How To Clear The Sims s Cache

After being out for more than a decade and dropping a few dozen DLC packs along the way, The Sims 4 is a fairly complex game. And if you play with mods, that complexity ramps up very quickly--which creates some consequences. The more mods you add, the slower and less stable the overall game will become. And if you've also loaded up your worlds with hundreds of Sims that you downloaded from the Gallery, things can get messy pretty fast--think long load times and Sims constantly getting stuck.

It's the sort of mess that a lot of long-time Sims 4 players have to deal with regularly--there are folks out there who have downloaded thousands of pieces of custom content over the years, and The Sims 4 does not load all that stuff very quickly. But don't worry--since this is not a new problem, we've got some well-established solutions you can try to get your game running better.

One quick and easy solution is clearing the game's cache--the place it temporarily stores images and other data for easy recall. While clearing the cache will mostly benefit mod users, it can also help if your worlds are overly full of Sims and complex homes that you've built or downloaded from the Gallery.