I have 44.3 GB worth of mods in my game(some of which I made myself) and it takes my game around 1 hour to load. I have no plans on slowing down yet either.
LOL! That is quite insane Is it worth it to wait this much time for loading the game? My game loads about 30secs, I can't imagine waiting longer than 1min...That was a thing with TS3 even without mods, I would never want that to happen again...
I have a little less than 2 gb after cleaning out a gig worth of cc and mods. I am very proud of myself and yes, I am a cc addict.
I think I must scroll through my mods folder daily, I have 1600 files and I swear I know them all. I have had some cc for ages, I get very attached to certain outfits, hair and furnishing/building items. If I don't use cc in a certain amount of time, I will delete it. I don't separate mods/cc into sub folders as I have had my share of stuff not showing up in my game for one reason or another. As long as I keep it under control, I can identify every piece of cc...if I can't id it, it goes.
In my house, dog hair sticks to everything but the dog.
That's so cool! I have this with gameplay mods, I have perfect knowledge of them and their updates, with CC I am quite organized but not to the point where I would recognize all the hair or clothes.
My CC folder is 5.4gb with my mods being 400kb. (The CC has been "thinned" by using Sims4Studio to remove color swatches I'd never use or it would be a bit bigger.)
But that is *so* much better than my folder in TS2 which was 16gb at one point (although I did get it down to 11gb at the end because it was so big it was causing problems.)
TS3 is less than 2gb! (I love the color wheel. I basically only downloaded meshes and mods. The rest I made myself and even then the size was small!)
I'm such a huge control freak that my mods folder looks like that:
I wonder if anybody's got something neater than that😂
As you can see I have everything categorized, this helps me keep my cc in check, makes updating mods easier and prevents my game from being broken.🙂
(24.4GB in total so this is much needed)
That's very similar to how I organize my folder too. It seems to work so much better that way than when it was all open.
But I don't have some of things like facial hair and skintones that you do, as I don't care for facial hair or use skintones. But I have "adult clothes" and "child and toddler clothes" separated. And I haven't made my own mods so my "mods" are in "Mods for real" with TMEX ones in their own. And I have a folder that I put "new" things in until I can "process" them with Sims4Studio. Then I sort them into the proper folder. (It's just easier to see what I need to process if I have them separately at first. I certainly don't need to go through all the adult clothes to find the 2 new pieces!)
My husband says I don't actually play the game, I just download CC and then sort and purge and repeat. So right now 27 GB. He might be a bit right... But there's sooo much nice stuff out there.
> @yiotaturtle said: > My husband says I don't actually play the game, I just download CC and then sort and purge and repeat. So right now 27 GB. He might be a bit right... But there's sooo much nice stuff out there.
My husband should hang with your husband...he says the exact same thing. He likes that though because before I just browsed nordstrom with not so great results for him. Now I live vicariously through my fabulous Sims. Yeap...crazy train, I'm well aware
Over 60 GB... 😫 The game takes about 10-15 minutes to load and runs smoothly after that. I'm pretty happy with that since i'm in love with hoarding CC. 😂 I've a gaming PC and 32 GB of RAM, so it's not a big deal so far.
I only have MCCommand centre installed in my game currently, I sometimes add extra cc in but I usually remove it not long after, I'm pretty rubbish at keeping my mod folder up to date
I have a 2018 acer aspire 5 (no where near a super computer lol) and it runs my 15 gb of cc pretty well. I play with medium settings and in laptop mode, though.
What kind of super computers some of you have to have 6G! I have 600M and the game slows down considerably !!!
