Save Game Size
What are the major factors that increase a savefile size enormously? I've noticed that Large photographs (taken by Digital Cameras) increase the savefile size by a lot. What else increases the siz...
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"Simmerville;c-17764664" wrote:
Interesting thread. I am on a low-end pc, regularly needing to clean up my disk to make the game run satisfyingly. I found that with less than 400 GB free disk I notice lag.
Re photos, I took lots of them, mostly the minimum size though. I found that even if taking the smallest version and using the "enlarge object" feature, the quality is still good enough to go quite large. Only downside is that frames get oversized. It could still save you from filling up the drive too quickly.
One other think I read we should avoid is to use the bb.moveobjects cheat too often. Assuming the lot might lag as the game will read the info in a different way. This should not make save file bigger though.
Did you run the game with the Father Winter glitch? On Winter Fest the game produced thousands of santas, making the save file quite big. You would have noticed by lag or crashing though. The glitch was introduced November(?) and was addressed in one of the latest patches.
PS; by save file, do you refer to the entire save file folder, or just one single file? Each save produces several files. My latest save file is 120 MB and this save is 6 years old and include most of the packs... I play 80-90 households and nearly all of them have minimum 5-10 photos or paintings - there must be minimum 50 large photos in my save. I don't have the M stuffpack though, did you use that new camera?
I didn't play the November patch so I don't reckon that's the reason but that sounds crazy tho.
By savefile, I mean just one savefile. Yeah, as I mentioned above, My 5-year-old savefile is 11 MB which still surprises me how it's so small even though I've played so many generations on it.
But this "photography sim" savefile was freshly created just for that and I'm only playing the 1st gen and the savefile size is 24 MB. I don't even have any community lots added everything is base sims 4 except my sims house and his "art gallery".
So the only explanation for the 24 MB file is the Large digital photos my sim has been taking and putting up the wall.
and Yes, I do have the Moschino SP and I use the Clickshot P10 camera from that pack (the holy grail of the sims 4 camera technology)
Finally, the only thing I need to test now is to try removing all the photos I've got on that save and see if it reduces the size drastically.
