Seasons & lot corruption
Mirelly:
Slight aside. I've been using RAM Booster for years (the original J.Pajula version, not the commercial rip-off). It's perfomance is faultless but it always bothers me that it needs a whole 2MB of memory to run ... not a big chunck out of 1024 but ... well. How much does WinCleaner use? (Yeah, I'm too idle to download it and try for myself ::) )
sara_dippity:
If you are seriously computer savy, don't get offended. Have you cleaned up your startup programs and processes? I know cleaning up the startup programs is reccomended a lot, but processes is often not mentioned. Using the run dialog box (on your start menu) enter msconfig. On the startup tab, choose to hide all Microsoft programs. Then uncheck everything. Your video card does require one startup program, but when you reboot the drivers will put the right file back in this list for you. I know, I had that card. Now look at the processes list. I can't pull it up here (public computer) so I don't remember if that has one to hide Microsoft processes...
Now. Manually read each entry and compare it to one on this list or this list. Find the entry and bring up the definition and necessity of the process and decide if you need it or not. Then clean them all up by hand.
Just kidding. There are tools to help. Try this one.
Lorelei:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Memory-Tweak/WinCleaner-Memory-Optimizer.shtml
It doesn't use much, but I can't find the relevant info. Will keep hunting. The advertised non-hogginess of resources prompted me to try it.
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?itemid=2781836
Re: startup items. See also bleepingcomputer.com if a mystery entry appears. They ID most items for you via a search feature.
KatEnigma:
I'm having problems with Parties and a HUGE memory leak. The game will increasingly use more RAM as it goes along anyway, but I tried having a party twice yesterday. Once in I think fall. I'd paused it for awhile while I went off to do something, and when I came back, it was down to 200MB free RAM and it crawled. So as soon as everyone left, I restarted the game. I blamed it on leaving it paused for a couple hours. THEN later, I had a birthday party in winter- at night. OMG! No pausing, and it hadn't been running that long, but again, down to 200MB free (out of 2 gig- 1.5 free with game not running) and it didn't release the memory after everyone went home. Then I shut down and went to bed, instead of restarting. DH was talking about finding me a memory manager, since I obviously need one unless EA fixes the memory leak.
Morague:
Hi :)
Thanks for the feedback. I'm what I'd conside computer savy (no offense taken) - I've replaced motherboards & other components, know my way around in DOS from the old days & do regular maintenance. I empty the Trash bin evey day, defrag weekly. I've set up a static page file. I have ove 80 gigs free on my hard disk, my processor is 2.2, i have Direct x 9c with that video card & yes, i know I could use a more robust card but it does have 256k on it & does show bump maps if I enable it in the Graphics Rules.sgr file. I disconnect from the Internet to play & disable everything except Explorer. The lots play fine & with high detail settings except in the fall season. So I really don't think it's my system - if it was then I should have problems on all lots. I'm only having problems on the lots where I had placed birch trees (for the garden club inspection)
The problem does not go away if I simply delete the trees :/ I only had 2 birch tress, althought I had 9 orchard tress & 12 garden plants - no other ornamentals. I play pretty conservatively - I generally make smallish houses because I like to have 6 to 8 sims. I use a standard house for all my sims because it works for the way I play & I like the layout. 2 stories - main floor has 2 4x4 bedrooms, 2 2x3 baths, 1 4x4 ktchen, combined living room 4x10 with a 2x2 hall down the middle. Upstairs in just 2 4x4 bedrooms, 1 2x2 bath & a large room for the pool table & stereo. I always use exactly the same furniture in every lot - yeah - I am that boring!
Moving them off the lot into an identical house fixes the speed problem so it's not the sims. I'm wondering if the fallen leaves are not getting deleted properly. I don't have any problem with the 9 orchard trees & 12 garden plants all through Spriing & Summer. It's just in the fall once the leaves start falling that the lot starts to crawl so I'm pretty sure that's what it is. But deleting them does not solve the problem - in fact deleteing all of the orchard plants & tress didn't help either & I deleted the groups.cache too. It seems that once the slowness is in existance the lot is no longer operative :/ I haven't made it to a winter season yet so I don;t know if that fixes it - but - I doubt it will.
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