Lag after visiting certain lot?
Okay. I'm not sure if anybody will be able to help me, this might just be one of those Sims 3 things I have to live with, but I wanted to try anyway.
I had been playing the game for a while at full graphic settings with a small handful of CC. Everything would run absolutely perfectly. Zero issues whatsoever. My sims got invited to a party where I started experiencing a bit of lag. Nothing too crazy, and I put it down to the party lot being bigger than our home lot (which thinking about it now doesn't make sense anyway because I was able to play on larger community lots just fine) and didn't think much of it. My sims went home and I was still experiencing lag, so I figured it was because the world was covered in snow. I was disappaointed but reluctently disabled snow in game anyway, and waited for it to melt. It didn't help. It started hailing so I figured "hey maybe it's the hail and I'm just having bad luck with the weather right now", disabling hail didn't fix anything. At this point I start to panic because I realise I'm going to have to start playing with outside factors if I want my game to work properly. Here is everything I have attempted:
To clarify, the lagging is the kind where the game runs fine for a few moments and then the game freezes with the cursor still being able to move, but not interact with the UI/game. This freeze lasts for up to five seconds and then things go back to normal fora few moments, and repeat.
I have NRaas/Overwatch installed to help, have done from the beginning.
The only thing that has changed on my PC since this lag started happening was installing a new game, and I'm not sure how likely it is that files from that game could affect the performance of my Sims 3 save, so I can give more details if anybody feels it's worth it.
As I said before, I'm not really certain I can fix this. My gut is telling me it's just the consequence of having a save file for x amount of time and the game is trying to deal with all the background relationships etc. but I wanted to see if anybody has had a similar issue they were able to fix, or if they can see anything I've missed from my troubleshooting. This game has been a bit of a hyperfixation for me lately, with it being a sole comfort through some rough times and I would hate to have to abandon it without trying everything.
Thanks in advance and I hope you're all having a lovely timezone!
I had been playing the game for a while at full graphic settings with a small handful of CC. Everything would run absolutely perfectly. Zero issues whatsoever. My sims got invited to a party where I started experiencing a bit of lag. Nothing too crazy, and I put it down to the party lot being bigger than our home lot (which thinking about it now doesn't make sense anyway because I was able to play on larger community lots just fine) and didn't think much of it. My sims went home and I was still experiencing lag, so I figured it was because the world was covered in snow. I was disappaointed but reluctently disabled snow in game anyway, and waited for it to melt. It didn't help. It started hailing so I figured "hey maybe it's the hail and I'm just having bad luck with the weather right now", disabling hail didn't fix anything. At this point I start to panic because I realise I'm going to have to start playing with outside factors if I want my game to work properly. Here is everything I have attempted:
- Clearing out sims' inventories (I only play with two sims and this seemed to fix it for a brief moment until it didn't)
- Playing without CC
- Making a new save and seeing if the lag was present there (it wasn't, but granted I only tested it for a few moments because I was in a rush to figure out the issue)
- Clearing cache files and other TS3 files that have been confirmed safe for deleting
- Updating my drivers
- Lowering the graphics settings
- Playing without store content enabled
- Running as admin
- Playing without other applications running on my PC
To clarify, the lagging is the kind where the game runs fine for a few moments and then the game freezes with the cursor still being able to move, but not interact with the UI/game. This freeze lasts for up to five seconds and then things go back to normal fora few moments, and repeat.
I have NRaas/Overwatch installed to help, have done from the beginning.
The only thing that has changed on my PC since this lag started happening was installing a new game, and I'm not sure how likely it is that files from that game could affect the performance of my Sims 3 save, so I can give more details if anybody feels it's worth it.
As I said before, I'm not really certain I can fix this. My gut is telling me it's just the consequence of having a save file for x amount of time and the game is trying to deal with all the background relationships etc. but I wanted to see if anybody has had a similar issue they were able to fix, or if they can see anything I've missed from my troubleshooting. This game has been a bit of a hyperfixation for me lately, with it being a sole comfort through some rough times and I would hate to have to abandon it without trying everything.
Thanks in advance and I hope you're all having a lovely timezone!
