Just wondering what people's experience is. I notice some people find loading screens very intrusive and others don't care at all.
This is about the loading screen to travel to another lot or enter a household from Manage Worlds, not the loading screen to boot up the game.
Feel free to post details about your computer, whether you use mods or cc, whether you have different results on a long-running save vs a new save.
How long do your loading screens usually take? 96 votes
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No mods/cc.
There's a slight increase in loading screen time with my oldest save which is 1 1/2 years old. That's also the save with the most played households.
Most loading screens are actually about 15 seconds for me. But leaving the Fashion District always takes around 45 seconds.
Maybe it's the crater?
Maybe no one ever wants to leave the Fashion District?
could be over 10 seconds though like yeah 30 seconds still sounds rather fast gone by to me
don't use mods or cc tho so thats probably it
and yeah gallery sometimes takes ridiculous loading time but i don't use it much anyway
with ts3 i be literally knitting while waiting the loading screens they take like half a day so that may also make ts4 ones feel that much faster
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With the Star Wars pack, I noticed due to the song loading screen that loading was probably supposed to take longer than it does, the song barely starts up and it’s over.
I will try saving before travelling next time. I hope it can help.
On my Macbook less than 10 seconds
Edit: Without mods it took 30 seconds to load into the game, 13 seconds to change lots
10 seconds in a side save played for 22 ingame days
6 years old desktop, internet off when playing
little cc, game set to "pause on zone", "no loading scroll autonomy" mod, no culling allowed, relationship decay set to 10% and I cull manually only (meaning the game has many relationships per sim to track), usually full inventories, neighborhood stories are off... some of those factors probably lenghten my loading times
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After my new gaming PC: about 10-30 seconds but it's a heavily modded game.
I played Second Life for about 9 years and to "teleport" to any other region besides the one you were in, you would hit a loading screen, that didn't irritate me like TS4 because the differences was you could freely walk, move around, and interact with the entire world that your avatar was on. Only hit a loading screen when moving to a new world.
So yeah, having to sit through a loading screen (even if it's only for 10-30 seconds) to go visit the bar, restaurant, or my neighbor's house that is literally 5 tiles away from my sim's house is 100% percent immersion breaking! (and before someone corrects me, I'm talking about actually being able to interact at those venues or with the sim who lives there, I don't mean just freely walking to stand in front of the building).
GTX 970
No mods
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I don't use any mods.
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The greatest benefit is when I finally load onto the lot there is much less lag.
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My average load screens are 8 - 14 seconds, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less.
I own most EPs but one, many GPs, most SPs, some Kits. I do not own Wedding Stories or High School, both of which seem to have been reported as excessively buggy.
Mods/CC: None
Graphics Setting: Highest
Online: Yes, for the Gallery
Telemetry: On
Aging: Off
Autonomy: On
Neighborhood stories: Off
NAPs: Off
Fame: Off currently but sometimes on
Manage Worlds Sim Count: Unlimited
Households: Too many to count
Age of Saved Game: About six years
For the last couple of months I have been playing offline and have not patched since Werewolves.