"TURBODRIVER;c-18178821" wrote:
The most straightforward general information was already provided, but I want to mention how the game behaves when you begin to run out of RAM.
This isn't about how much RAM capacity you have, this is when you hit the limit. Hitting the limit of your computer RAM, not only with the game but with other applications open at the same time (especially internet browser tabs), will cause the game to struggle, even with no mods. Check how much RAM is being used with the Task Manager.
The struggle mainly comes from the nature of the game, which is to manage a lot of visual assets (objects and clothing). These visual assets are usually not needed (not being displayed on the screen), so they are unloaded, meaning not in RAM. When the game asks for a visual asset, it gets loaded into RAM and transferred to the VRAM for rendering. When RAM is fully used up, something else has to be dropped to free up space, which will cause the game to freeze for a moment. Except you might need some assets even when just moving the camera around because something different is now on the screen, so you will encounter constant freezing.
The size of the lot doesn't matter, but bigger lots usually means more objects, more objects means more unique/different visual assets, more visual assets means a lot of it has to be loaded, but when you are out of RAM, you will get freezing.
The amount of CC in your folder doesn't actually matter if you don't have all of that CC placed in the world, because the assets aren't loaded. The game will definitely load for a longer time because assets need to be indexed and verified in some ways, but they aren't kept in memory unless needed. It's not too different than having a lot of packs installed.
Upgrading storage will not help, but upgrading RAM will. Or see if you can close other applications to free up RAM when playing the game.
Thanks a bunch. I still need to upgrade storage because I don't have enough to hold all the cc I currently have. I already close applications and don't usually have any thing else open when playing
