How many sims can you have without a drop in performance?

silverwood02

A question - in game how many sims can you have - related - not selected - before there is a drop in performance? I have a family - which has the following households all related:
2 elder sims (Original)
1 daughter - adult
son & wife, 3 children
Daughter & husband - 2 children
I have recently noticed alight drop in loading times, is that sue to this extended family? In game frame rates are fine, just the load time.
Keith

igazor

One. But the game runs far better with no sims at all.

Okay, but seriously. As games progress and generations evolve, there will always be an impact on performance and load times. When such an impact moves from barely noticeable to mildly distracting/annoying to game stopping is going to depend on many factors like the world being played, its layout, structure, and resident population, whether some form of story progression is running and how heavy-handed it is being, the player's system, whether the game is played online or offline, the save file is bloated and needs save cleaning, scrapbook memories are allowed or controlled by way of a mod, and the player's personal tolerance for the added overhead in exchange for the fun they are having moving the generations forward.

We can't control player personal tolerance very much, but we can help the game along with some of the other factors.
https://www.nraas.net/community/TIPS-FOR-BETTER-GAME-PERFORMANCE

silverwood02

ok thanks.
I think I need some help here, I have no mods and only Ambitions, World Adventures, Monte Vista, Town Life and Late night. I have the game set to do the story progression thing. Now where I am confused is - the online/ off line bit. I am always connected to the internet and also logged on, so should I be logged off? And how do you clean a save file?
Keith

igazor

Your computer doesn't need to be offline, I meant the game. Playing offline means not logging in at the Launcher nor in-game. When connected to EA's servers while playing to get the game's "online features" like Simporting, gift giving/receiving, uploading to the Exchange (there aren't many online features to this game), much more stress is put on the system than without that.

Save Cleaner v2 can be found here: http://www.simlogical.com/ContentUploadsRemote/uploads/1532

If you have an install on which v2 cannot work (Patch 1.69/Origin I think, certainly Steam) then you require v1.
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=4670603#post4670603

Not all of the items on the page I linked to involve mods. But without the NRaas mods designed to preserve performance, I'm afraid that a long-running ongoing game is still going to bloat and eventually drag down. Most players find that they have to move their active household to a new world in order to continue playing them after a certain point.

silverwood02

Thank you. I have always logged on and then played the game, I did not realise you could play without being logged on.