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7 years ago

Getting into TS3; some questions

Hi everyone, :)

I'm thinking about getting into playing the sims 3. I do own most of the packs, and played it briefly on my old PC but I never really did much with it but am considering doing so now, but I have a few questions.

Firstly, I'm on windows 10 (fully updated) - I don't know when sims 3 last had a patch, but would its current version be compatible with the current version of Win.10? has anyone had any issues?

Secondly, due to the open world aspect of it, obviously non active households continue they're lives while you're playing in a different household, but do non-active sims continue to gain skill points and build friendships? I'd rather these things happened when I'm there to see it, so is there a mod, equivalent to MC command center, that can allow me to tweak this?

Thirdly, can you recommend any really good/must have mods?

Fourthly, can anyone recommend a decent online game guide? I barely remember what I did in 3 so I feel like a completely new player.

Any help is greatly appreciated. :)

23 Replies

silverwood02
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7 years ago
Hello
I also have just installed Sims 3 on windows 10. My main PC is still W7 and that is where I play the game, the laptop is a sort of backup, anyhow one thing you need to be aware of is the frame rate. On my laptop with all settings maxed it is over 140! Nearly everyone has told me that will damage the graphics card, so I am still working out how to cap it. Not sure what card you have, mine is an Nvidia 1050, but the ingame frame cap does not work. If you search my posts you will get lots of useful advice from everyone on how to cap the frame rate.
Enjoy the Sims again.
Keith
ButterflyWay
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7 years ago
I also am on Windows 10 and Sims plays mostly fine for me. Sometimes it gets laggy, and it is slow to load, but I pin that on my vast number of custom content items I have. I have a good processor and a great video card. But overall, it works great and I have the mods installed and they work as well. They definitely make life easier even though I still don't understand them all. Good luck when you do finally get to be able to play!
NikkeiSimmer
Legend
7 years ago
"60smusicluvr;c-16987544" wrote:
Lots of great links in this thread and I appeciate you guys for putting lesser known mods in here. That camera one would be so helpful to me and I've always kept the lunar cycle on new moon, so I never have to deal with zombies. It would be nice to see the complete rotation without zombies spawning, so that mod interests me as well.

If you have NRAAS Retuner, you can go to Retuner>Settings>General>By Tunable XML>Sims3.Gameplay.Controllers>Lunar Cycle Manager>

Set your kChancetoSpawnZombie to 0
Set your kNumSimstobeZombifiedOnFullMoon to 0

Voila...no extraneous mods needed to clog up your mods folder. You can pretty much do anything with NRAAS Retuner and the NRAAS suite of mods.

I've been starting to bug @igazor or NRAAS forum and asking them about what to do with what settings I want in Retuner to get the results that I need without resorting to clogging up my mods folder with mods that can just as easily be dealt with in Retuner. That way I can clean up my mods folder and save most of that space for CC. :smiley: