Can we PLEASE have this annoying Clean-Air-Aurora-Like-Light-Effect which apperantly came with Eco-Lifestyle SWITCHABLE in the settings? According to the FAN-Speed (PS4) this effect consumes loads of CPU&GPU Power and make the game even slower. It's really hard to aim with less than 3fps.
This really seems to be computationally intensive. Sometimes / Meanwhile when zooming out as far as possible (so that only this very bright aurora is visible anymore) the fan goes max RPM and the console shuts down due to overheating. This might for sure be a cleaning issue of my particular console, however, it shows impressively how much computing power is consumed by this unnecessary visual effect.
@EA QA Please do Something
In the linked video, you can see the difference in frame rate when the effect is visible. Meanwhile I use this weather control machine to have it constantly raining, otherwise the game is unplayable. Even disabling Eco Lifestyle effects in setup doesn't help. It does remove the effect from "Manage World" but if you load into your neighbourhood, it's still there. Install without eco-lifestyle is not an option because (apart from having paid for it) that specific neighbourhood is off grid, so I need pv, wind energy and moisture collectors from eco lifestyle
Meanwhile, can anybody tell me how to ruin my green footprint? Except of letting it rain all the time, this seems to be the only way to get rid of this crap.
https://youtu.be/zq23ktZEE4k
@Zalo-Doran You could try adding fireplaces to builds to bring it back to neutral but I agree there should be a way to disable it I've got it in my game but I have the footprint turned off it's a new save I can't get rid of it.
As I thought as well. Unfortunately, fireplaces seem not to work (or at least didn't have enough weight against all the "green" solar powered appliances). I tried a special room with about 30 of them, and it didn't go away.
@Zalo-Doran I'll ask around see if anyone else has any other ideas how to get rid of it.
@Zalo-Doran Remove all green appliances to bring it back to neutral or the only other way is to disable eco footprint in the opticians menu.
Opticians menu? I only have the normal settings menu, and as I've already mentioned, disabling eco-footprint there removes the effect only from manage worlds. I will give the appliances a try, but I think this will not help either. From my past experiences, they appear as "green" as soon as they are powered by green energy (for instance, refrigerator becomes "industrial" as long as it's running on bio fuel. When fuel is empty, it goes back on grid (or solar energy if off grid) and becomes "green" again. It might only work if I remove all solar, wind energy, water, green stuff and put the property "on grid" - leaving the question why I've bought eco-lifestyle.
So I gave it another try. Disabling eco footprint (as seen in the attached video) does remove the aurora effect definitely only from the manage worlds page. I've tried also saving, restarting, reloading and waiting for a complete sim day, nothing changes. Finally I've replaced appliances with unmodified ones as well as removed all eco-lifestyles solar/water/wind generators. And the Aurora Effect still persists.
The fact that disabling eco-footprint completely didn't remove the aurora effect from the property/neighbourhood is probably a bug. However, I didn't want do disable it completely. It's just about that visual effect, in which the PS4 is obviously unable to render with an appropriate frame rate.
https://youtu.be/KXBhk73lDt4
Ok,. I bet it's definitely something wrong here.
I moved in a house next to the "problem property". Doing so made the eco-footprint drop from "green" to "neutral" - in both houses. Logically, the effect is no longer visible on "manage worlds" page. Cheers, the problem was gone on the problem property. Ah, wait. Only for one sim day. While the eco-footprint is still neutral and the effect is still no longer been shown in manage worlds, it's present again in the problem property (and only there, the other house is free of it). When zooming out, it is that massive, that only a white screen is viisible. APU Fan is speeding up, fortunately after cleaning and applying new thermal grease, console is no longer shutting down due to overheating.
Bulldozing the property does remove the effect immedaiately. Replacing it from the gallery does bring it back.
I didn't make a video today, since obviously nobody cares (zero views on the other two, I assume EA is busy w/ counting money).
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