Long loading times?

[Youtube: BoyDilly]

It removves much of the replay value for me.

[cruinne]

There's not a lot you can do about it keeping in mind: The game loads much, much faster off a solid state drive, so that can be one solution, and the more custom content you have, the slower it loads.

So if you want to play and cut load times, don't use custom content (or keep it minimal) and play off a SSD.

[VahidSlayerOfAll]

play sims 2 on my old laptop and gaming pc with ssd load time is about the same and ♥♥♥♥ on both. sims 2 just has a long ass load time

[igazor]

Sometimes we need to get a sense of what players feel are overly long load times. For saved games that have progressed beyond a certain point, a consistent and stable 5 or 10 minutes even on the spiffiest of SSDs would not be unheard of, also depending upon how much content and sim history has to load. Scrapbook memories in particular if not disallowed from the beginning of sims' lives or controlled by a mod can be real drags on loadup time.

But, on most systems, if we are talking about 30 minutes, an hour, or more, then something is usually not right and game file maintenance would likely be in order.
http://www.nraas.net/community/TIPS-FOR-BETTER-GAME-PERFORMANCE

[Freeasabird🕊]

Theres an option in the game (in the options) that turns off that little loading screen clicker ...."Game" thing that grants you bonus LHP, it says that should increase load times, but i never tried it personally.

[Bob the Boomer]

Place it on an SSD, i got load times about 3 or 4x faster than on my mechanical drive

[Rando]

SSD doesn't help. performance is beyond garbage.

[marstinson]

My 1-minute-30-second loading times from desktop to in-game (down from 5 to 7 minutes and occasionally more) after moving the game to an SSD must be a figment of my imagination. Silly me.

[Cat on Linux]

It depends on DLCs (if we're talking about average PC), my game with 4 DLCs loads ~1 minute from launcher into save selector, then ~3 minutes to load saved game (from HDD). The only thing I did is defragmentation with auslogics disk defrag and with setting to move and optimize all files which slightly improves reading speed.
I had it slower without defragmentation in place.

why it should remove replay value? alt-tab and never close it :) it sits minimized and barely takes any resources so you can take a break and return to it later. Loading it once a day is not a big deal

[GunsForBucks]

30 seconds from desktop to character select screen.

-Turned off loading screen game
- Use TS3W.exe
-Hit spacebar as soon as Sims 3 logo ends and fly-in starts

20 seconds to load in a 6 person household worth over $1,000,000

[kaiyl_kariashi]

most loading issues are from creating an entirely new world, since it scans for what expansions you have and adds buildings for them, which is what takes forever.

If you make a new game once, let it fully load, and then make a save of that fresh world, you can reload from it in about a minute. And then just Save As to split it off into it's own world for that playthrough.

Later worlds added near the end of game's lifespan already have most expansion buildings set and are instead removed, which takes less time to load, it's only the earlier (and better designed/Quality tested worlds) that suffer from the longest load times.


when it comes to adventures/university, I usually just try to stay for as long as possible to minimize the amount of times you need to jump between them.

[B✪✪tsy]

I use custom towns where I have deleted a lot of the AI households and the buildings (and closed the lots for AI families) and instead have a few AI households that are over the normal household limit. It speeds up the loading and it makes the game also not so laggy and buggy. Also a lot of the community buildings I usually delete so that the AI does not constantly travel through the whole town, but instead visit the few custom community lots I made. On the future map I have only the town hall and the community residential building active, the rest is deleted. It makes it so much better and smooth.

[Cat on Linux]

I recently discovered one thing that can drastically improve performance overall (and it helps with loading times a bit too). sims launcher takes 30-50% of CPU and constantly tries to upload something (a glitch that can go for months). Game is DRM-free if you already added your keys to EA site you can keep working on your achievements or access EA community from your game without any need to run steam and sims launcher.
Just go to game folder and launch it directly, you can use it to play completely offline or login and use with EA only. this way you greatly save on CPU usage and game runs smoothly, can handle more NPCs on 1 lot without micro stutters it had before. I suggest you to check if your sims launcher eats your CPU and run game without it.

[Highstriker]

I found a great fix that at least worked for me. Once you launch the game, close the launcher. I think it's continually checking your addons or something but it cut my load times to a much more expected time of a minute or two down from 8-9.