I just wanted to drop in and say that there is something wrong with increasing loading times the longer you play a savegame. I would understand a slight increase in load times, the longer you play, but my main savegame already takes 15! times longer to load up than a new one, which still wouldn't be a problem if it didn't affect every single loading screen ingame except the worldmap one. In a game ridden with loading screens that's the one thing to make sure it becomes unplayable.Loading screen breakdown: New Game vs. 152 hour savegame onloding Savegame: 8 sec - 79 secloading Map: 3 sec bothvisiting Park: 11 sec - 55 sechome from Park and other lots: 8s ec - 87! secvisiting Crick Cabana: 6 sec - 45 secManage Worlds: 4 sec - 20 secOrigin Digital Deluxe, no CC or mods, 4725kB savegame size on 120GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD.

How big is your save game now ?

I'll try that later on my machine. Yeah, there's something weird with that savegame. I had the music playing over music bug on it and it crashed on traveling for me. I'll try to forward this to EA:

I can try it but there's not much I can do about it. I don't work for EA. I forwarded this thread so hopefully someone from EA can take a look at those.

Museum took 45 secs, park took 39 secs. So comparable to yours.

Good to hear @derfloc Do you have similar experiences ?

Exponentially increasing loading times the longer you play a savegame!

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crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago
How big is your save game now ?
derfloc
12 years ago
4725kB, loading the home lot takes ~80 seconds every single time, I stopped playing 2 days ago bc the loading times kept increasing steadily. New games are ~1050kB big and load 12-13 times faster, the only loading screen that doesn't seem to be affected is the world map one.
Edit: Here is another simmers savegame, it's even bigger than mine, loads forever on the owners machine and freezes upon loading on mine.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fzjkkbhtyegnk96/Sims4SaveTest.rar
crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago
I'll try that later on my machine.

Yeah, there's something weird with that savegame. I had the music playing over music bug on it and it crashed on traveling for me.

I'll try to forward this to EA:
derfloc
12 years ago
Thanks a lot! Could you maybe check one of my own saves too, if you find time to do so? Just as reported, loading it takes 70+ sec on my current setup, traveling to the park ~55 sec, loading the home lot +70 sec again. It's best to load the van Brink's @ Whitehaven (Oakenstead).
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wjdsm5yu5epye1i/TS4_savegame.rar
crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago
I can try it but there's not much I can do about it. I don't work for EA.

I forwarded this thread so hopefully someone from EA can take a look at those.
derfloc
12 years ago
It would be much appreciated! I'd really like to know how it performs for other persons that were not affected by growing loading times so far.
crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago
Museum took 45 secs, park took 39 secs.

So comparable to yours.
ElnVld
Seasoned Traveler
12 years ago
My loading screens are getting longer and longer. At first loading screens between lots took 5-10 sec each, but now - 2 minutes. My saves are about 5,63 MB (after 2 weeks of playing Sims 4).
This DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/NRKqqVr5
crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago
Yeah, we have similar systems. I only have a 550 ti and 8 GB or RAM (I think, maybe it's 12) but that doesn't matter since the game can only use 4 anyways.

Also same size save games as mine. EA needs to work on those loading screens.

DId you check how far the RAM usage goes up on the loading screens ?
ElnVld
Seasoned Traveler
12 years ago
Memory usage is about 4,9/15.9 (30%). And I've a bug where two songs start playing at once and then continue into gameplay after exiting loading screens.