Loooong Saving after using Regul Save Cleaner? Try Kuree's Save Cleaner 1.1
For any fellow Sims 3 oldheads, you may remember that the known save cleaner before Regul's tool was by Kuree.
While Regul's tool is effective and easy to use, I personally find it makes my first save after cleaning take aaaaages to the point where sometimes I just give up and have to force close the game. I've heard others have this issue so I thought I would re-remind everyone of this other tool, which I find to be almost as effective at cleaning as Regul's and not have the super long save issue.
It is called Kuree's Save Cleaner 1.1 and I have made a tutorial for you after the cut!
Part One - Downloading
What you'll find by Googling it is the link here to version 2.2 . I advise against this one. Not only did it stop working for me when the game updated to Patch 1.69 all those years ago, but others have reported issues too with it cleaning too much, such as paintings. I have no idea if it works with Macs and I have no idea if Steam users on 1.67 can use 2.2 since I don't use it.
Instead, I use version 1.1, which has been re-uploaded here by the queen of preserving sims content, Sweetdevil.
Part Two - Using It
As I mentioned, Regul's is very user friendly. This one is less so.
Unzip/unrar the Save Cleaner 1.1 file you downloaded from one of Sweetdevil's links.
Back up your save! Copy your save folder. It will be whatever you called it and located in My Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > Saves > Your Save Folder Name. Paste it somewhere safe.
Open Save Cleaner 1.1 folder, then double click Save_Clean.exe and press "Choose Save"
Navigate in Windows Explorer to My Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > Saves and choose the save you want to clean
It will only let you choose a file that has your "world name.nhd" so choose that one.
Then press "Start Cleaning", it will remind you again to do a backup, press yes to continue and then it will do its thing.
Done! You can check the save folder again if you want to see how much it cleaned since it won't give you the satisfying "this much cleaned!" like Regul's does but I find it more satisfying when my subsequent save actually finishes, personally.
Part Three - Cleaning Comparison
Here are the comparisons of how much each save cleaner cleans up the same save file:
Kuree Before:
Kuree After:
Regul Save Clean results:
As you can see, Regul does clean a bit more. But the substanial amount of cleaning is performed by both programmes, and I just find Kuree's to not cause the very long saves that Regul's does. Your mileage may vary, as always.
Whichever Save Cleaner you choose, it's a great practice to use one periodically. I typically use it when I notice my save games getting above 60mb but that's just me. It can really help your game load faster and remove some of the junk.
everyone I seriously recommend using this Save Cleaner
It gets rid of unnecessary files that just bloat the save file and It deleted 55% of my save. That means 55% of my save file was unnecessary ea stupidity and just slowing my game down.
It is beautiful and saved my game which was getting really slow and laggy, practically unplayable and I couldn't figure out why. Now it is so smooth and I am so happy, hence this post because happiness must be shared.
I want to thank woohoo-juice-simoleons because I found this through her PC-help page. So thank you woohoo-juice-simoleons for saving my game, you are awesome.
If you haven't used this, you don't know what you're missing (you're missing faster loading times, cleaning up stupid crap you might have done, and a bunch of saved disc space.
So much for using the Sims 3 save cleaner. The damn thing keeps coming up with an error even after I downloaded that Microsoft .NET4 shit. I'm so fucking done. Why is this being such a bitch? I just want a simple fix so I can play my motherfucking game again, but no, apparently I've done something to anger the EA gods. FUCK YOU TOO ASSHOLES. Suck my dick. I'm out. -.-
Can someone explain to me how to get the Save Cleaner to work? Because I can't for the life of me to get it too, and the forum it's on is hard to follow with all the beta testers and their coding talk. :(
