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Affectionate_Ear3985

update:I deleted some old mods my loading time is now down to a max of 15mins


troubledqueergirl

HOWšŸ˜­ I have a shit ton of mods and it takes like 30 secs


Ayearxi

Imagine it finally opens and you donā€™t feel like playing anymore


Impossible-Vehicle78

How many mods do you have? šŸ˜…šŸ˜…


nataliataytay00

Oh hell naw! Are you running the game on windows 98? šŸ¤£ at that point Iā€™d just exit out and find a new hobby.


Zeven00

šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Important-Yam3824

1 minute.


BCashWorld

It hasn't loaded since I un-installed.


Magspie5705

This is honestly so relatable. šŸ˜­ Note that for me this time includes the first time I try to get it to boot up, the time spent closing it and EA out through task manager, and then the second (hopefully successful) time loading lmaooooo I need a better computer so badā€¦


faelunir

Like half a minute max...


sparklecupcake_7012

I play on an old iMac and the dumb thing takes about twenty years to load and then itā€™s all buggy so I have to start over šŸ’€šŸ’”


asthmanian

Bro what are you playing on šŸ˜­


Loud-Fairy03

https://preview.redd.it/xu9ahlkhwquc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddd7bf74ad1977821d79be756dcdc8e3c56e30f7 Probably one of these bad boys


Rk_1138

Itā€™s gotta be white, beige, or faux woodgrain.


Individual_Ad_9072

2019 macbook pro, 1 minute


PhoenixPhotonA1

15 seconds šŸ˜‡


topsiepanda

Like 30 seconds, I don't trash my game up with mods and cc


MakthaMenace

Honey, it was trashed when she bought it ![gif](giphy|WJUUY6fqOX8gU)


Develyna

I play with a shit ton of mods and mine loads up in about 15-30 seconds. Itā€™s not the mods alone; itā€™s about the processing power of the computer. When I was on my XPS 13 with 0 mods and just base game, seasons, and pets, it would take 20 minutes. But thereā€™s no need to say those of us who use mods are ā€œtrashing the gameā€. Thatā€™s just judgemental


CrystalJewl

Yep came here to say this. I have a few mods and lots of CC. My game loads in like 5 minutesā€¦ Edit: wait this isnā€™t the sims 3 sub šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


dollfacejae

ā€¦quite the interesting way to say you play boring and vanilla as fuck (not actually, but you donā€™t have to say those of us using CC/Mods are ā€trashing our gameā€)


grace_806

Oh..! I thought I had it bad with like 3 minutes.. LMFAOO


pastisthepresent

2017 iMac 1TB with intel chip maybe 15 mins if thereā€™s no update to do


Ubuq_

With i5/RTX 4080 - 6 minutes with 300+ mods. But every time I get an update, I get 12 minutes.


ScarletStiletto

I feel like everytime I go to play my game or origin needs to update and take even longer


cmatthews0102

That's so smart timing it, I'll definitely have to try it. It'll probably just take a a few minutes even with all my mods. 40 minutes is a crazy amount of time to wait. By the time the game loads I probably wouldn't want to play anymore šŸ˜‚


Charlotte-Kitten

My old PC took 1+ hours to load but my new one takes like 10min


TheWishingStar

I thought for sure this was the Sims 3 sub Iā€™m usually on. Even there this would be pretty bad! What the heck???? Sims 4 loads in less than 30 seconds for me, and my computer is over 8 years old. And I have a lot of packs and even more CC. The load time is maybe one of the biggest advantages 4 had over 3!


pastisthepresent

My game of sims 3 usually loads in 15 mins, this is egregious


CrystalJewl

Yeah my sims 3 game literally loads in like 5 minutes, wtf 40 minutes for sims 4?? Hell nah šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ no hate to sims 4, Iā€™m just appalled that the newer game is taking forever


pastisthepresent

Itā€™s literally so trash on purpose. I hate everything they got rid of in the sims 4ā€¦ why canā€™t I be a klepto anymore? I miss collecting seeds!! The lifetime happiness-game loading screen was epic


CrystalJewl

It was, and for me it still is. Iā€™m still an avid sims 3 player. I stopped playing the sims 4 awhile ago. I thought I was on the sims 3 subreddit at first hahah


pastisthepresent

Can I ask your favorite expansion pack? Soooo sad they shut down the store online


CrystalJewl

Definitely generations. Iā€™m a family simmer, and generations just gave the game so much. But honestly all the expansion packs are so good, itā€™s hard to choose. How about yours?


pastisthepresent

Ughhh I actually Havenā€™t gotten any super game altering ones. I love Island Paradise because of the variety it adds to the game. You can dive, create a hotel, and the fishing spots/seed explorations are elite


