Sim's Free Will Messed Up?
Billmonaghan:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2011 March 06, 04:03:18
... EAxis-only players complain about it also with sims getting stuck and not doing anything. The reason this stuff happens is because the game is designed to compromise gameplay integrity to preserve the gameplay "experience", so when the game starts to overload your computer, instead of lagging up but producing accurate results, it dumps processing to keep the game running at the same speed, but with the result that the game doesn't do anything.
This has happened to me several times both with AM running and without it. I deleted quite a few saved games before learning to be more patient with it and work around it.
This'll probably get worse as new EPs add more processes to run (or dump), but in the meantime I've found I can reduce the glitches by simplifying my home lots. Taking out eight of the 12 heather along the walk way. Replace flowers with terrain paint. Having less "Buy" mode objects outside generally (move stuff inside or wall-in and roof-over parts of the yard). Having less unique art and relics around. Replace three Environment 3 paintings with one Environment 10 painting.
Moving a household from one highly developed lot to a new lot, then developing it, seems to add a lot of glitches and lag too. If you must move your Sims to a bigger lot, I'd recommend bulldozing your old lot and replacing it with something simpler, or leaving it vacant in the hope of discouraging NPCs from spawning.
So far I've been able to keep my game running by playing through the glitchy patches until they heal up. Sometimes it helps to save and reboot or just restart from the main menu, sometimes you have to use "resetsim NAME NAME" or go into a lot via "enablelotlocking" or use other cheats to jiggle things and get them working again. Only once since I've start really trying to play through the glitches have I had to revert to a prior save (to get the user interface to reappear) and lost about six hours of gameplay, but that beats losing five or six weeks of gameplay.
AFTERTHOUGHT: I'm not sure using resetsim is such a great idea. You're forcing the game to do something it's already telling you it can't do under present circumstances. Sometimes you have no choice, but I think it should probably be the last resort short of reverting to a prior save, instead of the first thing you try.
ILikeChocolateMilk:
Quote from: spockblock on 2011 March 07, 19:02:15
Quote from: ILikeChocolateMilk on 2011 March 07, 14:27:04
What can you suggest we do to help alleviate some of this pausing, and sims taking 10 human years to get in the car when going to work, get the clothes out of the laundry, get the mail, or anything else for that matter. I think my computer specs are pretty up to par, but if you want to know more about my computer in particular so you can make a suggestion I'll be happy to do so.
Are you playing on a Mac? If so you're screwed; everyone gets those pauses on a Mac, nothing you can do about it.
I am on a mac, and I have learned that the custom worlds downloaded that are large and have a lot of things do slow it down and so I deleted a bunch of random sims and that helps as well. I don't know if I am running a good graphics card or not, but i'll let someone who recognizes the good from bad be the judge of that. Also, the lowering your screen size, sorry I forgot what it's called in the game, helps as well. It sucks I can't play the worlds that are the most amazing because it causes my game to lag to the point of me wanting to chunk my laptop at a pedestrian walking down the street. But anywho, thanks for the suggestions, they worked.
Jeebus:
Quote from: ILikeChocolateMilk on 2011 March 21, 19:16:21
Quote from: spockblock on 2011 March 07, 19:02:15
Quote from: ILikeChocolateMilk on 2011 March 07, 14:27:04
What can you suggest we do to help alleviate some of this pausing, and sims taking 10 human years to get in the car when going to work, get the clothes out of the laundry, get the mail, or anything else for that matter. I think my computer specs are pretty up to par, but if you want to know more about my computer in particular so you can make a suggestion I'll be happy to do so.
Are you playing on a Mac? If so you're screwed; everyone gets those pauses on a Mac, nothing you can do about it.
I am on a mac
You will want to rectify that immediately.
J. M. Pescado:
I am pondering a "force fidelity" mode that will not allow this kind of shenanigans and thus force the processing of everything regardless of what effect it has on load, just to see what happens.
BaronElectricPhase:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2011 March 22, 01:57:58
I am pondering a "force fidelity" mode that will not allow this kind of shenanigans and thus force the processing of everything regardless of what effect it has on load, just to see what happens.
With lots of options for fine tuning I hope. Sounds like an interesting experiment. Have you any intention of releasing it? (when working of course)
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