DivinylsFan Alder Lake is the code name of a family of processors, specifically 12th-gen Intel Core CPUs: everything from the lowliest i3 to the i9-12900K. The first Alder Lake models were released at the end of 2021, and Raptor Lake (13th-gen Intel Core) showed up a year later.
The new version of ErrorTrap is for the new version of Sims 3 released through the EA App, regardless of whether you have an affected processor. Everyone with an EA App install received the update. If you don't install the new version of ET, you may get a core mismatch warning, or the game might minimize on launch, but it's not dangerous to play with it. Nothing about the game core changed at all, and so the only change to ET was the internal build number.
Jaline33 If reinstalling your worlds doesn't help, please create your own thread in the tech forum listing the worlds you're missing, and whether they still show as owned on the Sims 3 Store site. I don't want your issue to get lost in this thread.
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Sandraelle I'm happy for you and all the other users who had to jump through hoops to fix the issue until now. The only disappointment is it took this long to fix.
NikkeiSimmer The update only fixed the startup issue, so it shouldn't have helped with lag unless you were limiting the game to one CPU core AND neglecting to lift the limit after your save loaded. But less lag is always a good thing.
There’s a lot of buzz on Facebook groups right now with several players reporting less lag and much faster load up times. It’s a curious phenomenon if not intentionally built into the update. Just excitement? Either way it’s great Sims 3 got some attention after so many years.
@ puzzlezaddict Re: your comment as follows:
Jaline33 If reinstalling your worlds doesn't help, please create your own thread in the tech forum listing the worlds you're missing, and whether they still show as owned on the Sims 3 Store site. I don't want your issue to get lost in this thread. <end of quoted comment>
Thank you so much for you follow up, puzzelzaddict - I did manage to track down my problem on the EA Help forum and received directions for how to get those missing worlds to show up again. I wish I had jotted down notes or a lead to the helpful thread as it might have helped others, too. Unfortunately I did not keep track of it, and it's like a forest of words in there! :) Thank you again.
