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CoolPol42
5 years ago
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Delayed interaction menu when clicking on sims, computer and fridge.

It takes about 5-15 seconds.
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ElDimentio
Seasoned Adventurer
5 years ago

Ever since the Cottage Living expansion, anything that opens the cooking menu takes a noticeable amount of time to load (the popup to select what to cook).

This is very tedious because I like to play Sims who make bake sales and the like, and usually need to cook like 10 things in one day which has now become very tedious due to the lag from when you click on Cook and when the popup finally loads up.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @ElDimentio  Have you tested without mods?  If not, please do so now: move your entire Mods folder to the desktop and delete localthumbcache.package as well.

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      ElDimentio
      Seasoned Adventurer
      5 years ago

      Hey, thank you for the quick response! I started a new file and even with all my mods removed, it still seems just as slow. It takes about 1 second for the Fridge Pie menu to show up, then a whole 3 seconds for the food menu popup to show when my Sim is level 10 cooking. It loads in about 1-2 seconds at level 1 cooking. If I was only cooking once a day it wouldn't be too big of a deal, but it really makes making food to sell very tedious (and this is one of the biggest highlights for me of the Cottage Living expansion).

      This was with the Simple Living lot challenge enabled. Surprisingly, it took even longer with the challenge removed. The pie menu always loads in about 1 second, but the food menu took 4 seconds to show up on most attempts, with one instance taking a whopping 9 seconds to load (I tried a total of 5 times).

      I have all the DLC except for Batuu. This was a blank save file where I did nothing but create a sim, go into a house, use the fridge to measure the time, use a cheat to set my cooking to level 10, and then use the fridge again. My specs are way beyond anything TS4 should need (attached).

      • puzzlezaddict's avatar
        puzzlezaddict
        Hero+
        5 years ago

        @ElDimentio  Please test in a new save not in the Cottage Living world, with a couple different fridges, just to be thorough.  While you're playing, please also check how much of your CPU Origin is using the Task Manager—sometimes it takes all the resources it can, for no good reason.

        By the way, it's unlikely to be the cause of this particular issue, but you'll get better performance overall if you plug your monitor directly into the graphics card rather than into the motherboard as is now the case.

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