Hi there
@samychristine and welcome to the forum!
CC questions are tough to decipher out and while you've given us a lot of information to go off of, I must ask several more to really help sort through and diagnose your problem. I apologize if these seem redundant/silly to ask, but I like to make sure all the bases are covered.
1. What kind of computer are you running? I know you're on Windows 10, but I'm going to need a bit more from you.
----> How much Ram do you have?
----> What is your graphics card?
----> What kind of hard drive do you have?
2. What expansion packs and stuff packs are you running?
3. Prior to your recent experiences, did you experience slow downs to this extent before or is this a relatively new issue? Essentially, have you been able to play the game on your current computer without any issues while running Game Mods and Custom Content?
4. Did the slow down start happening after adding some new CC/Mods or was it something that started up with seemingly no cause? Like, did you add in some CC or Mods one day and then a few days later notice the severe load up times?
5. Are you trying to load into old save files or new ones?
----> If old save files, have you taken out CC or Mods from that file before?
----> If new save files, is it on an EA world or is it on a Custom World?
Ok, so first things first, I run a
lot of CC on my rig and while I do notice subtle slow-downs, it's never been awful for me. To put it in perspective I actually have the game up right now with 764 package files. Around 15-20 of them are regular core mods and game mods, the rest is entirely CC.
Now, some tips that I have for CC/Mod use in general is:
>Once a mod or CC goes into a save file,
don't take it out. Say you pick out a hair you think you'll like, you download it and put it in your game. You mess around on that game file and try the hair out and realize you don't like it. You save, exit the game and take out that silly hair. When you go to load that save file up that your game will be looking for that piece of CC that you took out. It'll start throwing error logs out behind-the-scenes in your game. One hair on one Sim isn't so bad, right? However, the game is dynamic and in the time that you played Sims could've changed outfits, aged up, or moved into town with that hair on and now you've got
several error logs firing up. This, along with regular error logs your game is throwing from the usual stuck-sims, bugged-out objects, and other unavoidable things can cause massive game slow-down and even crashing. So, don't do it.
>Sort through a lot of your CC and approach your game in batches. I would take 30 or so pieces of CC in at a time and see if it's a buggy piece of CC that's slowing you down. Use process of elimination to see if there's a conflict or bad piece of CC.
>When in doubt, try a factory reset to your game to see if that improves performance.
If you get back to us with a response to these questions I can better troubleshoot the issues at hand. =)
@MrsFlynn and I are on the case.
