Hello fellow techies, I come to you hoping for some ideas. But first, my situation:
I'm a cc user and my mods folder is atound 3.3gb. I've never worried much about it, as I have a gaming computer (gtx960, i53570k, 16 gb of ram, all drivers updated - except I'm still on 8.1 win due to not enough time to update) and since yesterday I have a ram issue.
My legacy family has a 3.1-3.2 memory usage. It's a full family, with a fairly large house containing cc, but 2 days ago it only required 2.5gb. I downsized the mods folder from 4 to 3.3, checked everything to make sure there's no conflict, literally nothing helped. It just doesn't make any sense to me why this is happening, especially since sometimes when i open the save it's at 2,7 and other times it even goes to 3.4. The only way to town down some ram was to take off vsync (my game doesn't go to insane fps so it's fine as temporary fix).
So I come to you asking for ideas - is there any way to help this other than taking out the mods folder?
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first your system is more then well designed for CC and 3gb is very moderate amount. i typically run end up with sims 20-30gb of CC near the end of series
as for ram usage first lets confirm the amount of ram the game is using. the important number you want to pull from the task manager is the private set of memory ts4.exe is using. im on windows 7 and the number is kb you can convert on google to digital gb. i just launched the game and my is 1.8gb.
Altho a 64-bit version of sims 4 is in the works, it's currently 32-bit for PC and the Mac version has always been 64-bit.
Presuming this is a PC, it can only utilise 4gb of that 16gb ram you have for sims 4, the other 12gb will mostly go to waste while some is used for windows. It currently doesn't use more ram so a person with anything over the 4gb mark, no matter how much they have a person with 8gb ram will have the same experience of ram with this game currently as a person with 32gb ram would. It isn't an issue with your PC.
You might want to check (to make sure) that all of your ram sticks are identical and working.
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basic addressable ram rules:
This works the same way for the sims 3. It is normal for your computer to be accessing more than 3 gb of ram on this game. It just wont exceed 4gb because the game was programed 32 bit.
unless the game is LAA it cant use more than the 32 bit program allows. and a 64 bit platform does not change the program rules see MS basic rules i posted above. one way to avoid confusion is to post screenshots your your task manager showing the private memory use of the game.
This is on a fresh save, i have seen it hit 3GB on older saves.
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@popalopn thank you for telling me, I thought I was the only one. Do you happen to have any links to the other people saying the same?
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Edit: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/848832/sims-4-gets-maybe-64-bit-version/p2 heres the link.
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Yes please post screenshots thanks!
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This should be shared and private combined do you have the break down of just private memory use, thanks
And chester is right, the game definitely somehow always used more than 2GB. Th tops I've ever had was like 2.8 on a 50x50 lot, 8 sims 4 generations in, cc included. So this situation is very strange to me.
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and to follow up this isnt 3gb but little over 2 at 2.11gb and as i understand it this is share/private are combine measurement as i understand win 8 and its private that i understand as the measure of a specific program ram usage
The game DOES use over 2GB.
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(Sorry its a lousy pic.)
But again im not the best person to test as i have no older saves.
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But will test it out.
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No worries, whenever you have time.
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this is amazing and something is going on here. ok im going to have to put on my thinking cap like a big open question for me is this because its 8? which i have never seen any MS rules to 32 bit making an 8 exception to 32 bit and the 32 bit rule is old like very very old or is this an indication that the shared part of it is too much. i have seen postings of win 8 issues with ram usage i just need to do more research.
also when 3 was made LAA it was significant news and had an instant impact to players and it was around the time one would think it would be needed when pets was released. i havent seen anything about 4 being laa nor does my windows 7 show its the case and it should if it was.
now i tried to figure out the steps to unravel your posted number again what ive read is this is combined shared/private and for 7 this is broken out so you know what is just being used by the program and what is being shared with others. can you see if you can get just the private set number. if its significantly less then shared then that will tell us more about root issue.