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...
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@iLillyi The Ryzen 5 5600X is likely not the limiting factor here, but rather the game itself. RAM is definitely not an issue, although if you upgraded the CPU to something that supported the much faster DDR5 (the 5600X is DDR4-only), that could improve things around the margins. Still, I wouldn't suggest an upgrade just for this considering that improvements would be small—Sims 4 can't properly take advantage of more powerful hardware than you currently have.
What I'd suggest instead is suppressing the pop-up list of mods and custom content at the Main Menu. Generating this list takes a long time, and I'm guessing you don't constantly need to be told which mods you have installed. If that doesn't help, make sure you don't have any broken mods, or anything made for Sims 2 or 3, both of which can increase loading times significantly if they don't crash the game outright. Other than that, it's worth doing a 50/50 of your mods to see if you can identify any particular offender.
https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Finding_Problem_Custom_Content#The_50.25_Method
I actually found my fix, though I’m not sure which one did it but I’m sure they all contributed.
1. I used bulk rename to take out all special characters and spaces in my mods folder.
2. I deleted all high poly cc
3. I cleaned out my cache before EVERY initial load.
4. I waited on the main menu for at LEAST 30 seconds, opening the packs and the kits tabs.
5. I loaded into the game BEFORE opening any other programs.
With only CC and MCCC, my game loaded in 4 seconds.
With my entire 10gb mods folder, it took the exact same time, 4 seconds.
The pie menu is also almost instant, before it would take around 2-3 seconds to pop up.
I’m not sure if this will help anyone else, but those 5 fixes combined fixed it for me.
I believe the biggest contributor is letting the game stay on the main menu for a bit before just jumping in.
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