I couldn't find a thread like this already on the forums, and this seemed like the right place, so without further ado....
Mine is almost one gigabyte, but I've been adding stuff every day, and barely have any growables yet. There are also a few "must haves" that I've been holding off on downloading, so I figure it will be more than a gig and a half by the time I'm done with it.
My computer tells me that my plugin folder has 673 MB of stuff.
It would be interesting to see whose plugin folder is the largest - I'm certain there are people here who have at least four gigs of plugins.
I'm in the process of rebuilding my plugins folder... at present it's 2.94 Gb ( oof! ) with another 150 or so files to add. I would expect that once I get to datpacking and cleanitoling, it'll shrink a bit.
My plugins folder...
is 993 MB
has 718 files
and
has 3,136 files
;D
I'm just a really picky downloader. Otherwise, I fear that it's size may be out of control. :P
712 mb...(and i'm SUPER picky about what i download)
currently i'm at 1.05GB, but these days i don't just download everything i see, and i already have most of what i need ;)
Just a bit more than 2GB...
Well I think I'm a candidate for the smallest... Mine's 233 MB and has 950 files in 273 folders. I'm extremely picky but most of the things I want don't work on even the slightest slopes *cough stream kits cough*
My plugins folder is about 1gig as I have pretty much everything I need. Also I only download a file if I know im going to use it lots because my PC with 512mb of ram takes long enough to load already, even with the datpacker.
mine is 993MB... and keep rising everyday...... i like to make my own custom lots :thumbsup:
8.5 gigs maybe 9 now, but keep 8 drag and drop folders of under 1 gig and only use 1 at a time while playing :thumbsup:
Quote from: Indisguise on March 26, 2007, 05:44:55 AM
8.5 gigs maybe 9 now, but keep 8 drag and drop folders of under 1 gig and only use 1 at a time while playing :thumbsup:
:o Holy smokes!! Thats alot of plugins!
Mine is around 1.6 gigs. Recently dat-packed it works like a charm :satisfied:
8 gigs???!!! wow...it's tooo big i think!!! how do u manage those files???
Are you serious, Indisguise? 8.5 gigs of plug-ins :shocked2:? Wow...my computer would literally ()testing() if I had that much...
My plug-ins folder is 1.16 GB...but there's still some things that I need to unpack. I have a separate folder dedicated to the ZIP files I get for SC4, and according to how many zip files are there, I have downloaded 698 plug-ins as of 4:30 p.m. on 3/26/07. That's not counting the tools I have for it (DAT Packer, SC4 Tool, Region Census, etc.). I think I have basically all I need for this game, as well...
@Indisguise-Wow. How long does it take to load? :D
I have a drag 'n' drop folder that contains the MTP, for my mountainous cities. I should probably make a few more, so that I don't have the SMP grain elevator in my menus, when I'm playing my urban wasteland. ???
My Plugins folder is a big as a small pony...
Really, it's 739 MB, post SC4 Dat Packer (Thanks again, wouanagaine!)
After I had started the SC4 Dat Packer, my Plugins folder has a size of 1,10 GB.
810mb... So not that big ^^ and only 410mb in use. The others are saved in another folder to throw them into my plugin-folder when I need them :P
I've broken up my plugins into aprox 8 1 gig file folder trees (most broken up into regional types, eg North American, UK, French,German, Asian Fantasy AKA LOTR :thumbsup:etc)....I only use 1 at a time and maker the mayors name with the one I used in the particular city....most I ever had in my pligins folder at 1 time was 4.5 gigs and that took forever to load the game let alone a city and was the reason I broke my plugins up.
When I ran datpacker two days ago was 1.36 gb.....but have a few files (ok..all the Porkies w2w paris buildings) waiting to install.....after losing one hard drive (sob) with everything and then having to wipe another cause of a virus....have become very familier with the download process...problem is remember if I have/havn't got something....so in another section of the pc...have a sc4 folder that I have all my downloads in.....if it has an installer in it or the files to move to plugins.... when something is in the game...it goes into the folder.... that way, when not sure if I have something .....try to down load it into that folder first...if it says it already exists I cancel the download...if no prolblems I stop and change the download to a holding folder where it waits until I have a bunch built up and then install them all at once....... usually check at least every other day the LEX, PLEX, STEX and the Japanese sites......sheesh.
Long winded ain't I? ;D
That's quite a big plugin folder you have there, oldrogue. I'm curious to know how long it takes you to run the game.
I have roughly 2gb of plugins and all are in use and still have another 2+ gb of plugins that haven't been installed yet. Game still runs super fast and I'm not a picky dld'er, if I like something I dl it...if looks good in the game I keep it :thumbsup:, if it looks cruddy:thumbsdown:, it gets deleted.
5-6 gb with the DAT packer :P 10-15 gb without :P
700 MB and shrinking. I took out a lot of stuff -- especially parks, civic bldgs and other stuff that was cluttering up the menus; bldgs that looked great standing by themselves but just didn't look "right" in the cities; most of the custom farms (though I kept Jmyers, Simgoober and a couple of pmiller farms); skyscrapers (how many R$$$ and CO$$$ high rises does one really need anyway?) --and I'm still working on getting it trimmed down even more.
As of now my plugin folder is 1.3GB ::)
Thats is after Wouanagaine's magnificent programs have done their work. (Its saved over 5mins of loading time alone)
Havent been downloading much lately but I am sure that will change soon :D
Quote from: Yoman on March 28, 2007, 12:58:55 PM
5-6 gb with the DAT packer :P 10-15 gb without :P
10-15 GB??? That is INSANE!
Mine is about 800 Mb. I once had it at 1.5 Gb but decided it that was to much so it shrunk.
850 MB. I can get it smaller by using datpacker
... hummm.... its not the size of the plugins folder that matters.... Its how well you use them in the game.
at least thats what I keep telling myself
You just keep telling yourself that, Bourne.
Uncompressed, my plugins folder is 1.20 GB and after DATPacker it comes in at 1.08. Of course, both have had BSC Cleanitol run after every plugin installation binge to make sure its nice and clean.
After compression the game doesn't take long to load at all.
My plugin's folder currently sits at 789mb but its mainly nam, plop water/trees..civic utility seaport and rail lots/mods, with very little in the way of res comm or industrial lots yet, im still recovering from a hard drive failure :( My old plugin folder was in the region of 3 gig but with all this great new content can see it being some what larger that that :)
Mark
Mark, you and I are in the same boat....don't know how big my folder was before Mr Murphey's Law struck. &cry2.....
Ahhh well, Oh, and Thundercrack.....in answer to your question.....I'm doing a huge (81 large cities) region now.....it's not too bad getting the game to start, mabye 3 minutes....but getting into the individual cities gets longer and longer .... and this is with only a total pop of about 56,000..... I figure that if I started now....3 minutes to region shot, then depending on the city, another 3 to 5 minutes...... :o
Anyone have a used Cray that would fit in my living room &idea
Mine was at 1 gb until I started to clean it out. I reckon it will be that large again once I open a new set of BATs. What I am doing now though is making separate plug-in folders for each city or grouping my plug-ins by themes. For example, for my capital city of Lexington, I created a plug-in folder labelled Lexington and added the BATs that will be only be used for that city. This also helps create individualized cities without the same buildings re-appearing in every city.
For themes, for example, I have a plug-in folder labeled "coastal" for my cities that have waterfront. No need to have docks and seaports in your plug-ins when you are playing an interior land-locked city. Sure, it is an extra step moving these folders in and out of the plug-ins folder prior to opening the game but it beats having to have a slow game and a jam-packed menu bar all of the time!!
I use the Datapacker for all of the dependency files-props and textures, transportation BATS and mods, etc. This helps alot!
Quote from: oldrogue on April 04, 2007, 01:11:39 PM
Ahhh well, Oh, and Thundercrack.....in answer to your question.....I'm doing a huge (81 large cities) region now.....it's not too bad getting the game to start, mabye 3 minutes....but getting into the individual cities gets longer and longer .... and this is with only a total pop of about 56,000..... I figure that if I started now....3 minutes to region shot, then depending on the city, another 3 to 5 minutes...... :o
Well, that's not too bad, actually, especially for 81 large city tiles!
God, the lag in my region is horrible. I've got 160 large city tiles to fill, and I've only filled 24. So I've got a long way ahead of me...
As for my plugins folder. It's 1.92GB.
I have about 1.9 GB, Sadly, The Datpacker doesn't seem to work on my computer :(
(Checking...) About 3 gigs even. I must say though, at least half a gig of that I never use, never have used, or even know I have it.
Problem is, I'm just too lazy to delete it... :P
Loading times are okay. My laptop has a gigabyte of RAM and It takes about 10 minutes for SC4 to load, and after that,
not much trouble. :thumbsup:
By the way, is it even possible to run the game with 15 gigs of plugins?
Yes, but it would take days to load. :P
Mine's about 900 MB, but I probably need to clean some of it out. I know I definitely need to reorganize it as it's getting a bit messy. My only system of organization is I have folders with the author names, and I put all of the plugins in those respective folders. The Cleanitol and DatPacker have worked wonders on it though.
I think most of my plugins are from SimGoober... :P
I'm proud. ;D
My Plugins folder is 2GB, no thanks to BSC. :P
right now, around 700mb. but with all the things i see (in the SC4D LEX, mostly)... i'm guessing it could go up to 1-2gig. that's going to be harsh on my system, however. :'(
mine is somewhat 672mb.. yes I'm also a picky downloader. :P
mine is 1.21 GB, I'm not so picky about downloads :D
mine was almost THAT BIG a looong time ago when I started SC4 :D :D
I really have to sort mine out, I'm ashamed of it... :P
It is 2.01 GB with 3379 files... *sigh*
Only 75.8 mb ()sad(). But I have only been here a few days, and almost all of my downloads come from here.
Hey, Another Spartan!
having just cleaned out my hd, i'm down to 2828 files, 468 folders at 780 mb
or, if ya wanna prove microsofts math, 818,180,096 bytes at 1023 megs per kilo per byte
just shy of 3gb..... its not too bad on the loading time as i compressed it a total of three times into one big 1.2gb single dat file....
Mine used to be 3gb, but it is now 0... As it doesn't exist as I reformatted and haven't reinstalled sim city 4 yet &hlp
Quote from: M4346 on April 18, 2007, 02:47:18 PM
I really have to sort mine out, I'm ashamed of it... :P
It is 2.01 GB with 3379 files... *sigh*
I've had the same problem as you. My folder wasn't as big as yours, but it was so disorganized it was disgusting. I sat down for about three hours from 2:00 -- 5:00 AM one night and revamped the entire thing, now it's much more organized and growing every day! I'm up to about 980 MB after using the DatPacker.
26 files, 6 folder @ 861mb, yes i did run Dat-Packer recently ^__^, got 5 compressed files and 21 non compressed ones.
Used to have 4+gb but when swiching region from Vando to Krim i decided to throw out the majority, since they would'nt fit anyway.
