Is YOUR Plugins Folder Bulging?

[Artman94 2]

Oh my...I guess my plugin folder size is just PUNY compared to all you people! As for me, fireing up the game takes less than a minute (let's say 45 seconds) and loading a city takes about 2 to 5 minutes(depending on size, costumization, and other stuff)

Computer specs:

Desktop eMachines

AMD Athlon 6400

ATI Radeon Xpress200

160 gigs of disk space

384 mb of RAM

and a whole bunch of other stuff

I am kinda surprised at the loading times you guys have on SC4...

(and your computer specs, too)

[paperboy15 4]

1.59 GB

3471 Files

1150 Folders

[GMT 389]

read my signature, the lower right... nothing more to say.

I've never counted the plugins or folders or files, it's just too much.

[sunblacker 0]

i used to kill the process explorer.exe when i in the game ..

..

[Q-Tips 37]

1,9 GB in my plugin folder.

Are running on a 2,6 GHZ Dual Core Extreme. 4GB memory. It takes about a minute to load the game.

[mistershnerples 0]

i just started modding and adding things from STEX, even though i've had simcity 4 for like 2 years. it's pretty sad now that i think about. i keep thinking how great to have had this before. anyways, my plug-ins folder is about 25.1 mb. i always see some posting about something going wrong or not downloading too many things. so i've been pretty weeny about dLing more. hehe,

[IDS2 3,344]

Originally posted by: sithlrd98 IDS2 your kiddn right? how many hours does it take to start up the game?quote>

About 10 minutes to start the region, then about 5 minutes to load a blank tile. 6 for terraforming, 8 for a full city. 2 minutes to open the landmark folder. So yeah, an hour to start a new small city . Torture.

Actually, I just increased the size of mine...I now have...

5.39 Gigabytes, 16,753 files, 4,008 folders.

Up a gig from yesterday...I really loathe CAM. Where's DATpacker when you need it?

[Artman94 2]

----...*complelety blank---oh my gosh....I don't think I will ever get that many plugins...

EDIT: Wow this thread really got down in the dumps...lol

[Nerd_Guy 4]

I don't know how to count them, but to put it in perspective, my computer is the most powerful and has the most memory of any of the other's in my house, we have installed extra memory thingies, and it still takes (and this was actually tested by me) a full 30 minutes to start my game, and nearly 20 to load most large cities. The parks menue takes about 3+ minutes to open. 


EDIT: Edited to fix spelling. Sorry, I don't have my contacts in...

[sumwonyuno 42]

When I booted up my computer today, my plugin folder was ~ 30MB [NAM and various other mods, no buildings]. As of now, I have 860MB, due to downloading CAM and ALL of the necessary files. I still have to install the Commercial Office lots, and quite a lot more dependencies... for all the files that are currently available for CAM.

I haven't done a cold boot of sc4 since I woke up. Right now it takes ~ 10-15 seconds to go from opening sc4 via Startup Manager [no intros], to SimCity 4 logo screen, and about 5-10 more seconds to go to region view.  Load up times, saves and return to region view vary by city, from 10 seconds to maybe 30 seconds.

My current stats are:

AMD64 X2 4200+ 2.4GHz

2GB DDR2 533Mhz

Western Digital SATA 160GB

Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS

[continues on the quest for CAMeLOTs]

[mrkaki 0]

1,047 Files, yet another 1,047, that number is haunting me.

420MB, but I have only begun downloading plugins... ^^

[Vanasonic 49]

I have 589 mb of plugins. A nice amount. I've got a fairly recent computer with a recent RAM and video card upgrade and it takes 10-15 minutes to get into a full populated large tile city from desktop to city.

[waway625 72]

i have 1.4Gb worth of plugins (1Gb of which was packed via DATpacker) but the new ones arent "packed" yet

my specs

e6300 overclocked to 2.8Ghz

2048mb of DDR2 RAM running at 800Mhz 4-4-4-12 timings

320mb Geforce 8800GTS

takes about 1-2 minutes to get to the region view (opening the game)

and tkes about the same time to open a large city tile

[tungston 19]

Core2duo E6700 2.67 GHz

Win XP Pro

2GB plugins in my doc's,

no dat packer

27 seconds to region view [intro off]

Core2Quad Q6600 2.44 GHz

Vista 

2GB plugins

no dat packer

13 seconds to region view [intro off]

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Neat numbers.  So the quad processor is at least twice as fast, eh?  Do you think this has conquered the overhead of Vista?

[tungston 19]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body Neat numbers.  So the quad processor is at least twice as fast, eh?  Do you think this has conquered the overhead of Vista?quote>

 

Actually the numbers are a bit deceving.  I messed up the clock on the first start with the quad, and that is the second start.

