Limits?

[baileybop]

Is there a limit to anything ingame? Colletion folders, Saved Sims, Lot Catalogue? I don't have many in these folders, but I was wondering if they had limits. And is there a limit to the number of lots you can install at any given time? The reason I'm asking is that my computer crashed twice, now that it has been fixed *runs faster and smoother now too * and I have a lot of houses to re-install.

[BeosBoxBoy]

If you are using the Aspyr Mac version, the file limit is 12800 total.  Maybe a few more, but not many.

If you are using Windows 98, I have experienced a similar limit that causes a crash when exceeded.

Under Windows XP on an NTFS partition, I have had over 25 GB of files in my user folders without issue - yes the game was slow to load, and all, but it worked ok after loading, but I have 16 GB of RAM and dual CPUs, I dread to imagine what would happen on a smaller system.

Under both Mac and Windows, there can be problems if you have excessive sub-foldering. In this case the length of the address can be the problem.  For example:

C:\Documents and Settings\Sasha\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder\subfolder

is just begging for trouble.  I would be surprised if the hard drive would even accept such a set-up without serious problems.

I have seen drops in performance at fairly regular intervals:

• 8192 files
• 16384 files
• 24576 files
• etc

I had a game failure that I could not correct until I reduced my downloads below 32000

But the game will have trouble when you have too many screen captures in your Storytelling folders, no one has been able to give me a figure that is the limit there.

The same is true of the SavedSims folder, different people have reported problems when they have more than 100 Sims.

As for collections, I don't know.  Some people have the game crash if they have even one user made collection, others have 100s.

[baileybop]

Thanks for the info, in my downloads folder the only subfolders I have are the categories that are in Clean Installer, but what about the number of lots? How many can you install at a time? I have a lot of Victorian houses-(about 20)unfurnished, and all of Wolfsim68 Blue-Red-Yellowstone lots.

[Micco]

My downtown currently uses about 830 MB of ram with everything I have uploaded (and a few that I haven't) installed in it; I keep adding more. I don't intend to stop until it causes issues (which it hasn't... yet.)

The only limit I have breached is the 18th floor (CTD).

I had a game failure that I could not correct until I reduced my downloads below 32000

:worship:

[nova-storm]

i have downsized alot. I am down to 4.77 gigs of downlaods. MY game takes about 10 min to load but it plays fine. I am not sure how many homes you can load before the game goes all wako tho lol

[BeosBoxBoy]

baileybop - I have a near maniacal fascination with No.55 Woodland Drive - the only true corner lot in the game  - and have some 50 or more duplicate installs of it choking my pre-made lots bin.  I have seen that some people can only install 3 lots from sims2packs at a time (I am not sure if they mean total or per session).

I think there are limits in the game that may come into the equation based on your system's resources.  I know my experience with the game on Macs is vastly different from the game under Windows.  And even in Windows there is considerable difference between Windows 98 on my old crap-top (256 MB RAM, 1 GHz CPU) and Windows XP on my beast system (16 GB RAM, dual 3.2 GHz CPUs).  So I really think there is no one-size-fits-all answer here.