Well, I just downloaded a bunch of stuff (including just about everything Somy produced :D), and haven't used the DatPacker on it yet, so right now, the main plug-in folder is at 1.09GB. I've got an additional 545MB in the PluginsDisabled folder (I'm using SC4StartupManager), so total, I've got 1.64GB altogether. A couple months ago it was only about 700MB--I've been going crazy since starting my MD. :D
-Alex
Well, I'm building my plugins folder from scratch now, so, it's rather small yet, a couple hundred megabytes, but, the one before that I still have it a a dvd, was, after packing it with SC4DatPacker, 2.9 gigabytes :P
3.3 GB, compressed with SC4Datpacker. I recently tried to load and play the game with the uncompressed files... don't know how I ever did it before! ::)
Mine is rather small. Right now i have 561 MB of files in my plugins folder yet. All files are uncompressed.
Mine is 1.43GB big with 5,420 files and 1,362 folders. It will probably gain another 10MB today.
I've been trying to trim mine down recently, but the fact that I just downloaded the entire CSK didn't help. ()sad()
Rather than 0gb mine is 975mb. It's building up.
~700 mb right now. I try to avoid going over 1 GB
when I download, I try to pick out only things I absolutely know I will use. If it doesnt get built, It gets deleted
As every good lego builder knows if you take out every piece you only think you may need out of the bin and put it by your side, all you end up with is a big disorganized mess on the table/floor
Quote from: Zaphod on May 19, 2007, 05:15:01 PM
~700 mb right now. I try to avoid going over 1 GB
when I download, I try to pick out only things I absolutely know I will use. If it doesnt get built, It gets deleted
As every good lego builder knows if you take out every piece you only think you may need out of the bin and put it by your side, all you end up with is a big disorganized mess on the table/floor
... And being that lego builder with the big mess around him, I can say with certainty that of my 1.28 GB I probably don't ever use a third of it more than once or twice...
I've downloaded about 4.5GB's worth of Plugin but i'm only using 2GB at the moment (only...)
I have many MANY copies of my plugin folder kept in safe place incase I screw something up... plenty of Hard Drive space [400GB] so no worries ()stsfd()
Mines only 31.5mb, all I have is Industry x4, NAM, a custom marina and a pedestrian bridge+toll
I need to download some more stuff!
Currently: 974MB
Including:
BSC: 477MB (inc. BSCProps: 280MB, BSCTextures: 44MB, CSX: 72MB, Farms: 14.3MB)
Buildings: 83MB
CSX: 44MB
Deadwoods: 33MB
FX: 19MB
Simgoober: 105MB
PEGPROD: 61MB
Rail: 21MB
Road: 14MB
Now I've officially passed the 1 gig mark. It's 1.19 GB after DatPacker. The three biggest sub-folders are...
BSC: 375 MB
NDEX: 208 MB
Simgoober: 175 MB
While most of the files aren't even being used in my cities, they will be used heavily once I start building the suburbs. (I'm a plop-freak when it comes to suburban areas of cities).
about 666mb :thumbsup:
however i'm sure in the dependencies section there are lots of repeats :thumbsdown:
Mine is now around 750mb
1.75 GB, uncompressed now. I blame it ENTIRELY on BSC! ;D
1.07GB with 3,494 files. :'(
Mine is a pathetically low 116MB. And I think it needs a cleanout, ive got loads of lots i never use, but not gonna say which ones for fear of upsetting any creators. Theyre good lots, but i just download on impulse and never use them.
I need the SC4 terraformer, not sure if its a plugin or not. Anyone gotta link for one?
well... i have my plugins everywhere in my computer, but not sure in total the size...
currently in my plugins folder a have 4.5 gigabytes of plugins... but most are repetitive ;D
HabLeUrG: Woahh, 4.5 GB of plugins....
I have 2,37 GB of plugins in 369 folders, and I have to make a complete clean-up (Uhh, I'm afraid of doing this!)
1.4 GB in 1,330 folders.
BSC - 292 MB
NDEX - 296 MB
SimGoober - 118 MB
And I used to think mine was huge... 714mb in 2294 files.
264mb BSC (I blame the locked lots on ST >.>)
38mb NDEX (haven't really gone through all their stuff yet though, so likely to raise)
170mb Simgoober
I have 2.65GB in my plugin folder.
But I never use all at the same time, even if the datpacker very changed the game play.
Up to 2.36 GB, uncompressed.
Well, I achieved last week the 2.0Gb threshold.....
2.6gb before i trimmed out a few plops (rarely plop) and 2.61 after i deleted some plops and added some more lots. 7402 files in 1579 folders. Dat packer managed to trim this down to 2.55gb, 94 files in 2 folders (did not pack zzz or mml folders). Total plugin in count though if installed would push close to 5-6gb or more unpacked. Main problem is getting japanese lots remade for english.. any any other lots language into english.
Game load 2-3 minutes city load in around a minute so far. Would be a lot faster if i was on my other comp :( ATA 300 drive and a faster proc
Currently 1.86 gb &mmm . Thank goodness I upgraded to 2 gigs of ram otherwise it would take me 10 minutes to load the game :P .
mine is 511 MB (536 584 109 byte) containing 282 folders... + 50Mb in the plugins folder in the games/sc4deluxe/plugins folder.
I don't want to have it much larger than it already is, I have like 3 or 4 different plugins folders (backups) on different computers and on a backup drive... I think I have found a good mix now of mods and files... oh and btw, dependancies in my plugins folder only take up 10 mb or so :P
take care,
Phew it has grown a lot since the last time i post here. Right now i have 1.22 GB of files in my Plugins fiolder.
In total: 4329 files in 618 folders.
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Allright theres mine and with a total of 810 folders
with total amount of 4,080 files... Some of its DatPacked..
Now that i have a new machine that can handle it most of
its not packed....
4.32 gig, thats just the ones i'm currently using, lol. I plan on dat packing them someday, but I just don't know when. lol
mine always seems low even though i'm always downlaoding... 826mb
Don't worry, flame1396---826MB becomes 2 GB in no time, especially with the great stuff on the LEX!
I need to update some after downloading a lot of the CAM lots:
1.64GB in 2792 files.
Mine is a sad 282MB, and there is so much more i wish i can download. But I have to deal with a computer that only has about 1.5GB left in the C drive... :'(
1.44 gb
I've been cramming stuff on it for months. I've got a great collection for my new region.
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2.92 GB, 9439 Files, 1688 Folder, I guess it's time to clean that thing up a bit.... (Or get some more RAM ;D)
All,
I am so jealous. I have been going crazy trying to download lots and I keep getting error from the "Official Site" I have tried everything over the past 3 days. I would really appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction to creating a plugin with just one item in it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
JML322
JML322,
Hi and welcome to devotions i belive what you are looking for is this The DatPacker (http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=26)....
This will take your plugins folder and all of your subfolders that are in the
PLugin folder and it will make those subfolders into dats, as long as you have all
your files into folders and no dats or lotfiles laying around...
as it will make the game run alot faster for you and allow you to DL more goodies...
any all questions you can ask Here in the support thread for DatPacker (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=204.0) - pat
JML, did you say you were downloading from the official site. Don't. The lots on there are often untested, and also often ripoffs of stuff done here and ST etc.
My plugins around a Gig packed, but I see it getting bigger when I start preparing for CAM.
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Only 30 well seperated and organized files. Clean as a whistle. 2.31GB. Seems like I have everything.... at least everything that has been tested and from a reputable source (sometimes I take chances....).
My computer has very little trouble keeping up (2GB Dual Channel DDR2 872MHz - SATA RAID 0 Stripe HDD's). I should be able to double it before I start having problems.
I've also run these plugins in a region with 3.5 million sims and still no problems.... Just CAMed up last night (took ages), however it only added 0.4GB.
Notice as well, I have every prop available (PROPS Complete). I never have a missing dependancy.
I dont even wanna know how bad my plugins are bulgin after DL'ing SNM and CAM stuff lol and to mention a few other goodies i've found.... but Beskh you still are sitting at 2g after dat packin? dannnnng lol
btw man i really need some time off line lol 1100th post here lol
Right now, about 4.1 gigabytes. It's just about impossible to find anything in there anymore, no organization whatsoever.
Needle in a haystack just doesn't give it justice. How about needle in a cornfield? ::)
1.76 gigs, it jumped up 700MB cause of all the CAM Lots and stuff I threw in after it came out. Thank God for datpacker :)
I just checked tonight and was kinda surprised, but also not at the same time.
Currently standing at 4.5G exactly with the compressed folder at 4.39G
I do use alot of stuff in my cities, and to be honest have totally lost track of everything I have, just no point anymore $%Grinno$%
Empty right now.
Just reinstalled for what must be the 10th time in the past 4 or 5 years of actually playing. So its to LEX I go and a full download of pretty much everything I can. Along with a donation at some stage in the coming days as my thankyou :)
I'm now pushing 2.83 GB. I cleaned up a bit last night and didn't actually delete anything...I think I have a downloading problem! :D
Cheers,
Kevin
Hiiiiii Im pat and im addicted to SimCity 4 and downloading problem as well, ooooh wait this
aint the thread to admit that is it? Oh well anyways im at over 5k and 9 files, eating at
at total of 1.62 gb and all of this is not packed...
My old plugins folder:
2.23GB
8957 files, 1470 folders
My new plugins folder:
1.38GB
3707 files, 718 folders
How about them apples? :P
Almost like apples and oranges? Heh!
Up to 2.45GB now from 2.3. MAN! :thumbsdown:
Well, SC4 runs so much faster ever since I got rid of the "dead wood" from my plugins folder. Still have a couple of missing files which I'm trying to track down, it's proving difficult.
I know those pains SA its hard but i think i tammed my beast for now lol
I just went ahead and dowloaded every prop available &idea. I think (now this includes the new cam packs) it's around 1.1GB by itself &hlp.
Now by doing that, I've completely lost track of which ones are being used or not. :-\
And the worst thing about it is that I still get the occasional brown box!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o
:angrymore:
I am thinking of refreshing like you have, but.... I have too much at stake in my current region. $%#Ninj2
I went nusto with the smilies today &prt. Don't use em too much, but at least you know my feelings on the subject...
/&HiPP/% its alll good besk, its a funnie thing CAM lol
I laughed only when I first heard about it Pat...
NOW I AM FOCUSED! :thumbsup:
Quote from: patfirefghtr on August 19, 2007, 07:40:04 PM
/&HiPP/% its alll good besk, its a funnie thing CAM lol
Cam easily trippled my plugins folder, went from 500 megs to 1.53 gigs, yikes. Not fun loading my large city tiles with all low density residential....
Quote from: northjon79 on August 18, 2007, 09:44:39 AM
Empty right now.
Just reinstalled for what must be the 10th time in the past 4 or 5 years of actually playing. So its to LEX I go and a full download of pretty much everything I can. Along with a donation at some stage in the coming days as my thankyou :)
Update. Am at 506mb right now.
Got 2gb of things to add to it at the moment, with alot more items on my download list here and saved in a links document for ST and SimPeg.
Going to be a long day.
Currently I have at least 89 MB in my Plug-In Files. That is 28 Folders. That to me is Alot:D.
Your Friend;
Mayor Of Steven's Point & Maxiston
(Proud To Be Cities Of Sim Nation!)
834 MB, surprisingly.
I like to trim my Plugins a lot. If there's a file I don't need--delete. See ya, kid. I like staying nice and organized.
