Clean Installer Error Messages, desperately seeking help!!!!!!
ancienthighway:
Even though you have a 64-bit box, the game is still a 32-bit app. 26GB shouldn't be a problem for your game.
When you have half your CC out of the game, does Clean Installer run? What about when 25% is out? If the game and CI work with 50% and then 75% of your CC, I have to wonder if you are hitting the filehandle limit for 32-bit. What that means is an app can only hold reference to so many files. If that is the case, purging CC may be the only option, unless you are running multiple themed neighborhoods.
Theraven:
26 gb not much? I think you meant 26 MB is not much. Most computers can't handle a lot of CC, and 26 GB can be in the upper limit for a lot of computers.
My new computer (which is made especially to handle heavy 3D and rendering) struggles with 30 gb and above. It only has 4 gb RAM, but still... I've done several things for it to be able to run that much CC (Widening the memory limit of the game, among other things). Usually spends 1-2 hours loading. It runs 20-ish gb fine, spending 20-30 minutes loading. Before I did the adjusting, it crashed on more than 20 gb.
In most cases if it's CC-crashes, the computer crashes at the same act every time (going through things like hairs or furniture or other in the catalog, or visiting lots with the same piece of CC). If your game crashes randomly, but it can be narrowed down to "anything that needs a lot of memory" (loading in general, opening the makeover screen, loading CAS, using weather, loading heavy lots with lots of CC, and similar), then I'd say you're experiencing memory crashes.
And yes, heavy-duty computers can have memory crashes. The game has a limit on how much memory it can use (it's a 10 year old game - 4 or more GB of RAM was not very common back then), so it doesn't matter if your computer has 10 GB or 100 GB RAM, because the game won't be able to use it.
If your game spends a lot of time loading, then that's another telltale sign you've got too much CC. And if your game runs fine without any CC, then that might even back yo this theory.
Solution:
Get rid of custom content you don't need.
or
widen the limit of how much memory your game can use (there was a thread about it somewhere - I'll link it if I can find it).
PeachFuzz:
@ancienthighway
Okay, so I found that the game runs fine with 85% of the CC. I've enterted a handful of lots (with and without cc) and it didn't crash while loading or while navigating on that lot. Afterwards I opened the Clean Installer and I didn't receive the previous main error messages, whether it was scanning the Lotcatalog or the Downloads folder.
Ah, well i do have multiple hoods with themes. How can I go about 'purging'?
caffeinated.joy:
That's really up to you. You have pick what cc you don't want and remove it.
Theraven:
Or make separate downloads folders, one for each game that you can swap around when you want to play them.
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