Using Aging Off/Story Mode Off - game takes 18 minutes to save
Anach:
Doing a little more investigation on the saving issue. Seems that after a certain time my game starts experiencing little bugs, which are hard to notice unless looking in the right place at the right time. One of those is textures go missing or turn black on certain objects, the other is that animations start doing odd things (arms on backwards.) Most of which to me sounds like a nasty memory leak, which would also explain the corrupt saves after a certain point. However, I can't really say what could be causing it.
I can say that my GF was getting some graphical corruption when having too many patterns installed. The more she installed, the less time she could play before having issues (she doesnt use mods, only official addons and player made patterns.) This could mean that the base game has a issue that is made more obvious by installing more packages and mods. Or that the packages themselves are causing an issue. I'm going to try removing some .package patterns and see If i get more playtime from doing so. It has to be something pretty common, as a lot of people report these save issues, and my guess would be crappy coding from EA rather than an issue with the package files or patterns themselves.
Keep in mind that I run a legitimate copy of the game, without any NO-CD cracks or such. I have all the EA addons installed, Awesomemod, some xml tweaks and a lot of patterns. While I can play longer than she can, it could be due to having twice the hardware she has.
Zazazu:
How often are you saving and how long are you running your game for? What is your RAMmage? I have story-mode and aging on typically, save every sim morning, and run my game for about 12 hours a day (eh, I'm unemployed at the moment and will tab in and out to the 'net to forum and job search for my three-application-a-day quota, plus play other dumb casual games). A save takes around a minute. I've had story mode off and aging off a few times while I was dicking around, and didn't notice any increase in save time.
edalbformat:
When I played with Aging on and Story Mode on, the game was also saving in 1 or 2 minutes. The problem started when I got both off. It seems that for every new household included in the game it represents an increase of about 3 minutes in game saving.
All in one, it seems that the game included two possibilities that are not possible at all.
The hood must have about some 100 empty lots, what means we are only allowed to build houses for some crap townies.
You know, on the end this is a Barbie game.
I cannot play the retards created. I cannot recognize them not to mention that no matter how my couples look like, their children are simply water drops.
Besides, the game is simply tiring. I got headache and I cannot remember last time I got headache, I was almost believing that I had no longer one.
I'm back playing TS2.
J. M. Pescado:
Are you people tabbing out when you save? Apparently, the save process is entirely suspended when you tab out and therefore doesn't finish.
moondance:
No tabbing out, in my case.
My AwesomeMod neighborhood takes forever to save--or almost five minutes, anyway--and causes my computer to sound like it should be cleared for takeoff, what with all the fans kicking up to high speed. The amount of time between saves seems to make no difference at all. It takes forever to save even if I've JUST saved and haven't even done anything else.
My Indie Stone Mod neighborhood saves quickly, and the computer stays quiet about it.
Differences in the the two neighborhoods besides the mods:
The AwesomeMod neighborhood is older by about one generation of Sims.
In the AwesomeMod neighborhood I'm essentially playing the entire town, while with the Indie Mod Neighborhood only one household has been played thus far.
The AwesomeMod neighorhood has six or seven lots I've created in it (actually only four, but one--"cheap housing"--is plopped several times.)
I'll plop some of my custom lots into my Indie Mod neighborhood and see if that causes that one to take forever to save.
ETA: I plopped all my custom lots, and moved to another household, following the oldest child of the original household. The game still saves quickly and without computer fuss.
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