One year ago, I had a plugins folder of 3.5 gb's (a lot of crap too)
Cleaned it out, and have been hovering around the 1-1.5 gb mark ever since.
O love the cleanitol, as well as a program called doublekiller - useful for those non-cleanitol files of duplicates.
In May, I pretty much backed up and went through each file individually, asking myself "did I ever really use this?" My new folder owns, but I still can't find that damn Modern Concrete walls texture!!! :bomb:
Total... 3.85 Gb, but I often play with approximatey 1.5 Gb DatPacked!
If not my computer would not like me. $%Grinno$%
mines... let me check... 1.57 GB and thats probably 90% CAM
the rest is PEG productions, and about 50 rail, elrail, and subway stations each, then 4 sets of walls and Mass Transit Version 3.??? the new one
PLugin : 2,38 Go / 6119 files / 1443 folder ! :-[ :'(
The first lauch is long (5 min), for my biggest city (700000 inhabitants and 650000 service worker (5 - 10 mn) and i have 1,5go RAM corsair XMS ! ??? :thumbsdown: But i'm happy when i see that i'm not alone lol :D May the force be with you.
Lwito
i have half a gigabyte of plugins, plus a quarter of a gigabyte for my cities.
In the my documents/plugins folder:1.85gig 3,423 files 890 folders
In the sc4/not using now folder:486 megs 2,198 files 502 folders (still need to try startup manager)
Of course, I back all files to another partiton when I install new stuff so that drive is 4.44 gigs 15,122 files 3,455 folders
And all this on a xp2500+ with 1.5 gigs ram , so It is painful sometimes!
My plugins folder is 3 GB now ()sad() But I use the Start-Up Manager so it varies. :) Anything from between 100MB (for tree planting and terraforming) to 3 GB. ::) ()stsfd() ;D
I LOVE Start-Up Manager (SUM)!
I have roughly 2.1gb in my plugins folder and it has a little bit of everything mixed in.
Well, I finally added the 300+ MB of zipped material that had been sitting on my HD since about the time they started releasing lots for the CAM. Of course, that 300 MB is the size of the collective zip files themselves, and doesn't include the CAM stuff at all, so as for how much stuff I added to my plugins folder today, I have no idea. I do know, however, that I now have a very satisfying collection of industrial buildings and am up to date with all dependencies that I need. :thumbsup:
My Plugins folder now has 299 files in 72 folders for a total of 1.55 GB of stuff (chump change compared to other people). BSC and NDEX together make up almost exactly one-third of that bulk.
Quote from: XiahouDun on July 06, 2007, 09:55:21 PM
I need to update some after downloading a lot of the CAM lots:
1.64GB in 2792 files.
Exactly 2 GB datpacked... not sure where the 300mb came from :D
some of you, i have to say, are extremely crazy. my plugins folder has been around for over 2 years. i always get the new updates though. it is currently a WHOPPING 120 megs lololol and i find the game very good with theses few files (around 100)
at the moment, it is 3.36 GB big with 5519 files and 1706 folders
700 mb at the moment, after a serious clean-up. I got a little more picky about my dl`s than before.
Btw, the Startup-Manager is GREAT! :thumbsup:
Quote from: fernby on October 15, 2007, 07:52:00 PM
sorry, i must have missed it, but what is Start-Up manager?? ()what()
Its a program by JeanLucPicard2 to manage your plugins to separate cities within your region.
You can get it here: http://kurier.simcityplaza.de/details.php?file=311
My plugins folder is 1.43 GB, but that's when it's datpacked (all of my plugins are datpacked except for the NAM and some modifications). So it's big, but not insanely big. I believe most of my stuff is either NDEX or SimGoober's.
-- John
1.25 GB. I gotta clean it up, half the stuff creates brown boxes :'(
74.2 MB. :satisfied:
I hope that's not all your stuff.... ;D
572 MB
with
2,151 files, and 318 folders
Mine used to be 3gb but it got to slow so now I've cut it down to 700mb (ut its increasing)
I've still got 5gb of custom content on my computer overall though but about 200mb are duplicates :P
Richard
2.67GB and that's just after I've re-downloaded everything I wanted (new laptop). It took forever installing it all (1000+ installers!!!)
Fred
Okay, a little update.
My plugins folder is now exactly 2GB, with 4852 files and 938 folders.
SC4 is still loading quite quickly, though. (got a AMD64 3200+... I might try and get my friend's AMD64 3800+ when he upgrades :P)
What video card do you have, SA?
Hi folks! I just arrived 2.1GB of plugins :)
I've to say that with 2GB of ram, my centrino loades it flwlessly :)
WoW its been awhile since I posted about my plugin information well here we go what I'm at to date.....
2.69 GB (2,889,990,144 bytes)
6,871 files and 1,178 folders
I do have a mixx of packed and not packed in there, but still dang i didn't even think I had that much lol
hmmm it seems i got just a little bit more then you Fred lol...
Last week, I had to recover my laptop due to a random virus, returning it to its factory settings and wiping out everything extra. :'( Lately, my main project has been to redownload most everything that was in my Plugins folder and organize it better (previously I had just been tossing everything I got in there, now I place lots, mods, and dependencies in separate folders). Right now, I have regained 1.67 Mb of it all with 2,603 files in 629 folders. I'm not sure how much I previously had.
QuoteWhat video card do you have, SA?
I have an ATI X1650 Pro. Unfortunately due to game limitations (ie. the game doesn't like the drivers), it's laggy when you get up close and personal.
Mine is now 3.54GB, 10700 files in 2232 folders... &mmm
It's too big for my PC to handle, so I have to get a new one.... I hate this game $%Grinno$%
Right now, I'm at 1.85 GB with 2,974 files in 532 folders. So it seems I have quite a bit of catching up to do.
As at present mine stands at 3.09GB with 8587 files in 1473 folders.
Thats compressed and not. It was very organised but now $%Grinno$%.
Load time to region view up to 7 mins ()sad(). Old pc &mmm
:satisfied:
TTC
Mine hit exactly 2GB today :P. I should clean it up a bit
Mine is 4.5 but 1.97 using SC4DatPacker
I rebuilt my complete plugins folder lately. I'm now stuck with about 1,2Gig on plugins. That is: only the files that are usefull. Deleted every text, html or imagefile. But that should be obvious, isn't it?
Now I feel I have everything I need. Which, of course, will appear to be untrue in the future.
I thought of using the Startup Manager to make different selections for different cities, but I'm just too lazy to figure it out and put everything in a neat order.
Of course I don't need 200Mb of harbour-related plugins in all my cities, but I still leave them there.
Of these 1,2Gig the dependencies-folder is about 400Mb....
Do you think putting another Gig of memory into my machine will speed it up?
Or is a quicker graphics card more effective? Mine now had 256Mb (type don't know now).
I think that more RAM always helps. DatPacking has certainly helped me immensely with loading times. For any upgrade, I'd say find the weakest link in your system. Could be RAM, hard drive speed, cd-rom speed (unless you're using the crack version), graphics card... or it could be a bloated operating system eating away at the resources you already have.
Mine is 1.13GB o.O quite large when you consider:
D DRIVE- 16.8GB (used 12.7GB)
C DRIVE- 29.3GB (used 28.7GB- Yeah I need to uninstall some programs)
All my info is on DDrive... where all the SC4 plugins are ...
The woes of using SC4 on a laptop ::)
EDIT: I just installed a program *cough* FS2002 *cough* which took up more space than SC4 did, and now my C Drive is more healthy:
C DRIVE- 29.3GB (used 27.0GB)
Anyway back to topic, I should delete some pointless plugins that ive installed, some that don't work etc. to make my menus less cluttered and also to save space!
I've just arrived at 3GB....
Mine is now 2.04 GB big, 47 files (with DatPacker)
and 2.33 GB, 6951 files and 1354 folders (without DatPacker).
1.5GB using Dat packer... I cleaned it up not too long ago from about 2.3GB, so it shedded a load... mostly Landmarks and Parks that I don't use/need.
Mine just hit 2.11 gigs yesterday. And the loading times still are not that bad. ;D
My plugins folder is currently 5.31GB, and I use DAT Packer.
It would seem my folder is positively obese...... ()borg()
Then again I do use a lot of small lots and things that people have forgotten about, helps me create Atlantis. I intend to upgrade my RAM from 1G to 3G, that should hopefully help load time.
That's what I intend to do.
Will you tell us if it worked?
My folder is now 2.46 GB, but that's before it's DatPacked. I just installed a lot of prop packs from here, so I haven't had the chance to run DatPacker.
If I get any money for Christmas I'm considering upgrading the RAM from 1 gig to either 1.5 or 2 gigs. I'd like to do it myself, but I have no idea how to install hardware in a laptop, let alone opening it up.
Right at this moment ....3.18 gb....with dat packer and with about 10 or 15 new things waiting to be installed! Sheesh.....only reason my machine still runs is the Datpacker....otherwise.....don't even want to think about otherwise :'(
I re-organized my plugin-folder, but now I have 3.3 GB in it and nothing is useless...And there are many things still absent....
My plugin folder is 271 folders and 860 files:D. I tell u that is big :D.
Your Friend;
Mayor Of Steven's Point & Maxiston
(Proud To Be Cities Of Sim Nation!)
I have 650mb in my plug-ins folder. Almost all of kevdan25 and SG's buildings I have downloaded. And I am the same as Khiyana, I use every bit of it. The Variety and different plugins is what makes SimCity great IMO...
I am guessing its around 1.5 Gig, just because i have dl'ed almost all the LEX packs and all the CAM stuff but its not DAT packed yet LOL and some of it isnt complied with it yet... NOPE its well over 2 Gig unpacked without many stations and things
Joe
Eeeek I just checked and its 3.14gig with 9,403 files in 1,578 unpacked.
need a cuppa to recover from that piece of info :D
:satisfied:
TTC
Just hit 2.5GB unpacked. There's a lot that can be cleaned up, soon as I get around to it. But I'm still waiting for more.
This is fun......do you realize how many of us (me first) need to go thru and "clean up" the plugins!!! Only trouble with that, when I think of it, I always seem to think of something in the game that I'd rather do first....
As a side thought, if we could start the game and open a city in less than a minute......how many of us would double or triple the time playing ;D
Ah well, at least it keeps us off the streets and ..... no, not out of trouble...
Duane
My plugin folder is about 2.3 GB, has 2635 files / 474 folders in it. I just use the directory the installer suggests. It's totally disorganized, but it may change during this christmas break. The only thing that I do sort of organize is putting all sorts of Dependencies into on folder, conviently named "Dependencies". That's it.
Just out of curiosity, how much does installing the CAM (with the basic CAMeLOT sets) add to your plugins?
Off the top of my head can't tell you how much...I can tell you that it didn't add an iota of loading time to my system, with the Dat Packer.
Oh well. I guess I'll find out in a week. :D
My CAM folder is only about 20MB, but I think that pretty much only includes the basic lots, and of course NONE of the dependencies. Really, it's the dependencies that get you.
