Get rid of common lag-makers: wild horses, stray pets, unnecessary role sims (paparazzi, bar tenders, etc.) you can use Nraas Register for this.The larger the world, the more population you'll be tempted to have.

Use Nraas Traveler to either move non-active family members to other worlds, or to move the active household to a fresh new world.

Those memories are bloaters of the save, and make the loading times longer. I changed mine to 'ownable' or 'public - no visitors allowed'.

An alternative for the above is to just re-zone all empty houses.

Turn off story progression, or if you're using Nraas, turn it down and disallow immigration.

Some tips to play long legacies, delaying the lag: Remember this games has an open world, so not only your active household takes resources, all of them do.

The more sims you have, the more stuff is stored in your save. Happy swimming!Īre you playing with Story Progression on (EA's or Nraas')? If so, this feature makes the world 'grow': new families move into town, the existing ones have babies, get married, move around, etc. There is a wikia guide on how to do this and you need to use sims package editor. You can optimize this by using NRASS SAVER, but make sure to create a lot of save cycles so it saves on a different file each timeĤ) The last thing I would reccomend is deleting your snap files.

In order to properly use save cleaner l make a backup of ur latest file and transfer the file called travel db to retrieve missing pixģ) Use SAVE AS instead of save when saving your game every time you want to save. NOTE: This will cause all of your pictures taken by the showtime booth to be missing or completely gone. The in game option for disabling memories is brokenĢ) Use Kurrees save cleaner to reduce your file size. I use the no memories version and i save my custom memories.

MTS has a mod that addresses this issue called no or fewer memories. I would attempt to reduce the file size of the save files.ġ) Generations Memory Patch update caused an intense amount of information to be saved onto your hard drive with all the memories stored for your game file.

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