The additional starts with the C2duo is as low as 8 seconds.  I didn't time any additional starts with the quad.

A 60 MB city loads with both machines in about 30 seconds.

[cammo2003 20]

1.5GB of plugins, 3,849 Files, 680 Folders.

Time to recompress with DATpacker, methinks...

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I have a whopping 38.5 MB consisting of 266 files, although to be honest I didn't think I had quite that much. I'm learning Japanese, so eventually this number will swell as I raid the Japanese sites for Asian style content!

[waway625 72]

Originally posted by: tungston

Originally posted by: N_O_Body Neat numbers.  So the quad processor is at least twice as fast, eh?  Do you think this has conquered the overhead of Vista?quote>

 

Actually the numbers are a bit deceving.  I messed up the clock on the first start with the quad, and that is the second start.

The additional starts with the C2duo is as low as 8 seconds.  I didn't time any additional starts with the quad.

A 60 MB city loads with both machines in about 30 seconds.quote>

wow! that must be a pretty large city huh? the biggest city i got was about 15mb (large city tile and 1 million population)

[tungston 19]

Originally posted by: waway625 [

wow! that must be a pretty large city huh? the biggest city i got was about 15mb (large city tile and 1 million population)quote>

 

Well WAWAY, it is a complete city, not just a city with residentials.  I have a region with 8 cities that range between 54, and 59 MB.  They are cities of close to 500,000 pop, and are gridded 6x6 with avenues with turning lanes.  They are complete cities also.

[Artman94 2]

i guess, (sometimes) it really depends on how long the member has been on this site...usually the old-comers have lots of plugins and the new-comers have less...

[waway625 72]

Originally posted by: tungston

Originally posted by: waway625 [

wow! that must be a pretty large city huh? the biggest city i got was about 15mb (large city tile and 1 million population)quote>

 

Well WAWAY, it is a complete city, not just a city with residentials.  I have a region with 8 cities that range between 54, and 59 MB.  They are cities of close to 500,000 pop, and are gridded 6x6 with avenues with turning lanes.  They are complete cities also.quote>

what do you mean by a "complete city" TUNGSTON?

when i said i had a 15mb city, that was a city with 1 million people, lots of commercial buildings (and plopped ones too), a custom airport, parks and transportation systems..isnt that a "complete" city?

[Jazzmaster 716]

Originally posted by: tungston

Originally posted by: N_O_Body Neat numbers.  So the quad processor is at least twice as fast, eh?  Do you think this has conquered the overhead of Vista?quote>

 

Actually the numbers are a bit deceving.  I messed up the clock on the first start with the quad, and that is the second start.

The additional starts with the C2duo is as low as 8 seconds.  I didn't time any additional starts with the quad.

A 60 MB city loads with both machines in about 30 seconds.quote>

 

My largest city is a little over half your 60MB one and takes like 5-10 minutes to load and when I finally get in it lags like heck for another 5 minutes.

I was finally able to decrease load time.  Turns out all those EXE installers and .zip folders double or even triple your plugin folder's size...

[waway625 72]

lol so i packed them into a single dat file (1.26Gb)

and defragged my harddrive

now its takes 25 seconds to get to region view and 65 seconds to open a large city tile (7.5mb City)

[FlyHigh 167]

mine is quite small: 269mb, 555files, 33folders... I'm having a serious problem of memory shortage in both my computers so I gotta delete some stuff... (bached up every file in a cd)...

[Imprezza05 1]

my plugin folder is small compared to many people 742mb 2005 files and only takes a miniute or two to start the game and another 3 to open a largish city of 33.1 mb with only a 750 mhz processor and 512mb ram (haha slow old pc but still works deceptivly fast)

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Wow I thought mine was big lol but I guess not! (10GB of plug-ins would take up 25% of my tiny hard drive...)

Heres what mine looks like:

818mb

3052 files

501 folders

Takes about 7 minutes for the game to load, another 5-6 minutes for a city to load

[John94538 0]

Plugins Folder:

867Mb
2975 files
495 folders
~11 minutes loading time (lg. city, fr. desktop to city)
1 very frustrated John94538

I ran DatPacker once, but it messed up the game because I deleted everything except Plugins_compressed. LOL brown boxes appeared on like 90% of downloaded buildings! I'm never trying that again...

Note: ^ I mean deleting everything in Plugins, not DatPacker. ^

[1ajs 49]

the plug ins folder for TDK is 1.3gig and sc4 won't load under cedega

[star.torturer 0]

i have 1.2 gig of transport lots compresed about half

takes no extra time over the original