My largest subfolder, which doesn't seem so shocking, is BSC, which weighs in at 1.24GB (over 800MB of which is in the BSC Props subfolder). The 2nd largest is NDEX, in at 297MB. And third is SimGoober, at a measily 250MB.
bwatterud - If you choose to download all of the available lots for CAM, and all the dependencies, you're looking at roughly 3GB of downloads, translating into at least 2GB of PlugIns added. Minus of course whatever dependencies you already have, and any lots that are replaced. Once you run the Cleanitol files and then get rid of the ploppables you can slim that down considerably though.
My plugins today total 2.96GB
From this CAM is 1.15GB
I pulled out all the Mega Packs for CAM since they were making my BSC folder to fat.
At this time I would say I have at least 90% of all the CAM downloads.
The only file that does not like to be data packed is GR_GarageBlock. For some reason the building prop vanishes.
So I keep it in its own lonely little file and it works fine that way.
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pic is worth 3 gigs of words lol
LOL....Pat you have certainly upstages all of us on this.....
I'd congradulate you on your brilliente idea, but I can't spell briliiant ...so maybe your idea is just stunning and not brilliant. :thumbsup:
nice icon there Pat... LOL
Mines somewhere in the region of under 5 gig LOL
Joe
I had 1.22GB this morning, and I decided to get some more residentials and commercials, and now its 1.24GB :)
Of course, my folder is pretty messy. If you are wondering why it is so large, I downloaded HEAPS AND HEAPS AND HEAPS AND HEAPS of stuff- like 6 pages worth of dependencies, when I got the CAM and wanted ALL of their recommended custom content :-\
I am an obsessive downloader, if I see something I like, I have to have it.
But the good thing is, now that I have *most* of these MEGA packs downloaded, dependencies aren't as big an issue. I prefer to download dependencies from SC4Devotion, purely because of this nifty little function that tells me if I already have it- the STEX doesn't do that. I mainly use the STEX for little misc. stuff that would be hard to find on the LEX. :thumbsup:
Yup.
LEX content is much better quality; Cleanitol, always a readme and some pictures. Installing is simple and you alway know what a file represents. I have downloaded much more than I use.
I put everything in an archive folder and put just a selection of it into my pluginsfolder. And without a picture I will surely not know what the file represents...
But the search function of the STEX is much better!
2.77GB now, after clearing out a lot of recent downloads. Trying to figure out why my game is crashing so much all of a sudden.
well i thought i had 4.57 gig.. but i had left the Pluggins_Compressed folder in with my unpacked stuff LOL.
SO its only 2.33Gig unpacked
^Hehe.
After yet another download rush my plugin file is now 3.19 GB with 9.472 files and 1.305 subfolders. %wrd
I spent yesterday redoing mine (again) and went from 3.25 gb down to 1.95 gb.....it just gets so very unwieldy scrolling thru a gazillion things to get to the one building I want.....sigh...life is sooooo tough ::)
Everyone here seem to have ENORMOUS plugin-folders, mine is only 186 mb... :-[
I have 7 gigs...went down from 8. Not much to compress eh?:P
7 gigs... whoa. Mine's just hit 3GB. But I seriously need to clean to clear out some landmarks.
mines tiny... how the hell u get 7 gig, or even 3. Its crazy
mines only 1.8 gig i think
Oh, I've been known to go on a downloading binge every now and then. TopSecret missions and all. I have 1400 zip files in my download folder.
1.95GB right at the moment, only partially compressed. Fairly manageable size. I tend to delete the "Plop" versions.
-Alex (Tarkus)
Oh, just 1.00 GB of plugins, but it's not DatPacked and I haven't removed unnecesseary things either. ;D
I know for a fact my plugins folder is sitting well over the 3g mark now lol.... and Duane Im sorry I don't have any pics at this time now as Im sitting at my moms house now siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.....
My folder is currently 2.20 GB. That doesn't include the mods I have in the Maxis/SimCity 4/Plugins folder.
-- John
Mine has swelled from about 2.03gb to 2.56bg in the past three months or so...and still growing :P
HELP! %confuso
Maybe just everyone would be so kind to stop Batting and Lotting? My HD is flowing over!
:D :D :D
FrankU-----while I definatey appreciate your sentiment.....please don't ask them to do that... :D....... Seriously... I wonder how big these folders are going to be a year from now....there is soooooo much good stuff out there and more comming in from around the world everyday..... kind of scary ain't it.
As a related note, I do wonder how we (SC4) fanatics will cope as the bat'ers and lot'ers keep getting more and more stuff available? I'm seriously thinking of getting a newer and more powerful computer.... JUST FOR SC...that's rediculous... sort of..... and I have at least half of my download stored outside the game for now...just cause it takes so long to 1] load and 2] scroll thru 7 gazillion items to get a certain dohicky I'm thinking of....yet one of the first things I do upon surfing the net each day is to go LEX, PLEX, STEX ing for "anything new and exciting" sigh.
Oh well, I think that's as close to a "rant" as I can get at my age ::)....
and reminds me...havn't been to the Plex today....
later....
My plugins folder is now 714MB and that is compacted using the data packer, before that I don't recall how much it held but it seems the compacter doesn't compact too much, just puts everything into individual one off files so I was probably close to about 800 to 850 before compacting. I need to wash out my plugin folders and only put back in the stuff that I really use which would probably drop me down to about half that size or maybe even a quarter the total size it is now.
I dare say, I have the largest plugin folder size! I mean, sure, it takes two hours to load a tile and I can't even open iTunes anymore, but I think my number takes all. Prepare to be amazed and shocked when I tell you that I have . . . ALMOST 16 GIGS!!! Yeah, I DL almost everything I see. :P
NO WAY!!! Hollllly COW Leo!!! I have to see a screenie of your folder, My mind is totaly blown away at that.....
OMG!!! Thats huge! Your menus must be endless!
My folder is only 3.08gb
Quote from: TopCliff on February 05, 2008, 05:51:15 PMALMOST 16 GIGS!!! Yeah, I DL almost everything I see. :P
Everything good quality? Or just everything no matter the quality?
16gb?!? :o My goodness that's a lot of plugins. I'm not to surprised that it takes a couple of hours ??? to load tiles...that's gotta drive ya nuts. I don't think mine will ever get that big, at least I hope not....but I have been known be absent-minded at times :D
Wow! I've read through the thread and am amazed at how many and also how few files people have. Since 2003 and having reorganised and cleaned out my plugins several times, I have 4.71GB with 23.251 files and 4.636 folders (as of today) in the plugins folder. While there are 276mb with 1.752 files and 202 folders in the Maxis plugins. This is a major reason it takes about 10 minutes to load the friggin' game and can be difficult to back up ALL of the files to an external drive when changing computers. I don't Datpack anything and I LOVE the Startup Manager for managing files and/or testing BATs/lots in each city.
some would say that Leo is a fibber :p
but yeah... thats ABSOLUTELY MAHOOOSIVE
Joe
Before I found out about this thread I thought I had a problem with my 1Gig of Plugins. Now I know I am just a beginner.
But what to do with a loading time of two hours?
You start up your computer, load SC4, go out to the supermarket, do the shopping, drive back home, cook dinner, eat it, watch the TV news, drink a cup of coffee with whomever you share your home with, go to your computer and see if your citytile is on the screen?
This takes some planning!
And in the meantime: we all know that the most wanted, but stupidly forgotten, item in the game is the possibility to add new menus.
Already now I tend to forget what is in my plugins......And if not...where a certain item is.
You can rearrange any of your menus using Reader. All you have to do is change the Item Orders.
You could go through each and every landmark lot, and number them all in the order you want to see them, or just create a range, say x01 through x0A, and categorize them accordingly, so that the ones you use most appear at the top of the list.
When playing with a new landmark, it almost always gets lost in the menu.
To answer all questions:
Yes, I'll get a pic soon.
Yes, my menues are extremely long (3,014 icons in the Landmarks menu).
I usually grab a bite to eat while I wait for it to load. Maybe watch a movie.
I only DL high quality stuff. I guess that says there is a lot of high quality stuff going around.
Lastly, I'm a very patient person. I can handle the wait. But, I am trying to clean it up a little. :P
your value of quality must be skewed, cause i dl stuff i think is of mediocre quality, and mines only 2 gig :p
xxdita...wow...I never new that about reader.....hmmm...I have the tool but have never cracked it open &mmm fear of screwing something up I guess....but will try to do that ......wonderful and thanks
Leo......ahhhh Leo..... do you realize that in 1990 it would have taken a rather large IBM mainframe to hold your plugins folder :D
It's a good thing you are a patient person.....sheesh
Quote from: oldrogue on February 09, 2008, 09:42:07 AM
Leo......ahhhh Leo..... do you realize that in 1990 it would have taken a rather large IBM mainframe to hold your plugins folder :D
It's a good thing you are a patient person.....sheesh
Yes, and to think, all lof that's crammed onto an old 2001 Dell Inspiron 1100. I recently checked how much space I have left for say, more DLs, and this is what it said: 47 megabytes. I guess it's time to get rid of some other programs! Hm, should I get rid of Microsoft Office 2003 or LegoLand the Game first? :P
If you think about it, there's a lot of high quality stuff out there. There's everything on the LEX here, everything at PEGs site, and some really awesome stuff on ST if you really want to look for it. Not to mention, the Japanese sites. Then, you've got NOB, SOMY, KS, and APTX, with all good stuff, and even more with a lot of decent stuff, and some good stuff. You've really got to think about downloading in terms of "am I actually going to use this," if you want to keep any hope of keeping your loading times down.
After much refining (I'm not done yet, but it's close to final before I start playing again), my base plugins folder is 1.5 gigs. About 800 mb of that falls into the "mods" category (NAM, CAM (all of the CAMeLOTS are in there, which is probably why it's so big), terrain mod, tree controller, and some miscellaneous visual mods). About 400 mb are dependencies (trust me, if Cleanitol worked on macs, I'd run it (and datpacker, for that matter)). The other, about 300 mb are lots that I figure will be used in most every city (RTMT, some civic lots, highway walls, stuff like that).
I also have 900 mb of drag'n'drop folders, with stuff that wouldn't be in every city, ranging in size from 8 mb to 300 mb. So if I wanted to build a large tile with a small town in one corner, and suburbia leading up to a skyscraper jungle on the coast, and also a military base and an airport, my plugins folder would be 2.4 gigs.
EDIT: Sounds like it's time for someone to get an external hard drive. :D
Oldrogue, the trick when modding any file is to Open it in Reader, then in Windows Explorer make a copy of the file, keeping it out of your plugins (creating a safe backup copy), then saving your changes. If you have managed to just completely mess things up, just delete your file, and revert to the original. A lot of the junk files uploaded to other sites can be fixed, with a little know-how.
Back on topic: now 3.4GB.
I have 1.86GB worth of plugins in my Plugins Compressed folder. And around 2gb of uncompressed plugins in my backup plugins folder. When I load the game it usually takes 1 or 2 minutes. My computer is an old one, 2.4 ghz cpu, 512MB Ram, 128mb integrated video card.
TopCliff: no way...... $%Grinno$%
@ SimRabbit: Yeah way. I'll get a pic as soon as I can. Plus, I'd feel good: easily 800 mb of that is your great work, so yeah.
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Update Pic on my stuff lol.... Naw I didnt gain much more not as much as Leo :o
mine is around 2.16 GB.