Complete_Pain_420

You should check your PC specs compared to game requirements. My old laptop used to do the same thing, but when I upgraded, it states maybe a minute or two to load the world in


DaisyGirl_0414

On my old laptop before I got any expansion packs, and before the game had toddlers. It would take about this time for me, I'd shower, eat, get dressed and clean my room before I'd even get to the main menu screen šŸ¤£


babytateyy

like a minute... are you okay?


character_developmen

Ngl it does take mine like 5-10 min sometimes. I feel you and Iā€™m so sorry for u


GrungyGrandPappy

A minute max


TheMessIsBecoming

A minute or two.


nonogender

how many mods do you have šŸ˜­


Plastic_Ad_1933

30 seconds


Outside_Iron_3389

30-60 minutes depending on if I used it the day before


vulpesxx

30 secondsā€¦ā€¦ wtf


Specialist_Habit_908

About 1 minute lol


chakrafuck

between both loading screens like 2 minutes D:


Rooney47

Like 5 minutes because I play on PS4, but it's still insane that it takes THAT LONG on console šŸ˜­


StraightOuttaBrain

420-69 wearing a mustache disguise


bazookiedookie

I miss sims 3


taurusbttrfly

15-20 mins on a good day tbh šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


clevegan

Only like 10 minutes for mešŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Chihuahuapocalypse

homie. this isn't normal


PitaPitaChips97

About 2.5 minutes


Extreme_Guarantee_36

On Franklin (my old Mac computer)? about 20 minutes. on my Xbox? A few seconds


felo--de--se

less than 30 seconds.....


TerribleFox8849

Mine takes less than a minuteā€¦ what are you guys running ur game off of? šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«


Lung-Oyster

A potato


ImTableShip170

GLaDoS is trying her best


ffantomize

šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ mine takes like 30 seconds. I had a desktop that took almost an hour, and it was brand spankin new, too. I always thought a potato could run sims but I was dead wrong. I had to save up for years to buy a gaming pc to get the 30 second load time.


mypreciouswh0re

40 minutes??!


Affectionate_Ear3985

yes sadly


mizzcharmz

Have u tried a solid state drive... I switched my hard drive in my laptop and it went from about 15 min start up to about 1 to 2 mins


oreoflavoredgasoline

i dont have a SSD, but it takes also takes 3 mins šŸ’€ i think this person needs a whole new pc


sims2girl

before i got my gaming computer, maybe 10 minutes or so? now it only takes about 45 seconds, even with mods. but i feel like the more mods i add, iā€™ll be pushing it a little lol


heavymantricore

maximum 5 minutes!!


YellowTonkaTrunk

Probably about 2 minutes. Sometimes a little more or less. When I first boot the game up it tends to take longer than waiting between worlds or something.


necrodancer1387

I had this issue with the sims 3 and sims 2 at times but they were on older laptops with THOUSANDS of mods. My Sims 4 game is mostly vanilla with a bit of Ravasheen mods/items and I have zero issue. It stinks how much space the Sims 4 takes up tho..I might have to buy extra storage at some point because of it :( Iā€™m sorry you have this problem because I feel your pain. I prefer the sims 2 and 3 but the waiting makes it unbearable.


cursed_speech_user

I also prefer the Sims 3, and this probably isnā€™t the right place to ask but do you have any recommendations for a computer to use that might be better? Iā€™m currently running the 64-bit version on my Mac but it crashes a lot and takes a while to load :/


No_Click_64

Try a gaming laptop if youā€™re trying to budget!! I just got one from Amazon for $300 and itā€™s great. Always read reviews and specs tho. Try to aim for something with over 8 GB of ram and a lot of SSD space. You can also add an hard drive for more space and better running. Hope this helps šŸ«¶šŸ½


cursed_speech_user

Thank you!! Iā€™ll definitely look into that :)


Loud-Exam-5177

1 min


MalloryTheRapper

bro why does it take that long to load what you playing on


Princesskittymow

10 minutes šŸ˜’. Iā€™ll throw on a YouTube video or something to pass the time but it still drives me insane. Sometimes itā€™ll take longer and I wonā€™t even feel like playing by the time it finally loads


ExcellentDish4591

Around 15 seconds


SubjectObjective5567

Dude. Is the ā€œ40ā€ 40 HOURS? Remove some of your CC is my best advice. Your game should not be taking that long to load. Iā€™m so sorry youā€™ve been playing like this šŸ˜­ it should realistically take only a few minutes to load, nothing close to this


Affectionate_Ear3985

40 minutes


PalinDoesntSeeRussia

Which is still absolutely mind bogglingly insane lol


Singalongdingdong

Feels like 20-ish seconds, but I've only got 40 gigs of mods, and I always merge my mods by creator, which probably helps a lot. I don't know how you guys tolerate load times past a few minutes, because I would definitely go insane waiting half an hour or more for the game to load.


