Memory leak?
jolrei:
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 September 20, 15:19:37
Hmmm....I had thought the few seconds lag was due to the new "phone home feature" with BV. It's almost enough to make me uninstall it and I just may, after the "newness" of vacations wears off.
Bypassing the launcher when loading the game stops some, if not all, the phone home activity, I believe. Create a shortcut on your desktop pointing to the SIMS2EP6.EXE file in your Sims2 program files directory and use that to start the game. Presto, no more launcher.
lemonfresh:
I'm starting to suspect a bad memory leak in BV. That's actually why I got online this morning, to poke around and see if anyone else thought so. I can play the game fine with Awesome hacks and CC, with minimal lag. But as time goes on, the little bouts of random lag (which oddly enough seems to occur more often when EAxis stuff gets clicked on than CC) get more frequent and eventually the game just quits responding. It gets stuck in that blue-screen-hourglass cycle.
Bypassing the launcher does help, but in my game, the SIMS2EP6.EXE file itself tries to dial home 10 *&#%$! times before the game seriously starts loading. (Yes, I actually messed with my firewall and counted the number of times.) I'd like to know WHY this EP is so damned determined to phone home...
KatEnigma:
To watch for a memory leak, look at Task Manager under Performance to see how much of your memory the game is sucking up after you've started it, leave it running, and then look again after an hour or two of playing. Seasons would take up extraordinary amounts of memory as the game went on. I haven't looked at BV, but I have had my computer start crashing again somewhat regularly while playing, which could be a sign, even if I'm not noticing the lag first.
I'd also make sure you have Pes's antiredundancy hack in. All those damn tour guides generating, if you are lot hopping, will slow you down.
Zazazu:
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 September 20, 15:34:32
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 September 20, 15:19:37
Hmmm....I had thought the few seconds lag was due to the new "phone home feature" with BV. It's almost enough to make me uninstall it and I just may, after the "newness" of vacations wears off.
Bypassing the launcher when loading the game stops some, if not all, the phone home activity, I believe. Create a shortcut on your desktop pointing to the SIMS2EP6.EXE file in your Sims2 program files directory and use that to start the game. Presto, no more launcher.
I recently put my firewall on tight security, so that it notifies me before every attempt a program makes to dial out. I removed all permissions for my Sims programs. I also finally figured out that I'd been a dunce and was putting my no-CD hack (I have the EALink version, and the dial out to verify that I purchased the game every time annoys me) in the wrong place, so now I'm bypassing launcher and EALink. Last night, I clicked on the shortcut to Sims2EP6.exe and immediately got the message that the program was attempting to dial out. So the bypass isn't stopping everything. Tell firewall to smack it down. Play last night was a lot better...I'd been having slight lag issues on my beach lot, which has a lot of traffic, at max everything.
Sagana:
Not allowing the game to connect to the net, putting in anti-redundancy, and putting in a 'no water balloons' hack (essential for me, that was causing all kinds of problems) - that fixed most lag problems for me. I can play for long periods without issues, but haven't been playing that many vacations that long - so if there's still a memory leak, it'd have to be vacation lot specific I think. Is that even possible?
I still haven't figured out my issue with the witch dr's hut (which was totally unplayable) but I haven't been back there so dunno if the above helped.
Oh and I also have to remember to generate all at once or not allow strays and stupid pet furs/collars to generate or I lag out while the game tries to make them. Worse'n the change appearance wait...
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