Comments on: .package Files Could Be Causing Major Lag in WA

By: frankie

frankie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:45:57 +0000

Darn… while I’m thrilled that mods are fine, the only other CC I care about is hair and it sucks not to be able to use them as .package format.

By: PJRick

PJRick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:26:17 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Everyone! Reading thru the MTS thread, it appears that the worst culprits will be skins, hair, build/buy mode stuff in the .package format. Good News is that mods shouldn’t cause problems, since mod files tend to be fairly small size! The way I understand it is that mods & hacks would need to be .package format, but almost everything else might be better as .sims3packs! Of course, having to use the launcher is a whole different issue…

By: frankie

frankie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:52:52 +0000

Oh, and thank you, Jud.

By: frankie

frankie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:52:29 +0000

It might help but you may want to post that comment at one of the two sites I mentioned (preferably at MTS since they seem to get along with more people and they have well-known modders such as Pescado and Inge). It’s up to you which site, though, as it is not my place to tell you which one. But you do make a good point. It makes me wonder what is truly behind the issue. This is serious because Pescado has even made fixes included in the awesome mod for the game. And of course I enjoy many of the little but great features the mod includes other than just the story driver. I mean, I won’t say that I CAN’T play an unmodded game, but it sure gets you spoiled when you experience a modded game because of the fact that you get to play a totally different and better way (in my opinion, anyway). So that is why this concerns me. Also, I wonder if mods are able to be in .sims3pack format?

By: playermarko456

playermarko456 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:10:15 +0000

I don’t think it is the package files that is causing the game to lag because there are several people I know that don’t have any CC, no Mods, and no store bought items and the game still lags even if they exceeded the game’s specifications. Another note, I have over 369 MB of CC and my game is not lagging at least not anymore since I deleted the cache files: CASPartCache, compositorcache, scriptCache, and SimCompositorCache files. Now, my game is running very smoothly. Since I don’t want to encounter any issues with the game, I brought 4GB of RAM to add to my computer and I will be upgrading to Win7 to see that the problem does not start again. I hope this somehow helps.

By: Judhudson

Judhudson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:21:00 +0000

I made this a sticky, great find Frankie. So I suppose I was half right – custom content is playing a role with problems in World Adventures (although I am half wrong as I speculated it was causing the Error 16 codes).