deconstructing the 1am freeze
sheep_plushi:
I am very new to AwesomeMod. I got it but never installed it, then finally got over it and love it! Only thing is... at 1am my cpu useage goes from 60% to 100% and for an hour sim time I can do nothing but watch it lag. It's not huge... my sims are usually sleeping then anyways, but it's still a bother. I searched and found this on the FAQ at MTS2:
Q: My game slows down or stops entirely at 1:00 AM or 5:00 AM. What's going on?
A: At 1:00 AM, EA's story progession makes its changes--people are given babies, people move, people are made fat or slim, people change jobs, as so forth. Installing a mod that forces those changes to make sense instead of being completely random can make this process take excessive amounts of time. At 5:00 AM, the game can also slow down on lots with gardens, as gardens do their growing and calculations about needing water or fertilizer at that time.
So my question is... is there a few configs I can change on the mod that will remove this issue or would I just have to remove the whole mod?
kuronue:
Non-EA story modes eliminate this procedure entirely in favor of a better-optimized one. Try the IndieStone Mod plugin (NOT CORE) or the (still in testing) AwesomeStory.
Can we sticky this thread?
sheep_plushi:
Thanks. I guess I'll look into AwesomeStory.
Larku:
I had a feeling that those hiccup hours were due to things like that.
If only they found a way to make it not hit so hard.
My computer is pretty decent. It's no quad Core and I don't have beyond the Memory I can hold with my OS.
but It still hits me hard and frustrates me.
Death-Jester:
Quote from: Larku on 2009 August 16, 00:09:19
I had a feeling that those hiccup hours were due to things like that.
If only they found a way to make it not hit so hard.
My computer is pretty decent. It's no quad Core and I don't have beyond the Memory I can hold with my OS.
but It still hits me hard and frustrates me.
Mine IS a quad core, and I have 4gb RAM, but it still hits me pretty hard (well, I haven't played Sims 3 in nearly a month, but I don't think it has changed)
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