I've googled this question, but my question turns into a question about CC instead of answering my initial question. Will too many worlds, or saves slow my game down?

I'm cool with uninstalling worlds I just want to know would it help since i keep taking CC out of the game and my game is still slow.

Saves don't slow down your game, either, at least never has for me. But, if you have too many (and/or too bloated) saves in the save game folder, then the risk of getting error 12 rises dramatically while saving the game. I never keep more than 2-3 saves in that folder at the same time. I also use the SaveCleaner to the latest game save every time before launching the game to keep the game saves at reasonable size.

Well, if I have say 4, 5 or more saved games in the save folder and I try to save, I either get error 12 or the game crashes without warning (max memory used). Then the only way was to remove all the saves and save again. After that - and it happened many, many times - I learned to limit my game saves. That pretty much solved my problem.

I can understand the 'max memory used' error but have no clue why the game served me the error 12, as well (I don't play in huge worlds). Maybe it's just some odd coincidense but, like I said, I get neither with limited saves. In some cases - rarely - I have had to delete the travelDB in order to get the game to save. And too many screenshots in the Screenshot folder... 'Max memory used' error is on the way.

My whole Sims 3 folder in on my main SSD drive, with plenty of space (over half of it still unused. I have a pretty good gaming rig and I'm getting ever better one in a few months but I know that it won't make any difference because the game's own limitations aren't going to go away. The 'Max memory used' error is given by the crash log analyzer and for me it first occured shortly after ITF was launched. Igazor actually just explained it very well in one of the threads at the WCIF section.

https://modthesims.info/showthread....ight=max+memory

I think I have kind a derailed this thread a bit. My apologies to the OP.

Not at all! i'm learning a lot from you two discussing, don't stop on my account lol!

I have 22, if I counted correctly, worlds installed including EP, TS3 Store worlds and 4 third-party worlds. Currently, I have eight saves in the saves folder and usually play without removing them despite it takes awhile when rotating worlds/saves for each round. My largest save is around 186+ weeks and does take some time to load initially, but I've been playing with most of those Sims for many real life years though I'm sure there are other reasons as to why it takes 10 minutes more or less. I'm still in the process of cleaning up and actually something that it is a must continuously anyway for the longevity of any save.

I do use mods and some mods may make loading times longer especially for that particular save. I do get Error Code 12's every now and then but is usually a cause from mods that is putting more stress on the game engine, high poly content, poorly made mods/cc, etc. Once I figure the issue out, my game goes back to minimal to no lag or crashing or EC12. I'm sure I'll eventually get EC12 again but so far I haven't gotten it in awhile and I've been in and out of CAS, switching households, moving the camera several times all the way across the neighborhood, playing for hours, etc.

My other saves are much less than 186+ weeks and are either 20 weeks 7 days or 15 weeks 7 days currently. Still rather new when I started implementing a new playstyle to rotate between worlds besides households. This way I get playtime with, at the time, unused worlds while moving Sims around to new locations for whatever reason. There are at least 7 more worlds I would eventually like to add in addition with more 3rd party worlds.