Insane loading time
Paperbladder:
Yeah, it loads all the skins in the Downloads and SavedSims folders.
Load times have very little to do with the RAM, they have more to do with the Processor. Speaking of which, how big is your downloads folder? If it's 17GB like someone else had on here there's no doubt that your excessive load times are caused by it.
blubug:
Bodyshop also does that to me, with my 8GB download folder. So I just have a testing-bodyshop game with only the clothing, props and hair for bodyshop-creation. It takes a lot less to load. I just switch names of Sims2 folders. Better than deleting stuff IMO.
Flamingo:
Have you installed anything suspicious or any major programs lately? I know the latest Norton Antivirus software is horrid for a machine's speed. I would recommend running msconfig.exe to decrease the amount of applications that start at start up, and to kill applications that aren't needed to run the game with Task Manager.
You may wish to try removing your downloads folder and loading before doing this, however, to determine whether the problem is your computer, or your downloads.
MistyBlue:
Did you mean 1.5 GB of RAM? Just wondering...
My suggestion is using the clean installer to go through all of your downloads and start deleting what you don't want or use anymore. That will greatly decrease your load time for the game. Then go into the game and start deleting clothes and hair that you don't want anymore. I also suggest putting everything in sub folders by site or type of item. I had a 20 GB downloads folder and I successfully got it down to 1.5 GB and am, thus far, maintaining it in that area. My load time used to be something like 20 minutes, then about 3, now it's 2. Playing is so much better now that it's not running slow, either.
As for body shop, that always takes forever to load no matter what. Cleaning out your clothes, hair, skin, and all that other junk will help out, but it probably still won't load under 10 minutes.
Simsample:
Sometimes deleting the groups.cache file and also defragging the hard drive can help with loading times.
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