How long do your loading screens usually take?

I have a 3-year-old laptop, not a gaming laptop.
No mods/cc.
There's a slight increase in loading screen time with my oldest save which is 1 1/2 years old. That's also the save with the most played households.

Most loading screens are actually about 15 seconds for me. But leaving the Fashion District always takes around 45 seconds.
Maybe it's the crater?
Maybe no one ever wants to leave the Fashion District?

I mean I have never counted but I don't think I ever particularily had time to count with ts4

could be over 10 seconds though like yeah 30 seconds still sounds rather fast gone by to me

don't use mods or cc tho so thats probably it

and yeah gallery sometimes takes ridiculous loading time but i don't use it much anyway

with ts3 i be literally knitting while waiting the loading screens they take like half a day so that may also make ts4 ones feel that much faster :lol:

I have a twitchy old laptopand mods and cc, one of which increases my npc population which probably adds to the load times. I'm used to it being a bit sluggish.

I don't use mods or cc, but I do always make sure to save the game before I travel anywhere. If I don't save the game, it takes quite a long time. But if I do save it first, it's pretty quick and doesn't bother me at all. My current game is nearly two years old and my computer is about four years old.

I play on a 5 year old laptop with a lot of the packs installed but barely any mods and no cc. Loading screens seem to vary a bit but I'd say between 1 and 2 minutes. It can interrupt gameplay quite a bit.

"FreddyFox1234;c-18186594" wrote:
I don't use mods or cc, but I do always make sure to save the game before I travel anywhere. If I don't save the game, it takes quite a long time. But if I do save it first, it's pretty quick and doesn't bother me at all. My current game is nearly two years old and my computer is about four years old.

I will try saving before travelling next time. I hope it can help.

On my Acer Nitro 10-30 secs.
On my Macbook less than 10 seconds

Longer than I thought, I have a good modern laptop but I do have a pretty big 3.2gb mod folder with overrides for all of the world textures so that probably makes it slower. It took 49 seconds to go from the main menu into the game, 30 seconds to change lots for me.

Edit: Without mods it took 30 seconds to load into the game, 13 seconds to change lots

40 seconds in my longest running save from 2018
10 seconds in a side save played for 22 ingame days

6 years old desktop, internet off when playing

little cc, game set to "pause on zone", "no loading scroll autonomy" mod, no culling allowed, relationship decay set to 10% and I cull manually only (meaning the game has many relationships per sim to track), usually full inventories, neighborhood stories are off... some of those factors probably lenghten my loading times

Mods make the difference for me. I play on a fairly new Dell laptop with upgraded video card. Without mods in, it loads the travel screens in under 10 secs. With them, it loads in 10-30 seconds. I see the biggest difference in the start up load, though.

One time on my very old laptop it took about 30 mins, was able to watch an entire episode from The Office before it loaded. My sim had lots of Items in their inventory and a her relationship tab was filled with sooo many sims. After she was moved to a new save, it loaded asap