Does it always take forever for 1.7 games to load?
Anonym:
I'd had lag problems with the loading after the patch (those being the least of my problems, with the blue lots being much more important), so I decided to take the advice of others to throw up my hands and start a new game.
But now it's still taking forever to load the startup town.
I'd had very slow saves, but only post-patch have I had very slow loads. Is everyone having these or does it mean something is still wrong?
Edited to add: I thought it would certainly load during the time it took me to write the message, but it didn't. This is just default, beginning Sunset Valley. Still wondering, is this normal?
DeadlyHandbag:
Mine has been a lot slower since to load, even with all CC taken out. Another thing I've noticed since 1.7 is that when clicking the .exe for the game to load up, the windows bar kinda hangs there on the black screen until the EA logo appears, I'm on Vista, don't know if it makes any difference, apart from the fact Vista fails at everything. As long as my gameplay isn't effected though, I can live with it.
uknortherner:
Since the patch, I find it now takes around ten minutes to get from clicking on the Sims 3 icon in Windoze to actually playing the game. I don't know what goes on for the eight minutes it takes for the actual save to load - it rarely accesses the hard drive in that time.
jolrei:
Nope. Getting the same load times as before WA. Mind you, I have almost no cc installed, and only awesomemod in the mods folder.
I get slow saves sometimes, but it does not seem to follow a consistent pattern. I therefore blame something else on my system (antivirus?) and not the game itself.
Dragon Slave:
I've noticed a huge difference in loading times for save files as well as loading times for details switching out of low resolution. Before, it would take maybe a second or two for everything on the lot to pop up nice and clear. Now it takes about 10 seconds for each section to appear, starting with the walls, then windows and doors, then furniture, sims, etc. If I zoom out for a moment to see something from the neighborhood view, I have to endure it all over again once I zoom back in. Same loading times and all. I don't want to bother going anywhere as I spend more time waiting for crap to show up than I do interacting on the lot. What's the point?
My first response was to clean out custom content. I don't have a lot of .package files, but I've saved number of CASt textures to the library. I deleted all of those, then removed the DCCache, DCBackup, and Download folders from the TS3 folder under Documents. I then went back and reinstalled only the packs I wanted, mostly store sets. I thought that the files in the DCCache had become bloated due to content I carelessly installed but never used, and this would give me a fresh start. I can't tell a difference.
One thing I did notice was that the installer was taking five minuets or so just to install one file - even something as simple as a texture. I wonder if EA changed something about the way files are loaded and saved.
I always use task manager to close out crap I don't need running before I play. I might need more RAMs; but that wouldn't explain the problem with the installer. With that in mind, it's hard not to think of this as a game issue rather than a computer spec one; or maybe it's a combination of both.
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