What do you consider "I think I have enough plug-ins"

[chocolate_city 93]

I've noticed that my game is not playing as smoothly anymore.... I have an older computer 2.0ghz. 1gbt memory. Nvidia FX440 graphics card with a paltry 64mb memory overclocked..., two pagefiles with 4gbt of space each,  one of those pagefiles is on the same drive as the game, with 1.5 gbts of plugins in "My documents", and a little over 2 gbts of plug-ins in the game directory.  I've used the the DATPacker on the plug-ins in "My Documents" but I don't think that that is the problem... could I have possible "gone to far" as plug-ins are concerned.  Any comments are welcomed

[saltandsauce 0]

i want your computer NOW

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, if you have a very large city and all those plugins in "memory" think about it.  The city tables keep expanding as the city grows, and they, too, are in "memory".  If you have a hard disk activity light on your machine, keep an eye on it.  If it becomes very active, you are paging to get stuff for the game.  That's one of the problems.

The second one is related to the first.  We now come to the simulator which looks at every object in the game in a continuous loop.  This is why your processor(s) usage is over one processor.  I think tungston said his Core2 Duo ran at about 60% per processor.  If you only have one processor, the lag is for the simulator to catch up.  This can really choke things up if you are paging as well since processor cycles are used to process the page interrupts and i/o's, and you get processor waits, which will make the game seem sluggish, if the game needs to wait for a page to come into memory.

How big is the city you are working?  If it is over 1,000,000 Sims and you have the structures to house and work them, you have to execute a lot of instructions per pass of the simulator.

[chocolate_city 93]

Some light has truly been shed... I have one city with 3 million that crashes to desktop immediately... and there are at least 10 others in the region with a million or so people that do run sluggish. This region is huge... and there are 70 million in it, and it not even half way filled. I work on something smaller and see what happens... Thanks N_O_Body.. .. saltandsauce.. If you want my piece of junk dude I can only guess yours is worse..

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

You are welcome.  One more thing:  It is all about memory.  force your virtual memory to the maximum (initial, maximum) = 4096 (XP)  4095 (vista)

[CasperVg 372]

Praise yourself happy, I have 450mb on plugins in mydocuments and 1.44GB on plugins (the dependencies) in the game directory, and my game is fairly sluggish