Question regarding hardware and the loading of thumbnails and patterns
jezzer:
If you have a lot of cc, have you tried merging your .package files? Merging my files sped up my load times considerably.
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: KawaiiMiyo on 2011 June 29, 20:06:01
This is why I was wondering if I should upgrade my hard drive and look for something better. That is the one thing I didn't pay attention to with this new computer. Though for what it's worth, the one I got is a 1TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive 64MB 7200RPM. I don't know how decent that is though. And also I haven't considered antivirus programs scanning files as they load... I have been leaving it running in the background, I'll switch it off and see if that helps.
That's a reasonable HDD as far as speed, the "green" ones usually run around 5400RPM, give or take. The only thing faster is either a velociraptor drive from WD which spins at 10000 RPM or a SSD which have read/write speeds considerably faster again.
Quote from: jeromycraig on 2011 June 29, 22:57:36
If you have a lot of cc, have you tried merging your .package files? Merging my files sped up my load times considerably.
If you have alot of CC this might help. I don't have much CC and haven't seen any need to merge them as my load times are not slow at all, and I have never had anything take 1-2 minutes to load (except maybe the game itself).
Aftermath:
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I'd believe this, that's the worse part. Recoloring several objects and constantly reloading the same categories over and over when you just had to wait for it on the previous item. It is faster than it was before and somewhat tolerable on my new computer, I can deal with it, I just wondered if there was something else I can focus on to speed it up.
You can easily copy the color of one object to another object by dragging a single box from the mesh mask panel to the object you want to recolor. The object should glow when you drag your box over it. You can also drag the entire panel to the object you want to copy the entire style and not just the color.
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That's a reasonable HDD as far as speed, the "green" ones usually run around 5400RPM, give or take. The only thing faster is either a velociraptor drive from WD which spins at 10000 RPM or a SSD which have read/write speeds considerably faster again.
Although the read/write speeds of a SSD are considerably faster than an average hard drive, SSDs are not cheap with a 512gb going for $1000 and a 1tb going for $4999.
KawaiiMiyo:
Quote from: jeromycraig on 2011 June 29, 22:57:36
If you have a lot of cc, have you tried merging your .package files? Merging my files sped up my load times considerably.
The only CC I am using right now are only a select few mods. I've given it up for the most part after this last expansion. There has been enough expansions and store content at this point I think I'm fine going without. Though there are some CC patterns I wouldn't mind having but I haven't wanted to do anything that might increase the thumbnail loading times.
Quote from: Aftermath on 2011 June 30, 00:47:11
You can also drag the entire panel to the object you want to copy the entire style and not just the color.
I knew about the single colors, I've never tried dragging the entire panel... That would be a huge help
witch:
I have RAID 0 on 2 x 10,000RPM drives and although there is still a significant lag on loading thumbnails after a cache clear, it is much better after each category has been loaded once. I only have 4GB RAM, but am running Win XP so it is not so resource hungry as Vista or Win 7. I do not run the antivirus while playing. My experience leads me to think the hard drive speed is more important than RAM as far as thumbnails go.
Sims 3 seems to be quite diabolical at fragmenting drives, so make sure you defrag frequently as well.
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