Long pauses
muse:
I was having this problem too, playing on my new MacBook. It was most frustrating when my Rock Star sim was doing autograph sessions and it would take 45 game minutes to sign one autograph, making the session a failure.
However, I decided this must be an issue with memory or my graphics card, and started playing on my desktop PC, and then my Imac. The problems have not recurred on either, with the same neighborhoods, mods, and custom content loaded.
scandalicious:
Quote from: muse on 2009 September 21, 15:38:28
I was having this problem too, playing on my new MacBook. It was most frustrating when my Rock Star sim was doing autograph sessions and it would take 45 game minutes to sign one autograph, making the session a failure.
However, I decided this must be an issue with memory or my graphics card, and started playing on my desktop PC, and then my Imac. The problems have not recurred on either, with the same neighborhoods, mods, and custom content loaded.
Apropos of little, but my Observant Rock Star has trouble with hers for a totally different reason. She's too busy "OMG YAY/BOO!"-ing the fans' traits to actually move on to the next one. :P
MrsSoares:
I am also having the same issue with the slow downs. It takes me half the morning to get my sims off to work/school, and the other half of the night to feed them before they starve to death becasue they didnt have time to eat in the morning. I am hard pressed to think its my puter as its a brand spaking new machine, Sims 3 being the first thing I installed on it 2 days after getting it. My maids stand around the outside of the house, dreaming of lost loves I suppose, my sims starve and piddle themselves because no one farking moves.
I origianlly started with AM and Indie, took out Indi, reconfigured AM.. still same issue. Deleted all saved games, started a fresh hood with the latest AM and still the same thing. In two test runs, the first with AM installed, nothing else, I allowed my only 2 sims to sleep untill they woke for work, qued up some actions (shower, tinkle and eat) In the run with AM the first sim had no time to eat and showered untill he was an hour late for work (because he stood outside the shower for so long contemplating something) and the second got to prepare her waffles after her shower, but not eat them, and was still late for work. In the run without AM I qued up the same actions, and the first had time to complete everything just as the carpool arrived and the second not only was able to eat, but then stood around the kitchen for 15 sims minutes with nothing to do.
This makes me a sad panda because I want to put my fist through the screen when I have to yell at my sims like I do my child to get something done. I have always played with MATY mods, but I am not sure my sanity can handle the oddness that has consumed my sims right now.
Has anyone got a theory as to what the problem might be, or how to address it without giving up on AM?
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: MrsSoares on 2009 October 02, 13:04:46
I am also having the same issue with the slow downs. It takes me half the morning to get my sims off to work/school, and the other half of the night to feed them before they starve to death becasue they didnt have time to eat in the morning. I am hard pressed to think its my puter as its a brand spaking new machine, Sims 3 being the first thing I installed on it 2 days after getting it. My maids stand around the outside of the house, dreaming of lost loves I suppose, my sims starve and piddle themselves because no one farking moves.
Has anyone got a theory as to what the problem might be, or how to address it without giving up on AM?
Hard to say. Just because your computer is brand new doesn't always mean it is spec'ed to handle what you want it to. If I had a dollar for every time someone has said their computer was brand new and not the problem, only to discover that CPU speed was too slow, RAM size too small, or Graphics card under spec'ed, etc, I wouldn't have to worry about working ever again. However, in your case, given the information you mentioned, the computer looks less likely to be the case (but could still be, without knowing the specs of your system) as your game runs fine without AM installed, suggesting the system can handle the game. But whether the system specs can handle what AM does to the game, that's probably debatable also, as I wouldn't expect it to add that much. All I know is the game grabs an awful lot of resources on my system when I play.
Do you have any other mods, that may be interacting poorly with AM, resulting in the slowdown?
I would also suggest trying AM without the config file, just use the default AM settings, maybe it is one of the options your enabling or disabling in the config file that is causing the slowdown, especially if it is drawing more resources from the system.
A couple of options to consider, if you haven't already.
MrsSoares:
I hadnt thought of trying to run without the config file, but I will do that right now. Thanks.
ETA: Removing the config file may have fixed it, so next test will be with a new config file (when I have time) RL so interupts my game time.
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