5 years ago
PC Sims 3 is Large Address Aware?
For the longest time I've had issues with sims 3 for years. Countless attempts at trying to minimize this inexplicable lag I've have. I've tried everything from installing Nraas Mods countless tweaks, upgrading hardware components and while it has helped. I do get steady 60 fps in most cases but there's always this micro stutter, or this jerking lag when doing certain things like going throughout the neighborhood on foot. I've heard that at the end of the day Sims 3 just isn't all that optimized, but I think I found the issue for my problem, the trouble is I don't know what to do about it.
For starters, I know what Large Address Aware is it basically enables executables if supported to use higher than 2GB of ram if you have the ram and the system architecture to allow it. Which I do as I have a Windows 10 64bit with as of recently 24GB of RAM which sounds like over kill for the sims 3, but I didn't get it specifically for that, but for other games I've played recently. Which is when I had an idea.to just try the game again after installing the extra ram. And as expected viewing through task manager the game itself is not even stressing my system in the slightest, with Sims 3 being likely the second oldest game on my PC, but I could run more modern games like Fallout 4 with mods with no issues in performance and some recent games with much less hiccups on high settings. Yet Sims 3 still seems to perform objectively worse in performance despite for all intents and purposes it shouldn't.
And while I appologize for the lengthy initial posts, I wanted to convey just how baffling it has been to get sufficient performance, almost as baffling as this drive I have in pursuing to resolve it. Though I'll get to the point, as far as I know the Sims 3 Supposedly has been LAA ever sense the late night patch. I have the most recent patch as well as every expansion up to Into The Future, and a couple of stuff packs and I think I have one disabled, yet when I view the game in task manager, it seems to barely cross the 2GB mark in RAM usage if it even reaches it. I do have mods and CC but it doesn't seem like it's making much of a difference even tried without some of them and still seems to not make much of a difference. Though to my point if my game was functioning truly with LAA wouldn't the ram usage actually increase to accommodate the demands the game needs? I had some experince making other games use more ram like some games in the Fallout series with their modding needs and the memory consumption actually begins to compensate, but for some reason Sims 3 or atleast mine in particular won't use past 2GB. Though if it could I think it would finally solve these harsh lag spikes I have despite other wise very good performance.
Edit: This is the resource usage: http://prntscr.com/rsh07p
For starters, I know what Large Address Aware is it basically enables executables if supported to use higher than 2GB of ram if you have the ram and the system architecture to allow it. Which I do as I have a Windows 10 64bit with as of recently 24GB of RAM which sounds like over kill for the sims 3, but I didn't get it specifically for that, but for other games I've played recently. Which is when I had an idea.to just try the game again after installing the extra ram. And as expected viewing through task manager the game itself is not even stressing my system in the slightest, with Sims 3 being likely the second oldest game on my PC, but I could run more modern games like Fallout 4 with mods with no issues in performance and some recent games with much less hiccups on high settings. Yet Sims 3 still seems to perform objectively worse in performance despite for all intents and purposes it shouldn't.
And while I appologize for the lengthy initial posts, I wanted to convey just how baffling it has been to get sufficient performance, almost as baffling as this drive I have in pursuing to resolve it. Though I'll get to the point, as far as I know the Sims 3 Supposedly has been LAA ever sense the late night patch. I have the most recent patch as well as every expansion up to Into The Future, and a couple of stuff packs and I think I have one disabled, yet when I view the game in task manager, it seems to barely cross the 2GB mark in RAM usage if it even reaches it. I do have mods and CC but it doesn't seem like it's making much of a difference even tried without some of them and still seems to not make much of a difference. Though to my point if my game was functioning truly with LAA wouldn't the ram usage actually increase to accommodate the demands the game needs? I had some experince making other games use more ram like some games in the Fallout series with their modding needs and the memory consumption actually begins to compensate, but for some reason Sims 3 or atleast mine in particular won't use past 2GB. Though if it could I think it would finally solve these harsh lag spikes I have despite other wise very good performance.
Edit: This is the resource usage: http://prntscr.com/rsh07p