Your longest sims loading screen

"@Atreya33;c-17564167" wrote:

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17564145" wrote:

"@Atreya33;c-17564097" wrote:
About 5 minutes for the sims 4. I play on a laptop that was pretty decent when I got it but that has been about 4 years ago. I think sims 3 took longer to load but never actually timed it.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17563791" wrote:

"@Cavapoo_King;d-978301" wrote:
I was just wondering because right now my current loading screen has been going on for 9 minutes!

Long loading screens can depend on various things:

• Your machine. Does it have a decent processor and GPU in order to run the game?
  
• The save (does it have many playable households in it?) (Start a new save and see if the issue persists).
  
• CC/Mods: Do you have many? 1 or 2 can even be corrupt.(move them to the desktop and see if the game loads faster).
  
• Do you have many screenshots? (take them out and create a back up)
  
• Do you have many videos? (take them out and create a back up)
  
• Do you have a big tray with many lots, rooms, sims in it?
  
• Do you have any Custom Music?
  
• Are you using shaders?
  

The game may need to load all of these items, depending on what you have installed.

My sims folder has grown pretty large. I should clean it up but I always think 'maybe I want to use this lot/sim/save in the future' . I will try to see what I can delete from this list next time I play.

I suggest backing up all tray items first before you delete them, so you don’t lose sims or lots altogether. You’d have to copy the actual trayfolder from the documents folder and paste it to your desktop or wherever you prefer to keep a BU. Here’s were you can find it:

Documents/ Electronic Arts/ Sims 4/ Tray

Once copied to the BU location you can Organize these tray items into subfolders based on dates that you created them. Since they have a unique ID you could always move them back into the documents tray folder at a later time, in case you want them back in your game.

I had no idea I could use subfolders in the tray folder. That's definitely interesting. Is there any way to see which file is what, apart from the date?

@Atreya33,

To keep it organized, create the subfolders in the back up folder, not the actual tray folder, as this may cause problems.
The only other way to see which file is which, is by looking at the ID Code of the tray items. The numbers should match up for each item.
If you’re planning on organizing and backing up some of your households/lots, the best thing is to open them in the gallery and save them and move them Into a subfolders in the BU folder with a name unique to that date.

Here’s a link to a pretty clear CS4 guide in which the author explains how the tray system works and how you can identify your files:

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=26535.0