Is it worth obeying the warning of only two expansions at a time?

"megaluci00;c-16673680" wrote:
Thank you all for your responses and advices.

I own 6 EPs and 1SP, and my computer is a little bit old now but still can run games well. An i7, 8GB RAM and 2GB of dedicated Nvidia graphics card I think are enough to play the sims. Have tried running the game with all expansions; after doing some adjustments and installing a few mods and for the moment everything is okay; although before the adjustments I could notice some lag. Will keep gaming, if something goes wrong I would comment it.

Which exact video card do you have? The reason I ask is a dedicated card strong enough will go beyond your monitors/screens refresh rate. The extra frames are likely to cause game performance issues and extra heat. We suggest using some form of v-sync (vertical sync) to cap it off at the proper refresh rate. Nvidia users have Control Panel. I have Nvidia and can provide instructions. As for AMD, I believe RivaTuner can be used and that's about all I know but igazor can help. :p

@SimplyJen Yes, thanks for the advice but I have already set the vsync for both TS3 and 4 because I do really fear them, specially the 3 as it is very badly optimized. My card is a Nvidia GeForce 775 by the way

I think it pretty much depends on whether your computer can handle all the EP's. I check them all when I play. It just wouldn't be that much fun without all of them to me.

"megaluci00;c-16677010" wrote:
@SimplyJen Yes, thanks for the advice but I have already set the vsync for both TS3 and 4 because I do really fear them, specially the 3 as it is very badly optimized. My card is a Nvidia GeForce 775 by the way

If that's the GTX 775m it's comparable to a GTX 570.

"megaluci00;d-946407" wrote:
Hi,

I downloaded TS3 and all my expansions yesterday determined to play again after some years, as my computer is better than the one I used to play on, and to my surprise I got a message on the launcher when trying to run the game warning me that to have a good performance or gaming experience I should only play with 2 expansions at the same time...

I was kind of surprised, because I don't remember this popping up before, and I would like those of you currently playing TS3 to comment on how many EP/SP do you usually run when playing and how well the game works.

Thank you!

Are you using the Steam or Origin version of the install?

I wouldn't be surprised if this were a false positive if the answer is the latter. Resurrects shade of that core.exe error messages that had nothing to do with my hardware and everything to do with the failed Launcher software.

Anyhow, I doubt if you'd get that sort of warning message if you installed using Steam. But my huge bias towards using anything affiliated with Origin could have warped my impartiality I guess.

That weird message might also explain why TS3 is still trending so strongly for the past week on Steam's top 100 most popular games list. In fact since last time I checked, TS3 HAS MOVED UP TO RANK 57/100 on Steam as of today! Is this a simmer rebellion against using Origin? :D

"yoshi_dragur2012;c-16698934" wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if this were a false positive if the answer is the latter. I doubt if you'd get that sort of warning message if you installed using Steam. But my huge bias towards using anything affiliated with Origin could have warped my impartiality I guess.

The warning is a function of Patch 1.69 which Steam does not have. It's not so much a false positive, it's displayed for everyone on 1.69 until they dismiss it.

"yoshi_dragur2012;c-16698934" wrote:
That weird message might also explain why TS3 is still trending so strongly for the past week on Steam's top 100 most popular games list. In fact since last time I checked, TS3 HAS MOVED UP TO RANK 57/100 on Steam as of today! Is this a simmer rebellion against using Origin? :D

That and the fact that the Steam version base game was on sale for something like $3 (USD) a short time ago. :)