Disabling packs actually improves performance
Just yesterday, I was playing the Sims 3 with all the packs disabled. I was essentially playing Sims 3 base game because all the packs were installed but disabled/inactive, and apparently, I found out...
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Yeah, disabling Pets and Seasons gives the most gains, if you need more performance. While I think that the message you get every time you choose which packs to enable (unless you disabled the message), saying you shouldn't use more than three packs, is over the top, it has at least some merit. However, It doesn't even really matter much on the ten year old computer I have, which runs the game with all expansions at an acceptable speed.
Pets is a resource hog with how the pet hair is coded, and Seasons with its weather simulation.
Pets is a resource hog with how the pet hair is coded, and Seasons with its weather simulation.
