Fed up w/the fuglies. To 'hide' or 'replace' - that is the question...
nocomment:
ReadyBoost is a Vista feature that uses a flash drive to supplement RAM. This can be helpful, since Vista is such a memory hog. You can set aside from 256 MB to 4 GB for this.
Using ReadyBoost hasn't made a dramatic difference in my game, but it does help. Especially when scrolling around the neighborhod - I get a lot less lag.
I cheated and copied these instructions from the Windows help screen:
1. Plug a flash drive or other removable media device into your computer. This should automatically open AutoPlay.
If AutoPlay does not open, it might have been disabled. For more information, see Troubleshoot AutoPlay problems.
2. Under General Options, click Speed up my system.
This will display the Properties dialog box for your flash drive or other removable media device.
3. Click the ReadyBoost tab, and then do one of the following:
To turn ReadyBoost off, click Do not use this device.
To turn ReadyBoost on, click Use this device, and then move the slider to choose how much of the available space on your flash drive you want to reserve for boosting your system speed.
4. Click OK.
LurkingCat:
Good to know - thanks! I'll try it. I did notice the last few times I've exited the game that my RAM is almost completely used up. Maybe that is part of the problem.
I'm still crashing when I try to load more than 4.5Gb worth of stuff - even with my 2nd CPU turned off... And it's taking around a half hour to load (to the 'choose a neighborhood' screen.)
I'd really like to have 8+ Gbs of stuff to play with :P
J. M. Pescado:
Your problem is simply that you have 4.5 GBs of crap. Vista chews up 75% of your RAMs, so in order to load 4.5 GBs of content without thrashing, you need 18 GBs of RAMs.
seelindarun:
Hmmm, I don't think so.
I have about the same amount of crap, same herd of RAMz, same OS, and less shiny specs, but only 11,000-ish individual files. All EPs/SPs load for me in 3-4 min, somewhat less if I load a new 'hood.
As an experiment, I'd suggest arbitrarily bundling as much of the walls/floors, Bodyshop crap as possible (but keep backups!) and see if the game will load faster. If it does, then you have your answer. You can then bundle in a more intelligent way, so you'll remember what's contained in them.
J. M. Pescado:
If you want to see crazy fast loads, install the entire game and downloads to a RAMdisk. You'll need a damn big RAMdisk.
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