I've always been a heavy user of custom content and know a ton of other simmers are as well. I wanted to start a discussion to see how large your guys' mods folders are, and how much they compare for each game. In sims 3, highest I think I managed was 2 gb, but somewhere past that it stopped working (might've been to do with mod conflicts instead of size since I was super unorganized). I recently checked the size of my mods folder in sims 4 and found out its at 12gb! I thought that was insane. Literally doesn't even affect my game as much as I would have expected. When I first load up the game it only takes about 4-5 minutes. With sims 3 it took me a solid 30 mins AT LEAST to load it up with 2 gb of custom content. Then an extra 30 (again, don't really remember exactly but I know I timed it at one point) to load up a world. Gameplay was a little laggy too if I remember correctly. With sims 4 I don't even notice anything though... Only lag I experience occurs when I have multiple things running on my laptop and I've been playing for over an hour. Honestly props to the sims 4 team for managing to make the game handle custom content so well. I don't know what I would do without it all...
So how large are your mods folders?
(tip: if you right click your mods folder and go to properties, it'll tell you the exact size)
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Altogether it's 1.51 GB
ETA: With sims 3 I only have about 5MB. And in my Sims 2 game I have about 4GB.
total: 511 items in mods folder
and counting I just downloaded a few more CC to be added
so 532
then again there's the Autumn and Winter Mod that is in a folder on my desktop.
so I may have 600+
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On old computer I had over 4K CC/Mod files. This was over a year ago, so dunno what it would be by now
Woah! I'm wondering how you've got it up to 30 GB with only 511 items! I have 5000+ in just my build mode folder and my mods folder is only a third of the size of yours
Glad to hear the game works fine with over 12, it's very reassuring to know, so thank you for sharing!
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I'm not sure, it doesn't make sense to me either but thats what it says on the info bar. lol
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That's crazy, but also awesome that the game can handle 30 GB of CC. Gives me hope for my inevitable future of adding endless amounts of cc into my worlds
so i was reading memory available as memory taken xD
so I have 691.6 MB taken and 30.44GB available.
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Good to know the game still runs good on so much cc/mods...that's all I needed to know.
Some of my creations in the gallery use CC so remember to enable them in the gallery's options to see them all.
I really have to cleanup soon...
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I know what the issues are with the content vs my game, but if I cant have what I want, I dont want anything at all.