My operating system won't work at all if I have only 600 MB free space. My Windows 10 system actually often uses part of the hard drive space as a substitute for RAM. Also, for most Windows 10 updates (official Microsoft updates) usually require 5 to 10 GB free space. Not to even mention program updates from the Microsoft store and Steam updates. Often, in the process of updating, a program will take up double the hard drive space that it normally would, since it retains the old copy until it can verify the new one is properly downloaded, installed, and passes certain system checks. Some games take up 20 GB of hard drive space all by themselves (as does the Sims with all packs to date installed), but during update, that number jumps to 40 GB. Good reason for getting an external drive and/or enclosure if you are swapping your old drive out... Also, are you playing on Legacy edition? You do know you can check your frame rate in game with a cheat. By the way, I did this with The Sims 3 when I was playing it on my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop (not gaming spec) with integrated graphics card. It hit a whopping 11 fps. At one point, I called support regarding something, I forget what. Probably an issue with Origin. But they actually told me my poor old laptop did not have the specs to even run the game. (Probably the only reason I was able to play the game was because I had the patience to wait 60 to 90 seconds through a blank, black screen, then wait about 30 minutes for the game to load. After all, The Sims, and the Sims 2 had often taken me 30 minutes to load once I put enough lots and custom content (maybe 1 GB) in it. Perfect for eating a meal or doing chores while waiting for it to load. (Then again, I think that was on a Win XP machine or earlier.)
I suppose waiting for games to load on cassette tapes for 5 or 10 minutes when I was a teen (and PC and Mac were not the only game in town yet) might have had something to do with the patience level regarding game loading times. Piece of trivia: The first computer that was made for home use was made by Coleco.
However, these days, I have a job working around 35 hours a week (in an essential job as payroll specialist so I didn't get laid off) and as a result, a better computer.
I bought that computer as a gaming computer about 5 or 6 years ago. It has a 970 GTX nVidia graphics card (barely VR capable, though I wouldn't actually try that, because VR headsets are WAY too pricey and it probably would not run well.) By comparison, the very newest nVidia graphics cards are the RTX series, but they are so new most are over $500, and my hubby would either scream at me or kick me out the door if I spent THAT much money without asking him first (and he would say NO WAY, especially since he freaked out when I got myself a $50 wireless headset without asking him, and he tried to cancel the order but it had already shipped, and then he forbade me from buying ANY electronics (even $1) without asking him first. Plus he is always deriding the idea of "keeping up with the Joneses" as a marketing conspiracy to cheat people out of their money. Also, apologies to those modders whose Patreon I had to cancel because I have also been banned from using Patreon until my credit cards are paid off, and after that, only $5/month (I was only spending $15-20 a month before I cut it down to $5/month). (I am down to 4 credit cards, which, with the exception of 1 or 2, are projected to be completely paid off in the next 4 to 6 months.) (Inconsiderate people who think everyone else should have spanking new technology to suit THEIR needs should take stuff like this into consideration, including and especially companies that are trying to make everybody use texting or Zoom (which is useless when like us, you do not have a webcam). Fortunately, he will never read this post since he completely hates The Sims and ALL of its series.
My system RAM is about 16 GB, though I have been suspecting one of the RAM sticks isn't working right. Fortunately, my computer rarely even needs more than 12 with how I usually use it.
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I have been playing The Sims since 2001, when Livin Large came out. My avatar deliberately looks like Chris Roomies from TS1.
@AngelEb95, I use an SSD that is 1 TB (1,000 GB) and it is my primary C drive. @SimsILikeSims is correct. I only have 1 or 2 other games along with The Sims 4 installed on this drive. I also have a 4 TB mechanical HD for both download and HQ staging folders.
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LOL! That is quite insane
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I think I must scroll through my mods folder daily, I have 1600 files and I swear I know them all. I have had some cc for ages, I get very attached to certain outfits, hair and furnishing/building items. If I don't use cc in a certain amount of time, I will delete it. I don't separate mods/cc into sub folders as I have had my share of stuff not showing up in my game for one reason or another. As long as I keep it under control, I can identify every piece of cc...if I can't id it, it goes.
My gameplay blog - kindred sims
But that is *so* much better than my folder in TS2 which was 16gb at one point (although I did get it down to 11gb at the end because it was so big it was causing problems.)
TS3 is less than 2gb! (I love the color wheel. I basically only downloaded meshes and mods. The rest I made myself and even then the size was small!)
That's very similar to how I organize my folder too. It seems to work so much better that way than when it was all open.
But I don't have some of things like facial hair and skintones that you do, as I don't care for facial hair or use skintones. But I have "adult clothes" and "child and toddler clothes" separated. And I haven't made my own mods so my "mods" are in "Mods for real" with TMEX ones in their own. And I have a folder that I put "new" things in until I can "process" them with Sims4Studio. Then I sort them into the proper folder. (It's just easier to see what I need to process if I have them separately at first. I certainly don't need to go through all the adult clothes to find the 2 new pieces!)
