#The sims 4 mods folder how to#
#The sims 4 mods folder full#
#The sims 4 mods folder pro#

Have a folder for trying out ccВ - i have a separate folder calledВ вЂshit to tryвЂ™ in my mods where i slam everything i recently downloaded, and spend a few minutes in game to check if they look good in game/donвЂ™t have any mistakes/how they look generally and decide if iвЂ™m going to keep them or not.

#The sims 4 mods folder how to#

hereвЂ™s how to by other things i doД¬lean my mods folder regularly - ok this might actually be more obsessive/compulsive on my part bc i do it all the fucking time, but cleaning your mods folder once every like 2 weeks/once a month is gonna save your ass down the road, honestly!! just make a mental note of the cc you almost never use and delete it!!

#The sims 4 mods folder pro#

pro tip: i download my cc to my downloads folder and use the program in there before organising my cc into folders bc itвЂ™s much quickerД¬ompress files - i only recently found out abt this but it has saved my life, the loading time is much quicker both when the game starts and when you travel between lots. i suppose it doesnвЂ™t really help if you have like 50 gb of cc, but for smaller folders maybe? anyway, you can get the bulk rename utility here, and hereвЂ™s a tutorial by on how-to use it.

#The sims 4 mods folder full#

Remove special characters - this works for some people and it doesnвЂ™t for some, iвЂ™m not sure itвЂ™s actually backed up *scientifically* but my game does load quicker if the file names arenвЂ™t full of special characters. hereвЂ™s a v professional explanation picture by yours truly Remove swatches you donвЂ™t use - i do this too a lot, sometimes there are like 50 swatches and i know very well that iвЂ™m not gonna use them all. for example i always merge liberated and separated game stuff bc i know iвЂ™m going to want them in my game under any circumstances, no matter how compulsive the urge to clean my mods folder yet again is lol Merge files! also important - if iвЂ™m absolutely sure that i canвЂ™t possibly live without a bunch of cc, i merge them bc the game loads and reads them much quicker that way. hereвЂ™s how to do it in sims 4 studio or s4pe! Hide meshes! importantВ - this is the MOST important of them all, i do this all the time w everything and it gets the mods folder size reduced by like a half!! seriously if you werenвЂ™t doing this you have to start!! so when you only want recolours of something in your game but you have to download the meshes separately that means tens of megabytes more files, right? you can actually edit the meshes so it a) doesnвЂ™t show up in the catalog and everything is much tidier and b) remove all the texture files you donвЂ™t want which makes the file size much, MUCH smaller. how? well listen here!! (this is going to be very messy but i canвЂ™t be arsed to do it properly iвЂ™m sorry) actual steps to take My mods folder is usually under 1gb but i have like 800 files in it.