Now isnt it aonnying when you put your game on and have to wait 30 mins for the game to load, then you have to select the neighbourhood, then the house! Soooo maybe someone could design a program which is prompted before the start of the game which asks you what house you want to goto. Then insert game, have a coffee then come back to your fully loaded house! :baloons:

It might be possible to bypass neighborhood and house selection but all the loading would still have to be done.

look im not flaming or teasing you but perhaps a better machine is needed.
it takes me 2mins tops from desktop to game to n/hood to house and playing.
y 2mins max with 200+ items in download folder.

got a leet machine athlon 64bit 3.8gig, 1G 800 dual ram, 10000rpm HDD and nForce4ultra 256mb 8 channel audio.

yeah, i got that, but ive also got 5 gigabytes of stuff! This wont make loading times shorter but will enable you not to have to come back, select the neighbourhood, then the house

It is pretty pointless to go through the whole 9 yards before getting into a house....
and I have a good machine it still takes forever! Please someone do it?

You can provide those arguments on the commandline according to something I read. All I have to do now is try to remember where to find the info again...

I have a good 1000 downloads (not my fault; I've only been downloading for 3 days...) and it takes forever to start up...actually, it took ages when I had about 3 downloads. I'm all for this hack!!

I use only a lap top wit AMD Anthlon and ATI graphics with 1gb ram and 100 GB memory and as long as keep my custom content clean the longest I have had to wait is 10 minutes :monkey: :monkey:

One tip to shorten the loading time, is to have very few neighbourhoods (or only one). Made a huge change for me.

Novel idea, especially as I tend to focus on a particular neighborhood for days or weeks at a time... Say you have 7 neighborhoods, and you are currently playing #7. Can you simply pick up the folders containing the other 6 neighborhoods and store them elsewhere without tons of file renaming?

Oh... and can you then swap neighborhoods in and out with out troubles (say I wanted to go back to N3?

Inge - It's not possible to do that with The Sims 2, maybe you're thinking of the load house cheat from Sims 1.

Everyone else's comments: much of what you're suggesting requires access to the game's source code, which we don't have (only Maxis does). It's not possible to come up with a "hack" by the community that would be legal, as you'd be modifying the game exe and a simple package file alone cannot do what you're asking. Removing the other neighborhoods from the save data will not affect loading times, those aren't loaded until you click on them.

The ONLY ways to decrease loading times (short of a complete Maxis code re-write) is to get a faster processor, more memory, or/and faster hard drive. Removing custom content helps greatly as well.

Try defraging your hard drive's, Closing un-needed programs. If that does not help better CPU-Video Card and memmory might be needed. I have a gig of custom content and it only takes 2.5 minutes from desktop to lot loaded.

Moving this thread to the help section