> My husband says I don't actually play the game, I just download CC and then sort and purge and repeat. So right now 27 GB. He might be a bit right... But there's sooo much nice stuff out there.
My husband should hang with your husband...he says the exact same thing. He likes that though because before I just browsed nordstrom with not so great results for him. Now I live vicariously through my fabulous Sims. Yeap...crazy train, I'm well aware
I may have a slight editing problem ...
I've a gaming PC and 32 GB of RAM, so it's not a big deal so far.
Jesus Christ.
I have a 2018 acer aspire 5 (no where near a super computer lol) and it runs my 15 gb of cc pretty well. I play with medium settings and in laptop mode, though.
You should try playing around with your settings
Probably at least a TB. Maybe 2. Depending if The Sims is the only game on it or not.
My operating system won't work at all if I have only 600 MB free space. My Windows 10 system actually often uses part of the hard drive space as a substitute for RAM. Also, for most Windows 10 updates (official Microsoft updates) usually require 5 to 10 GB free space. Not to even mention program updates from the Microsoft store and Steam updates. Often, in the process of updating, a program will take up double the hard drive space that it normally would, since it retains the old copy until it can verify the new one is properly downloaded, installed, and passes certain system checks. Some games take up 20 GB of hard drive space all by themselves (as does the Sims with all packs to date installed), but during update, that number jumps to 40 GB. Good reason for getting an external drive and/or enclosure if you are swapping your old drive out... Also, are you playing on Legacy edition? You do know you can check your frame rate in game with a cheat. By the way, I did this with The Sims 3 when I was playing it on my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop (not gaming spec) with integrated graphics card. It hit a whopping 11 fps. At one point, I called support regarding something, I forget what. Probably an issue with Origin. But they actually told me my poor old laptop did not have the specs to even run the game. (Probably the only reason I was able to play the game was because I had the patience to wait 60 to 90 seconds through a blank, black screen, then wait about 30 minutes for the game to load. After all, The Sims, and the Sims 2 had often taken me 30 minutes to load once I put enough lots and custom content (maybe 1 GB) in it. Perfect for eating a meal or doing chores while waiting for it to load. (Then again, I think that was on a Win XP machine or earlier.)
I suppose waiting for games to load on cassette tapes for 5 or 10 minutes when I was a teen (and PC and Mac were not the only game in town yet) might have had something to do with the patience level regarding game loading times. Piece of trivia: The first computer that was made for home use was made by Coleco.
However, these days, I have a job working around 35 hours a week (in an essential job as payroll specialist so I didn't get laid off) and as a result, a better computer.
I bought that computer as a gaming computer about 5 or 6 years ago. It has a 970 GTX nVidia graphics card (barely VR capable, though I wouldn't actually try that, because VR headsets are WAY too pricey and it probably would not run well.) By comparison, the very newest nVidia graphics cards are the RTX series, but they are so new most are over $500, and my hubby would either scream at me or kick me out the door if I spent THAT much money without asking him first (and he would say NO WAY, especially since he freaked out when I got myself a $50 wireless headset without asking him, and he tried to cancel the order but it had already shipped, and then he forbade me from buying ANY electronics (even $1) without asking him first. Plus he is always deriding the idea of "keeping up with the Joneses" as a marketing conspiracy to cheat people out of their money. Also, apologies to those modders whose Patreon I had to cancel because I have also been banned from using Patreon until my credit cards are paid off, and after that, only $5/month (I was only spending $15-20 a month before I cut it down to $5/month). (I am down to 4 credit cards, which, with the exception of 1 or 2, are projected to be completely paid off in the next 4 to 6 months.) (Inconsiderate people who think everyone else should have spanking new technology to suit THEIR needs should take stuff like this into consideration, including and especially companies that are trying to make everybody use texting or Zoom (which is useless when like us, you do not have a webcam). Fortunately, he will never read this post since he completely hates The Sims and ALL of its series.
My system RAM is about 16 GB, though I have been suspecting one of the RAM sticks isn't working right. Fortunately, my computer rarely even needs more than 12 with how I usually use it.