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25th May 2010, 01:31 AM	Is there a way to combine/merge package files? #1
shmegel Original Poster Test Subject Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 38 1 Achievements	I know there is in Sims 3, but I only have Sims 2. I have THOUSANDS of downloads and I was wondering if there was a way to combine objects/mods/clothes/hair etc. I REALLY NEED IT to speed up my game!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much in advance Reply ASAP please! If you have any other ways to speed up my game (other than upgrading my computer and deleting CC), please tell me. Thankies!

25th May 2010, 03:07 AM	#2
whiterider Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,633 Thanks: 27813 in 58 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	It won't speed your game up particularly... slow loading is due to size of files (i.e. how many gigabytes), not number of files. If your computer was so weak that the number of files made any real difference, you wouldn't be able to play TS2 at all. Actual gameplay speed won't be affected at all. Presumably you could merge TS2 package files in SimPE, but I don't know what kind of weird problems it might throw up.
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25th May 2010, 07:39 AM	#3
HystericalParoxysm Administrator Join Date: Tommorow Posts: 21,337 Thanks: 332027 in 214 Posts 46 Achievements View My Journal	Merging can cause problems in TS2 in some cases. I wouldn't recommend it. Paint your computer red to make it go faster. Disclaimer: The above was a joke. Do not paint your computer red.

25th May 2010, 04:03 PM	#4
Ghost sdoj Site Helper Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5,614 Thanks: 77 in 1 Posts 6 Achievements View My Journal	If you have more than one neighborhood you play, you can put CC that is only used in one neighborhood into a separate folder and only have it when you are playing that neighborhood. The rest of the time it sits somewhere else. In fact, you can have your other neighborhoods sit somewhere else. Notice the timestamp on them after you save a game? You weren't playing them, but they got accessed anyway. And it is perfectly safe to delete Maxis neighborhoods that you don't plan to play.
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2nd Jun 2010, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghost sdoj

If you have more than one neighborhood you play, you can put CC that is only used in one neighborhood into a separate folder and only have it when you are playing that neighborhood. The rest of the time it sits somewhere else. In fact, you can have your other neighborhoods sit somewhere else. Notice the timestamp on them after you save a game? You weren't playing them, but they got accessed anyway.

And it is perfectly safe to delete Maxis neighborhoods that you don't plan to play.

How do you do this? Please tell me!

2nd Jun 2010, 04:52 AM	#6
maybesomethingdunno Site Helper Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,973 Thanks: 4865 in 16 Posts 23 Achievements View My Journal	On the Main Menu or any Neighborhood select screen, click the icon for a neighborhood that you are not currently in. You should see a trash can icon. ETA: You cannot delete a neighborhood you are currently in. Another interesting tip is that you can rename neighborhoods by clicking in the little text box under the neighborhood icons.
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5th Jun 2010, 07:01 PM	#7
shmegel Original Poster Test Subject Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 38 1 Achievements	not the deleting part, lol! The other part!

5th Jun 2010, 08:47 PM	#8
Mootilda Site Helper Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 11,938 Thanks: 21650 in 74 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	You probably have to do it manually. Keep a Downloads folder for each neighborhood somewhere on your disk. I keep mine in My Documents\EA Games; you should be fine as long as the folders aren't in My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2. Then, just move them in and out depending upon which neighborhood you intend to play.

8th Jun 2010, 10:41 PM	#9
llv Test Subject Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 10 1 Achievements	I'll use the same topic to add my question... Is there a way to combine/merge package files to load my game faster? i dont have a performance problem, is just about loading faster... thanks in advance

8th Jun 2010, 11:46 PM	#10
mangaroo transmogrified Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 5,455 1 Achievements	llv, please re-read posts 2 and 3.

16th Jun 2010, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghost sdoj

How do you do this? Please tell me!

Here are two possible ways to separate out your neighborhoods with their corresponding custom content:

1) Use the AnyGameStarter to create a separate AnyGame, then move one neighborhood and its corresponding CC to the AnyGame folder. You just play either the AnyGame or the full game:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=250555

2) AncientHighway has created a BAT file which will swap between two separate directories:
http://www.ancienthighway.net/smf/index.php?topic=65.0

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