Bridgeport: My streets are getting clogged with running/walking sims

[DavinMcleod]

The streets of Bridgeport are getting clogged with Sims that are running and walking to destinations. Sometimes a sim will stop and a clog will form because Sims are too stupid to say excuse me and walk around. Is this something I should worry about, is it going to cause memory and saving issues in my game? It is creating a problem when sims clog the streets and MY sim cant get past them to get to his car to leave work! 

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I was having problems with my game, it wasn't saving. It was taking forever, and when it did finish, I couldnt unpause the game and EVERYTHING in my town was black, nothing was visible. I removed a lot of CC (But not all) that I dont use and freed up space on my computer for saving files. That helped me create a new save file for my game.

The other issue I have is with response time on my sims part. For example, I'll want him to go to work, and I'll select "GO to work" at say 1:55 (leaves at 2) and it'll be 35-40 minutes before he STARTS the action. Making him LATE for work! Is this a problem with the game or just a lazy sim who doesnt want to work? Its very frustrating.

[Dellena]

Bridgeport has a long known memory problem tied to the big bridge.  The town keeps making more and more and more and more cars that clog up the streets and slow down your game.  It was the original reason I got the Nraas mod, Overwatch, which deletes excess cars every night at 3 a.m.  I think the first time I ran it in my Bridgeport, it deleted over 10k cars in the city.  Some world, I'll only have maybe 15-20 cars removed each night.  But Bridgeport is usually much higher every night.

[DavinMcleod]

Ahhh great. I cant use that mod because Im already using one that would conflict with it. I'd like to move my sim to a new town but he'll no longer be father to his daughter which sucks.

[Dellena]

Take the daughter with him.  If necessary, move her back into the home with the dad and then move all of them to the new town.  You can move her back out again once in the new town.

I'm also curious what mod you're using that conflicts with Overwatch.

[DavinMcleod]

Its a core mod. I thought I wasn't allowed to say what it was because we're not supposed to mention certain mods?

The daughter doesn't live with the dad right now. Hes a 5 star celeb, his daughter is with another 5 star celeb, she lives with the mom. He has never been publicly disgraced OR falsely accused for what he did. Bizarre. (or is it my mod?)

[Pam]

Its a core mod. I thought I wasn't allowed to say what it was because we're not supposed to mention certain mods?

Welcome to our Forum.

We've ease up on the policy restricting the discussion of mods.  It's perfectly ok to mention what you're using.  The main concern with mod sites now is whether they have adult content, not that they have mods for the game.

[DavinMcleod]

Thanks for letting me know. I use Awesomemod. I thought that it conflicted with Twallan's Overwatch? I'm going to install Errortrap though because it works with it, according to Twallan's site.

What I did was restart an old backup of the game, and I was able to save (Killedalltownies, towedallderelicts, disabled memories). If I have to I might use the rapture or killallNpcs to cull my town even further.). However, after saving, i went to change outfits in CAS and the game crashed. I can't win!

My game used to crash constantly before I turned off reflections so I dont know what happened there.

[DavinMcleod]

Okay I think I might have fixed my game, thought I'd let everyone know how in case anyone else is searching the same problem (and I did search this forum, in fact its the #1 site that comes up when I google sims problems/non-problems!) I've had 2-3 successful saves of my game since encountering and hopefully solving this problem. My main problem was my game would not save, it would freeze up during save, although there was no error code.

-1 I reverted back to an OLD save. In your save file /documents/electronicarts/sims3/saves I moved bridgeport.sims3 to my desktop, and then changed bridgeport.sims3.backup to bridgeport.sims3. This sent me back to an older save but that's okay because it was a good save.

-2 I turned off anything that I thought might contribute to using up memory/ram including; automatic memories, story progression, weather, also used my mod to "Destroyalltownies" (Killed 89), and "Towderelicts" (Towed 13), and finally "fixall" to fix game problems. It fixed 2 bad sims and 2 other errors. (I may even destroy all NPCs if it comes down to that)

-3 Instead of saving, I hit "Save as" and create "Bridgeport1" and "Bridgeport2" and alternate back and forth.

-4 Installed a program on my computer that boosts game play experience by stopping unnecessary apps and services. I also disable my anti-virus when I'm playing and I play in a windowed game, although I think I could get away with full screen. I have most of my graphics at medium to low, except sims and textures which are high.

-5 As crazy as this sounds I have a fan pointed on my laptop when I play the game and believe it or not it helps it keep cooler. I dont know if it helps my laptop or not but I'd like to think so.

Hope this helps.

ETA: Got error code 12 tonight trying to save after changing an outfit. Unreal. I hate this game. Why do I bother? Guess time to revert to yet another old save. Dont get it. I thought error 12 had to do with not enough ram. I have a 64 bit system with 4GB ram. *sigh*