heeeydevon Does this happen if your computer is offline when you launch the game? Please test it out: you can put the EA App in offline mode, then disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable before pressing Play.
If that doesn't make a difference, please open GameConfig.ini, in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4, and see whether you have a line that says this:
useappdataforscratch = 1
If it's missing, or if the value is 0, that's fine and the same as it's always been; if it says 1, try setting it to 0 instead and see whether it helps.
I appreciate the help! It looks like it's about the same loading time. 5min 12sec. I usually back up my game files and mod folder after every update, just in case I want to revert back. I've tried launching the game with the old update and mod folder and I can 2min 23sec.
From what I'm seeing online a lot of other people have been having the same issue as well and it seems like the time always amounts to 2x the original load time. Saving times seem fairly okay as well, I've also tested my NVMe health and had no other issues with other games.
I did notice that maybe they've improved the in game performance by a little bit. My theory is that it might have something to do with them creating this new family tree thing where the game needs to load in a massive amount of data (more so than before) before actually launching to assign cousins, nephews, etc, but it's a theory with no backing evidence. But 5 min to load is brinking on a bit overboard, I can't imagine what people's loading times are that that already took 5 min to load 🤯
