Can I do this?
Hello fellow simmers,
Long time player here who has been missing sims 3 a bit recently. I love my sims 4 families and could play them all day long, but I have this hankering to play sims 2 or 3 (2 have everything but the base game so that’s out the window). Every time I try to play 3 I feel so uninspired by the sims I create and I get bored. I hadn’t played it in years until around last October I tried it again. But I can’t get into any of my families I make they don’t have the same spark that the old families I had did.
I’ve come up with a possible solution. So when I stopped playing 3 initially it was because my favorite family wouldn’t load well on my laptop that was royally struggling to play sims 3 in general. The game loaded eventually but even the it took forever for textures to reload every time I slightly moved off lot and it lagged. I also had to get a new laptop for school and ended up choosing one that couldn’t even play sims due to money partially. I was bored with sims 4 at the time and to play sims 3 I felt like I would have had to get a much better computer and it wasn’t worth it. Long story short I got really into sims 4 on the computer that I couldn’t really play it on and then invested in a decent gaming desktop to play.
Sims 3 runs okay on this desktop it isn’t perfect but it works with minimal lag with mods installed. My question is this. I still have that super old laptop with sims 3 installed on it with that save file in it and the computer still loads up (a little shocking it’s been off for like 3 years 😂). Can I still transfer those saves over with a flash drive to my desktop and will they work? Even if all I can do is save the family and their house (which of course I never did) and then create a new save file with them. I don’t want to try loading it up on my old laptop to do some because it was having crashing issues before it was off for three years. I don’t want to risk actually killing the computer. I’d love to get back into 3 again with my same family I got to 6 generations with. I adored them. I miss 3, even though I really love 4, there are things about 3 I miss.
This may be a very dumb question but I just know that they are old save files so I wasn’t sure they’d still transfer right. Also is transferring CC files from that sims 3 folder to my current one dumb? I worry that some would have corrupted by now.
Thanks guys.
Long time player here who has been missing sims 3 a bit recently. I love my sims 4 families and could play them all day long, but I have this hankering to play sims 2 or 3 (2 have everything but the base game so that’s out the window). Every time I try to play 3 I feel so uninspired by the sims I create and I get bored. I hadn’t played it in years until around last October I tried it again. But I can’t get into any of my families I make they don’t have the same spark that the old families I had did.
I’ve come up with a possible solution. So when I stopped playing 3 initially it was because my favorite family wouldn’t load well on my laptop that was royally struggling to play sims 3 in general. The game loaded eventually but even the it took forever for textures to reload every time I slightly moved off lot and it lagged. I also had to get a new laptop for school and ended up choosing one that couldn’t even play sims due to money partially. I was bored with sims 4 at the time and to play sims 3 I felt like I would have had to get a much better computer and it wasn’t worth it. Long story short I got really into sims 4 on the computer that I couldn’t really play it on and then invested in a decent gaming desktop to play.
Sims 3 runs okay on this desktop it isn’t perfect but it works with minimal lag with mods installed. My question is this. I still have that super old laptop with sims 3 installed on it with that save file in it and the computer still loads up (a little shocking it’s been off for like 3 years 😂). Can I still transfer those saves over with a flash drive to my desktop and will they work? Even if all I can do is save the family and their house (which of course I never did) and then create a new save file with them. I don’t want to try loading it up on my old laptop to do some because it was having crashing issues before it was off for three years. I don’t want to risk actually killing the computer. I’d love to get back into 3 again with my same family I got to 6 generations with. I adored them. I miss 3, even though I really love 4, there are things about 3 I miss.
This may be a very dumb question but I just know that they are old save files so I wasn’t sure they’d still transfer right. Also is transferring CC files from that sims 3 folder to my current one dumb? I worry that some would have corrupted by now.
Thanks guys.