1.02 gigs (just broke the 1 git the other day). I try to limit myself in what I download which as slowed the upward trajectory significantly. I basically don't download commercial skyscrappers anymore because I already have so many but even still the folder just keeps growing. Still seeing what you folks are reporting makes me feel better.
After another download rush (i found the uploader for most NDEX-works at the STEX), and after finally using datpacker, i now have 2.98 GB plugins (194 files, 29 folders).
I don't go scanreading through all exchanges, downloading anything that I find, but I do download everything I can find from a specific author/team, if the content created by that person/team really pleases me. I do go searching for specific content (fire stations, police hqs, hospitals, metro stations, ...) when I do need them for a city, but then I keep it in my plugins for(almost)ever.
If there is a installer included, I use the paths it suggests, except for when the works came from an author I don't have very much from, then I dump the files in Plugins/Other Creators/CreatorName/CreationName. (eg. I have Plugins/Simgoober, but also Plugins/Other Creators/Haarlemmergold). Or when the work is a specific download I need (mostly civic/utilities) I dump the file in Plugins/Civic/Utility/
(eg. Plugins/Civic/Fire/HiroshimaWF/).
This system is highly confusing, and I wouldn't suggest anyone to use it. I'm sick of it myself.
EDIT: Here's a picture showing half of my Landmark-menu. (these are highrise/medrise plopable R and C)
I tend to get rid of Landmark versions, but keep functional plopables.
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One building I left out is the Velcasoma Building (that huge Japanese BAT)
That pictures doesn't show all plopable shops, retail stores (SGs Plop-a-Shop), industrials, ... I have in my landmarks menu.
And still, strange enough, the landmark menu loads in the same time the vanilla menu did... Datpacker, maybe?
QuoteHere's a picture showing half of my Landmark-menu.
I wish I could show a pic of my landmark menu, but it would take up way more than a single large tile. $%Grinno$% I could care less about growables, because I plop everything. Time-consuming, but it's worth it. :)
Anyway, my plugins folder just hit 5 gigabytes. Yay. ::) I think it's pretty safe to say I have a good selection of buildings. :D
My Plugin folder is 2.81 GB, 5621 Files in 27 folders, I got so fed up of trying to keep track of where everything was I shifted everything into folders based on the letters of the alphabet, so 26 folders plus one for everything that starts with a number :)
Quote from: bwatterud on February 09, 2008, 09:51:45 AM
EDIT: Sounds like it's time for someone to get an external hard drive. :D
It's time for all of you to get an external drive if you don't already have one! Make backups! Please!
Too often we read horrible stories of people losing all their work, just because the forgot to make backups! I can't hear these stories anymore! :'(
So please, do yourself a favour: make backups!
It's like what they say about busstops in our game here: if you think you have enough backups, then make some more!
As of last night's dl'ing binge here from the LEX, my plugins just jumped from 2.53gb to 2.75gb and I still haven't installed everything I dl'd last night yet :P I've gotten the bug for Euro style res and com, grabbing as many park lots I can get my hands on [really nice way to pretty-up my cities ;)] As for backing everything up, well, I have a 250gb HD [with 196gb of free space left yet], but instead of buying another HD, I just simply burn all my important files onto CD/DVD in case a major meltdown strikes my new pc, I'm covered and don't lose anything except the time to re-install everything.
I'm one of those that lost everything....sigh... actually the SC4 wasn't the worst of what was lost.....it's all replaceable....except for some of the prettiest towns.....got an external HD of 300GB and although it takes awhile backup to that when I can.... so I avidly agree with FrankU and his wonderful advice
Since I'm a college student short on cash often, I just store all my plugins and regions on my 80-gig iPod Classic. While it does play 1,000 of my favorite songs and movies, it does double nicely as an external HD. Over the past two months, I've had to perform system recovery on my laptop a dozen times to deal with pesky viruses that have wreaked havoc on my hard drive, so it's been a lifesaver for me.
Mine is exactly 1.42 GB right now. But the folder is currently quite unorganized, i tried to keep things in order, but after a while i just unzipped the files into the plugins folder again instead creating a subfolder... ::) :D
Download sprees are fun. My plugins is now just under 4GB unpacked.
I agree.
My plugins is now 874MB but the folders where I store all the downloaded plugins is 1.67GB and that's with all the plugins/data being compressed in zip files so obviously I must not have reinstalled all the plugins the last time I tried to do a total reinstall of the plugins to get them organized. Wow 4GB, I cant imagine even finding that many plugins that I'd want to install.
Finding plugins you want to install is not the problem!
The problem is: what plugins are you NOT going to install despite your wish to do so. :satisfied:
My plugin file made about 3.45 GB, Of which 1 GB are NDEX and BSC. What is tiresome it is that game puts 10 min to charge. $%Grinno$%
Earth quake, you need DatPacker!!!
Just reached 4.4GB. I'm on a mission... $%#Ninj2
Heh, I got a new laptop. Now, let's see...
With 2.26GB... it takes just 15 seconds for SC4 to load.
30 seconds getting into a large tile.
Previously, it took 3 minutes to get in SC4, 5 to get into a city tile. Nice, eh?
[and that's while I've got MSN, Firefox, everything running]
Oh yeah, and my plugins folder is on another hard drive. Thank you, UserDir command line!
Hey Shadow Assassin!
What specs does this fabulous machine have?
Is it the graphics card, the memory or the CPU speed that does the trick?
Well, this machine's running:
A Core 2 Duo T9300 (one of the new 45nm ones, not yet available in other laptops)... specc'd at 2.5Ghz... damn, this thing is fast ;)
2GB of RAM
nVidia GeForce 9500M GS
200GB hard drive
Includes Vista Ultimate
I've had no problems whatsoever with Vista. Battery life's a little low (2.5hr), after all, this is the world's first 15.4" real gaming machine.
Expensive, probably?
Well, I got it for A$1499.
So that's a € 1000,--. Yes. Quite. Thanks. I'll wait a little while. :(
That is cheap here, by the way. ;)
Average prices for laptops are usually around the 1600-1900 mark.
Unpacked I have 7500 files taking 3.4GB of space. Loading time is less than a minute into region view another minute into city view with the help of DAT packer :)
I keep everything neatly organised and recently switched all possible lots from growable over to plopable, to ease on the menus. I try to keep it in order, so now every new plugin goes into trial period. If I like it, it stays. if I don't I either modify it with LE or the reader or just remove it.
Yep, I also have a subfolder called Testplugins.
Everytime I think of starting DatPacker I remember that I wanted to put some files in or out of the plugins, so I still use them all unpacked.
Maybe it takes loading time, but I feel I have no instability problems. Lucky me? With more than 1,2GB of plugins...
I don't use DATPacker. Never needed it. $%Grinno$%
Currently mine stands at 3.44gig
loading time to region view is 5min 25sec. it takes another 7 mins to open a large tile.
I think I need more memo... Tea :D
:satisfied:
TTC
Mine is back up to 2.76gb again after cleaning house and getting rid of the stuff I wasn't using and getting it back down to less than 2.5gb.....Still have more house cleaning and streamlining to do yet though.
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LoL I think Ive lost some since I last posted a pic of my plugins lol But hey gotta trim out whats never been used or would be lol..... I pretty much pulled a Blade and still have some work to do lol
2.89 GB
It might be bigger because of the downloading spree i went on last night
2.1 GB
It's time to move some stuff out of that folder.
My plugin file is 305MB. That's alot of Lots and files :D
Mine is now at 3gb even. Takes about 3 minutes for the game to load and about 5 for a city tile to load, depending on how developed it is.
My plugin folder is now at 1.2GB compacted with the datpacker. But the game still loads up and the cities still load up in an acceptable amount of time, however once they start showing signs of slowdown in loading then it's time for me to move out a lot of stuff which I don't look forward to doing since for the life of me I can't know which ones are in use and which plugins are not in use in any of my cities. Would be great if someone could come up with a tool that would look at all the regions and cities in the game and make a list of any plugins that are or are not in use in any of the cities for easy removal.
Well, Yeah, that would be nice.
I always keep my plugin files updated. how I do that is this. I dont keep any files I dont normally use. and update the old ones to news ones. By deleting the old ones. So that I'm always updated. My game is also showing signs of slow down and sometimes it freezes when it saves. I think that has something to do with all the current files I have (305MB) In it.
My plugins folder is now 1.5GB, I just downloaded a lot of stuff... whoops ;D
At the moment my plugins is 0mb ;D
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and thats with all the loss stuff dat packed.... the only Items I dont dare Dat pack is BSC / NAM / Terrian Mods / Water Mods and that is including TPW and other misc items that I use...
I tried limiting it to less than 2 GB but it has exceeded to 2.3 GB.
My plugins folder is just over 1GB (1.15gb to be exact), and I don't dare add anything else to it because I only have 1gig of RAM.
Anything more might bork my RAM and cause nothing to be save-able... ???
pisssssssssssssssk posh there cosmic lol I have only a mere 512 mb ram lol and everything runs just fine to a point lol :D
Well, I guess you could say I'm very cautious when it comes to this sort of thing.. ;)
cosmic.... that follows not much logic, because the game needs to take up ram too... hehe
so if it is crashing if you have more than 1 gig, then increase your virtual memory...
Joe
Its OK Cosmic but as Joe suggested try and increase your virtual memory... That is how I am able to play cause of my VM is maxxed out...
I'm not a computer guy; I don't know how to do that :-[
Whenever my computer has a problem, I ask (rather, bug) my bro about it lol
mine is 3.15 Gb
Mine just grew to 2.8 GB from last post which was at least two weeks ago. Time for me to take a break. :)
My plugin folder is 699 MB (without using the DATpacker. I haven't download anything yet, except for the NAM.
2.35 GB now.
~~Dragonshardz~~
My folder is 3,1 GB. And contains 15926 files. I havent cleaned it totaly and might contain some picture and readme files.
But i am trying to clean up a little. Not because my computer cant handle, actually it goes very well. But looking true the landmark and park menu to find the right building takes such a long time. So i am trying to delete some files who i regret downloading. And i am going to try place some files who i use only for special cities in folders outside the plugin folder, and copy it to the plugin folder only when i play those special cities.
I've never cleaned mine before... It is 1.81 GB with 6,714 and 247 folders...
Oh... That is my main Plugins folder I have about 3... :o
Ok, Proof that my plugins folder is small compared to the rest of you: It only contains 2,936 files and 280 folders... with a size of 1.32GB (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi29.tinypic.com%2F1zdarf4.jpg&hash=5d5b8518b7d5a8b9e8202ca6facc2b03e2071869)
Mine is right now 1.13 GB. 6352 files in 946 folders. ...ooof ;D
.... Woah, how is mine bigger when I have less stuff then you??! Wierd....
Oh, and it's now 2,961 files in 284 folders. It's size hasn't changed very much, it still shows 1.32gb when I hover my mouse over it.
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1.46Gb (5973 files)
Pat, you must be alot like me.....no offense ;D...... my packed size is 3.28 but that doesn't count the mods and stuff in the programs folder....sheesh.
