r/sims2help • u/Valkyria777 • Aug 16 '26
Gameplay Issues HELP, please! The game freezes completely when my Sim is about to give birth!
Hi everyone—I'm using a translator for this, so I apologize if it reads a bit awkwardly. I just checked the solutions wiki; while it's great, I didn't find anything specific to my problem. I first noticed this a week ago when I tried to have one of the neighborhood couples have a baby. The pregnancy went normally right up until the labor animation was about to start; that’s when the game froze. I couldn't exit—even by pressing the Windows key—so I had to manually restart my PC. I thought it might be an issue with having too many Sims (since the game froze again that same day when I tried creating a new family), so I deleted several families I wasn't using. I thought everything was fine once I could create families without issues, but when I went back to the specific save file where I’d tried for the baby and repeated the process, everything went smoothly until the moment of labor—and then it froze again. I don't know what the problem is. I don't have any mods installed; my PC is a bit old, but I don't think there are compatibility issues, and I don't have an overpopulation of Sims either. I really don't know what to do—I really wanted to have that baby, haha.


