First timer. Have a question.

[LeveRal]

How demanding is it to play modded SIMS 4? 

[Guest]

Usually not too much.

Especially if you do not add tons of DLCs and tons of mods.

[Scorpio]

5 hours ago, LeveRal said:

How demanding is it to play modded SIMS 4? 

Really it mostly depends on what type of computer your using and its specs.

A few mods are probably OK but if you're like some of us here you become addicted and keep adding more, lol.

And it probably also depends on which mods you install, but it's easy enough to just try them out and see how they work anyway.

You will probably notice if/when they impact your performance so you can just remove them.

 

Laptops=Be careful with adding mods with these as they are already borderline for even just playing TS4, unless you've got a newer $2-3 Thousand Dollar Machine.

 

Desktops=Older Dual Cores may struggle a bit but doable if you have at least 8GB memory with a decent graphics card, (not the integrated graphics type).

 

4 Core CPU's and higher are where the game starts to shine, along with having more memory and a nice GPU of course.

 

  

[LeveRal]

That was informative, thanks.

[ArtificialHuman]

In terms of "keeping up with" mods, there are some (mostly Custom Content like clothing, furniture, and so on) that you won't need to keep updating.

 

But things like Wicked Whims (sex mod), Nisa's Wicked Perversions (prostitution mod), Basemental Drugs/Gangs (real world drugs and alcohol / gangs and violence), Kinky Whims (abduction and assault) etc. you will want to check to see if there is a new version before you play each time. These ones are updated frequently, some more than others, and especially when there's a new patch or expansion on the "official" side of the game.

 

MCCC (MC Command Centre) is usually updated only when there's a patch or new expansion, or a glitch/issue in the previous patch. This one allows you to set rules for your town population as well as control the more specific information such as making your sim pregnant, controlling how many kids of what gender they will birth, relationships and friendly and romantic relationship levels with other sims, etc. I don't know what I would do without MCCC, to be honest, as it allows you to set birth, marriage, and moving rules and rates for the entire save file, so your sims can divorce and move house and have babies and get married and so on without you needing to have directly played all those households. It's SOOOOOO handy, and this would be the one mod I would suggest everyone should get. It's also MUCH more SFW than any of the others.

 

Sacrificial Mods have mostly been around for a while and aren't usually updated, but the newer ones are updated semi-frequently as they build and trouble shoot (at the moment, that's Life Tragedies). The Sacrificial mods range from things like haunted mirrors, possessed toddlers, zombie apocalypse, extreme violence, and sim torments, to passionate romance, prostitution (honestly, Nisa's is the better option if that's what you're after), and a fame mod that is made kind've obsolete by the official get famous, but can be interesting if you don't have that expansion.

 

The new Life Tragedies mod from Sacrificial is rather interesting, and introduces things like terminal illness, break-ins/robberies, kidnapping and serial killers. This defaults in the off position, and if you turn it on, you can choose a speed for these events to happen and protect certain sims from certain events, as well.

 

 

Apologies if this seems overwhelming... I came in as a first timer with mods... maybe around this time last year? And had to just wade through everything, not really understanding how it all came together. 

I also like a lot of littlemisssam's mods for realistic gameplay (foster families, housemates, loans, more buyable venues, realistic pregnancy, etc.)

 

It all depends on what kind of game you want to play, or story you want to tell. I've tried to give information about the kinds of things each mod handles and how much upkeep it needs. I hope this helps!

 

 

 

 

[ArtificialHuman]

Oh, and with Wicked Whims it'll take you a while to find and add all the animations, but once you get a few on there you don't need to stress as much about searching for new content. Again... depending on the kind of game/story you want.

 

And you need to have Wicked Whims in order to use Nisa's or Kinky... but most of the other mods are independent of each other (but can work well together).

[Mariana Soprano]

The question is, if you got a laptop like this

 

 

I use S4 since july 2017 with exactly this laptop ressources.

 

if you can and like to handle very careful technics of the game, many many CC and mods and at first your laptop – but you really need minimum 8 GB RAM. For me (and I m a Zerozero in technics) it is easy after two years of experience with modded Sims 3 (poor laptop 4 GB RAM HD grafic onboard).

 

But you always (incl. some thousand bucks machines!) have to take care of the game, because The Sims 4 is a work in progress, you need to update / patch the game often and sometimes EA patches may break your mods and you have to wait for scriptmod updates before you use the actual patch!

 

So have in mind NOT to give EA / Origin client the chance for autoupdates and to stay offline when you play and / or disable autoupdates in your Origin client and in game settings.

 

To update your custom content you´ll need Sims 4 studio (free)

 

You can have a quality like this with a laptop too

 

[Elsalovescocaine]

Sims 4 mods that affect your gameplay are the script ones. Those steal ram and resources like Mccommand center or WW.

 

normal mods do nothing. You need a good video card at least 2gb base to run common heavy mods like 15.000 or 25 000 triangles clothes or hairs.

mods size doesn’t matter at all. Cause this game only load 20 sims per world instance.

means you can have 60gb mods and still able to run the game. 

 

So don’t worry for your mod folders size. Worry for your video card and ram size if you use HD mods .

if you want a game were you need to count mods size, play city skilines, that game load all mods at the same time. You need tons of ram for that

[Scorpio]

All very good, and informative, comments posted.

 

I guess I'm a bit biased about laptops, in general, when used for gaming since I've had 2 fail in the past from the GPU overheating.

And they were only a few years old but not worth the trouble to send them back for repair since they may just fail again in the same way anyhow.

 

But I've always had a decent desktop to play games anyway, and I've almost never had any failures and can upgrade parts easily.

My current PC I built in 2008 and have since upgraded both Ram & Graphics.

Durability, longevity, and the ability to upgrade or replace parts makes Desktops come out on top every time, for me at least.

Wonder if anybody still has a working laptop from 2008 that plays TS4, lol.

My old one wouldn't even run TS3, but I can play Skyrim and TS2 at least, but not on higher detail of course. 

[Crazy Doll]

You can play on toasters and have pretty good result in game like Mariana said, but you have to make some choices, depend what exactly you want to do.

In my case, I choose to maximise details on sims and makes sacrifices on general and objects details.

 

Result is visible on screens i share in "share your female sim" an R-Lo corner" threads.

As an example this post or this one.

Of course it's not HQ but i think it's pretty good already.

 

 

I'm on an old i3 dual 2.4Ghz laptop, integrated graphic intel 4400hd series, 4Go ram. Game can be slow sometimes especially if i run youtube when creating a sim or when building something, but nothin really important to me.