My loading takes forever, mostly 10-15 minutes. Is there a way it won't take so long to do this?

Asked at 21:42 on Sunday 4 April 2004 by Olivia (oLiViA871)

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What's your system spec?

Might be worth defragging and running Scandisk as well.

Answered at 20:10 on Tuesday 6 April 2004 by Neil Jones (NKTP) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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This is the answer from our FAQ:

If you downloaded a lot of files, like skins, objects, walls, floors, etc., then it's quite likely that The Sims takes a long time to load. This process can be speeded up in a few ways. First of all, you have to close all tasks running in the background, like Virusscanners etc. In Windows 95, 98 and Me you can do that by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time, and then select a task (any task except Explorer), and click the "End Task" button. Do NOT close the Explorer task!

Also, you can put all downloaded objects into FAR files. FAR Files load faster than all separate small files, and it saves some diskspace too. With The Add-on Handler, available in the Utilities files section here at The Sims Zone, you can use the "FAR Objects" feature. This will pack your custom objects in a single FAR file. Everything will still appear - but loading The Sims takes significantly shorter.

# Another way is to make files read-only: With Explorer, go to C:\Program Files\Maxis (or the folder 'above' the Sims' folder where you installed it)
# Select the folder of The Sims
# Now click File at the top (the menu) and click Properties
# Now if the read-only box is checked, uncheck it and re-check it. If it's not checked, simply put a check for it.
# Click the OK button, and apply the changes to all files and subdirectories.

Some other ways are pressing Alt+Tab right away when The Sims starts to load. It seems to be loading faster then, but why exactly is unknown. There's only one risk with this, and that's that you might lose your cursor in the game. If you run the game in Full-screen (which is the default) rather than in a window, it'll load faster.

Answered at 23:57 on Tuesday 6 April 2004 by ChEeTaH (TSZ Webmaster) (ChEeTaH) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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Thank you for you help

Answered at 03:03 on Wednesday 7 April 2004 by Olivia (oLiViA871) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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I have downloaded lots of things and mine still runs fast so it's probably oyur computer. My relative's computer won't run any of my games without them crashing because of his graphics card. The computer's only 2 years old. The sims loads faster on my new computer. Hope I could help.

Answered at 11:47 on Tuesday 13 April 2004 by Ayesha (Ayeshagirl) Answer Rating: Not Rated Yet.

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