Sims 3 laggy game

I don't remember how much ram is in the computer, but, my brother checked that up this past weekend and informed my husband and I that have MORE than enough ram to play the game. Any more questions? I'll do my best to answer. Also, please be patient with me, I am not that good at finding all the details on my computer about systems and such, I'm not as tech-savvy as my brother is. Being that Windows 7 is a different operating system than my Windows Vista on my laptop and the windows 98?

I grew up on, I am not familiar with how Windows 7 operates very well or where to find that information. Also, I'll do my best to answer questions about the game, itself.

Hope I answered your question, too. How do I reset them all? Is it all at once or do I take the time to reset every. I'm a little bit confused on this. I hardly ever travel anymore for I heard there was a glitch that my family relationships could be severed like mom and daughter aren't mom and daughter anymore. I'm kind of expecting to get on today or tomorrow and things aren't fixed, so I wont "accept as solution" until I have tried my game a few times to make sure.

Thank you, though, for the suggestion. I've used it quite a few times when my sims seem to start getting glitchy and it works. I returned to it the following day and it was fine. I think it was because I had some youtube videos up and it was making the game run a bit slow I hope, anyway.

I have installed some content from the store over the past two days, but only about items hair styles and a grill. I also, I believe, installed I hope two mods on breastfeeding and homeschooling. Are these good mods for glitchy computers? We can't really talk about them here since they are not supported by EA and you'll be using at your own risk.

Thank you for your feedback. Thank YOU for your help. You have no idea how relieved I am to be able to play my Sim family again. In fact, I've been able to achieve some goals that I wanted to achieve.

Of course, the end goal is really far away, and I'm having a lot of fun getting there. Don't worry if you don't have it: some players don't, while others do. Like the previous cache files, this one will also regenerate each time you load up the game.

There should be four lines that look like this:. If you use lots of mods, you can combine them all in a single package. This helps in decreasing load times. Simply follow this tutorial. You will need S3PE , a free tool which can be downloaded here. Save game files can grow in size at an alarming rate, especially if you have memories enabled in your game.

Large file sizes can drastically increase loading and saving times. To counter this issue, you can start by disabling memories in-game. October Help us improve Answers HQ! Take Survey No, Thanks. Sign In or Register. See details Show less.

Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Do you mean. Zombies Plants vs. Zombies 2 Plants vs. Zombies Heroes Other Plants vs. Although these fixes worked for ME , I cannot guarantee that they will work for everyone else. I am currently using version 1. Using version 1. If you prefer to install your games from CD, first install the base game, update the game with 1.

Once you run the superpatch, it should do its thing and give you a "success" message. Open the launcher and check that the game version is correct. If you own the base game and packs on Steam, install it from there, and you should be updated to 1. If you own the base game and packs on Origin, install it from there; and you should be updated to 1. Open Nvidia Control Panel. To do this, right-click on your desktop, and select the option Nvidia Control Panel and wait for it to load.

In the center window, you will see 2 tabs: Global Settings and Program Settings. Select Program Settings. Step 6 - Once done sorting out any conflict you might have or any other errors picked up by the tool close the program.

Re-arranged all step numbers to make the guide less confusing. Added "The Sims 3 Smooth Patch 1. Also changed the " Performance " tag to " Essential ". Also added " Nraas Traveller " to " step 3 Nraas Mods " section.

Changed the mods folder setup link for new users from " Step 3 Nraas Mods " to its own tab called " Getting Started! It fixes a lot of base game and expansion pack bugs and glitches! Also re-numbered steps from 9 to 15 since one old step was no longer needed.

Also re-named " step 2 " to have " lazyduchess " in the title. Also re arrange the number steps to correspond to the new section. Also removed " simler90's Gameplay Systems Core Mod " from " base game bug fixing mods " section into its own section.

If you already had this installed on a pre-existing save you will need to start a new save for the EA sims to re-appear. Thanks to " 12crashbash " finding what was causing the missing sims problem!

While the pie menu lag fix was a must if you want to continue using the mod you can just be warned. Also re-arranged the numbering of the guide to correspond to the change.

Thanks for the guide! I'm a long time player of TS3 so I know most of the fixes here, but you have made me aware of other tools and mods to fix things I didn't know could be! Thumbs up! Placing it in the overrides folder will make it have priority over any other mod it conflicts with so i might add it.

Capn' Dubbymon 4 Jan am. You could try to put the game into compatibility mode not sure if it will fix the issue though. You could try to report the issue to Windows and let then know that some older apps don't run well with the new version of Windows. Hello and Happy New Year to all. I played Sims 3 throughout without issue but ever since the Windows 11 update I've been unable to get the game running. I can get the game booted and get to the home page to enter a neighborhood.

But when I select a neighborhood to enter like Sunset Valley it loads for a bit and then I get an error message saying "A serious error has occurred while loading "Sunset Valley. Thank you for this chat and giving me a lifeline! We aren't ready to move on from Sims 3 and hope we don't have to.

Thanks you anyone who might have an idea. Iggy - From my personal experience it can make the in game menus glitch out from having too many frames and in some cases some menus could disappear all together and not be used at all, also the games simulation will lag more with more frames above So not really "physics" but at the time since its an older section of my guide I must had just used that word off the top of my head.

Iggy 3 Jan am. I'm a bit curious about the framerate limit mentioned in this guide. I've never heard of the physics breaking over 60fps anywhere else on the internet. What breaks exactly? Delta - no problem! Happy to help! Delta 2 Jan pm. You helped me answer every question I had and made the entire setup process easy.

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