Endless Saving
For reference, I have seasons, generations and university life, plus a few stuff packs. I use a couple mods, primarily NRAAS, and a lot of custom content. For the last few days, my game will not sav...
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@puzzlezaddict Thanks a bunch for your response!! I actually did not have those NRaas mods, only the auto-saver, and story progression ones. I installed them and did the reset everything command, which seemed to fix it at first. I ran my sims through a day and saved when they slept, which went fine. Directly after that, I did some things in buy mode, including using buydebug mode to get all of the possible toys for the toy chest. I saved after that, which did not work. Is it possible buydebug is breaking the save, as I think I've had it on every time..
@keelyfern Buydebug itself probably isn't the issue, but spending time in Build/Buy could be. It drives up memory use much faster than regular gameplay, as do Edit Town and CAS sessions. StoryProgression also requires extra RAM to run, although you can fiddle with the settings to tamp that down a bit.
If you want to talk about ways to keep your RAM use down, it would be helpful to know the information I listed earlier. Your system's specs will influence how much you can do; some worlds (and some packs) are more demanding than others; a couple of other NRaas mods may help as well, depending on which packs you're running.
Edit: I forgot to add that you should definitely make copies of your main save and its backup before doing anything else, and place them somewhere safe. From now on, you should also use "save as" instead of save and rename the save slightly each time. That way, if a save fails, there's no chance of you overwriting an existing healthy save with a corrupt one.
@puzzlezaddict I've attached the text file of the DxDiag here! And yeah, I've got 2 save files for the particular game, and a full backup folder on my desktop, because the first time it happened, my main save file was deleted! Thank you again!
@keelyfern Alright, you have enough RAM to run TS3, but it's not a good idea to have much more than a browser window or two open while you play. (That 8 GB can get used up quickly.) Your graphics card isn't really powerful enough to run the entire game on high settings, but again, that will depend on which packs you have installed and what world you're playing in.
It's also a good idea to check your in-game frame rates. While an Nvidia 940 Mx isn't capable of throwing incredibly high rates like some of its more powerful cousins, you might still be getting fluctuations. To see your frame rates, open the cheats console (crtl-shift-c) and enter "fps on" without the quotes, and a number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen. Keep an eye on that number as you move the camera around and let me know how it behaves. (To turn it off again, enter "fps off.")
Please also keep the Task Manager open, at least once with this current game, and tell me what kind of RAM use you're seeing. There are ways to lower memory use, and there are ways to troubleshoot if RAM isn't the issue, but there's not a lot of overlap between the two categories.
And again, please list the packs you have installed and the world you're currently playing in. You might not think it makes a difference, and you could be right, but there might also be an obvious issue that can be solved without jumping through all the other hoops.
Last thing: Please copy and paste the first 40 or so lines of your deviceconfig here. You can edit out your username (around 25 lines down), but include everything else until you get to the game options. This shows what TS3 thinks of your hardware, and specifically whether it's using the dedicated or integrated graphics card.
I know this is a lot of information, but the more you provide, the easier it is to start crossing potential issues off the list and find the ones that need to be addressed.
Sorry for missing things out so much!
For starters the stuff/expansion packs I am using are:
Generations
High-End Loft Stuff
Late Night
Outdoor Living Stuff
Seasons
Town Life Stuff
University Life
And I am currently playing in Bridgeport
My current memory usage from the sims while running the game sits around 1,270-1,280 MB
As far as the fps goes, it sits between 50 and 80 mostly, both static and when moving the camera.
The graphics info section from deviceconfig is pasted below this.
OS is 64Bit: 1
CPU: GenuineIntel
Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Family: 6
Model: 14
Cores: 2
HT: 1
x64: 0
Memory: 8056MB
Free memory: 3172MB
User: New User
Computer: XXXXX
=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
Name (database): NVIDIA GeForce 940MX [Found: 0, Matched: 0]
Vendor: NVIDIA
Chipset: Vendor: 10de, Device: 134d, Board: 119e1043, Chipset: 00a2
Driver: nvd3dum.dll, Version: 21.21.13.6909, GUID: D7B71E3E-500D-11CF-0E69-933118C2D835
Driver version: 6909
Monitor: \\.\DISPLAY1
Texture memory: 32MB <<OVERRIDE>>
Vertex program: 3.0
Pixel program: 3.0
Hardware TnL: 1Thank you again for all your help!
