Using Aging Off/Story Mode Off - game takes 18 minutes to save
moondance:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 July 13, 10:18:52
I play like a dozen famblys, so that isn't it. I think it's purely dependent on whether or not you have a dangling pile of garbage somewhere. Error 12 seems to resolve itself if you just wait for it and keep playing a bit, and try to save later. If not, you can see how big your save files are getting. Try using "purgereactions" or somesuch.
I don't have a slow-saving neighborhood currently, because I got aggravated and deleted them, but if someone were to give you a copy of a neighborhood that takes forever to save, would you be able to look into it and tell if there was something fixable that's causing it, or if it's an EA thing that we're just going to have to learn to live with?
Writin_Reg:
I am curious if the hoods that take longer to save are derrived from EA hoods or are they from the empty hoods?
The reason I asked this is I have 6 Hoods basically. The two Maxis, two cleaned hoods I got off here, and two hoods I got off modthesims which were cleaned also but just had the community lots in tact. Having played the Maxis hoods longer I would have supposed they would be the slow savers - but are in fact still saving almost as fast as when they were brand new. I noticed the slowdown started happening in all the "cleaned" hoods. As I got the modthesims hoods before the two here, I first thought it may have been because the "cleaning" left something behind that was causing a hang during saves - which is why I came here to snoop around and find out if others had tried these hoods and were having slow saving. That's when I discovered 2 hoods here, and assumed the cleaning job would have been more thorough, so I downloaded them. I did introduce 30 or so Sim families to each of these 4 hoods, and there are no duplicate Sims or families.
Also my slow save is no where as drastic as others have reported - at least not yet anyway. At most maybe three minutes, as I barely have enough time to make a cup of coffee in the time it takes - but it's really annoying to see the cluttered Maxis fuglies hood is so instantaineous still.
I have the awesomemod, delphies default skins and eyes, Peggys default hair and a lot of recolors, new patterns, and all of the store stuff for everything. I check for updates on all the modded stuff daily and update if there is one.
I do have a really good new pc - AMD 64 bit Phenom Quad core Black Edition with a Geforce 9400 gt with 1 gig onboard and it's either 6 or 8 gigs of Corsair DDr3 for ram. I don't seem to have any other issues - and would be quite pissed if I ever take 18 minutes to save like one person here reported after getting this beast built, but I keep wondering if it is just a coincidence happening on cleaned hoods and not the EA hoods - or is the EA hoods eventually developing this problem too? It may help us to know if people could mention their hoods in general that are having the slower save time.
uaintjak:
I'm also having long saves (a couple of minutes or so sounds about right) using the Riverview hood. It's very crowded (I moved all of the Sunset Valley sims into Riverview, along with a few others...altogether I have about 60 famblies) and I can't figure out if it's due to the large number of famblies, or if it's due to something else that I don't know about. I'm only using AwesomeMod, the penis mod, the buyable lifefruits/fish, and the one that equalizes all of the beds' energy gains.
My saves in a regular Riverview hood prior to my mass combination were only a few seconds. Gonna test out a few things and get back with you.
ETA: Took out all the mods except AM, saves are still long (actually about 5 minutes long, since I timed it using the "smoke a cigarette" method...very scientific). I'm gonna assume it's because of the large number of famblies in the 'hood.
moondance:
I had one hood that I used destroyallhumans on, and added about 20 families of varying sizes. I didn't play it long because it started saving slow on the very first night. Otherwise, all my hoods have been Sunset Valley with the normal EA sims plus one or two CAS sims that I made to play myself. I have Riverview, but have only used it for testing and have never saved it.
JBoat:
One thing from AwesomeMod that might be increasing bloat exponentially, is all the non-cleared inventories and needs/wants for each sim in each household you guys play. Not only that, but in a normal game you don't get to control furniture in more than one home at a time, but I believe Awesome lets you do that as well (correct me if I'm mistaken, I personally don't ever play more than 1 house at a time).
My current game is a medium sized 20x30 with 1 sim on it (move-in g/f soon), and not a lot of stuff in storage. Personal sim inventory is getting up there with fruits/veggies and fish, and there is a sizeable garden outside, but nothing glorious. That, combined with the fact my computer is highly tuned and fairly fast, is probably what is keeping my saves really quick (latest was 15 seconds).
I have no doubt if I started to play every sim in 6 households, have each one with a custom inventory, and manage all their houses simultaneously, that my save would bloat tremendously. I guess that may just be the price you pay for playing God. ;D
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