After some serious pruning of my plugin folder its down to
UNpacked
1.47 gig 6,867 files in 1,714 folders
DAT Packed
1.26 gig 105 files in 32 folders
Game runs smooth as silk ( only draw back all menus take at least 8 seconds to open &mmm)
:satisfied:
TTC
The size of my Plugins Folder is 2.16GB (packed) and 2.47GB (unpacked).
mine was 1.5gigs unpacked but I had a serious crash and had to reboot entire hard drive GRRRRR! Now I'm trying to replace all my files. It's only 750MB ATM. HELP PLEASE!!!!! L0L
wow.. that is really damn big haha.. 1 question.. how u manage all files in 1 folder... my plug-in files now just 100mb only but.. when i open it.. i confuse!!!! because.. so many fles and folder in one plug in folder... ??? ??? ???
you can have as many folders as you want within the plugins folder. So inside the main plugins folder, you could have a folder called Simgoober, for example, where you put lots made by Simgoober. Inside that folder you could have more sub-folders for different Simgoober sets: a folder for the canal set, a folder for schools, a folder for water towers, etc.
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Quote from: bwatterud on May 19, 2008, 08:27:18 PM
you can have as many folders as you want within the plugins folder. So inside the main plugins folder, you could have a folder called Simgoober, for example, where you put lots made by Simgoober. Inside that folder you could have more sub-folders for different Simgoober sets: a folder for the canal set, a folder for schools, a folder for water towers, etc.
ohhh.. i see.. maybe i must start to arrange all files from now before it become crazy gigabite like Heblem huhuhu $%Grinno$% $%Grinno$% $%Grinno$% $%Grinno$%
Quote from: oldrogue on May 13, 2008, 10:30:28 AM
Pat, you must be alot like me.....no offense ;D...... my packed size is 3.28 but that doesn't count the mods and stuff in the programs folder....sheesh.
LoL duane none taken at all!!! Gotta have the best of the best though right??
My Packed Plugins folder is currently 5.6 gigs, yikes ! No wonder the game typically hogs 700mb of RAM whenever I run it.
4.71 Gb, datpacked. I like a lot of stuff... :D
The game takes about 10/15 mins to start and 5/10 mins to load a large city (the only ones I work on :))
Fred
Oh boy, two weeks ago it was 2.8 GB. Now it's 3.02 GB. I always wanted to limit it to 3 GB and I exceeded it. I hope I can maintain it. The plugins folder is bigger than the game. What's up with that. ()what()
LoL Frdrck that is something else I never wanted to go over 1.5 gigs and well once you hit a downloading spree and fall in love with alot diffrent new creations out there... So my best bet is to admitt now that you love custom content.... Hi I am Pat and I love my custom content!!!
its hard to get rid of downloading, its like drugs $%Grinno$%
In my case i download for a specific theme i want to show at my MD or depending of whatever i want to do...
701.33 Megabytes
Quote from: Pat on May 21, 2008, 08:26:12 PM
LoL Frdrck that is something else I never wanted to go over 1.5 gigs and well once you hit a downloading spree and fall in love with alot diffrent new creations out there... So my best bet is to admitt now that you love custom content.... Hi I am Pat and I love my custom content!!!
LOL. Actually, I wanted to limit it to 2 gigs. Now that it reached 3 gigs, I will revise my limit to 3.5 gigs ;D.
BTW, to be honest, last year, I was doing more downloading than the actual playing.
It is at about 10.5 gb's that my game actually crashed for the first time and lagged quite a lot at rushhour time, when I realized that I had too much stuff in my two plugins folders. The one in C:/Programfiles/Maxis/Simcity4 had about 1.4 gb's, holding only the mods from a terrain mod to the NAM etc. But it is the MyDocuments/Simcity4 that had some 9. something gb's that gave me problems.
I started cleaning it out, that was 3 months ago and today I am still not finished, still having 7.5 gigs in it and continuing cleaning.....oh geeeeez, what did I do to get all those lots, props, textures etc?............ I probably have every lot available or maybe not available anymore in my pluginsfolder.lol
If you're looking for a specific lot that is not available anymore, ask me, I probably have it......lol (I am serious)
mrb
Mine is only about 1.5gb! (I'm not sure exactly, but it's nowhere near 2gb yet, let alone 10gb...my entire hard drive is 40gb, and half of that is taken up bo operating-system files! (Windows Vista is rather hard-drive intensive, at least as far as my computer is concerned)
Now roughly at 6.2gb and yes that is packed ???
Though I recently added more RAM to my computer and that has allowed the game to run faster and at a speed much more to my liking :P
well currently its 113MB... but thats without any models... so if I included the models and then dat packed it would be about the same size as it used to be (3Gig+)
Mine is 377 MB.
Mine was 1,300 MB until I did what I call "The Cleanout!!" in sense after that I have now 752 MB...
ha ha ha I just bought a 250 GB hard disk and a 1 GB video card. Looks like i'm not gonna have problems for now ;D
almost going 4 gig.
About 1G,I almost download new lots everyday
I tried to be conservative
762 MB (799,385,895 bytes)
but, 771 MB (809,381,888 bytes) size on disk
4,507-files 595-folders
Either way, SimCity takes a lot of memory space for me, but not just the stuff in the plugins folder, I left all my gmax and texture stuff about.
My plugins folder is currently 2.61 GB (packed) and unpacked 2.95 GB big... ;)
Mine was around 1 GB, but alas too many files, and I can't find the one that conflicts with the game, so they are all lost now.
Many weeks of finding all those files again... lol.
Scratch what I said before. My plug-ins folder is not nearing 4 gig... yet. I haven't been downloading so it's gonna take a while. Currently my folder stands at 3.56 GB.
Its been a few months and well here is where I am sitting at lol....
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mine is thusfar 89MB with 79 files/folders
Mine is currenty, well actually I've got two folders.
The main folder is about 3.2 GB (of really good stuff)... and my CAM folder which I'm putting together now is about 750MB.
I think the all time record holder is MrBisonm, his is about 12GB. &apls
hoooooooooooly crap that is massive I wonder if MrBison still has it at that?
Mine is 5,7 GB
2,1 GB for me :)
mine is about 100mb , not much . on this old computer , it got so junked up that we had to restore the os!and it was so bad that the backup I made of the plugin folder failed to backup correctly , so I lost the plugin folder and didnt reinstall it all. so mine is small.
Since my computer was crashing lately, my Plugin folder current state's 401mb. Not really much. Still have to download 2gb ;)
Mine is down from just over 3gb to 4mb :thumbsup: Since I don't play the game at all anymore, the only plugin in my folder is whatever terrain mod I'm using at the time for map-rendering.
3.02GB at the moment. Gulp!
So where's it all gone?
BSC - 886 MB
BSC Essentials - 61 MB (includes the texture packs)
BSC Props - 1.27 GB. Evidently if I decide to datpack it I'll have to split it in two.
Buildings - 150 MB (essentially, almost any RCI building not from BSC)
NAM - 46 MB
PEGPROD - 152 MB
SimGoober - 314 MB
I'll probably have a mini-prune sometime, as I know there are several power plants and ports that I never use, and I rarely use ploppable RCI (apart from shopping malls and 30 St. Mary Axe). I'll probably take the hunt through the menus, with a paper notepad and pen handy (much quicker than Alt + Tabbing to notepad.exe or taking oodles of menu screenshots!)
Mine is now over 4.3GB and I know theres a lot of stuff in there that I'll never use but for me to try to figure out what it's actually called is going to be impossible since much of the stuff I have may not even have a description, so one of these days when I feel better I'll just have to wipe out all saves, and the entire plugins folder and start all over again, slowly collecting only the stuff that I will end up using on a regular basis. I hate not knowing what file contains what and looking through thousands of files with a viewer of sorts trying to spot one likely image is not my fancy.
Oh noes Pat, I've overtaken you. My folder is now 3.62 GB :P.
LoL there frdrcklim and to think Ive only jump up one more from 3.44 to 3.45 gb lol....
982 MB, but you can multiply it by three, because I have three copies of it :P
(One sorted by authors, one by site, and one by type of plug-in ;D)
The size of mines is over 1.2 GB! Just move a copyed one into my dad'a computer as backup.
Maybe someone should make a list or complete list on who has the highest plugin folder. That would make this thread interesting ;D
My plugin folder is a trim 1.6 GB. I've used nearly everything in it, which is pretty good considering I only have one city built :P :thumbsup:
~ Dan
1 gig, however i just started redownloading stuff after an issue about a week ago. It will probably be about 5 gig total
Mine is sitting around 3gb even, but I still have a lot of new stuff I haven't added in yet. :P
Currently my playing plugins weighs in at over 3.5GB. I have a packed folder of 3.2GB then assorted unpacked folders like X-Ports and NAM.
I have a current game loading time of 2 mins.
My plug in folder is 10.4 G and contains 19,331 files and I've still got about 1 Gig waiting to be uploaded. I like variety. Problem is it takes ages to open a file. Dunno what to do about that...
Mines a nice 5.44 GB :) It was about a gigabyte bigger until I got the DAT packer to get rid of all the useless crap :D
Time for some cleaning! Mine has swelled to 3.2GB!
It was only 2GB about a year ago:
Quote from: Haljackey on November 11, 2007, 04:06:37 PM
Mine hit exactly 2GB today :P. I should clean it up a bit
About 500MB of that is from the STEX collections CD and DVD, which I installed recently. A ton of good stuff in there!
Wow hal! My folder is about half that (1.58 gigs), not counting the plugins I have yet to add. It was pretty big before I datpacked most of it. Not sure how big it used to be then.
My plugins folder currently now is 155 MB (only using for a MD that im preparing, using only my content from LBT)
hmm right now I have no clue what size I am at lol.... All I know is I am cutting out the fat and trimming down what I dont use or want any more..... I do agree there Hal its time for Winter Cleaning here actually lol....
When will it end :D
3.62 GB to 3.76 GB
Yeah, I think it's time to trim down on stuff. I know I don't use most of the canals anymore. They're pretty good, but either it no longer fits my preference or I lack imagination when I'm building with this :-[.
If I add all of them together, mine would be 7.83 GB. However, mine are probably arranged a little differently than most folks. My plugins folders are actually themes (i.e., US, UK, Euro, Asian, etc.) and are moved in/out depending on what themed region I'm playing.
Quote from: jestarr on November 21, 2008, 05:10:09 PM
If I add all of them together, mine would be 7.83 GB. However, mine are probably arranged a little differently than most folks. My plugins folders are actually themes (i.e., US, UK, Euro, Asian, etc.) and are moved in/out depending on what themed region I'm playing.
I actually want to arrange it like that so that I can just get the styles I want but I've been using the conventional for too long that to rearrange it like that right now would be totally crazy. If it's okay with you, you gotta send me a private message on a more detailed order of your plug-ins. I really want to know more so that it would be easy for me to follow suite ;D.
Mine just crossed the 3.3gb threshold.....finally added all the new stuff I dl'd recently. Takes roughly 2.5-3 minutes to load the game.
So I just got the LEX disk today and added some plugins from there to my computer.
Remember how my plugins folder was 1.58 GB?
