"Sharonia;c-17857759" wrote:
"igazor;c-17856925" wrote:
"Sharonia;c-17856766" wrote:
Is it okay to ask which packs cause lag in the Sims 3? Or is that an old issue?
It's not so much that this pack causes lag while that pack doesn't, it's that they each have a different potential impact on game performance because some of them are much heavier to run than others. How much of a difference this makes depends on your hardware set. We would need to know what the specs are on computer(s) you are playing on to be able to say how well a few or all 11 EPs together might be expected to run for you.
The heaviest EPs are, in order, Pets (by far), Seasons, IP, ITF. The lightest ones are probably WA, Ambitions, Generations, with the others being somewhere in between. The Stuff Packs add almost no measurable overhead.
IP gets a bad rap in this regard because, although it's around #3 in the weight that it adds to any game where it is present, it also comes with the Isla Paradiso world that is flawed and needs some fixing up before it becomes properly playable.
Thank you so much for your reply. I’m planning to get a new PC soon. This has been really helpful. I’m not sure my current PC can handle all the packs or maybe it can. I like to try keep my game running smooth.
This has help me decide which ones I will maybe avoid installing until I get a new PC.
@Sharonia i have bought a gaming laptop a few months ago. I bought it to play 4, cause my game was already lagging in my old laptop. A few days ago i've decided to re-install sims 3 just to see if it would be different from last time. And it is! I have all eps and stuff packs and a few store items and worlds. The game is super smooth. Yesterday i played from 11am to 11pm with no flaws or performance issues :) I did followed the steam sims 3 performance guide before i started playing. But after setting it, it runs wonderfully. I dare to say it runs better than 4, now that 4 is having so much simulation lag and action queues that disapear...
My laptop is a lenovo legion 5, with amd ryzen 7, 16gb ram and nvidia gtx 1650 ti.
