Issues a player who likes to play large saves can face in the sims 3?

"Iceey;d-974868" wrote:
Hi there everyone!

Turns out the game doesn't recognise 2nd cousins. I guess that might not be too much of an issue, becsuse I'm sure most of the sims who would have 2nd cousins would be dead by that point and if not there's always story progression castes.

Sorry to jump on just this point, I'm a bit pressed for time right now and will respond more later if I can.

But I think you have 2nd cousins confused with 1st cousins once (or 2nd cousins twice) removed. It's once or twice removed bits that put sims (and people) in different generations from each other, usually. But siblings have a common parent, 1st cousins have a common grandparent. 2nd cousins have a common great grandparent, even if that great grandparent is no longer alive. They are more likely to be of the same generation. In other words when two first cousins each have children, on their own with each their own partner I mean, their offspring are 2nd cousins. And in turn the offspring of each of the 2nd cousins will be 3rd cousins -- we're getting kind of far apart on the family tree now, and in the real world we wouldn't necessarily consider offspring that far apart to be all that closely related. I don't know any of my 3rd cousins because I don't really know much about my great great grandparents and what their various offspring have done with their lives as they all lived in a country whose name I can barely pronounce, although I am sure I have plenty of them. Others may be able to trace their family trees back and around that far more easily.

First cousins once removed means one's grandparent is the other's uncle/aunt or great grandparent. These are often a generation apart but sometimes not depending on how far apart the siblings were and how early/late they started having kids compared to each other. The game does not see these as closely related either.

Are we still talking about the game's higher speeds like 2x and 3x causing lag or is this now happening on newly started games running at 1x (Normal) as well?

There are still plenty of things to try, because of course there are plenty of things that can go wrong with Sims 3. First, please go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3, open the file labeled deviceconfig.log, copy the first 40 or so lines (stop at Options), and paste them here. You can use a spoiler tag to make the post not take up so much space.

There are a few other useful tests, if you haven't tried them already. First, move your entire Sims 3 user data folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, launch the game to create a clean folder (don't put anything at all into it), start a new save in Sunset Valley, and have a look around. Don't change any of the graphics options either.

If that doesn't or didn't make a difference, please try playing while your laptop isn't connected to the internet. If you use Origin, and please let me know whether you do, you can put it in offline mode first, then disable wifi and/or pull the ethernet cable. Please use another clean folder.

If that doesn't help either, please try playing in a clean boot:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10

Let us know how all of this goes. It would also be useful to see a dxdiag. Hit Windows key-R and enter "dxdiag" without quotes into the run box. Once it's done, click "Save all information," save the dxdiag to your desktop, upload it to a free filesharing site (pastebin.com works fine), and link it here.

hey! I'm just dropping here to say that this windows update I didn't even know I didn't have fixed all my audio issues which was the most annoying thing about my laptop so THANK YOU! This is aweome lol.

"Iceey;c-17480659" wrote:
hey! I'm just dropping here to say that this windows update I didn't even know I didn't have fixed all my audio issues which was the most annoying thing about my laptop so THANK YOU! This is aweome lol.

It's always fun to find out you fixed a problem you didn't even know someone had. Glad to hear the game is running well now.

And yes, definitely get that extra 8 GB memory when you can. Even though it's not essential, it will make your life so much easier, or at least the part of your life that involves staring at your screen.

hey guys! I know this is not something that you might care about but adding RAM definitely fixed everything. There was a BIOS fix but turns out it was only for desktops since when I enter my BIOS it's very very simple with not many options to chose from. There is not any chipset options, or integrated graphics RAM allocation options. It just shows pc info, lets u chose boot device and such, but it's not much of an issue now w 16GB. My games are running better. What made me go and add RAM was even TS2 lagging, like the least demanding game in my pc, so yeah.

A huge thanks for all your suggetions and help once more!

Allegations of us not caring noted, but not accurate. :)

There's probably a sneaky way to get into a more advanced BIOS interface on your laptop vs. the simplified one you are seeing but that doesn't seem necessary anymore.

Got it. Well tbh the last save I had in the sims 3 I had a pretty huge family ans everyone knew each other pretty well, but idk if I ever had my sims meet their 2nd cousins tbh.

Hi! I know it's porbably super annoying when the same user asks multiple questions at a time, but the game is running so horribly for me that idk what to do. It is not a case of it runs like that for everyone. I have lag whenever I even move/scroll/zoom the camera let alone the gameplay in a new save, I've tried all types of setting mixes, it's always the same, I've tried sunset valley, and a way larger world, cause at first I thought the size of the world(not that big) was causing that lag, but when I ran a fresh save in sunset valley and I experienced the same lag immediately, it isn't the world. Isn't the mods, cc, or anything of that sort (I've tested cause I barely have any cc since I can't play the game). I don't have any broken cc, sims3packs, or sims that could have had bad cc attached to them. I checked task manager, all good. All other games, like way more demanding games play awesome on this laptop, so ik that ain't it, and I just have ran out of options to try. The game like this is unplayable which sucks because I was fairly sure this laptop would run ts3 (I know it can), and it seems like even now I won't be able to play the game.

I have ran the game in windowed mode, it's the same excluding the screen tearing.

Fresh save, normal speed. Ig won't call it lag, but whenever I try to do anything like rotate, zoom in, or out it freezes, stutters etc.

I checked some threads out and there seems to be a lot of this issue and literally no fix.

People on those threads just suggested the usual stuff,
Video card recognition- Done that.
FPS limiter- also done, and I did test ingame via the fps on cheat. Max 59, min 40ish, when I move cam 10-20.
Older stuff is slower- this laptop ain't old or bad for sure
Less expansions- that would kind of be like throwing the money I spent away tbh.
Then one said lot detail at 8, sound outrageous, tried and failed.
One said lot detail below 3- that's what I have and I have lag or whatever u call this.
Vsync- didn't fix my screen tearing, tried windowed, screen tearing disappears but preformance is the same no matter what. Got windowed borderless gaming from another source since the main one doesn't work, this one does the job.
Tested w no cc- did that, still the same.
Texture memory-done.
Disable ingame stuff that makes u lag-done.
Get the featured items folder not to generate anymore files and deleted those-done
Delete chaces regularely (lately)-done.

So when rotating or doing anything sometimes it will take like 10 secs to for example rotate when I press the rotate arrow, same for the other camera related stuff. Now ig this camera lag is also making my sims lag literally. They walk backwards, cancel most actions and ye. Am I wrong in thinking my pc should be able to run the sims 3 when it can decently run AAA games. I get that the sims 3 is 32 bit and riddled with limitations and issues, but I've ran it before, and clearly many people are able to run it these days, so why can't I. It's quite frustrating because before even getting the laptop I was excited knowing it can run sims 3 and now I'm about to just give up on the game and hope a similar sims game or a remaster or smth happens someday so I can enjoy the game too.

Game runs decent in town view, decent when I don't move the camera at all, but no one can play that way, great at build mode also if I don't move the camera.

I am really running out of options here.