Island Paradise Lag issue solution (no mods required)

I already use Overwatch, and the Scott family are forever being reset. I read something about the family having been en route for a deleted venue when the world was releaseded, or some such thing.

Your solution seems likely to work - however, is it really necessary to move my sims out and in to the neighbourhood again? I've made a lot of changes to the world, and I'd rather not have to do it all again. Not sure what difference it would really make...

I tried this early on and my game ran great for a while. Now I am experiencing lag and noticed many of the unroutable sims are on houseboats. I am considering deleting all houseboats from the world.

thesims5555 wrote:
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 :-)

3 more possibilities if you've got Twallan's SP & MC:
* play the Scotts family (or at least add them into your active family as family member, friend, renter/room mate etc)

* use SP & MC to change them into a service NPC townie

* Install Twallan's Traveler & go to Edit Town mode. Change all the houseboats in the world to player owned only. This should restrict SP to moving in townies to only land lots.

thesims5555 wrote:

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!

No actually it doesn't (I have Overwatch & ErrorTrap), not when they start to route themselves to the same areas over and over again especially when trying to go to an area that simply doesn't exist in the game because EA has such smart devs. ErrorTrap should be telling you within the first two minutes of playing that more than 30 Sims are now glitched and have become unroutable. The lag from this is so stifling, I have no idea why they release such horrible products one after another when it comes to this game, obviously without proper testing. :evil:

As for your first piece of advice, I will go ahead and try this and hopefully I will be able to play again without the lag. If it continues I'll simply get rid of all the boathouses I suppose. Sort of part of the REASON for getting this pack but EA could care less about actual customers and keeping them happy now-a-days it seems.

This is another good piece of advice to remove the bad spawners completely from your island. http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/06/routing-issues-in-the-resort-hobarts-hideout.html

Guys, this might sound silly, but the thing that took away all my IP lag was putting all my graphics setting up to maximum. There's a thread about it here:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/15/694312.page#11052512

Honestly, it's the strangest thing. I was experiencing terrible lag in IP and it was increasing each day. I was gradually lowering all my graphic settings to try and stem the lag when I bumped into that thread. I tried it for myself and it really does work.

yoshi_dragur2012 wrote:

* Install Twallan's Traveler & go to Edit Town mode. Change all the houseboats in the world to player owned only. This should restrict SP to moving in townies to only land lots.

I've tried everything else on this page including deleting cache files and thumbnails as simpler solutions but nothing seems to be working. I installed Traveler as a last result but after looking it over in the interactions guide on their site I'm still a little confused as to how you do this. (Sorry, I've never used this particular package from NRaa before :oops: )

How do you change the houseboats to player owned establishments only?

Mystyrys wrote:

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?

For Windows users it would be

Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\DCBackup

The very last file would be ccmerged.package, don't delete it (if you have it)

Another good list of simple but helpful tips are here: http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Sims_3_Delete_Cache_Files

There is nothing wrong with the Scott family or with houseboats. It was one of the nraas mods that was actually deleting their houseboat and causing them to be reset constantly. Twallan has since updated these mods so that they don't do that anymore and if you check for updates regularly (which you should because there are always updates especially when the ep's are new) you won't have this problem. In my game I have all up-to-date nraas mods and my Scott family is just fine, they live on their houseboat and everything is great. They don't get reset and my game runs smooth.

ChubbyKatze wrote:

yoshi_dragur2012 wrote:

* Install Twallan's Traveler & go to Edit Town mode. Change all the houseboats in the world to player owned only. This should restrict SP to moving in townies to only land lots.

I've tried everything else on this page including deleting cache files and thumbnails as simpler solutions but nothing seems to be working. I installed Traveler as a last result but after looking it over in the interactions guide on their site I'm still a little confused as to how you do this. (Sorry, I've never used this particular package from NRaa before :oops: )

How do you change the houseboats to player owned establishments only?

Edit town mode like said, click on a houseboat, then the icon for change lot type, select residencial and then you should have several options, one of them being player owned only. Of course this means it will take some time because you have to do it to every houseboat manually.

I should tell you though that I do not have that mod so I'm not sure this is the correct way of doing it but that's how you change lot type to player owned only in world adventures worlds so I would guess it works the same way in this situation.

Thank you for the reply the only problem is when I try that I only get one new option, "Ownable Lot" which I've tried. I'm afraid I've prolly butchered my town up pretty good looking for a solution so I've started a new game recently and will check it out again.

As far as updating Twallan's mods I saw two that were updated for I.P. (prolly missed a few) but went ahead and redid all of them even though the last update was 3 days ago but I figure why not. Just frustrated. This Saturday I will be officially nine months preggers so maybe I have a horrible case of mommy brain or I am just getting too frustrated too easily. Who knows!