"ZeeGee;c-17053057" wrote:
@igazor Thanks so much for answering. I trust your opinion.
@ZeeGee - I trust igazor too.
However, I was curious to see what a Google search would turn up. I did not find anything for Sims 3, but I did find a discussion relating to Sims 2 on Mod The Sims from 2015.
modthesims.info/t/546736 The OP asked "I read somewhere that if we have special characters in the CC file names, like "-", "_", etc , loading time will suffer. is it true?" A few people posted that after removing special characters and spaces, they found the game loading time was reduced. However, others did not agree. I think post 19 in the thread sums it up best
I'm afraid I stick by my original observation: I don't imagine, UNLESS YOU HAVE PILES OF THE THINGS, that removing spaces and odd characters will make much difference' and would also add 'and be aware that there are reported cases where it makes loading a little worse'.
I think the problem with a blanket statement about this technique helping is that we know very well that every person's game, every person's rig, responds differently to loading demands. ... I do, as a matter of routine, change the really silly names and also rename stuff (the long indecipherable) willy-nilly to something I will remember and recognise. I've been collecting CC for a long time though and there are quite a few files in my DL folder which have spaces and odd characters. However, not as many as others I suspect. So it didn't make much difference and, tbh, I'm going to stick with the unaltered files and work on them as I usually do - when I come across stuff, I'll alter names and manage the input of new names as I have been doing.
I then decided to search the Sims forum. I found
this post for Sims 3 from 2017.
"ZeeGee;d-958814" wrote:
Saw something recently (can't remember where) that said you shouldn't leave blanks in cc names cause it makes it hard for the game to read,
Possibly, this is where you read about the spaces in file names. The original question was "I was wondering ,I read somewhere about this but don't know if it applies to sims 3,if special characters and spaces in cc names make the load times longer ." Many people commented including igazor :)
I don't think including spaces in CC file names matters based on this comment
"TreyNutz;c-15869454" wrote:
I heard this too and one day sat down with Bulk Rename Utility and removed all spaces and special characters leaving only dashes and underscores from all package files. Well, maybe I got rid of the dashes too. Then I remerged all my CC (I save the package files of everything I merge). Didn't make any difference. Loading time was the same. I felt it was a waste of my time.