Why does just pressing "save" take longer than save&quit?

[Lemon&Lime]

Something I've always wondered about - why does pressing the save only button while in-game take more than twice as long as both saving and going to edit town, or exiting the game completely? :wtf:

It's probably one of the few things in both Sims2 and Sims3 which I haven't even got the foggiest idea about. :report:

I'm just wondering, it's not a life-and-(sim)death question.

[SlightlyStoopid]

I've wondered that too, but truthfully, I think it's about even. I mean, you'd only shave probably about a second off if you exited the game and re-entered it constantly. xD
But then again, it does matter how often you save. If your computer is prone to crash if you play the game too long, you'll be paranoid and save every five minutes (that'd be like me). But some people don't save until they have to quit, or they realize they should save.

[Aya_Alexa]

me i play for hours before saving so it really takes long, but if you save constantly your save time will be reduced.

[ChristinaCrino]

I mean, you'd only shave probably about a second off if you exited the game and re-entered it constantly. xD

Umm... what? It takes me about two minutes to exit the game (w/o saving) and about half an hour to load the game. It only takes about five minutes to save (not save and quit). :wtf:

[Aya_Alexa]

well if loading is your problem then that must be CC related, but i think the saving time depends on how much memory you already have of the game.

[paksetti]

Takes me about 2-10 minutes to save ingame, depending on lot and family size, and 2 minutes to save before going to edit town or saving while in edit town.

Takes around 10 minutes to load, counting the both the game and town loads. It'll take a while to load no matter what I do, so it's best to just go change the laundry or something, I get so antsy waiting.

[moryrie]

2 minutes or so to save and quit, 1 minute or so to save, 5 or so minutes to load. (Loading up to the map I usually use that is).

[Aya_Alexa]

i have 15+ minutes to load the town and 10+ minutes when saving.

[rafa323]

Depends on your town, how long ya been playing, and your comp of course really..
Mine takes like 1 minute the first week, and it adds a minute every week after that, or so it feels.
Lmao

[juansfalcin]

We simmers, must be the most patient gamers on the world.
I wonder how a... Tomb Raider player would feel loading and saving and fixing bugs etcetera.

[J. M. Pescado]

Takes about 10 seconds to load and save for me. yay for 30 GB RAMdisks. Want to speed up your game crazily? Get a metric assload of RAM, install the entire game and your user directory to RAMdisk, and stick your swapfile on your RAMdisk, too. HDDs = SLOOOOOW. RAM is literally about 500x faster than HDD, and read/write lag is the major bottleneck of computer performance. With the price of RAMs being fairly low, it is not difficult to simply purchase a ridiculous quantity of RAM and install to RAMdisk.

It is not without some drawbacks, though: Every time you reboot your computer, you get to reinstall. If you don't dump your RAM to realdisk before your computer is shut down for any reason, say goodbye to your entire game.

[Lemon&Lime]

My game is very quick to load (thanks to my hp gaming laptop ;D) it takes 3-6 minutes to load the game completely past all the menus to actually playing. To save and exit to edit town/quit the game it takes about 1-2 minutes, but to just press save while in-game it takes about as long as it does to load up the entire game! o_O

Saying that though; because I have a lot of faith in my laptop I only save when I'm done playing the Sims, or want to switch families. I do save if I'm going to the toilet or w/e, somehow I feel that if I'm not there to stare my laptop down it'll misbehave.

[Buzzler]

We simmers, must be the most patient gamers on the world.There have always been games with annoying loading sequences. I remember HL2 being released. It took about 5 minutes on middle class rigs to load the next stage, and you couldn't do anything but stare on the screen the whole time because the game would immediately continue once the stage was loaded.

Want to speed up your game crazily? Get a metric assload of RAM, install the entire game and your user directory to RAMdisk{...}That will only speed up the file access, but loading and saving in games is bottle-necked by the CPU. I never actually timed it, but I estimate the time my rig takes to load the game and a savegame at a bit less than a minute. Having an SSD the HDD LED is dark ~95% of that time.

[DaBoogadie]

90sec. - 2 min. to load, and about the same to save either way for quiting. But I only have 5 gigs of cc.

[J. M. Pescado]

That will only speed up the file access, but loading and saving in games is bottle-necked by the CPU.I find the opposite problem on my computer. Prior to doing this, when loading and saving the game, CPU usage never went above 10% at peak. With only 10% CPU usage, clearly, the loading process was not being bottlenecked by CPU, and indeed, the computer exhibited all the traditional symptoms of iowait locking. This is probably because I have extreme overclocking, but I tend to buy slower, cheaper HDs, figuring that it makes no real difference as HDDs are horribly slow even when they are fast.

However, if you're hitting CPU bounds instead, the main expense in loading is file decompression. Doing an s3rc -d on all your files will greatly accelerate the speed at which they load if this is the case.