An alternative approach to managing Store and Custom Content.*UPDATED* (The Sims 3)

Custom Content management for The Sims 3 has become a challenge.  There
are literally multiple gigabytes of custom content available for the
game.  This introduces a couple of issues to the game that plague
players.

• Game Lag : When you have more than about 200 custom
  content files, the game begins to slow down noticeably.  This is a
  limitation of the way modern computer operating systems work, not an
  issue with the game itself.
  
• Organization : What do you do if you
  decide you don’t want a particular custom object anymore?  How do you
  find it?  What if you just want to disable it temporarily while testing
  another similar object?  With thousands of CC files, it can be very
  difficult to track down any specific CC item.
  

CC Magic is a way to conquer both of these issues.  CC Magic allows you
to organize your custom content into a hierarchy of “sets” much like
file folders, thereby allowing you to find and manage your CC however
you wish.  Unlike using file folders to manage your package files, CC
Magic knows what those files contain and can show you information from
the packages to help identify them.  For example, for most items it can
show you a thumbnail of the item as well as a name and description.

Once you use CC Magic to organize your content files into sets, it goes
one step further by eliminating the large file count lag issue.  Each
set you create is consolidated into a single package file (or a very few
files, each file is limited to 1GB by operating system requirements),
no matter how many individual packages you may have installed in the
set.

In addition to these core features, there are also features such as collection support for those with patch
1.26 or later (or Pets EP), and a configuration tool that allows you to
keep multiple configurations of sets and activate them with a simple
drop down menu.

Supported File Types

• Sims3Pack files can be processed as long as the are not Sims Store (encrypted) files
  
• Package files can be processed
  
• sim files (saved sims) can be partially processed (the are always installed)
  
• world files cannot be processed and must still be installed using the EA Launcher
  
• lot files (both empty and inhabited] can be partially processed (the are always installed)
  

TheSpeaker wrote:I've seen this recently and downloaded it. Maybe I just don't understand how to use it, but how do I use it to compile a whole stack of mods together? I've put them together into sets, and I've clicked rebuild, but there's no difference. All my mods are still there, and it's all still really slow loading times, and with 800 packages, I really need it Any help would be greatly appreciated.

graceylouwho wrote:i don't think i was doing that right either now that i look at it. not everything was showing up & half of the thumbnails were wrong. i feel silly not being able to work it. i'm just trying to figure out a way to organize my cc & perhaps get rid of some of it because my game keeps crashing every couple of hours & lags like mad & freezes every ten sim minutes. driving me crazy!

graceylouwho wrote:right sorry bout that! didn't mean to clutter the feed.