Long Loading Time
My current save takes 12 minutes to load. I've been playing in it for 21 sim weeks in the home world, and my sim also spent quite a bit of time in other worlds before she got married. Every so often...
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@Linamints My graphics card is major overkill for Sims 3, as I got it for a new adventure game that required much higher specs. So happily, it will never limit my Sims 3 games. With regards to alchemy, the only thing she has left to do is to throw something like 40 or so elixirs at other sims. So I will soon be having her get rid of all her collectibles and sell all of the elixirs she's made, except for any that her own household might use in the future. She's been throwing invigorating elixirs at her husband after he's called in to work in the night in his high level special agent branch law enforcement job, and job boosters to help him make level 10 more quickly. So she's had a good head start on that final skill challenge.
Do you know where I can find the file and/or instructions you're referring to, for cleaning up the save file? Since I'm already keeping my nhd file small, I'm not sure it would help, but I'd like to check it out just the same.
@igazor and @TreyNutz, the populated starter save I made for this custom town takes 3 1/2 minutes to load. I tried making a test copy of the latest save of my game, then using MC to move all the photos into the household inventory. That save only took 8 minutes to load, so it shaved 4 minutes from the loading time.
This household has a lot of stuff in their house and on their lot. My main sim has a lot of goals, so she has a lot of skill equipment she's currently using and objects waiting to be upgraded, most of which will be sold once she's finished with them. She also has all of the furniture and décor objects she collected from rubble piles in the dystopian future sitting in the basement room under the garage, waiting for when they return to the future and buy a bigger house. I don't like to keep too much in the household inventory, because whenever my sims consign anything, everything there shows up in the consignment panel, making it difficult to find the items they're supposed to consign. But I think she's pretty much done with consigning things, so I could put several items in the household inventory now.
I have considered moving my household and the residents of the town to a new copy of the same town, through the library, using NRaas Porter. It would clear the town's history and remove even the hidden memory of any sims they'll never see again, as I don't plan on having them travel any more, except to the future, and to China for martial arts tournament competition, so I thought it might help speed up loading time. But I'm actually planning on moving them and the town's residents to another unpopulated custom world once she's finished with all of the large skill equipment she's currently using, and can get rid of all the stored collectibles and other items they won't be needing anymore, including all but a few of her photos, which I want to keep for décor in their new home. It will take a while yet to get to that point.
So do you guys think that moving them now, to a new copy of the same world, would make very much of a difference, even though they will still have almost everything they do now? Or, since there aren't any other problems with this save, should I just do whatever else I can to speed up loading times and wait for the move to the other world?
Are there other things I could do to help speed up loading time.
PS @TreyNutz I do a once a week reset everything too, excluding my active lot, mainly to help prevent corruption, which used to make it impossible to play longer than about 12 to 14 weeks in one town. Thanks to NRaas mods, that is no longer a problem. Other than the loading times and the occasional long freeze, this game has been quite trouble-free, except for the usual minor issues.
Do you know where I can find the file and/or instructions you're referring to, for cleaning up the save file? Since I'm already keeping my nhd file small, I'm not sure it would help, but I'd like to check it out just the same.
@igazor and @TreyNutz, the populated starter save I made for this custom town takes 3 1/2 minutes to load. I tried making a test copy of the latest save of my game, then using MC to move all the photos into the household inventory. That save only took 8 minutes to load, so it shaved 4 minutes from the loading time.
This household has a lot of stuff in their house and on their lot. My main sim has a lot of goals, so she has a lot of skill equipment she's currently using and objects waiting to be upgraded, most of which will be sold once she's finished with them. She also has all of the furniture and décor objects she collected from rubble piles in the dystopian future sitting in the basement room under the garage, waiting for when they return to the future and buy a bigger house. I don't like to keep too much in the household inventory, because whenever my sims consign anything, everything there shows up in the consignment panel, making it difficult to find the items they're supposed to consign. But I think she's pretty much done with consigning things, so I could put several items in the household inventory now.
I have considered moving my household and the residents of the town to a new copy of the same town, through the library, using NRaas Porter. It would clear the town's history and remove even the hidden memory of any sims they'll never see again, as I don't plan on having them travel any more, except to the future, and to China for martial arts tournament competition, so I thought it might help speed up loading time. But I'm actually planning on moving them and the town's residents to another unpopulated custom world once she's finished with all of the large skill equipment she's currently using, and can get rid of all the stored collectibles and other items they won't be needing anymore, including all but a few of her photos, which I want to keep for décor in their new home. It will take a while yet to get to that point.
So do you guys think that moving them now, to a new copy of the same world, would make very much of a difference, even though they will still have almost everything they do now? Or, since there aren't any other problems with this save, should I just do whatever else I can to speed up loading times and wait for the move to the other world?
Are there other things I could do to help speed up loading time.
PS @TreyNutz I do a once a week reset everything too, excluding my active lot, mainly to help prevent corruption, which used to make it impossible to play longer than about 12 to 14 weeks in one town. Thanks to NRaas mods, that is no longer a problem. Other than the loading times and the occasional long freeze, this game has been quite trouble-free, except for the usual minor issues.
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