I spent the whole day yesterday figuring out how to make Isla Paradiso lag free, and I found the solution!Step 1: If you already have a family, save it to the households bin (along with the house/houseboat).Step 2: Go to main menu and start a new Isla Paradiso game.Step 3: Place your houseboat on the dock or your house on the empty lot.Step 4: Delete the Scott family. They really know how to cause lot of lags in Isla Paradiso.Step 5: Load your family.Step 6: After your family is loaded, immediately pause the game. Use CTRL+shift+c and enter ''resetsim *'' without ''.Step 7: Save your game and go to Main Menu.Step 8: Load your Save game.It should reduce most of the lags, but if you really want to completely get rid of lags, use this mod: http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Overwatch . It fixes all unroutable sims!Hope this helped :-)

Kind of a shame considering that's he whole point of the ep - part of it, at least! Let's hope EA release a patch to deal with some of these teething problems.

Well, I just deleted all DCbackup package files but the ccmerged one. It's an old thing but it always works. My game has been running fine since.

isabel_santos87 wrote:Well, I just deleted all DCbackup package files but the ccmerged one. It's an old thing but it always works. My game has been running fine since.What are these files?

Hmm,, thanks, I'll try that. I've been lucky to not have too many glitches, but there has been a lot of lag and some freezing. I don't use mods or CC at all, so a mod free way to unlag the game is appreciated.

I just started a town out of the gate deleting the Scott family, there is no Scott family, I'm in a house... Hi bmashland,never delete premade sims, this will disturb the structure of the world even more.To reduce the lag in Isla Paradiso, you need to move four families into new homes and then tear down their old houses/houseboats:-the Scotts-Rubisel Ichtaca ("The Prince")-Los Amigos-MedinaLet them move into free houses on the main island, there are plenty of them.If you want to improve things even further, go to the big Ichtaca castle, delete the arch in front of the door and set the door as front door.If you have ITF and play on a houseboat, look carefully on which community lot the portal appears. It may block doors or passages.This should help a lot with the lag. My Isla Paradiso runs almost as smooth as Appaloosa Plains.

Island Paradise Lag issue solution (no mods required)

SimArchangel
12 years ago
Kind of a shame considering that's he whole point of the ep - part of it, at least! Let's hope EA release a patch to deal with some of these teething problems.
isabelsantos87
12 years ago
Well, I just deleted all DCbackup package files but the ccmerged one. It's an old thing but it always works. My game has been running fine since.
Mystyrys
12 years ago
isabel_santos87 wrote:
Well, I just deleted all DCbackup package files but the ccmerged one. It's an old thing but it always works. My game has been running fine since.

What are these files?
Mystyrys
12 years ago
Hmm,, thanks, I'll try that. I've been lucky to not have too many glitches, but there has been a lot of lag and some freezing. I don't use mods or CC at all, so a mod free way to unlag the game is appreciated.
alanmichael1
Seasoned Hotshot
11 years ago
I just started a town out of the gate deleting the Scott family, there is no Scott family, I'm in a house...

Hi bmashland,

never delete premade sims, this will disturb the structure of the world even more.

To reduce the lag in Isla Paradiso, you need to move four families into new homes and then tear down their old houses/houseboats:

-the Scotts
-Rubisel Ichtaca ("The Prince")
-Los Amigos
-Medina

Let them move into free houses on the main island, there are plenty of them.

If you want to improve things even further, go to the big Ichtaca castle, delete the arch in front of the door and set the door as front door.

If you have ITF and play on a houseboat, look carefully on which community lot the portal appears. It may block doors or passages.

This should help a lot with the lag. My Isla Paradiso runs almost as smooth as Appaloosa Plains.
Henwen29
11 years ago
alanmichael1 wrote:
I've been playing the Arias who are on a houseboat. Should I move them as well?

You only have to move NPC families. You can even play the Scotts on their houseboat - if you can control them, you can liberate them if they get stuck. The problem with the four families I mentioned is that, as NPC sims, they often get stuck in the water under their houses or don't find the way to their boats. This causes the lag.

The Arias don`t have such routing issues as far as I know.

They seem to be okay and I rearranged their houseboat since the kitchen arrangement is insane. It's a much better houseboat now.
I will try all of these suggestions. I have read that this EP was super glitchy but I had no idea how badly. This is by far the worst.
Thank all of you guys for your suggestions. It's much appreciated. :thumbup:
AllyArt25
10 years ago
"alanmichael1;11972383" wrote:
I just started a town out of the gate deleting the Scott family, there is no Scott family, I'm in a house...

Hi bmashland,

never delete premade sims, this will disturb the structure of the world even more.

To reduce the lag in Isla Paradiso, you need to move four families into new homes and then tear down their old houses/houseboats:

-the Scotts
-Rubisel Ichtaca ("The Prince")
-Los Amigos
-Medina

Let them move into free houses on the main island, there are plenty of them.

If you want to improve things even further, go to the big Ichtaca castle, delete the arch in front of the door and set the door as front door.

If you have ITF and play on a houseboat, look carefully on which community lot the portal appears. It may block doors or passages.

This should help a lot with the lag. My Isla Paradiso runs almost as smooth as Appaloosa Plains.

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I was wondering if I were to just rearrange the layout of the houseboats, would everything be okay and no more lag rather than moving the Sims into new houses? Like, clear paths, not so much junk?
lisasc360
Hero
7 years ago
"horselover3456;c-16615806" wrote:
I’m aware this is an old post but if anyone is looking for a solution still I’d like to point out that deleting the Scott family’s house boat and moving them to a regular house + reseting all my sims has really helped with the lag and i can safely say I don’t have it anymore. I’m not sure if deleting the school/stadium combo did anything because my lag was gone before I did it so your choice to do it....

@horselover3456, here is link to a more active thread with all of the fixes to IP if you want to take a look around for any more helpful tips to make the world run better... ;)

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/811253/removing-ip-lag/p1
EA_Cian
7 years ago
I'm closing the thread due to its age, but hopefully, the link @lisasc360 pointed you to helps out, @horselover3456. :smile:
kimtobyben
12 years ago
Many thanks. Your solution to the lagging problem works. It was gradually getting worse to the point where the game was unplayable.
I didn't have the lagging problem when I first installed the expansion pack. I just hope it stays lag free from now on. Thanks again.