So, once the intro plays and the actual loading screen with the progress bar pops up, it's generally not unreasonable, about 20 minutes, which sucks ass for a game in general in 2025 but isn't too bad for Sims 3, especially with large amounts of CC involved, but the thing is, before reaching that screen, there's just a black void, that can take from 40 minutes to upwards of an hour. It seems to change based on how much CC I have installed.

I've not seen this "stage" of loading mentioned anywhere, any idea why this is happening in this way and how to cut this time down to the seconds/minutes this screen is supposed to take? (Other than "remove all/a vast majority of your CC" because I know that bloats load time, but I also assume if it was the only thing that could possibly be controlled to affect loading time, that complaints about this initial stage would be more common.)

@katlovet10

You have to make a clean copy of The Sims 3 game data folder and reinstall you mods/CC. Use save cleaner.
Check your mods for conflicts with Sims 3 Dashboard .

Check this page: https://www.nraas.net/community/Sho...y-mods-together

@katlovet10

Did you fix your issue?