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waterywatermelo's avatar
5 years ago

How many The Sims 3 packs do you play with at the same time?

Generally speaking, the more packs you have, the more load your computer has to work with.

I only own The Sims 3 Seasons, Pets, and my recently purchased World Adventures & Generations Bundle pack. I am still new to the World Adventures & Generations Bundle, since I bought that one today and tested it out in-game.

I have not tested out the World Adventures EP yet, because my current save file only runs on the other three EPs.

I have seen some Simmers apparently playing with multiple packs at the same time.

Is there a way to find out how much your computer can take on before you make the pack active, or do you have to test it out?

28 Replies

  • The only packs I dont own and not installed are katy perry's and movie's stuff pack.
  • I play with all EP's and SP's and most of the store, no CC. For those of you playing in Isla Paradiso, I tried but I found something else (besides lag from some lots) that I have never experienced in any of the other worlds. I like to redo my towns and in IP, I wanted to change out some of the rabbit hole buildings, like city hall and the school, for a different one. Same lot, just delete the existing building and replace it with another as I was looking to have all the buildings roofs that orange tile. Same with the police station. What I found was once replaced, when I went back into the save later, the buildings didn't show up. Not one. The lot was there, trees and any tiles but no building. Until I zoomed in, then the building appeared. I couldn't figure out what would be causing this and it put me off so much I am now playing in Barnacle Bay where I have all my orange tile roofed buildings with no problem.
  • Cororon's avatar
    Cororon
    Rising Traveler
    5 years ago
    I have all EPs and SPs except the Katy Perry one, some stuff from the Store and about 2,5 GB CC, and I play on max settings and 2560x1440 resolution. I have a gaming PC that is just little over a year old.
  • Currently I have all my Packs I own installed, along with my Store content, a small amount of CC and the NRaas mods (Most of the mods are for cleanup, though I installed Porter, Traveller, Tagger and Retuner recently); my settings is on low as I don't want to put too much pressure on my laptop.
  • I have everything except Supernatural and they are all on every time I play I do not use any CC or Mods. I have no problems plays great. the only thing I do that perhaps others do not do, Is I delete all school, My sims have never gone to school, as I like playing with them. I do not have any bad results doing this, have always played this way forever. I love the sims, sims 3 is my favorite.
  • I play the sims 3 with all packs installed, all store content and all necessary mods at max settings. This game always stuttered for me when running it at 60 fps or more but it is rock solid at 30 locked with nvidia inspector and doesn't stutter or hitch even once. I have no simulation lag either at 30, did get it at 60 though. The sims 4 has simulation lag no matter what and this is on a gaming rig I might add so I stick to sims 3.
  • The game actually run quite good on my mid range pc! im able to have almost 144fps all the time with all eps and most sps.

    I've been heavily modifying game files based on the online guide that I found on reddit and some simsasylum game performance improvement mods.
  • ive always used all the packs at once along with jam packing it with as much cc and mods my computer can handle lol... its just more fun with everything at once

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