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dafadolly's avatar
10 years ago

How much custom content do you have?

I've always been a heavy user of custom content and know a ton of other simmers are as well. I wanted to start a discussion to see how large your guys' mods folders are, and how much they compare for each game. In sims 3, highest I think I managed was 2 gb, but somewhere past that it stopped working (might've been to do with mod conflicts instead of size since I was super unorganized). I recently checked the size of my mods folder in sims 4 and found out its at 12gb! I thought that was insane. Literally doesn't even affect my game as much as I would have expected. When I first load up the game it only takes about 4-5 minutes. With sims 3 it took me a solid 30 mins AT LEAST to load it up with 2 gb of custom content. Then an extra 30 (again, don't really remember exactly but I know I timed it at one point) to load up a world. Gameplay was a little laggy too if I remember correctly. With sims 4 I don't even notice anything though... Only lag I experience occurs when I have multiple things running on my laptop and I've been playing for over an hour. Honestly props to the sims 4 team for managing to make the game handle custom content so well. I don't know what I would do without it all...

So how large are your mods folders?

(tip: if you right click your mods folder and go to properties, it'll tell you the exact size)

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  • Around 8 GB in my folder, 4000+ files categorized into 160 some folders. I try to look for child and toddler stuff and build buy item, but I tend to get distracted.
  • 3.25 GB 247 files a few mods, the essentials actually mcc more cas columns ui cheats also that nsfw one ^^ a few mods to fix things, rest is cas cc.
    I regularly go through all my custom content and delete what I don't use. I also don't go on download sprees anymore xD
  • Sims 4 is pretty enough without them, so I like to keep it simple for my save file. With Sims 3, I'd probably had like 200.
  • my mods folder is 20.9GB and i have 7168 files there
    sometimes i wonder how is my game still working XD
  • im gonna do a lil bump here by saying i have 378 cc files, not including the two mods i have (MC command centre and an emotions enhancer thing). most of it is hair and skin details, because man do i love my hair. i go on download sprees probably once a month or every other month, i'll just be making a sim and i'll realize i need stuff i never downloaded, so that leads me to downloading a crap ton of cc.

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