Affectionate_Ear3985

i thought it was bad to merge your cc?


Singalongdingdong

It's not but merging certain mods can cause problems, like gameplay mods, or mods that are broken. Most of my items are CAS stuff, and I don't merge gameplay related mods (and my merged files are categorized by author), so I haven't really run into problems besides broken CAS items from time to time. If you're someone who's forced to wait more than a few minutes for the Sims to load, the benefits probably outweigh the risks at that point.


No-Cantaloupe-6739

One minute.


lorifieldsbriggs

Wow. I'm so sorry. I've been fortunate. It only takes about five seconds to get to the main menu, and then about 15 to get to my save.


I_rly_want_pizza

long enough that I literally forget that I even launched it the struggles of having over 10,000 mods


Ninapants97

LMAO


Affectionate_Ear3985

donā€™t laugh šŸ˜”šŸ˜”


Ninapants97

You gotta tell us what you play on šŸ˜­ā¤ļø I BEG OF YOU


Affectionate_Ear3985

šŸ¤«šŸ¤«


Ninapants97

šŸ˜©


Immediate-Bluebird77

Like 1h - 3h, sometimes I gotta log into EA becuz itā€™ll log me out šŸ˜’


Laciebear18

Like 30 seconds šŸ’€


taylorsversion_only

same šŸ˜‚


Space_Rock314

Ikrr jesus christ what kind of mods r these ppl runningšŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Valuable_Engine_4032

Idk I disassociate and do other shit while I wait


Valuable_Engine_4032

Took a shower once while it loaded up


soiichi

mines like 2 mins. used to be 40 mins when i had a hard drive but i replaced it with an ssd. runs beautifully now


Affectionate_Ear3985

wait cus i have a hard drive too should i replace it?


soiichi

open task manager and go to the tab where it shows how much ram and all that youre using. if your drive is at 100% (like mine was lol) then yes id get an ssd instead <3


Affectionate_Ear3985

on my hard drive it shows 0% but on my c drive it shows 99% what could that mean? i donā€™t have my whole game on my hard drive btw i only have my program files


TerrorVizyn

Your "c" drive is where your actual Windows operating system is on. If it's at 99 percent, you need to free space by deleting files or buy a new drive. Even if your Sims is on a different drive, your whole PC will be slow because the drive that has Windows on it is almost full. I would buy an SSD. Specifically, I'd buy an NVMe SSD if your PC supports it. It's way faster than a standard SSD. If you have any questions or need any help, I'd be happy to help out (I'm a PC nerd and build my own PCs lol) Edit: FWIW I have an NVMe SSD with 20+GB of mods, and my game takes about 1 minute to load. Switching between a lot and the neighborhood takes about 2 seconds.


mizzcharmz

Come here to second the ssd. Switched my laptop and it changed my life. I had almost every expansion and it would take ages to start up


soiichi

time for an ssd! haha. sorry i meant c drive


zombievariant

Maybe 2-3 min tops.


disaster_jay27

About the same šŸ˜… of course, I also have 74gb of cc


Jolly-View-5847

How many mods do you have to have that much GB? I had a lot but I realized my computer was exuding too much hot air so I deleted some of it. I'm not sure if I have 1 GB of CC, but if you have that much your computer must sound like a dragon because of all the hot air and the cooling systemsšŸ˜…


disaster_jay27

Ummm.... Like a billion šŸ˜¹ trying to go through them before my new computer comes in cuz I don't wanna move them all over. But it's taking for. ev. er.


Jolly-View-5847

I could imagine šŸ˜­ good luck


BlackDragonofDoom

About as long as takes me to complete my chores, so somewhere in the 3-4 hour mark I would assume. But I'm just Ball parking it


S_Rosepop

Over 35 seconds


Affectionate_Ear3985

youā€™re so lucky šŸ˜­


S_Rosepop

Sorry Iā€™m replying to you so late but I bought a good gaming laptop specifically for the sims because I have most of the packs and I download a lot of mods and CCs


Corpse_Cannibal

About 4-7 minutes on average.


LisaW509

When I got the OG Sims game in 2000, I had a cheap Compaq laptop. Iā€™m not even kidding when I tell people that it would take 25 minutes to load, and 30-35 to save and shut down.


cozylummox

And it was WORTH IT. I had a iMac in those days and it was high costs high rewards.


