Making the game faster

"EnkiSchmidt;c-17707676" wrote:

"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.

I had one household which had a sim which had taken loads of photos, he had over 100 photos in his inventory and I when I loaded that household to play it I could notice that the game loaded slower. This was a couple of years ago though and I think they have improved it somewhat.

It depends upon the size of the inventory. If multiple Sims in a household have lots of stuff in their inventory, it does slow down the game. If you have a lot with a lot of clutter, it has the same effect. Your computer CPU has to account for all of it, and if it gets rendered on screen, it also involves your GPU.

One good habit to develop in game is to regularly inspect Sim's inventory to see what has shown up in there. Sims accumulate a lot of random stuff, and it doesn't hurt to clean it out. Most things in inventory can be sold, and that helps with household income.

Household inventory, located in Build/Buy Mode, is another place that things accumulate, and some of those items can fetch a pretty penny if you sell them.

If you have Eco Lifestyle, recycling items in your inventory is a great way to get resources for fabrication.

All of these things are ways to improve game performance and increase household income at the same time.

I play rotational with 26 families currently and I noticed my game was starting to slow down so I went round all of my played families and cleared out their inventories and their household inventories and my game has been running smoother.

The only way I know of to speed up the game, and not by much, is to get a SSD installed on your computer.

Apparently from what I saw in James Turner's and lilsimsie's new videos about their builds in The Snowy Escape you shouldn't have too many wallpapers so not having too many might speed up your game! Even the default one counts. They've both posted about their three lots each today.

Just use common sense. Sometimes less is more. Gallery builds with tons of building cheats and clutter really slow down loading times for me. I have a high-end gaming computer and I play on ultra and even it can struggle with some builds.

When I am not using the gallery I go to options and disable online content. Taking the game offline creates noticeable difference for me.

Also, before I play I do a clean boot so the only things running at startup are necessary windows processes and my antivirus. Activating windows game mode is a must for me.

"AnnLee87;c-17708150" wrote:
Activating windows game mode is a must for me.

What is this and how can I do it?

"Sharonia;c-17708181" wrote:

"AnnLee87;c-17708150" wrote:
Activating windows game mode is a must for me.

What is this and how can I do it?

Making the game into a “windowed” mode. Just go to setting—>graphics—>display type and choose windowed or windowed full screen. This makes my game laggy and the image so ugly and squishy, I just play in full screen

"SelinaKyles;c-17708189" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17708181" wrote:

"AnnLee87;c-17708150" wrote:
Activating windows game mode is a must for me.

What is this and how can I do it?

Making the game into a “windowed” mode. Just go to setting—>graphics—>display type and choose windowed or windowed full screen. This makes my game laggy and the image so ugly and squishy, I just play in full screen

Ah okay. I've tried that before. It made my graphics not look as clear and I'm a snob about graphics. :D Ty so much. <3

@Sharonia no Windows actually has a game mode. It's in settings. Or in the windows search bar type Game Mode and it gives you an option to turn it on.