Do unused meshes take up memory?
spambi:
If I delete the textures but not the meshes they use, do the meshes still get loaded? I'm trying to clean out my downloads folder and I'm wondering how much effort I should put in to finding unused meshes and deleting them. Btw, is there a way in SimPE to find unused meshes? I think I read something about this but I've never been able to figure out how to do it. Thanks :)
notveryawesome:
As far as I know, the meshes do get left behind, even after you delete all the textures for them. This even happens with clothing, hair, etc when you delete them from Bodyshop or CAS - even when you delete the ones labelled as meshes, only the textures are actually deleted. I don't know how to find orphaned meshes in SimPE. Somebody more awesome than me will have to explain it (and I'll learn something too).
kuronue:
I think the question wasn't do the mesh files remain in the folder, but does the game bother to load them into memory when there's no texture, thus causing slowdowns
RainbowTigress:
I wondered this too. I also heard there was supposed to be a way to find orphaned meshes in SimPE, but I think they said it wasn't working properly. :(
wes_h:
From all that I have learned from my research (which is not awesome either), everything that is in your downloads folder (generally everywhere in the "The Sims 2" directory) is at least partially loaded in memory when starting up. I believe the memory usage is greatly lessened when there are no textures and catalog entries associated with that mesh.
It certainly requires additional time to read through all these mesh files at startup.
But I don't know of an automated way (or even an easy manual way) to located the unused ones. Perhaps you could make a lot and put all your keeper items on it and to then move these files out of the directory in small groups and see if you get flashing blue out of them.
If you want to even figure out which files are only meshes without a hint in the filename, you would have to look at them in SimPE and find the ones that have a GMDC in them with no TXTR.
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