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Game takes several minutes to close
Satanu_Reeves
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I've done a fresh install of the Sims 3 and everything is going good so far other than that the game takes several minutes to close. It's the same machine and I didn't have this issue before, was working two days ago on the old install. I have less mods and custom content now. In fact, just the needed NRAAS mods. This time I used sp3e to combine all the NRAAS mods. I made a change to this line in sims3.ini "[ResourceSystem] MemoryUsageLimit = 20000000" by changing the 2 to a 4. I also decided not to install pets or seasons this time around. That is what is different with this new install (that I know of).
Not a game breaking issue, I don't think. Sometimes I get impatient and try to open task manager to shut it down but that makes the game have a "not responding error" which will in fact close it. Anyway, it's otherwise performing better than ever. It's just this game is so sensitive that any change in the way it behaves just makes me paranoid. Anyone had this problem before? Did you overcome it and how did you do it?
Not a game breaking issue, I don't think. Sometimes I get impatient and try to open task manager to shut it down but that makes the game have a "not responding error" which will in fact close it. Anyway, it's otherwise performing better than ever. It's just this game is so sensitive that any change in the way it behaves just makes me paranoid. Anyone had this problem before? Did you overcome it and how did you do it?
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This may not be relevant, but I find that the game takes "forever" to close if I have saved my current game session without really having moved the game clock forward such as one might if the entire session was taken up with building and re-design projects. Or sometimes if I quit without ever having saved at all. I believe that the last time I looked into this, ProcessMonitor revealed that the game was very concerned with updating FeaturedItems in these instances, which it cannot do because I have that folder locked down. I usually walk away or do something else on my computer while the game is gracefully shutting down, which it will do eventually and in a matter of minutes but not hours, and mutter something about "okay, whatever makes the game happy."
There is also an issue with Patch 1.67 that arose last summer whereby if the Launcher is used to start the game and the player logs in, it can continue to keep running after the game has quit due to a change that was made to the servers that process the logins on EA's end not having taken 1.67 into account. There is a solution for that, but that's just the Launcher and is not relevant if the game is started up by way of a Launcher bypass or if one is on Origin/Patch 1.69 so it's probably not relevant here.
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