Does merging packages make Sims run better?

"luthienrising;c-17880152" wrote:
No, merging doesn't help.

What I'm finding with merged packages that have been in things I downloaded is that they often contain duplicates of things I had elsewhere, and I lose 'control' of how current those duplicates are.

I've had to delete a number of things because of 'bad / out of date CC' that crept in this way.

Now, that's not really your question - I gather you're looking at merging done on your own system. But I suspect it wasn't the intent of the mod makers I grabbed from to start putting out corrupt out-of-date files... But once you start merging, it's just going to be harder to remember what version everything is in various files. On your own system you increase your risk of doing what those CC-makers did with their merged packs - and forgetting that in 'that file over there' is an item that got a critical update due to a recent Maxis patch...

I have merged CC too because instead of downloading hundreds (actually, thousands) of files from a single creator, I decided that it would be easier to get entire collections as single files, which was true ... but as @jyotai says if some of that CC becomes outdated, it's not an easy fix. I can't just remove the outdated bits from my CC folder, but need to actually unmerge everything and redo the collection just for a few things.

On the other, my game loads in no time at all, but I think that has more to do with my specs than how I have my CC organized.

Thank you everyone for your help. I will do that.

I'm pretty clueless on modding, but if it doesn't make it run slower, and it could make it run faster then you might as well merge them just in case it does improve it at all.

"Onverser;c-17882420" wrote:
I'm pretty clueless on modding, but if it doesn't make it run slower, and it could make it run faster then you might as well merge them just in case it does improve it at all.

It depend on how the game is set up. Two examples of what I'm talking about.
Sims 4: The devs at Maxis say that the mods can break your game.
Example two:
Conan Exiles developed by Funcom, Oslo, Norway.
The Conan Exiles devs at Funcom say that Conan Exiles can break the mods that you have installed on the game.
So again, it depends on how the game was set up. Bottom line is that not even the devs that make the game can tell you exactly how mods will impact your game. Only you the player can do that through modding your game.

I just merged a few packs and my game feels a little faster I think.