Game stuck while purging homeless
Posted: March 4th, 2017, 8:09 am
Hello, this isn't really an issue with the mod but I'm looking for advice. I've been playing in the same town for quite a while, and while I have several mods, including Overwatch, I've had the nightly Homeless Clean-Up disabled. As a result, I now have a pool of over 4000 homeless Sims and would like to get rid of them. The problem is that my PC or game can't seem to handle it. If I enable the nightly cleanup, the game gets stuck at the time of the Overwatch alarm, but instead of lasting some seconds, I've waited nearly an hour without result. Note: the game doesn't actually freeze, it just gets stuck as it normally does during cleanup, so obviously the mod is trying to implement the clean-up, but presumably because of the huge pool, it's not quite able to get there. (Even loading up the LIST of the homeless in the mod menu takes ages, and forget thumbnails on those.) Trying to clean them up via Master Controller / Total Annihilation / Homeless Non Service achieves the same non-result.
Any suggestions on how to approach this problem? In theory, it should be okay if I can find a way to delete the Homeless sims a few at a time rather than all at the same time. I've been looking for an option to limit the maximum pool size (so I could bring it down in chunks, having the game delete the superfluous sims) but haven't been able to find such an option in any of the mods. (Basically I need something like Register's option to limit the number of Service sims in a pool, but for Homeless Non Service.)
Any suggestions on how to approach this problem? In theory, it should be okay if I can find a way to delete the Homeless sims a few at a time rather than all at the same time. I've been looking for an option to limit the maximum pool size (so I could bring it down in chunks, having the game delete the superfluous sims) but haven't been able to find such an option in any of the mods. (Basically I need something like Register's option to limit the number of Service sims in a pool, but for Homeless Non Service.)