How to Save Sims 4 While Frozen & How to Protect Sims 4 Saves

After Sims 4 freezes, many players can't find a way to save their game progress. If you forcefully close it, the previous game's progress will be lost. This post from MiniTool introduces how to save Sims 4 while frozen and how to prevent Sims 4 data loss.

When you play Sims 4 on PC, the game screen will suddenly freeze, and no matter how the player moves the mouse or clicks on the screen, they cannot proceed. Why does your Sims 4 freeze? How to save Sims 4 while frozen?

Here are 3 reasons and solutions for the “Sims 4 freezing” issue.

• PC’s hardware issues – You need to check if the PC meets the game’s system requirements.
• Mods and CC issues – If you have Mods and Custom Content (CC) installed in Sims 4, you need to check if these files are available for the current version of the game.
• Graphics card issues – Check if your graphics card is updated to the latest version.

How to Save Sims 4 While Frozen

How to save Sims 4 when it freezes on Windows and Mac? There is a general way:

Step 1.Press the Ctrl + Shift + C keys together.

Step 2.Enter quit in the Sims 4 command box and press the Enter key.

Step 3.The game-saving window will pop up and you need to click the Save option.

How to Save Sims 4 While Frozen on Windows?

If you play Sims 4 on Windows 11/10, you can press the Alt + F4 keys together. A window will pop up asking you if you need to save your progress before exiting the game. Then, click the Save and Exit option.

How to Save Sims 4 While Frozon on Mac?

If you play Sims 4 on Mac, you can press the Command + Q keys together and a window will pop up asking you if you want to save your progress before exiting the game. Then, click the Save and Exit option to end the game without losing data.

Tip:How to force close Sims 4?Press the Ctrl + Alt + Delete keys together to open Task Manager. Find Sims 4and click End Task. This will force the shutdown of Sims 4.

How to Prevent Sims 4 Data Loss

Although you can try the above steps to save Sims 4 while frozen, many players still lose the game process. To recover the lost files, refer to this post – Sims 4 Save File Missing: Here Is How to Recover the File.

Thus, to prevent the “game suddenly crashes resulting in loss of game data” issue from happening, you had better back up the Sims 4 saved files regularly. Things become very simple if you have such a backup, and if something goes wrong with the game or the data gets corrupted, you can easily restore your game data from the backup.

To back up Sims 4 saves, you can choose the professional and free backup software – MiniTool ShadowMaker. It supports backing up various Steam games on Windows 11/10/8/7. Now, download it to have a try!

Final Words

How to save Sims 4 when frozen on Windows 10? How to save Sims 4 when it freezes on Mac? Windows users can press the Alt + F4 keys together to save the game and Mac users can press the Command + Q keys together to do that.

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