Help With Sims 3 Performance Please

I play with over a hundred mods and cc and those were all saved in the back up thankfully but its so smooth now

@Koolkat197 The Sims 3 uses a lot of virtual memory and you'll need free disk space for that.

You can google "Sims 3 performance guide"

and click the top link from the result, I cant paste the link here since the last time I use link from that particular site, I received DM telling me it's againts the forum rules.

I used the guides from the link my game run buttery smooth.

@Koolkat197 - The game looking as you described would be because (a) the Graphics Settings in Game Options are low and (b) your current system is generally underpowered for TS3, especially for the heavier hitting EPs (in order those would be Pets, Seasons, IP, and ITF).

You can try turning some of the Graphics Settings up a bit, but in exchange you may get performance issues. Advanced Rendering On might help the snow as might a few of the other settings that are probably defaulting to Low. But you're actually ahead of the curve if you can get Seasons to run and have severe weather without the game lagging and becoming unstable due to the notebook's relatively weak processor and what we have to assume is the lack of a dedicated graphics card.

We can't really compare expectations on this one to the older Win 7 laptop you had without knowing the older one's specs. A system being newer vs. older doesn't necessarily make it more capable and in this case it sounds like the opposite may be true. Laptops with that processor tend to be made for web surfing, email, streaming video, and light office/school related tasks but not so much graphics intensive games and there may be cooling issues if the game is pushed too hard on it.

I realize not everyone can just go out and buy an expensive (to them) new laptop whenever they want to, but might there be a stronger system available on which to play now or in the near future?

"Karritz;c-17682180" wrote:
@Koolkat197 The Sims 3 uses a lot of virtual memory and you'll need free disk space for that.

Ah, I didn't know about the virtual memory usage. Thank you, I'll keep that in mind :)

First of all, try playing the game with low graphics and resolution, and in case you have lots of CC, try to get rid of some of them. You can also try the Nraas mods for making your game smoother. There is also something called " Save Cleaner " that can clear your save file and make maybe your game a little bit more smoother. You can also set your game on high on the task manager while you are running it. If after doing all of these the game is still very laggy, I think you should consider buying a more powerful machine to run it. If you prefer laptops, you should look for some gaming laptops on the internet. Try searching on Google "Best laptops for The Sims 3". Anyway, The Sims 3 is generally a laggy game, so you will have most probably problems with this game even when you run it on a powerful machine. You can also search for some tutorials on YouTube.

Hope it helps! ❤

It helps once in a while to delete world cache (for windows only)

there are multiple pathfinding improvement mods over at simasylum that reduce the amount of unroutable sims, significantly increasing my game performance.

"Koolkat197;c-17716116" wrote:

"izecson;c-17699935" wrote:
It helps once in a while to delete world cache (for windows only)

Do you mean delete the whole folder or the contents of the folder?

I'll just delete the content of that folder that is named after the world you currently played.

Is the computer new or do you have a lot of stuff on it other than sims? I'm asking because my game used to lag so bad I couldn't even use "ultra speed" without it simply freezing and when i would unpause it would freeze about a minute and Isla Paradiso is entirely unplayable but my computer gave out the other day and I took it into the computer repair shop and they backed up my entire computer and then did a hard reset and wiped it clean then redownloaded windows and I reinstalled all my sims games and now it runs SO SMOOTH with literally no freezing and very very minimal lag, I was shocked

I have a few other games installed; Lord Of The Rings Online, Star Stable, The Sims 4, The Sims Medieval.

Oddly enough, I had Lord Of The Rings Online and The Sims 4 installed on the other laptop, and The Sims 3 still ran pretty well.