Using Aging Off/Story Mode Off - game takes 18 minutes to save
edalbformat:
I'm finished now to assemble my special start hood. I got Aging Off so no one ages unless I use a birthday cake or the cheat "Trigger Birthday" No Story Mode so that no damn townie move into my empty houses. Problem is that the game is taking 18 minutes to save and this is 100% unacceptable once the game takes less than one minute to load in my computer.
Everytime I have to save the game I have time enough to go to the bathroom, prepare me a sandwich, eat it, burp 10 times and when I go back, the game is still on ....saving...
Anyone knows what can be the cause?
I have the awesome mod and about 10 small tuning mods that I checked also 10 times to be sure that they are not conflicting.
Another to point is that I had used the cheat "Max motives" and wanted to use the game cheat "Static Motives" so that I damn had time to adjust my Sims without having the crap moodlets interfering all the time. It showed that using the game cheat affect the awesome Max motives and make it further not useable (the game stops to recognize it).
For safety I renamed the awesome mod "zzzawesome" and it seemed to work.
The other way to make it work again is to quit the game, shut down the computer and start everything all over again. BUT to quit the game I have to SAVE it first - and this causes me to suckle my toes and stare at a screen for 18 hell boring minutes.
J. M. Pescado:
I think that's just how EA's crapulent code works, it's not mod-related AFAIK and there's nothing we can do about it.
Eliste:
I play with story mode off and Aging on, but TS2Aging enabled and I have the same problem. My condolences to you. Thankfully my game does not crash so I save only when I am done for today. Killing all NPCs did improve saving times somewhat (to about 12 mins from 20) and keeping sims' inventories (fridges, bookcases etc.) at minimum helps a bit too.
The moment I switch story mode on saving improves dramatically. One assumes that with story mode on only sacred households are actually saved and the rest are simply reset when with the story mode off everything is saved in detail. Am I right Mr.Pescado?
Anach:
I've been living with save issues for a while now. Usually I get around 2 good saves before I start having issues with saving, and it's always one of three issues.
1. Endless save. Possibly the same as your 18 minute save, except I haven't waited around to see. I usually end-task, as it's quicker to redo the last day than wait for it.
2. Error Code 12/13. I haven't had 13 for a while, but 12 happens quite often, and at this point in time I have not found a working fix.
3. Save Crash. Simple CTD when saving.
What I have noticed in all these three scenarios is that the bad save files are usually much bigger than the usual saves. Also that they usually don't start showing up until later in the game, as the save sizes increase.
I've had these save issues before installing mods. Some have suggested it's 64bit Windows, but there is no evidence of that and my GF's PC is 32bit XP, yet she still gets them, just not as often (without awesomemod). I've reinstalled the game as recommended by EA, and it didn't fix it.
Originally I went through all kinds of system tests to make sure my RAM, CPU and HDD was in good health. So with all this, I can assume it's EA's fault and not anthing to do with AM or my own system.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Eliste on 2009 July 07, 09:54:45
The moment I switch story mode on saving improves dramatically. One assumes that with story mode on only sacred households are actually saved and the rest are simply reset when with the story mode off everything is saved in detail. Am I right Mr.Pescado?
No, that's just utter hogwash. And I've never seen this issue, either. How big are these unusual saves?
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