Loading into save takes too long
Hello, so I've been having issues lately with my game (both vanilla and modded) where it takes 3-10 minutes to load. It's completely random if it wants to take 2 minutes or 10 minutes. I haven't been...
Forum Discussion
@iLillyi Does this happen if you play while your computer is offline? I realize this wouldn't be a convenient long-term fix, but it's a helpful diagnostic step.
Please also let me know whether your Sims 4 user folder is in OneDrive. You can right-click the folder and select Properties > General, then look for the location.
One drive is currently uninstalled, when I installed windows I bypassed the one drive set up. But I did check the folder, it’s not linked to one drive.
Tried the offline just now unfortunately it didn’t change the time of my save loading, it was still loading at 2 minutes. If anything it made the initial launch take longer.
i did notice that it’s using 60% of my ram but barely using my CPU. My CPU reached MAYBE 30% usage when loading. The only thing my laptop and desktop have in common is they’re both 16gb ram.
And also the game around 10-15 seconds will act like its about the load in, ever since launch I’ve noticed that the plumbob loading screen will lag and then speed up a second before loading into the game, but lately it’s been doing that and then continuing to load for another few minutes, the highest I ever recorded it being 10 minutes.
@iLillyi What antivirus do you use, and does it help to (temporarily) disable the software? A few different programs have been blocking or otherwise interfering with Sims 4 lately.
If that doesn't help, please try playing in a clean boot:
The one service to leave enabled is the EABackgroundService, which the EA App needs in order to run. Disable the rest as described.
When you reboot your computer, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down any service that doesn't absolutely need to be running, for example anything from MSI Afterburner to RGB software might still be enabled. If you accidentally kill a critical process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer again.
Don't open anything other than Sims 4 and the EA App while testing, not even a browser window. Please do test at least once with your computer offline, and test a new save with no mods or custom content at first.
This is a fresh install of windows, with the only non essential programs being steam, EA App, Winrar, and google chrome. I haven’t installed an antivirus yet since I haven’t been using to internet. I’ve been trying to solve this loading issue the entire time. I can still do the clean boot if that’s still relevant.
Ea App Offline PC Online: 2:17 with mods
Ea App offline PC online 9seconds without mods. So it does seem to be mod related, and probably why it happened without mods on my laptop was because the CPU wasn’t strong enough for all packs.
So now my issue is, my mods folder is only 10gigs. What upgrade would I need to get my loading speeds better to play with this mods folder? I understand 10 seconds is a bit unreasonable for 10gbs of mods but I’d settle for 30-45 seconds.
I currently have 16gb ram and a Ryzen 5 5600x.
Community Highlights
- EA_Cade9 months ago
Community Manager
