Making the game faster

I haven’t noticed that, but regularly clearing out my screenshots folder helps a lot.

I can't say I've noticed anything make it faster except less packs installed or upgrading computer specs.

Can anyone help me: if we delete the tray folder, will my sims disappear? I'm afraid of cleaning it but im playing 80+ sims and im afraid they will disappear from my game... i know if i delete that folder my game will go much quicker.

"PinkSugar81;c-17707652" wrote:
If you delete the tray folder all yours sims and houses will disappear from your gallery. Any you made or downloaded to your gallery will also be gone. I just had to delete my tray files. My game runs faster but I had a 1000+ files in there.

@PinkSugar81 thank you for replying :) But will they disappear from the save im playing with them? I don't care if they disappear from my library as i don't like to replay households but i don't want to mess with my game...

"telmarina;c-17707655" wrote:

"PinkSugar81;c-17707652" wrote:
If you delete the tray folder all yours sims and houses will disappear from your gallery. Any you made or downloaded to your gallery will also be gone. I just had to delete my tray files. My game runs faster but I had a 1000+ files in there.

@PinkSugar81 thank you for replying :) But will they disappear from the save im playing with them? I don't care if they disappear from my library as i don't like to replay households but i don't want to mess with my game...

If they're already exist in the world they wont get purged.

Thank you @izecson and @PinkSugar81 ! :)

I play on console so there is no way for me to speed up the game unless I buy the new consoles(which unless a miracle occurs isn't gonna happen) Oddly though if I bash the notification Icon in the top right when experiencing build/buy mode lag, the game speeds back up to normal. "Oddly" not sure if this works on pc

Yeah it's true. I had one household which loaded really slowly, when I cleared out their inventory they loaded much faster. This included things in their household catalogue, and items in their inventory like collectibles and photos.

Tray folder, relationships between sims, save file size affects load times as well. If you have a save that you have played for a long time you are going to get longer loading times but I think Maxis have done a pretty good job with improving it over the years.

"Korgly;c-17707670" wrote:
I play on console so there is no way for me to speed up the game unless I buy the new consoles(which unless a miracle occurs isn't gonna happen) Oddly though if I bash the notification Icon in the top right when experiencing build/buy mode lag, the game speeds back up to normal. "Oddly" not sure if this works on pc

In PC, we hit esc button to bring up pause menu to fix the lag in build/buy.

"MsKatieRose;d-983051" wrote:
I've heard some players mention in the past that cleaning out your sims inventory will make the game operate faster with less loading screen time. Does anyone know if this is true. If you found this to be true or noticed any other changes after doing this, feel free to share your experience here.

I didn't notice my sims' personal inventories slowing things down. I think the game doesn't even load the inventories of sims other than my current household anyway.
But my legacy family has many collectables stored in different crates (the ones that came with Eco) and their lot lags badly. Since this is my only laggy lot I assume the crates' inventories are to blame.