The Sims 4 has a long waiting time.

In a vanilla PC game, mine loads very quickly. With mods and cc, it slows down.

I play on mac and pc, loads well for me. Haven’t gotten a chance to download it on console yet though

How long does it actually take to load for you? It loads in under a minute for me.

"haneul;c-18204170" wrote:
How long does it actually take to load for you? It loads in under a minute for me.

It loads about 8 mins or so.

I play on a gaming laptop have all the packs and kits, but no mods or CC. It takes a few minutes for me.

If I don't have any mods or cc, it loads probably in abut 30-45 seconds, with my mods and cc (which is about 20 GB in my mods folder right now, mostly CAS CC), it takes probably 7-8 minutes.

I play on a gaming rig but just two days ago, it took over an hour and it still never loaded. I came to the board and was reminded to restart my computer. That did the trick. You may wish to see if that works for you, too.

I have tons of CC (like easily 40+ GBs), but it's the cluttered up tray files that tank my loading time. I cleared it out the other day and the game loaded within a minute.

"HavenRose;c-18204271" wrote:
I have tons of CC (like easily 40+ GBs), but it's the cluttered up tray files that tank my loading time. I cleared it out the other day and the game loaded within a minute.

Hmmm, I never thought about that! That's probably what contributes to some of my longer load times too, considering I have almost 17,000 items in there!

Under a minute with my small collection of mods (160mb). 35 seconds to launch the game then 10 seconds for the average save file. I am a hoarder when it comes to my library/tray & screenshots folder. I clean house when I can but I've accepted that I'm a pack rat. :)

Hardware plays a big part. If your PC is underpowered for the game you can try lowering graphic settings including resolution. Put Origin or the new EA app in offline mode. As mentioned, freeing up space in your tray folder helps too. Install the game onto an SSD if that's an option as most PCs these days have an SSD but sometimes very small with just enough room for the operating system.