Sims 3 Smooth Patch?

I tried it, and it's fantastic. I mean just really wonderful in a lot of ways. CAS and Buy mode catalogs and patterns load noticeably faster, and the game feels smoother as well.

I also noticed that a weird fps drop I normally get when panning over a certain pond is just gone. I do have a framerate cap in place, so that might be masking a smaller drop, but the normal stutter I'd see at the same time is mostly gone as well. The lot in question is the Delaney home lot in Dragon Valley, and I tested on both of the high water settings, with all other graphics maxed out except for high-detail lots.

This did not have any effect on my graphics card, either in temperature or workload.

A warning to anyone playing on a borderline system: this will increase the load on your processor, probably to a significant extent depending on the setting you use for this tool. So if the two cores that handle Sims 3 are already close to maxed out, or your CPU is already running hot, this tool is probably not for you. On the other hand, you can edit the accompanying text file to set a lower TPS: try 100 or less rather than the default 500. (The default Sims 3 setting is 30.) And use a hardware monitoring tool like CPU-Z or hwinfo to check temperatures and the load on each CPU core.

I tried it earlier. Had to exempt the exe file from McAfee because it kept putting it on the watch list.

The loading time for patterns definitely improved and the transition of multiple icons as well as notifications are now smoother than before; however, I did notice some fps drops on my part (a decrease from 55-60fps to 45-55fps).

My game also crashed the moment I wanted to return to the main menu ._. it has never crashed on my PC until I installed the patch.

And not sure about you guys, but my CAS music stopped after playing 1 track.

I tried this mod last night (the Origin one) and I must say that I noticed a significant difference. I used the default settings. Switching between lots was much faster as well as load times even on my largest lots. I did notice a bit of lag when my sim was running between lots but I don't have a top of the line PC and I have all my options on the highest settings. Panning around the world in map view was a joy with no lag at all.

Buy and build mode showed the most difference. Patterns loaded fast and I was able to quickly recolor objects as well as turning the camera without noticeable lag. I didn't try creating a sim but from what I've seen on the videos, that is supposed to be improved as well. I will try that out today. I used this mod without any of my custom or store content and will add that to my game and see if it helps with all the added junk I have. I didn't notice the music stopping as mentioned by Kelvin and will keep my ear peeled for that.

@Onverser - according to the mod creator - "that error can be fixed by increasing the “Delay” value in TS3Patch.txt, around 500-1000 should work!"

I think this mod is a game changer!

What is this witchcraft? I generally don't have problems with performance, but I'll still use it as everything feels a bit snappier. It causes my CPU to run a little hotter and my fans to run a bit harder, but nothing too bad. My game is loading faster.

@Onverser If you're getting the smoothing patched failed message, there's a post further down the linked page which addresses that.

"It can be fixed by increasing the “Delay” value in TS3Patch.txt, around 500-1000 should work!"

I am more scared at this point of my game instantly shutting itself down when I wanted to return to the main menu, that was something I was not expecting at all.

The load time for patterns was significantly reduced and when you now rotate a sim in CAS it is definitely apparent that the motion is way smoother than before; though apart from these nice touches to the game, I don’t think my game was loaded faster or experienced less lag than without the mod.

I had it uninstalled for the time being, will keep an eye out for the developments though. It would be a great mod if it improves your gaming experience but unfortunately for me, it didn’t change much.

"PalmArrow;c-17945572" wrote:
I've been using it for two days now and the thumbnails in CAS and Build/Buy are loading so fast! I was used to it being a long and boring wait.

(I haven't noticed any difference in game loading time and in gameplay, and I don't know if my CPU is getting too hot - I had no idea this was a thing I should be monitoring until I read this thread.)

I use Core Temp to monitor. Usually in Sims 3 my CPU runs at about 65c occasionally going up to 68c. With this patch installed, it was running at 67c and went up to 71c occasionally. These are acceptable temperatures. I don't think it's really necessary to constantly monitor temps, but Sims games are so CPU intensive I just wanted to make sure it was okay when my fans kicked into overdrive.

"Felicity;c-17945569" wrote:

@Onverser If you're getting the smoothing patched failed message, there's a post further down the linked page which addresses that.

"It can be fixed by increasing the “Delay” value in TS3Patch.txt, around 500-1000 should work!"

It seems to be working, I think I just misunderstood the mod and got excited expecting it to get rid of all the lag from changing item categories in CAS :s

@Karritz For the Disk version, you can use the Steam patch. Source

Edit: omg, I linked the same page the OP did. I'm such a dork.

Ah, thanks everyone, it's a bit comforting to know it isn't just me it happens to.

"Satanu_Reeves;c-17946130" wrote:
@Pary I'm not sure what things you've tried already but my game did that for months. I tried every solution I could find online and just gave up after awhile. I ended up making a back up then deleting the missingdeps.idx file in the DCCache folder as it was a recommended solution to a different issue I was having with the game infinitely loading in buydebug. But then right after that I closed my game and the slow to go away black screen on exit problem stopped. Hasn't been back. So, kinda weird as it was never a recommended solution to the problem but if you've tried everything else...maybe?

Interesting.. no I haven't tried that, but I will now, thank you!

I've tested this mod briefly. Waiting for the patterns to load doesn't really bother me anymore but it's visibly faster now. When I'm decorating/cluttering a house I'm usually using the miscellaneous decor tab a lot. With this mod it loaded everything almost instantly. One thing I noticed was the increased speed rotation of the thumbnail of an object, I can't remember it ever spinning so fast. I was playing basically a new save so I didn't see any lag out of the ordinary and the game shut down in 2 seconds. When I try it on my legacy save however I'm sure it will be a different story.