Your longest sims loading screen

Sims 3 takes forever to load, one of the reasons why I no longer play that game. Maybe 5-10 minutes.

Sims 4 took maybe 5 minutes to load when it was 32-bit. Now it takes no longer than a minute for me.

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.

Wow, intresting to read about your loading times! My longest is about 12 seconds and that's already long enough for me! :D.
But I play without CC / Mods and my files and inventories are all cleaned up :).
If I would have loding times over a few minutes it would certanly kill the fun :/.

"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.

Mine are usually 30 seconds ( I play on ps4 so no CC or mods )

"@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.

"@Cavapoo_King;c-17564140" wrote:

"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.

Mine are usually 30 seconds ( I play on ps4 so no CC or mods )

I see. Try a cold reboot of the console. As in, turn it off, unplug it and leave it unplugged for a couple of minutes (2 should do) so the system can reset. Then reconnect.
Also ensure that you’re running the latest PS4 system software.
See if it helps cut down loading screen times.

Mine are 30 seconds or less. I'm on a gaming laptop that's about 2 years old now too.

On TS3, the last time, was 15 minutes and still not loaded before I just turned it off and never bothered again. Same computer. :/

"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?

Sims 4 : Maybe a minute.
Sims 3 : I’m not making that up : I’m pretty sure it could last as long as 40-45 mins to launch on my old white macbook, and that was with a bit of cc, no mods, and only two EPs and a SP at some point. And then when it finally loaded it was laggy as ......
Then on my current laptop (MacBook Pro) it was shorter but still a bit laggy.

These comments are really making me realise how slow my PC is lol. Takes atleast 10-15 minutes for me to get from Origin to playing TS4, and the Sims 3 was just yikes - 35 minutes and that's on a good day. I usually just go off and do something else while it's loading.
Then again I have a lot of CC and most the packs now, it's gotten slower the more I've added and to be fair my laptop is from like 2014 and isn't a gaming PC so it makes sense. I really need to replace it sometime