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Re: Outfit Change Delay: Completely Unplayable

@puzzlezaddict  Thank you for the response!

LOL I have almost everything set to the highest, I'll try turning down high-detail lots.

SSD: 151 GB free

HD: 2.23 TB free

Any errors that pop up usually are with animals/sims getting stuck, and notifications that cars have been removed. 

I'm not getting any unusual errors. 

This happens on brand new saves with only one sim in the family. I can't have long play sessions because I get so frustrated. I have tested in a small, unpopulated custom world, and still had to pause the game for my one sim to get changed. (Although the game did start spawning tourists and stuff)

The issue has been the worst when I go to lots with large amounts of sims, like in the worlds for University Life or Showtimes. Oddly, I didn't experience too much trouble in Bridgeport.

I also save frequently in new saves, and then delete the old ones. 

I will test out what you have suggested. I'll keep task manager open so I can watch the memory usage.

Fingers crossed.

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  • obeyelisia's avatar
    obeyelisia
    7 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict 

    Unfortunately the problem still remains. 

    Memory usage is at around 1730 MB when I just start playing and 2200 MB after 45 minutes. (in University world)

    Starts off about the same and then goes up to 1920 MB in Showtimes world. 

    Removing CC and deleting .cache files didn't make a difference. I did notice that the problem was less severe (some sims in my dorm could change clothing without me pausing, but most outfit changes still required me to pause and wait).

    I noticed in Bridgeport there are less objects (11,000) to be reset with MC than in the University Life world (13,000), and the problem was more prevalent at the university.

    Now it is slightly more playable, but I still have to pause the game maybe for 5 minutes for other sims on the lot and around 10-30 seconds for my controlled sim. 

    Happily there are some improvements, but pausing the game every couple minutes for random sims is kind of annoying. 

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    @obeyelisia  Yeah, that's still far from ideal, even if better than before.  Just to be completely thorough, and to set a baseline of sorts, try testing with a new save in a completely clean game folder.  Drag your existing one out of Documents\EA and onto your desktop, start a fresh save, and send your sim to the pool or gym or something.  When you have an idea of how things are working, you can add your NRaas mods into the new game folder and test again.

    I suggest this because there are a lot of files in a game folder that can become corrupt, more if you use cc, and it's a pain to try to sort through all of them if clearing the caches alone doesn't help.  (For example, custom worlds cache data differently than EA ones.)  But if the outfit changing is still slow, then I don't really know what else to suggest.  Someone at NRaas might though.  Aside from mod support, there are people on the site that know TS3 very well and have been managing the game on all kinds of systems for years.  If there is a good solution, someone there has probably heard of it.

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