Optimization for a (not that big) dummy

"Vaida;d-955433" wrote:
Hello fellow simmers!

It's my first thread on this forum, so at first I would like to welcome you all and excuse you for my English, as it's not my native language. Secondly I am finally oficially a member, after not using the account for 9 years.

Welcome back. Let's get you caught up here. :)

- I got the FPS limiter setting my game to 60 fps (30 is not enough for me, frankly speaking).
There is usually no need to limit the fps rate to less than 60. It can go higher, but only if you have a monitor that can run higher than 60 Hz.

- I set the vehicle cleaning every Sim hour in Overwatch
NRaas Traffic has settings that prevent the unnecessary vehicles from spawning, thus giving Overwatch much less to clean up. Running the cleanup routine every hour seems unnecessary and excessive if it can be avoided. I typically see Overwatch cleaning up 1 or 2 vehicles on its overnight runs now, if even that many, I think once it found 6 or 7.

- I edited the ini file and let my Sims use half of my RAM (so it uses 8Gb, or at least I let it use as much)
Afraid that is not possible. TS3 is a 32-bit application and as such can only address 4 GB of RAM. The actual limit is ~3.7 GB due to some overhead, with the usual danger zone being somewhere around 3.5 GB for most players. If you have found and changed the .ini setting I think you have, it actually said 20 GB to begin with (so you have changed it to 80 GB) and it's a measure of the theoretical upper limit on the script heap, not really RAM usage. We advise against doing that.

There are (still...sigh) sites out there that instruct players to make this change, but it's really an urban legend that doesn't do what it might appear to do. Or you may have found something else, but regardless 32-bit only applications cannot do this. It's a laws of physics/mathematics kind of thing.

Any advices on what could I add to make the game even smoother?
A few. :)
https://www.nraas.net/community/TIPS-FOR-BETTER-GAME-PERFORMANCE