Incredible Lagging
EKozski:
Within the last few days, I've noticed this incredible lagging when I'm in game. If I stay in the same spot for about a minute, and I move, the lagging starts. It takes a good two minutes for the game to revert back to normal. I have to keep the camera moving. If I stop, it starts all over again. It is really annoying.
I thought it might be an issue with my downloads. But, I have less than 2GB. I know if you have a lot of high poly stuff, that could be a problem. There was a lot of stuff from WallSims in the house I downloaded. They have high poly objects, so I started yanking their stuff out. There's not that many windows, so it couldn't be that. There are alot of trees, maybe it could be that.
I bought this computer new in November. It's a quard core AMD with 6GB of memory. I've got an NVidiaGeForce 9100 with access to 2.5GB of video memory if it needs it. Yes, it's integrated. That still leaves me with 3.5GB of free memory. Windows 7 takes I think 1GB. I'm left with 2.5GB.
I thought it might be because I was using moveobjects and snap objectsto grid.
I'm still yanking downloads out...
caffeinated.joy:
When was the last time you ran a maintenance on your computer (defrag, spyware/virus scan etc). Sometimes, if a drive is badly fragmented or you have a lot junk files, it cause cause the game to stutter.
EKozski:
I did a disk clean up the other day. Virus scan about two weeks ago. I have never defragmented my hard drive.
But, you did bring something to mind reading your post........Copy a few things to disc.
I've got a 640GB hard drive. Almost 300GB free. What would be considered junk files?
Just ran Malwarebytes. It found nothing.
BlooM:
Go back to your desktop the moment it starts laggin(CTRL ESC)
Hit CTRL ALT DEL and look under process wats taking all the memory or under performance to check your CPU usage
Theraven:
Well, you could always try to do a defragment and also free up disk space. Both tools are (on Vista) under Control panel--> administrative tools (it's "free up disk space" and "defragment your hard drive").
And have you emptied your recycle bin lately? If you don't do that once in a while, files aren't really deleted. As long as they stay in the bin, it's still saved on your computer and takes up space.
Freeing up disk space deletes temporary files and such, while defragmenting... I think Windows explains it better than I do.
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Disk defragmentation describes the process of consolidating fragmented files on your computer's hard disk.
Fragmentation happens to a hard disk over time as you save, change, or delete files. The changes that you save to a file are often stored at a location on the hard disk that's different from the original file. Additional changes are saved to even more locations. Over time, both the file and the hard disk itself become fragmented, and your computer slows down as it has to look in many different places to open a file.
Disk Defragmenter is a tool that rearranges the data on your hard disk and reunites fragmented files so your computer can run more efficiently.
Lagging could also be caused by big neighborhoods, big lots with tons of CC, a lot of sims, townie/NPC generation and so forth.
Not sure how Win7 is on build-up of memory, but with Vista that's a big problem. Could be that, too. Especially if you've been playing for several hours.
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