For some reason my game went from loading in 10 minutes to taking over 20 minutes to load. With a full doctoral course load and research responsibilities, I didn't have time to wait that long for a study break. I took out the download folder and everything loaded in 5 minutes. It's by no means the 1-2 minute load times that I've heard around the community, but 5 minutes is a pretty sweet number in my book. I know that I won't get to 5 minutes since I will use downloads, but to have a less than 10 minute load would be nice.
I know that I have gotten my download folder bloated and needed to cull it, but my piece meal effort of ingame deletion wasn't working. So what did I do? Start anew.
I took all the downloads out and redownloaded or moved over the files that I knew that I needed to play my game-things like skintones, signature hairstyles and genetics like eye color.
My Downloads folder is organized as follows:
Downloads>
--Buy Mode / creator / object
--Build Mode / type / creator
--Body Shop / type / creator
--Hacks & Mods / creator
--MAXIS
--Temporary / unopened & currently testing
My next step is deleting downloads with multiple recolors, like some of Piggi's object recolors or Fakepeeps clothing since I don't need multiple shades of blue for a nightstand and I don't need ten recolors of a dress that only three of my sims will wear. This part is more tedious. I don't know how much space I'll free up and if it will matter, but at least I won't have to shift through the recolors during gameplay.
To be honest, sometimes I wonder if this is a case of diminishing returns, more work on culling downloads to shave off a minute or two with load times...is it really worth it?
For me, it's not worth the time it takes to cull. For others, it may be very worth it.
ReplyDeleteI have a really long load time (over an hour, can't be bothered to time it exactly!) but I usually do other things while it's loading, so it doesn't bother me much. I'd rather be playing than culling, you know?
That said, if someone told me I could have all my CC and a 5 minute load time, I'd be all over it! LOL.
I know how you feel. My load time is about the same as yours, maybe 15 minutes - I never time - and I have been thinking about doing the same.
ReplyDeleteI would hope that its worth it simply to just get is all organized. I have a ton of clutter objects that simply need to go so it might take long AV but in the end it will be worth it.
I found out recently that sims 2 can be played in windows mode versus full screen mode by adding " -w" to the end of the application shourtcut's target path.
ReplyDeleteIt is sweet when I can do on other things on the computer when sims 2 takes its 15-20 minutes to load.
I did what you are doing or did in December. Though I didn't organize the same was as you, and I wish I did!! I did by creator/site, which I do like, but sometimes I wish it was by category.
ReplyDeleteI cull my downloads of multi recolors regularly, I hate looking at them. My up time is about 25 minutes until I'm in a house (unless its an apartment).
compressionizer is your friend... after the organization of course.
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