Well now it's 4.8 GB! :o
Time to Datpack! ;D
My plugins folder is now 2.12GB
my plugin folder is currently 2.53G
i constantly clean out my plugin folder and add new things as they come out.
i only keep in there what i will actually plop down or grow in a city, if it is just a thought, or it stays in there to long without being used, its gone.
look at that it takes so long for my game to load i just go play basketball for like 30mins
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mine's 1,97GB atm
Nothing too big for me: 500mb but my computer is very slow so it takes about 2mins to load the game, and to load a city aprox. 10min
1.85 GB for me... About 3 minutes loading time for SC4 and 5 minutes for the LE. I do my lots on a different computer with a plugin folder of 100MB... Of props and textures, some base lots too.
-un1
3.17GB. I wonder how much of that is works in progress.... %wrd
Mine is up to 3.6mb now, added in a bunch more stuff I recently dl'd to mirror my plugins folder with Pat's....we have this insanely crazy idea of doing a MD together.....we've been talking about it for the past 18 months :P
pppppst only 3.6 MB there Troy talk about a quick load time there you got lol or do you mean a GB lol hehehehe...
Hey SG good to see you in here and I wonder truely how much of yours is that works in progress? How do you break down your folder at all or do you? DO you datpack?
Current for me
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BTW Troy it aint that bad planning takes time and we want this to be a good thing right??? I know I do!!! I should be around some more here soon!!!
My plugins folder is empty right now. :D
:D You're right Pat, it's 3.6gb, not mb :P
$%Grinno$% $%Grinno$% :P LoL I thought so there Troy
other than the 70 MB "essential plugin folder" (which are lots i use for all regions, like NAM)... it's empty. i have at least 10 GB worth of plugins / dependencies / mods on DVD though
when it is filled up, i have 3 subdirectories in the plugin folder... one for dependencies, one for the essentials, and one for the plugins i'm using for the current region i'm working on... and each folder carrying a plugin / mod / dependency is named exactly how its named on the download page on LEX / STEX to avoid duplicates from being installed
starting a new (small) region soon.
::
Hey, it's the Simgoober. Nice to see you here ;D.
Well, I'll be posting my plug-in folder soon. Too much stuff coming in :D.
Mine is 3.83 GB including everything you have ever released Simgoober! :D
From 3.76 GB a month ago, my plug-ins folder is now 3.85 GB. It just keeps on getting up lol :D.
Mine still only 2.1 GB. I'm working on cleaning out buildings that are never used to free up resources, but my organization was so bad in the early days that I find many duplicate folders.
2.6 GB at present. Actual content I've got comes to the 4GB from the LEX DVD + about 2 GB of downloaded stuff I'm not using at the mo. Loading times are quite low - 20 seconds to get to the region view (no startup vids) and then maybe 35-60 seconds to load a city, though one of my cam-skyscraper medium-sized cities (roads, skyscrapers, and little else, every piece of ground built upon) takes about 1 1/2 min.
Hopefully it'll be faster when I've datpacked it when I'm finished fiddling :)
Growiong larger and larger every week.
Datpacking is not useful at the moment: I could redo it every three days. I'm just in a mood of lotting and I hardly played for a minute since a month.
MINES IS ABOUT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT 6,16GB ()what() ()what() ()what() I REALY DONT NOW THAT,THAT WHY ITS TAKE ABOUT 10_15 MIN WHEN I CAN PLAY WITH A CITY
I'd say: yes indeed. Maybe it's wise to throw some plugins away? Or do you have readmes, zip files and other stuff in your plugins? Then throw them out!
Mine is pushing 3 gigs and I just re-installed sc4 on my computer about two months ago. I need to do some organizing and housecleaning.
mine's just crossed 3gigs today, interresting fact: my C disk (main) with my system files and thus also my plugins is 20GB in total
Well right now i am up too 4 Gig :'( and that is with datapacker, and no extra junk like .txt or .htm and so on. For lotting and new downloads to save time i just "repack" the folders i update. that works well. not sure what the uper limit is but i think any more than 4 to 5 Gigs and you just have to much in all the menus. anyone have any other ideas to save space? ()what()
My plugins folder is currently at 4,052 files in 696 folders , there are only 8 files not in a folder. I clean mine out every season and start fresh!
Quote from: teddyb4492 on January 08, 2009, 08:45:56 AM
anyone have any other ideas to save space? ()what()
Yes, play a boring SC4 without plugins, or even better: quit playing SC4 alltogether and install the good old Tetris again.
No, seriously: about two months ago I decided to separate my plugins a bit by dedicating a certain region to agricultural development and another to urban development. I now have two separate pluginsfolder.
In fact there is software available taht could help me with this, but I am too lazy and just do the switching with Explorer.
My Plugins folder on 1/9/09: 1,23 GB. That's not so much.
only 1.66 Gb. I have documented every file i put on there so i can find everything i installed. Funny thing is i only have CAM (with every building listed in the thread shoreman made) NAM, few of RJ's little mods, one or 2 from Peg's. if you want CAM, you need at least 1.5 gigs.
2.08GB!
Bit healthier than it was last week- where it was like 2.32GB or some insane size.
I deleted heaps of old unneeded plugins today so it's a TINY bit better... only tiny :(
I want to cry when I see SC4 vids and the author has the game running fast :'( I usually have to wait 2 mins each time I want to open the menu!!
I sorted my plugins into
"Buildings"
"Other"
The buildings folder was a massive *wait for it*....
1.65GB
Blame the CAM 100% :) I went on a downloading spree in october 2007 when I discovered the CAM, and since then I have been downloading each new camelot once it is released.
I really need to get rid of unneeded plugins- particularly in the transport area. :satisfied:
Just datpacked it:
1.665.534.683 bytes
Good night!
Just 831 Mb for Delfort, and 1.41Gb for Oldenburg ;)
Okay, so I lost all my plugins with my old computer and the time that it would take to build them back up again as well as finding all the dependencies would be beyond belief.
So, to whom ever has a nice large (preferably dat packed) plugin folder with a very minimal amount of missing dependency files, would it be possible to share that with me, so that I don't have to go out loooking and downloading and trying to locate dependencies all over again? My last computer had about 3.0GB *dat packed* of plugins. I didn't have anything that a user had to go pay a service for (like on simtropolis's disks that you can order) and had nothing that was too specialistic, but had lots and lots of stuff.
Im sure there are file sharing services on the web where one could upload a zip file of your plugins folder and where I could then download it and then go after the more specific plugins that Im missing from before.
Is anybody willing to help me out with this?
Thanks,
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i will have about 6gb for you if you want.
if you now how to send to you.(sorry for my bad english) ;)
Quote from: builderbuiltoff on February 06, 2009, 05:02:54 AM
i will have about 6gb for you if you want.
if you now how to send to you.(sorry for my bad english) ;)
Thank you for the offer, it is appreciated, I've sent you a private message on this forum with my email address that you can send it to.
Greatly appreciative of your help.
Well I haven't been in the scene for a while.
Anyways, I finally did it. I was able to sort all my plugins based on the place rather than the author. All the buildings are placed in appropriate folders and all I have to do now is pick them to get the right aesthetics. Yup, everything... except the BSC folder :-[. So the folder is 3.67 GB, down from 3.76 GB from my previous post. Sadly, it still doesn't account the other lots I haven't processed yet. I haven't really been playing a lot of SC4 lately (Been playing a lot of WIC lately :P). I haven't even touched the latest NAM (It's just sitting there in my computer :'(), but I'm gonna try to find some time for SC4 soon ;D.
builderbuiltoff and City Builder,
Hey guys its not wise to be talking about sharing your plugin folder in the forums at all!!! y'all should know that is a form of piracy and is frowned upon...
Anyways back on topic here is the latest from me...
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Quote from: City Builder on February 06, 2009, 05:08:26 AM
Thank you for the offer, it is appreciated, I've sent you a private message on this forum with my email address that you can send it to.
Greatly appreciative of your help.
Even if your mailbox is over 6GB, the problems you will incur are not our problem (and you will incur them). If you decide to follow this course of action any request for help will go unanswered. This is a final warning to anyone wishing to redistribute content that they do not own the copyright to....if it is discovered that content has been shared in this way, it will mean permanent exclusion from this site and the LEX.
I may not be playing much, but I've finally reduced my Plugin folder from 3.67 GB to just 3.43 GB :).
Mine is only 1.43 GBs ::)
Mine is currently 2.92GB but I am gonna remove everything that I don't use now :)
3.2 gigs. I really need to clean it out, but with so many lots requiring so many dependency's, I am afraid to delete anything, especially the older lots I downloaded years ago and can't remember if they had dependency's or not
my planned failed and i went up to 3.28GB lol
Quote from: JJ on May 04, 2009, 12:45:59 PM
my planned failed and i went up to 3.28GB lol
This place kills me. Everyday I go through the LEX and find lots that I like and download them. The only thing I hate is that I always get the dreaded "install may not have performed properly" error every single time.
I'm at 3.68 right now, and I already ran dat packer last weekend again
868 MB ()sad()
Quote from: graesloek on May 04, 2009, 01:11:37 PM
868 MB ()sad()
Give it time, eventually you will have multiple gigs like everyone else. The LEX here is full of things to make the plugin's folder get fat :)
now im running 2 different SC4 games (2 different NAM's, 2 x textures etc) on my new PC i have 3 different plugin folders, SC4 game 1 has 850MB, SC4 game 2 (CAM version) has 700MB, and the third 'shared plugins' folders has 200MB
...and then i have my plugins library of about 3GB. i only add to the game when i need it for optimum performance.
the best way to make sure you have no duplicates and unnecessary items in your plugin folders is to have a detailed catalogue system. you can download anything you want, but sometimes you cannot use everything you want.
Right now it stands at 3GB, but I'm not using everything in there.
Mines around 2.1 Gigs, that is after datpacking, however I should go through to rid duplicate and unnecessary files as I lost my original organized one, which was 2.07 at the time.... I know this will probably go up due to all the new stuff that comes out...
My folder plugins= 6 giga
Ma CJ :http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=6578.0
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or 3.25 GB
From 3.43 GB, it's now just 3.31 GB :). Aiming for it to go down below the 3 GB mark. This isn't Datpacked since I'm still rearranging some of my plugins.
Mines only a mere 1.4GB but i have 4,368 files in over 800 folders
My plugin folder is just 1.1GB and there are including 945 folders,,, ;)
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9359 fails and 1.88 gb... I think I should clean my plugins folder up a bit ;)
;D
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:o
How much time does your game load? 10-15 minutes?
Mine is 1.88GB (compressed)... and that's after I recently did some cleaning out. :D
1.4 GB
I managed to trim mine down to about 950 Megs. Now I can actually play again... ::) (old computer)
3.25gb...just can't stop adding new stuff...
2.79 GB of goodies here :P
165 MBs... ;D (get those dependancies AWAY from me!)
Size on the Disk: 3.98 GB (4,281,110,528 bytes)
Contains: 7 594 Files in 1 990 folders
::)
I think I will take the record for the smallest plugins folder! *takes cup* :P
Quote from: Strategist01 on July 18, 2009, 07:20:37 AM
the smallest plugins folder!
Where's the fun in that? :P
Bragging rights?
Strategist01 a little OT here but I do like your avatar there lol!!!
space reserved for stats lol.....
OK here is the deal with my setup I keep all BSC related items in the C directory of the plugins and other mods too so here is that one....
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In my doc plugins this is how much I got....
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I have trimmed down my plugins folder too, getting rid of files I havent used or nor will not use anymore....
