LOADING ORDERac

[JoeLetaxi 1]

Hello everybody,

 

Like most of player i'm still looking after THE OPTIMAL loading order. i red many forums, many tutorials but it s always a good thing to receive experiences of other ppl.

Loading order doesn't follow alphabetical order, or not a classical onel.

Anyway my doc plugins folder  is organized like this: 

a CAM

b Megaprops  ( all megaprops files, most of dependencies, this simple file is 1,2Go) datPacked

b1 Props         ( all props) size 0,8Go  datPacked

b2 Textures      datPacked

Commercial      datPacked  

Industrial          datpacked

NAM (not datpacked)

PegProd        (not datPacked, i still have some plugs to install

Residential    datPacked

Trains         (not datpacked, i like to change them regularly

Utilities  ( water, garbage, energy, health, schools, police, firemen, army...... datpacked.)

z DAM   not datpacked

zz Mods not datpacked

zzz Peg (not dat packed

z_____NAM ( obviously not datpacked)

It's working quite good, game takes about 4mns to load, not so much ctd's except when i make mistake with puzzle elements, no shadows  but i m sure it s )possible to improve gaming.

 

 Joe Letaxi  ( i saw a plugin "Total recall" that gives Elevated Taxis, i won't ever use it).

 

 

 

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Not bad.  From that specific point of view, it might be worth passing the whole Plugins folder through the defragmenter (if it is on disk) to make sure that all the files are contiguous.  The reduces the number of seek-reads when accessing them.  You should probably run the Disk Cleanup utility first.

 

The only thing you might do to speed things up even more is to move the user area onto an SSD to eliminate the mechanical features of the disk.

 

What CPU and GPU do you have for this machine?

 

A disk resident Regions folder should be defragged at least once a week.

[JoeLetaxi 1]

Hello, Nonny Moose

 

My comp is a dinosaur, it s a IntelPentium 4 proc 3,2 ghz, i doped the Ram up to 3Go (max supported by mother card). OS is Windows XP Pro, graphic card is a Nvidia 5700 on AGP port, 256Mo ram. I use this machine since 2004, i saved it s life many times ( i lost all my hairs!), an old companion as u can see.

It's clear that next PC i ll get ( when money be back, actually i can't "cough" 400 euro !) will use SSD, with less mechanical loss of time.

To  clean the disk i use command line chkdsk, with or not options. For defrag i use Perfect Disk, little better than the window's one. As protection i use MalwareBytes, CCleaner,no other antivirus, i avoid dangerous sites. Except this ultra addictive game named SimCity,  PC and me are safe at that point.

Have a nice day and thx for helping. 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Joe, I ran the game on a 3GB beat up only HP system for years.  Only bought this one when my graphics went out of support with no alternative.  If you are interested my current config.  Got the main box for $500 new with no software about 4 years ago.