Greetings, I just got back into Sims 3 after quitting because of massive slowdowns. I knew it was probably my CC but it didn't punch me in the face till I combined packages, and holy shit, to anyone whose game runs slow as hell, COMBINE YOUR PACKAGES because now instead of taking 45 minutes to load, my game takes less than 5 minutes. Jesus Christ.

Anyway, main point - is there a specific size that a package has to be or else it breaks? I have all the store stuff packed away neatly in each package for each month, so far 35 packages. I was thinking of combining each year's packages (09 to 011) to further reduce the number of packages, but considering the large file size of each package, the big ones would be something like 300-500mb each. I recall something about packages not being able to be read over 200mb (?), not sure if that's true but I'd just like to optimize my folder a little further, so I'd like to know if having such huuuuge sizes is a valid idea. Thanks in advance.

(And also, separate question - last time I was here, Pets expansion was borked to hell and back. Wondering now if it's still borked.)

I've had this happen to me once, I had not noticed the sound shut off until suddenly every single sound that SHOULD have played all played at once in a loud and startling moment. I think I did a 'fixall' before then.

I don't really understand the concept of "story drivers," like Indie Stone, I just know that things are... well, different.

I really want to try this "awesome story driver" but I don't even know what it is. I try looking for it in all the awesomemod places (the wiki, rtfm, config, etc) but I don't have any extra details. What does this do? What does this story driver have in store? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I wanted to try a different "story driver," but since I have 1.3 I can't use Indie Stone. Can anyone point me to somewhere or tell me what the story driver has, since I can't seem to find it myself? >.<

Oh and while I'm on the subject, I finally got awesomemod working yeey, thank god I needed this mod like air. fucking neighborhood spawning babies