Maxis Reveals Why The Sims 4 Loading Screens Are Taking Longer Initially

This series is like an abusive relationship. Dangling the carrot in front of you only to pull it away time and time again.

“We’re making quality of life improvements!”

Now the game is worse off than it was before you touched it, and that wasn’t too great to begin with.

From 15 secpnds to a minute…. how terrible. As four an hour…. to me that was fast. Once i got a new computer, woha. When they stopped support for comps from 2010, it was even quicker. I didnt even realise it could be that quick. But yeah, hour is rough, an extra 15 to 45 seconds…. nah.

I don’t notice any difference in game. Than again my main save is 4 years old, guess I’ll know when I move saves.

If a game took someone 20 minutes to load under normal circumstances, it means they need to reconsider whether they really need that many gigabytes of unoptimized CC, or whether they should have upgraded their computer in the previous decade. Sorry, but no other gaming community would blame anyone but the players themselves for this. If you heavily mod your game, you become responsible for how it runs.

I personally absolutely do not mind waiting a minute for the game to start if it means I can 5 minutes between in-game loading screens. The in-game ones disrupt the flow of my storyline, the pre-game one just delays my gratification 1 minute longer. I’m an adult, I can live with that. But…HAS the game actually gotten faster? What are users saying about that?

I wouldn’t be mad about waiting longer on the initial loading if only the in-game loading times were reduced. But that’s not the case for me, the initial loading takes longer and in-game ones stayed the same smh

I think they should put it back to the old way this is absurd.

My game got stuck on the initial loading screen when I tried opening it after the August 6th Patch.
I had to force close it, removed all my mods (even though they said none SHOULD break this time..) & repaired the game & tried again WITHOUT any mods or CC at all. It still had me stuck on the opening loading screen for 3 full minutes before crashing. I didn’t even get to the main menu.

I love it, but I go between vanilla and a few mods with only a couple gigabytes of cc. It’s loading quickly on our mini pc and ps4 pro and it’s running a lot more smoothly than it was a few months ago.

My game runs so much better since the update. I have a seven year old legacy save file that was unplayable due to crashing before the update that now plays like a brand new save. I’ve had zero issues with lag, loading, or crashing within the game itself. I actually haven’t noticed the longer load time at all, but I’d take that any day over the issues I was having before. I’d be really upset if they rolled the update back because players with CC can’t play without it. You realize that’s a choice you’re making for yourself that is not necessary and should have nothing to do with the developers of the actual game. I’m honestly kind of tired of the entitlement consistent to a lot of CC players. I’ve just had an argument with someone else pissed off that they’re doing so many updates to fix the game because it “breaks their CC” every time and they have to spend an hour to fix it. I’m sorry but that’s a you problem. If you want to mod your game that’s completely fine, but don’t put it on the game or the developers if things don’t run ideally. If you’re putting that much CC in the game do you even like it at that point?

I am a cc and mod user, but my game has gotten significantly more laggy than before. It takes anywhere from 5-20 seconds for the pie menu to show up when i click on a sim or object. You can
imagine how nightmarish that is when you’re doing an event.

I noticed this change right after the update though, and mods would be disabled then by default. So I’m not very sure if it’s a mods thing.

Try it on console. The loading screens are unbearable now.