Crash on Load up
I haven't played my sims 3 in a little over a year. I had along term save going and a year ago, it just, randomly started lagging and giving me issues. I was not in a good place in my life and couldn...
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I see a lot of people getting temperamental help from the various NVidia tools, I have continued to find that I do not need them to control FPS in TS3. My GPU is a Nvidia 1060 on my newish Cyberlink Laptop running on Win10 and v 1.67 of TS3. These tools were designed on the original disk version of TS3 that is on 1.67 or earlier.
I use the following set up to limit FPS, as I have done for years on all my gaming desktops and the previous laptops I've used for TS3.
On my machine(s)-
3Booter starts the game and calls a tiny program called FPSlimiter, which limits FPS to 30. It stable, it works in both windowed and full screen mod -- never fails or ever gets moody with GPU changes, windows updates, moon phases or changing hairstyles.
* I don't play this game on Steam so I have no advice there. Steam users in the past have used an FPSlimiter that also works for Skyrim, or 3rd party limiter called D3DOverrider. I have no experience or confidence in the information about these.
The files to download are TWO. You need 3booter and fpslimit (I use zip). The latter zip has the executable and has the dlls you need to drop into the base game folder.
Grab the files here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/samples/ts3/tools/
* 3booter-win.zip (file is dated 2011)
* fpslimit.zip <-- I default to using zip but rar is fine. Note: fpslimit contains the 2 DLLs you need and the executable for FPS control for TS3 v. 1.67. (file is dated 2009)
Decompress them into the base game root folder - in the PROGRAM folder (not documents).
A snap of my Win10 folder showing the files.
To start the game, put a shortcut to 3booter on your desktop or into your script file if you use one.
Script file:
Here's my script/batch file to start the game by clearing caches -- the extention for batch files is .BAT
I call my batch file: TS3-Start.bat.
Warning: You have to edit your own to be sure you have the correct locations of files for the script to run.
Start your game with this file, turn on the game's FPS checker, and it will stay around 30 fps all the time, windowed or fullscreen.
I hope this helps someone.
I use the following set up to limit FPS, as I have done for years on all my gaming desktops and the previous laptops I've used for TS3.
On my machine(s)-
3Booter starts the game and calls a tiny program called FPSlimiter, which limits FPS to 30. It stable, it works in both windowed and full screen mod -- never fails or ever gets moody with GPU changes, windows updates, moon phases or changing hairstyles.
* I don't play this game on Steam so I have no advice there. Steam users in the past have used an FPSlimiter that also works for Skyrim, or 3rd party limiter called D3DOverrider. I have no experience or confidence in the information about these.
The files to download are TWO. You need 3booter and fpslimit (I use zip). The latter zip has the executable and has the dlls you need to drop into the base game folder.
Grab the files here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/samples/ts3/tools/
* 3booter-win.zip (file is dated 2011)
* fpslimit.zip <-- I default to using zip but rar is fine. Note: fpslimit contains the 2 DLLs you need and the executable for FPS control for TS3 v. 1.67. (file is dated 2009)
Decompress them into the base game root folder - in the PROGRAM folder (not documents).
A snap of my Win10 folder showing the files.
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/8TO0v1S.jpg
To start the game, put a shortcut to 3booter on your desktop or into your script file if you use one.
Script file:
Here's my script/batch file to start the game by clearing caches -- the extention for batch files is .BAT
I call my batch file: TS3-Start.bat.
Warning: You have to edit your own to be sure you have the correct locations of files for the script to run.
Spoiler
@echo off
del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\CASPartCache.package"
del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\scriptCache.package"
del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\compositorCache.package"
del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\simCompositorCache.package"
del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\socialCache.package"
del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\DCCache\*.ebc.tmp"
REM *** Lines which start with REM are your own custom remarks that are not executed
REM *** ABOUT the following REM line, never delete ccmerged.package & don't activate this deletion below if you customize shared files with custom content and patterns
REM del "C:\Users\\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\DCBackup\0*.package"
REM ***FINALLY*** The line below, starts my v. 1.67 game and an FPS limiter
start /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\" 3booter.exe
Start your game with this file, turn on the game's FPS checker, and it will stay around 30 fps all the time, windowed or fullscreen.
I hope this helps someone.
