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Start Over and Thin Out
Cinebar
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It's that time again. (lol) Two four questions. Would it be better to just pull the entire EA folder to start fresh, and install any CC and mods fresh without trying to sort all my CC and trying to find the matching recolors for meshes etc.? I seemed to have broken the rule of having more cc installed than I have RAM (but TS2 can only see 2GBs RAM anyway) and starting to use too much CPU when the memory usage shoots up to over a billion KBs. lol It's taxing my CPU again and time to thin out my CC.
Oh, and one other question does the videos, (movies) and hood pics and story telling pics also weight down the game? I don't have trouble loading, it loads fast however, I probably have way too much high poly cc in game.
Wait, and is it true ( I read it somewhere) the game has a limit on how many subfolders you can have in Downloads? I might have dozens and dozens.
Oh, and one other question does the videos, (movies) and hood pics and story telling pics also weight down the game? I don't have trouble loading, it loads fast however, I probably have way too much high poly cc in game.
Wait, and is it true ( I read it somewhere) the game has a limit on how many subfolders you can have in Downloads? I might have dozens and dozens.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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I doubt it on whether they cause any slowness. But if you aren't using them, it wouldn't hurt to move them to a separate location anyway.
There's not a limit to the number of subfolders you can have. There is likely a limit on how many levels you can do. And a path length of 256 characters (including the \'s and the C:\
Special characters and spaces slow down the game (CC file names are notorious for this)
The more subfolders deep you go can also affect things as well.
Yes I saw some stuff with special characters etc. And was shocked to see some of the male sideburns I had downloaed a few years ago for a character was over 5,000...I don't think he should be wearin that everyday, right? that's high poly and I wouldn't expect a sideburn (small) to be a much as some special cc hair for a female. Yep, I also shouldn't be letting high poly hair into the game everyday if my machine is starting to struggle with all these huge files.
Thank you so much for clearing up some myths and I guess I go search for what cc is ten files deep, because yes, I have some. It's hard to load CAS now, and or use it during gameplay or sort through build and buy without the machine struggling to meet the memory demand though my card as 2GBs and I have 8GBs of RAM installed, but it jumps way up to over a billion kbs in use in memory. Oops, I did it again.
If the file is still in your trash try to rescue the Config file inside it and once you have the new game started, and enabled custom content etc. then quit open the EA Game/TS2UC file in your documents and replace the Config file with the old one (hopefully still inside the TS2UC or TS2 file you deleted to the trash).
@Cinebar -I was getting like you though not as bad yet and I'd take a look at the overall load on my computer's internal hard drive to see if it's gotten too full because that can slow the game and your computer down like what's been happeninto mine though I started working on fixing that with usb storage.
I had a TB storage, but guess what half that 500GBs was full mostly of TS2 related saves, files and hoods and cc and all sorts of things. lol I might need to curb my obsession with buiding too many hoods, but I have a weakness for just building hoods and setting them up then never playing them. I guess that is the Sim City DNA in me, lol Or seeing some great hair and downloading it. I had so much I finally pulled out more than half of it. Only installing the hair styles my Sims in a hood will wear. It sure helps when trying to find clothes and hair, and makeup to only install what my saved Sim will be looking like and wearing.