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Hi there,

My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is running
well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or quitting.

Is this normal? If not, what can be done to speed this aspect up.

Thanks in advance for your help

Henry
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

Henry Legedza wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is running
> well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or quitting.
>
> Is this normal? If not, what can be done to speed this aspect up.

Yes, it seems normal.

Best regards,
Boerge
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

> Hi there,
>
> My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is running
> well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or quitting.
>
> Is this normal? If not, what can be done to speed this aspect up.

Some had reported that the patch for The Sims 2 has reduced the saving
time... Try the patch which you can download from the official site.

Emil
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

Henry Legedza wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is
running
> well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or
quitting.

How long? A minute or two is normal when saving, 15 minutes is not.

Also, it does take a long time after quitting, up to 5 minutes (maybe
more), it really depends on how long you play. (Poor programming by
Maxis - apparently a memory leak).
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

maybe you could tell us how long exactly (more or less) these delays are?

"Boerge" <zxdfawd@asdf> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Henry Legedza wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is running
>> well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or quitting.
>>
>> Is this normal? If not, what can be done to speed this aspect up.
>
> Yes, it seems normal.
>
> Best regards,
> Boerge
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

Hi there,

Thanks for the response.

It's about 5 minutes for normal game saving and over 10-15 minutes when
quitting - but that was after a lengthy (>2 hours) playing session.

Our PC is only just over a year old - WIN XP, AMD 1.6 MH, 512K RAM

Thanks again
Henry


Jeremy Reaban wrote:

> Henry Legedza wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is
> running
> > well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or
> quitting.
>
> How long? A minute or two is normal when saving, 15 minutes is not.
>
> Also, it does take a long time after quitting, up to 5 minutes (maybe
> more), it really depends on how long you play. (Poor programming by
> Maxis - apparently a memory leak).
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

Henry Legedza wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> It's about 5 minutes for normal game saving and over 10-15 minutes when
> quitting - but that was after a lengthy (>2 hours) playing session.
>
> Our PC is only just over a year old - WIN XP, AMD 1.6 MH, 512K RAM
>
> Thanks again
> Henry

What about you videocard? When I got the game it had those same
problems, updating the drivers worked for me.

Bianca
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

For starters, bumping up your memory to 1GB wouldn't hurt at all.

Wil


On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:10:12 +1030, Henry Legedza
<hjlegedzaNOSPAM@picknowl.com.au> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>Thanks for the response.
>
>It's about 5 minutes for normal game saving and over 10-15 minutes when
>quitting - but that was after a lengthy (>2 hours) playing session.
>
>Our PC is only just over a year old - WIN XP, AMD 1.6 MH, 512K RAM
>
>Thanks again
>Henry
>
>
>Jeremy Reaban wrote:
>
>> Henry Legedza wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > My daughter just received The Sims 2 for Christmas and all is
>> running
>> > well apart from extremely lengthy delays when saving and/or
>> quitting.
>>
>> How long? A minute or two is normal when saving, 15 minutes is not.
>>
>> Also, it does take a long time after quitting, up to 5 minutes (maybe
>> more), it really depends on how long you play. (Poor programming by
>> Maxis - apparently a memory leak).
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

Rumpel wrote:

> What about you videocard? When I got the game it had those same
> problems, updating the drivers worked for me.
>
> Bianca


Yep, same here. I was taking 10-15 minutes to save even if
just going to a commercial lot or something. Updating the
video drivers solved the problem for me.

Laura
 
Archived from groups: alt.games.the-sims-2 (More info?)

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:10:12 +1030, Henry Legedza
<hjlegedzaNOSPAM@picknowl.com.au> wrote:

>Hi there,
>Thanks for the response.
>It's about 5 minutes for normal game saving and over 10-15 minutes when
>quitting - but that was after a lengthy (>2 hours) playing session.
>Our PC is only just over a year old - WIN XP, AMD 1.6 MH, 512K RAM

Saving time depends on a lot of things I guess:
1. Harddrive fragmentation. Defragment the drive using the built in
defragmenter in WinXP or a third party application.
2. Other processes running in the backround. Maybe you have an
antivirus application running real-time file scan? Maybe you should
consider disabling it temporarily when playing. On own risk, of
course. 🙂 Stop unused WinXP services in Computer
Administration/Services before playing.
3. Naturally, general machine specs: CPU, RAM, harddrive type
(ATA/SATA/SCSII), free space on harddrive. The more of everything, the
merrier, but that's old news now a days.. 🙂
On my 3GB P4 with 2 giga RAM and nice and quick SATA harddrive saving
even most complex lots takes 15-20 secs. max. On my wife's old machine
it takes a couple of minutes. Sorry, didn't mean to brag. 🙂

...and last but not least:
4. Size of the lot and number of objects on it!
As an example: I have a temp lot with just a wall with a telephone
hanging on it. Nothing else. I use it for introducing new sims to the
neibourghood. Saving this lot takes half a second!
 
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