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burin077
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago
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Sims 4 Performance and Crashing (Crash on Travel, Slow Load Time)

Hi there, I have been experiencing various issues with Sims 4 in the last few months, some of which have almost cost me my save files due to possible corruption; thankfully, I was able to revert back...
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burin077
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago

Hi there,

I was unable to post my DxDiag in a separate post, in my previous post, I have provided a copy of my DxDiag.

If I try to post it in a regular reply, it exceeds 60,000 characters.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

@burin077

Apologies, I missed your DXDiag in your previous post. You could always update your drivers for a start, knowing that there are drivers from July for your 750Ti:

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/87783

I don't expect it to have any dramatic change however, but you never know. Your config is already ludicrously strong in most respects (for instance your preposterous amount of RAM). Let us know if this helps. 🙂

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    burin077
    Seasoned Ace
    10 years ago

    Understood, I will give this a try and let you know what I find with the driver update:

    I did find something in the meantime that might prove insightful:

    - I took the advice to remove items from my Sim's inventory, this seemed to help significantly on some of the lots, it reduced my normally 3.2 GB of RAM usage to 2.2 RAM usage, however even without adding more to my inventory, the RAM usage seems to progressively go up during gameplay. After about 2 hours of gameplay it was back up to 3.1 GB.

    - I started a whole new lot, then went back to one of the lots that was having problems, this seemed to clear out some RAM usage for the previously played lot, regardless of items in the inventory.  (Lot with 2.9 GB RAM usage went down to 2.6 GB RAM.)

    Things I will try and do next:

    - Move a family to a new lot and rebuild, see if this reduces RAM usage for that family.

    - See if I can pinpoint any specific items in my Sims inventory that might be causing large RAM usage. (Possibly damaged bills from the previous issue that was resolved with mailboxes?)

    - Roll back the same families via a previous save and see if similar issues are occurring. (I have one from a month ago, same lot and sims, might prove useful.)

    Thanks for catching the driver update, I'll give that a whirl and see if it improves anything.

    - B

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      10 years ago

      @burin077

      Good to know inventory clearing did help somewhat. Keep us updated on your findings.

      Out of curiosity, how long have you been laying with your main family save? Wondering if this may somehow have a correlation with long family trees.

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        burin077
        Seasoned Ace
        10 years ago

        My main family has been running since December 2014.

        At the moment not that much in the family overall, just a husband and wife, and three children.

        I will keep you updated as I continue to test.

        - B

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