Sims 4 Long Loading Screens
Since I started playing Sims 4, all of the loading screens have been very long. At least 2-3 minutes each, regardless of what my sims are doing - traveling between lots, changing appearance in the mi...
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I am having the exact same problem. My loading screens when a new game starts are fine, but as the game goes on, they get slower and slower. It means I don't take my Sims out of their home neighborhood very often. I have tried clearing the caches, but that doesn't help. Saving and exiting the game are fast; it's just the loading screens from the map that takes over a minute.
I don't think it's my computer, though I'm hoping there's something I can tweak. While it's a laptop, it's a fairly high-end laptop -- or at least it was last year -- and greatly exceeds the recommended requirements.
Here's my dxdiag:
http://pastebin.com/iZUV536d
Your graphics drivers are a bit dated. Try updating those.
Also how big is your save game ?
I really don't want to update my graphics drivers as since it's an unusual configuration -- laptop with dual video cards that run in SLI -- stability can be an issue and I don't have trouble with anything graphics wise. Especially since new games don't have the slow-loading screen issue.
I have turned off SLI for Sims 4 as some games don't like it, and while that hasn't seemed to make a difference, turning off on-line play in the options seems to have made a small improvement.
The save is 3.02 MB. If it's the size of the save (though this seems small), what can be done, if anything, to reduce that?
Thank you for your time on this 🙂
Edit: In the interest of science (and being secure enough to know I won't blow up my machine), I did update to nVidia's latest drivers. It had no effect on load times whatsoever. It's easy enough to roll back if the new drivers give me issues in other games.
Second edit: I also want to mention that both my OS and Sims 4 are on the same mSSD drive. And at first, the games had very fast load times, which is why I'm thinking there is some other issue going on with games that have been played for 40+ hours.
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