims 4 game is frozen again, you already know how to save your game.

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