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do you put your CC in seperate folders??
carlymichelle
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i already have lots of toddler CC and because it is only new game stuff i have been putting it in one folder so incase something isnt working/crashes the game i can find it more easy
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I really want to clean everything up and sort my cc tho, but I have around 1000 different files and I'm so lazy
game starts to lag when it has to load a bunch of different files 1 after the other
you can search youtube for a tutorial even non CC creators can do this easy step to make your game run smoother
just make a back up folder incase something goes wrong
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So I take it they fixed issues with the program? I always used this method for package files in TS3, but when I gave merging a try for TS4 (about a year ago now), the merged files crashed my game upon loading. So long as they were all separate, the game loads fine though a bit slow. I will probably need to try again.
To OP, I have been a very lazy simmer and have been dumping my cc packages all together since launch. I have around 12k package files, not including the 1000 files I pulled out just last night because I'm trying to find what files are causing a few bugs in my game. For TS3, I have a system where I separate, test and eventually merge together cc as I accumulate it, and this has worked out well in the sense that it's always been really easy to identify conflicts and get rid of cc that's glitching my game. I'm looking to implement this in TS4, because I'm finding that as more EA content is released, the more bugs crop up from cc conflicts even worse than they did in TS3.
I'm already kicking myself for not staying on top of it better, because at best, I'm going to have to weed through 1000 files to fix my issues. At worst, 12,000 files. Here's hoping that my issues are somewhere in the smaller batch that were flagged as conflicting by TS4 Mod Conflict Detector.
It makes the game load really fast this way. I went from a three minute loading screen to 30 seconds. (Just booting up the game)
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That's a very good idea, I may have to do a cc sort after I install the vamps pack.
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The code in the Resource.cfg file allows to have 5 sub-folders inside each other, I think, so you can most definitely have multiple ones.
Since I use a ton of CC, I separate them all by main categories first (CAS, Accessories, Clothes, Hair, Shoes, Furniture, Decorations, Build, etc.), then inside those categories, I have different sub-folders (CAS has skins, eyes, makeup, tattoos, skin details, etc. Clothes have sub-folders for each gender and age and inside those there's tops, bottoms, outfits, etc.) I also delete all spaces and special characters from the files and try to make the names as short as possible (but always include the creator's name). Not sure if that makes any difference but some people say it does. Obviously if you have few CC it doesn't compensate to have so many sub-folders, but if like me, you have over 5GB, then it's good to have it all organized because it's easier to spot bad CC that way. Oh and I also separate new CC in a different folder to test it first.
I also make sure I don't have duplicate items. For example, there are a lot of recolors of objects, hairs, etc. and most of the times I prefer the recolors than the original ones, but you need the mesh for the recolors to work, so you end up with two separate identical items but in different colors. So I use this method to basically hide the original file (the mesh) and only the recolors show up. It saves a lot of space in CAS/buy mode and it's less a few items to load which is great!
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A good example of how I organize my stuff (CC in particular):
I don't often organize by Creator, unless I've downloaded a lot of their work or it's a part of a set (like MC Command Center).
Thanks for posting this!
@ChloeDeCookie If you have Sims 4 Studio, there's a button called "My CC". If you click on that, it'll bring up everything in your mods folder. If you click on a mod, it'll be blank, but clicking on CC will reveal an image of what the item is. This is a helpful way to sort your CC into different categories.
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