M4346 - It means I still have a good loading time on my cities! :P And that I can still appreciate the SC4 content that's already there :D
Technically my plugins folder is 0.00 kb but thats because I haven't moved my plugins folder from my old computer to my new one yet, last I checked my old plugins folder was 2.12 GB, and that was maybe 5 months of downloads cuz I didn't play SC4 much after Jan and still don't have it installed on this one yet (can't find my 2nd disc).
Grootte op schijf :2,58 GB (2.780.524.544 bytes)
inhoud :7.499 computer files 1.147maps
made on : tuesday 5 may 2009
Mine is a measly 1.15, but it's growing! I had to re-download a lot of things, so it'll probably 2GB+ by the time 2010 rolls around. ;)
-Jason
Mine is 2.056 GB which is extremely surprising, as I've only been downloading for a few months. By 2010 it should probably be around 4-4.5 GB (lol i need a life XD)
Soybeincool, lives are for people that never discovered SimCity. :D
-Jason
right now....90.3MB.
when i used to play...i think somewhere around 3.3-3.5GB......most of that was the entire CAMelot collection. i dont use plops...only growables. ;D
Mine is 9.02 GB.
No big deal; It's on a 1 TB external drive.
I'm very good at sucking in data - you should see my folder where I keep videos I download off YouTube - ~417 GB.(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi257.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fhh240%2FRadicalOne%2FAnnunakiSmileys%2FVector_Smiley.png&hash=114c5818bedefab7ecadce8309e9d18b85634b83)
4.01 Gig in 10.590 files. I need a new flash drive now to take my plugins with me. ::)
Size: 5.00 GB (5,376,417,750 bytes)
Size on disk: 5.01 GB (5,388,173,312 bytes)
Contains: 5,429 Files, 1,794 Folders
Created: Monday, August 03, 2009, 10:33:52 AM
I've surpassed 5 Gigabytes! Too much perhaps? Never! ;D The created date and time corresponds to when I started downloading CAMelots. I think over the four days following that my plugins folder gained about 1.5 to 2 gigabytes.
Probably need to DATpack ... &Thk/(
Up to 2.35 GB. Recently reinstalled and reorganized all my files. I have a ton more that on the sideline, but my PC is starting to lag.
I somehow found out about this thread. Not only can I tell you the size (432 MB so far), I have a picture from my MD.
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5.70 GB (6,123,307,008 bytes)
And that's just what's actually in my Plugins folder right now. Nevermind the Works In Progress, old scrutineering files, and at least 2GB of files I need to run through PIMX still, before I can use them. Not to mention about a year's worth of LEX downloads to catch up on still...
But I think my Plugins are long past due for an overhaul anyway...
ahh Nate you will do just fine catching up ;-)
3.08 GB and climbing!
Mine has hit 3.1 gb and it's just too unwieldy now. Opening my parks menu is now a 5 second affair each time. I think it's time for an overhaul.
A modest 1.5 GB following a complete overhaul from the ground up. Although there are currently 3,756 files in 812 folders, I'm proud to say the clutter is gone. I can find any file I need pretty quickly, including the README docs that came with it. Those, along with the original downloads, are stowed in indexed files outside the plugin folder, of course! :)
Later...
Joan
An efficient 1.69GB... Including all of my beta's, new models, broken .DESCs and the like...
I revamped the whole folder in September, and I only add what I need... when I need it.
I'll let y'all when I get to 3GB :P
Havva good one,
Adrian.
Ummm.....6.8 gigs. Wow. Didnt realize mine was that big. It was just under 4gigs about a month ago but everyone is making great quality BAT's that I just have to have. I think I will dive into the folder and do some house cleaning.
549MB, but i have nothing that would do for any settlement larger than a village so far..
850MB after dat-packing. This is from three months of downloading, so it will be over 1GB by Jan 5.
After a break from the game for nearly two years, I've rediscovered the fun of it... and the dangers of this (and related) websites. :-[ My plugins folder is fast nearing the 2gig mark again -- I think I have something like 12 gigs of files stored on my HD.
It's a nasty cycle, really. First you play for fun, but then maybe you notice your city or region needs an SC4lot file that you don't have or that its stats aren't right for the situation, so you go wander through SC4devotion. Maybe you find what you wanted, more likely you find dozens of things you didn't know you needed until you saw them here. So you go back to the game with your new toys. Play with them a bit, and then you remember what you wanted but couldn't find so you wander off to tweak the settings on a lot... and that's when the real trouble starts: you make a brand new lot of your own design to solve the issue. Making lots is addictive... and it's all down hill from there.
I'm really grateful for all the hard work folks have put in, from the constant flow of new lots, to the new tools that make using a slide rule seem easy, it's nice to see a game with staying power.
^True, just found Mattb325's houses... And some commercial building, all while looking for a new town hall. Didn't find that town hall, but I got houses and offices!
Before my HDs crashed I had a plugins folder right at 10 GB.
Since I lost everything and have to reinstall it all the hard way (back up on a 2nd HD that also cratered) its been cut back to about 6.5 GB. I have a feeling I won't be putting everything I had back in, so in a way its good that I lost everything the game will load up faster (OK so I'm just trying to put a positive spin on it.) :thumbsup:
My plug-in folder was somewhere around 5 GB but i recently cleared it all out and i now have a much more organised folder, and its less than 1 GB at the moment because i'm only adding plug-ins when i need them, instead of just downloading reems of stuff i had not intention of using, which is what i used to do.
0 MB. I know, I know.. My Home computer decided not to connect to the net, and the only way to get it back online was to wipe the HD. Of course these day's you can hardly live without internet, since homework, emails, even banking's online. So, time to reinstall SC4 and get going again!
Edit: Up to 114 MB!! $%Grinno$% :D
About 5Go, but I never play with the entire contents. ;)
Around 3GB, and I can use all of it now that I have 4GB of XMS Corsair RAM and a brand-new nVidia 250 GTS.
3.62 GB. It is time to field day the Cube. ()borg() :'(
As of today, 3.02 GB, 3.04 GB on disk. 8291 files, 1785 folders.
2.11 GB. About 25 MB of that is my custom lots ::)
~ Dan
im starting anew, as i lost my entire plugins archive (5yrs worth of collecting), and this time im only installing bits of the LEX DVD, and bits n pieces from the STEX dvd 3. that should keep me amused for a while, and that will give me about 3-4GB to play with.
4.1GB, after datpacking a good amount of stuff. My computer can't seem to handle much more, already takes 10 minutes to load a city, and frequent CTDs if i zoom or scroll too fast in a large developed area. Hopefully can upgrade soon.
2.21 GB after Datpacking and 2.52 GB before. Takes about 7 minutes for me to start playing a city.
I thought my 2GB was beefy... apparently I have some catching up to do!
well not my plugins folder, the one I use to store png textures ect is sitting at: 230 MB
My plugins folder is 2.37 GB and it takes about 15 seconds to load SC4 and another 15 seconds to load a city...
Cheers!
Scott
And mines now up to 3.2 GB
Mine is 247 MBs....I have trimmed about 40 MBs this week. &mmm
Scott (Stray Cat), what are your system specs? I'm trying to increase my loading time.
-Jordan :thumbsup:
Mine is 3.16 GB :thumbsup:
I just had a look at mine and it's 6,29GB :D loading the game takes about 10 mins but loading each menu takes (airport etc) takes 10 secs minimum $%Grinno$%
I checked mine. My Plugins folder is 3.37 GB. I'd say I did a good job trimming it. My Plugins Disabled folder is 1.35 GB. That puts the total plugins I have to 4.72 GB.
My Plugins folder 6,5 GB :)
My plugins folder is huge, with 1.82GB in 6696 files in 1220 folders
2.26 gb
I'm at 6.24 GB. Its only going to get bigger over time... LOL. I'm currently on a downloading binge.
3.42 GB, 6059 files in 1400 folders and perfectly organised and backed up/sinced in two other places. ;)
Robin ()stsfd()
Mine is most likely the smallest posted here LOL!!! :D. 708MB :o
Quote from: TJ1 on August 06, 2010, 12:18:59 PM
Mine is most likely the smallest posted here LOL!!! :D. 708MB :o
I've seen much smaller LOL. Try... 50 MB about... oh... 5 years back.
I'm sitting at a nice round 5GB ;D
well my plugin main folder is at 8.475 and i haven't been adding to much to it lately as am travelling. if i get to much more in it, may have to break it down again as i had so much i didn't use before. i have other plug in folders that i Chang around for dif regions. but there no more than 4-6gb or so. no need to slow things down to much.
2,16 GB ;D
And i will reset it soon, some of my downloads made one of my cities crash and other bring terrible pollution problems unexpectedly :( . Besides, I'm waiting for the SimMars Beta 3 :)
3.49 GB right now ()stsfd()
Currently, my plugins folder is 4.37 GB, just after adding dozens of files I've collected the past several months, which I finally got around to installing.
2.68 GB at the moment. I remember when i had 500 MBs and i thought it was very much, now it feels like nothing seeing you guys huge folders :)
2.11GB
2.59 GB :satisfied: ;D
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins________1.46Gb
C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Plugins_______________________________12.9Mb
Not Plugged in, but it's there somewhere list:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SimCity 4\Latest Stuff_______142Mb
*C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SimCity 4\BSC SC4 stuff_____644Mb
*C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\SimCity 4\BSC SC4 stuff-2___346Mb
*these are prop and texture packs that have not been installed yet.
hmmm,...mine's kinda small comparatively,...what am I missing and will it slow things down on my system if I add more? Me thinks I need to balance Plugin size against things like the SC4PIM working with a smaller group of prop and texture packs, system performance on a AMD64 +3500 w/2Gb memory,...and for anyone who knows me, a 56k connection that's slower than the speed of smell. &mmm
EDIT oops! found some more, but these have older 2003-2006 dates. Some of these files are probably duplicates or superceded by newer files.
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Downloads\SC4 Props____203Mb
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Downloads\SC4 Textures___50.3Mb
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Downloads\SC4 Modds___72.6Mb
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Downloads\SC4 Packages___92.9Mb
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Downloads\SC4 Programs___86.3Mb
Some of OP4's Wild West stuff
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Downloads\Wild West___4.29Mb
C:\Users\Xander\My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins: 6,59GB (size on disk: 6,63GB) $%Grinno$%
Xander
I'm downloading everything again, so everyday it's being bigger and bigger.
I think I'm too careful with what I download: only 0,6 GB in SC4\Plugins and 0,7 GB in Documents\downloads to install...
My plugins folder is currently at 4.21GB.
2.7 G ;D
My largest folder = 3.4 GB
All of my plugin folders = 17 GB
:D Call me a SC4 nerd, but I don't play that much SC4. :P
3.2 gigs here. I am an SC4 nerd! ;D
I have 2.45 GB. I'm also a SC4 nerd. lol! ;D
Hello, I feel sorry for you.... I have 7.99 GB of plugins... I am non stop downloading addict.
Depending on what I'm doing I use different plugin directories:
My Small town/ rural directory: 1.07 gb
My High Rise directory: 618 mb (Don't really use, not very good at metropolises ;)
My Mediterranean/ Coastal directory: 1.9gb (under construction, so will get bigger!)