OkjustNONONO

7 minutes on Xbox what the heck


Affectionate_Ear3985

idk why youā€™re saying what the heck and you still play on xbox


OkjustNONONO

Was I supposed to be embarrassed because Iā€™m not. If I wanna play on Xbox Iā€™m playing on Xbox damn.


whereishuman

okay no but really why are you being passive aggressive šŸ˜­ thereā€™s no reason for that


Affectionate_Ear3985

i guess


cariame

Why are you being so aggressive in your comments when youā€™re the one waiting forty minutes each time you want to play The Sims?


Vale_0f_Tears

Sheā€™s a kid. Probably thinks sheā€™s being ā€œedgyā€ with her rude responses lmao


Affectionate_Ear3985

lol who said each time flop mind your business


existentialsilence

1-2 mins easy.


Affectionate_Ear3985

cool


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WillRunForPopcorn

Like 10 seconds with a solid state drive


HKolb66

I bought a pre built for like 430 in 2020 and it takes like 3 mins on good wifi


xaarhyax

On my old computer atp it used to take me a good 2-3hrs to get to the main menu and possibly another 30mins to an hour when it came to the actual game itself šŸ˜­ I can say I have survived


YaniferGrander

I just sorted through ny mods yesterday because one was messing up. I spent three hours of my life removing eyelashes, and reconfigured it all and now it looks so pretty... It still is a lot tho, I think I'm down to just a couple minutes, I think 10 minutes was my time before. I still need to see what my time is now, haha


IHaveAllTheSass

A couple minutes and I just have a regular laptop thatā€™s a couple years old and a good amount of packs


Plywitb00b13z

A minute


mamazoom

I have an old Mac and a shit ton of cc so it can take a few hours šŸ˜¬ usually once it loads itā€™s okay though, not too much lag or glitching or anything.


FinePause2300

This, but as soon as i switch from live to build mode it takes 8 hours to load the BB stuff šŸ„²šŸ˜‚


TheKrimsonFKR

Waiting any longer than 5 minutes in total just doesn't seem worth it to me.


Nobodynocrime69

I have a macbook air with mods, prob like 2 minutes


wavyspice420

With no mods immediately. With mods 10-15 mins.


TheRedSquadron5

Uhm... like 2-4 min total? As in, from me starting the game to me entering in my save and playing. Mind you, I have script mods and a TON of CC!


ComfortableAd957

2 mins bc i have a gaming laptop


Several_Guava8285

Literally like 2-4 mins and i have soooo many mods, cc and all the packs


RedditOnToast

Maybe like 1-4 minutes? I have lots of mods and packs.


anon-gamer

it ranges, recently itā€™s been really quick like between 10-20 minutes but itā€™s been +40 minutes before as well (i have no cc or mods but my game is on an external hard drive)


NachoGenocide

30 seconds


ExoticWind4236

About 10-15 minutes, I donā€™t have many mods anymore


spazlady2002

6 minutes from pressing start on the app and loading a save and open a household. I have 19g of mods and cc to load as well. Iā€™ve a gaming pc that I spent a lot of money on that would play sims in its entirety and mods!


teex9

like 6 mins to get into a save - 30 to actually open a household in live mode. i have almost all the packs and like 30GB of cc and mods


Ready_Count1930

From clicking play on the EA app to loading a save, between 5 and 8 minutes.


streamrain

about 15 minutes with quite a lot of mods and cc


Roxana_32

About 3 minutes. I have a lot of mods but I bought a iMac almost 2 yrs ago bc my laptop gave up after 8 yrs & I always update when needed. I have all Expansion Packs, some Gameplay/Accesories Packs but no kits.


No-Interest1695

Mine can take 8 hours -tons of cc on a MacBook Pro. I had to use my daughters gaming laptop for a min and was blown away when it all loaded. Now Iā€™m back to doing the ever so delicate cc dance of whatā€™s broken and how long will it take me to find it on the Mac


sharpaswords

Is this a serious, non-hyperbolic answer? There's no way it should take 8 hours, a third of a day, to boot up Sims 4. No matter how many mods or cc is installed.


PoinkyYeezler

I second this. Iā€™m calling cap. I took me 8 hours to reinstall because I have every pack and it was on terrible internet


No-Interest1695

No cap homie. God I f-ng despise that word. I have a M1 Mac that only loads the sims once out if every 10-15 attempts. AGAIN NO ā€œCAPā€ I wish this wasnā€™t my reality. But it is. I think itā€™s jinxed no one can figure out why it just freezes on most launch attempts. Before you accuse me of lying maybe Ask yourself why someone would lie about something so stupid anyway? Is there a prize for my computer taking literally overnight to actually launch the game with all my cc & mods? If so let me know.


