Official Sims 3 Patch
MalikNetok:
Has anyone but me notice a performance issue since the last patch? I'm having major slow-downs. It takes forever to load and save as well as the area taking a long time to texturize.
ScorpioMaurus:
Quote from: Witchboy on 2009 August 11, 03:29:38
Seeing patch 1.4 is just a fixed 1.3 patch, do i need to install the 1.3 patch before installing 1.4? or can i just skip 1.3 all together & just install the 1.4 from 1.27?
Yes you need to install 1.27, 1.3.24 and 1.4.6 in order to get it working. I have not had any performance issues with the patch in fact everything seems much faster for me what are your system specs. I may not be a good judge because I have a Quad core with 8GBs of RAM etc. etc. But my saving times were about 3 to 4 minutes before I used this patch and now they are about 30 seconds.
MalikNetok:
Phenom II X3 705e with 4 GB RAM and a GeForce 8500 GT with 1 GB dedicated RAM. I tried it with 2 GB of 1066 MHz first then popped in 2 more GB of 667 MHz. There was no change. Sadly I was having no issues with my duel core AMD Athlon 64 X2 and 3.5 GB 667 RAM. I thought I'd upgrade but it seems to be worse. I was hoping it was the patch but seems not. The Phenom II runs much faster other than in Sims 3.
I'm thinking of overclocking it since it can get up to 3.0 GHz from the stock 2.5 GHz. I don't want to have to. Any hints on how to get my Sims 3 fix without having to wait 5 minutes or more for every shift from place to place? Possibly reinstall and only go to the second patch?
EDITED: Oh yeah. My motherboard is a Asus M4N78 Pro if that helps.
EDITED AGAIN: I thought of this when I woke this morning. Could it be that I'm having this issue because of all the custom content I use? From patterns and clothing/hair to lots and so on. I don't understand what is supposed to go into those sub-folders other then the obvious one like "patterns". What all goes in them? Would putting the custom stuff into the sub-folders cut the wait time down. I have nearly a GB of stuff in my "packages" folder and much of it I have no idea what it even is due to the million or so random letter/number file names ones.
ScorpioMaurus:
Well the computer definitely sounds like it should be able to handle it, mine are Phenoms as well but it's a quad. I'd say try running the game without CC to see what happens would be the easiest way to see if that's causing the slowdown. Personally what I would do since install is pretty fast since there's no EPs yet, Is backup the documents folder and then uninstall and do a totally fresh install with all patches and see if it runs fine. But then if it doesn't you'd need to uninstall again so probably the best option is taking out CC to see what's happening. The only thing that slowed down my game was the core mods like awesomemod or IndieStone but it runs really well for me since this last patch. If all your CC has numbers that start out 0x those are things that should be in another folder I think it's called DCBackup I can't imagine why normal CC from places like MTS would have random looking names, I know exactly where all my CC is from only things from the store or sims3pack files (IE Houses) should show up with weird numbers like that. I'm running mine with about 2GB of CC so I don't know perhaps something went wrong during the update. It's too bad EA didn't give us some way of uninstalling the patch without uninstalling the whole game. But they'd probably never do that because that would count as admitting that they make such bad patches people need to delete them. Also I have a post on MTS that includes a new resource.cfg which will allow you to have 20 subfolders, I currently have 32 subfolders and I keep everything very organized.
http://nene.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=355536
I'd say in the long run your best bet to to reinstall your CC in places where you'll know how to find it. That will make things much easier in the future. In TS2 I used to just dl stuff randomly and not pay much attention to it and then after many reinstalls and losing items and families I bought an External HD to store everything on and I keep all my DLs along with pics of everything backed up on there. It has made reinstalls much less frustrating now. I am doing the same thing with Sims 3 as well and I name the pics the same name as the zip or rar so that they show up in order right next to each other and yes I have OCD but I also have a very low frustration tolerance for reinstalling and losing my favorite stuff lol.
(Edit) Thinking on it perhaps custom houses are the problem as they would show up in that folder with those number names and they could slow down the neighborhood since they aren't default. I only have 7 CC houses and have no issues, How many of your CC are Sims or Houses? Also what are your graphic settings? I found that keeping the Graphic Effects on Medium makes it work much better. I turned off reflections because that only affects the mirrors (Does not affect the water) and I keep Graphic Effects on medium and saw significant improvement. My GPU is an ATI 4650 with 1GB of memory and it does play it fine with every option on high but I saw huge differences in load times and save times after changing the graphic effects. It mostly controls the particle effects from things like the spoiled food, On low it really reduces the quality of thumbnails in CAS so medium would be best to try if you have it on high.
MalikNetok:
OK. I'll edit this one with the results. As for the strangely numbered file, I use Delphy's tool for Sims3pack placement since I have had problems, along with many others, since the first patch using just the Sims 3 installer and it is hard to install with that things that aren't downloaded from their site. If there is a way I don't know it.
The test begins: First the removal of custom content... OK, that worked. It was back to a decent speed if not a bit faster. Now to figure out where the slow-down came from. I'll be back to edit.
EDITED: Replaced all the "package" contents and removed only the strangely named ones; example is 0x3f78e98b4b06467f925e22041e8b58e9. Ran like a dream. The only problem with this is there are 390 of them and I have no idea what the heck they are and what I'll be loosing by not using them. There are also 260+ in my Sims 3 downloads file in My Docs.
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