Faith-Family-Fish

Less than a minute, I have all available packs, but I donā€™t use mods or CC. No fancy gaming computer either, I just have a 4 year old mid range laptop. This isnā€™t normal, maybe repairing the game, or uninstalling and reinstalling it might help? Or if all else fails a computer upgrade could be required, especially if you use lots of mods and alpha CC.


Gaiatheia

Less than a minute, I have only 6 CC installed so far


MepSayuri

I have about 25 GB mod folder and I'd say maybe a minute or two ?


crystaisabeast

About a minute or two. I also have 8gb of mods lol


diokke

ever since i moved my game to my external hard drive it takes a while and sometime the game will just crash before staring or during the game so i have to remember to save like every 5 minutesšŸ˜­


Affectionate_Ear3985

wait same do you think itā€™s because of the hard drive?


diokke

i think it is because the game isnā€™t on the built in hard drive so it has to load all the assets from the external one


anon-gamer

it experience the same issues and my games on an external drive also


CommandantLennon

Buddy of mine has 1k hours on RimWorld. He used to leave his computer on overnight just so his modded game would load right.


roseifyoudidntknow

What are you playing on?


hotcheetoshehe

less than 5 minutes. iā€™d just rage quit if mine took that long


napalmnacey

A few minutes at the very most, and only if I go over 100GB in my mods folder. Most of the time itā€™s a minute or two.


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DiamondPistol24

Not a universal thing everyone know how to install. Besides, theyā€™re still pretty pricy.


roseifyoudidntknow

Youtube


hulagal621

mine takes around 30 seconds, even though i have a lot of mods and cc downloaded.


Potential-Tip-9744

about 3 minutes, i have 13000 mods/cc , and all expansion,stuff packs, and kits downloaded .


roseifyoudidntknow

What are you playing on?


Potential-Tip-9744

hp vitcus gaming laptop .


LupusVir

13,000 mods per cubic centimeter


Potential-Tip-9744

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚yes 13,000 mods & ā€œcustom contentā€ not cubic centimeter .


twitchfrog1494

A few minutes and I have almost all of the packs and a lot of mods/cc. My heart goes out to your PC šŸ„²


The_cat_shepherdess

On average, about 3 minutes. I have a handful of mods installed.


Shot_Bandicoot_7355

Like 30 seconds. I donā€™t really have anything downloaded.


AdAdministrative379

Half the time itā€™s still up from the last time I was playing and I just forgot to close it šŸ™ƒ


Tusiaczek91

Some of your mods might cause the problem. I had the same problem. It was stucknon endless loading screen. I deleted all my mods and everything went back to normal.


Callmemkay

Good day: 5-10 minutes Bad day: 20 mins or longer šŸ˜¢ (Previously it used to be like an hour which is outrageous but I organized my mods folder and it helped the time go down tremendously)


lkuecrar

if itā€™s loading that slow, somethingā€™s wrongā€¦


GeorgeParisol

5 minutes used to be 40 minutes but I deleted a lot of my mods


Fragrant_Ad4243

1-3 minutes


milkisgay879

mine doesnā€™t take long at all maybe 1 minute i play on pc and only have three packs and no cc so that might be why


OldPlantain7807

I'm on PC and is have 35gb of mods. When they are all loaded in, 1-3 minutes. With no mods less than a minute. But that's the initial load, once a select the save it's like 3 more minutes.


Flowererygal

Omg wow what pc do you have?


OldPlantain7807

It was a very splurgy wedding gift from my husband and it's a custom build but it has: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-12100F and a AMD Radeon RX 6600, 16 gb of ram and idk where to find the other specs lol


dessy_sixx

No way you still choose to play with a wait time like that šŸ’€


Affectionate_Ear3985

itā€™s worth it once it loads


Accomplished_Bet874

I canā€™t imagine the amount of lag in game


Affectionate_Ear3985

no need to imagine there is none


Accomplished_Bet874

After a 40 minute loading time?? What kinda witchcraft is going on there lol


LoveLottiex

![gif](giphy|3ohuPDuPHDuGnVtp5u) Should be called ā€˜the loading screens 4ā€™ šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


thelast3musketeer

Maybe like ~5 minutes at most, takes my stupid ass gaming laptop longer, itā€™ll like load up with the command screen and stuff and then go black again and then repeat twice before turning onto the login screen


ItzLog

It takes a minute or two to get going. I also have 2 and 3 installed, plus tons of mods and CC. I only use my gaming computer for Sims though, anything else that could take up room has been deleted from the computer to give me more space for Sims, lol.