SolitaryBeing
5 years agoRising Hotshot
The Sims 3 stuttering a fair bit
So I've returned to playing The Sims 3 after an extensive break but I've experienced stuttering problems and I'm trying to figure out if it's just "the game being the game" (age and everything) or there's something I should be changing. I'll run off what expansions I have installed, NRaas/misc mods, things I've already tried, etc. I can post dxdiag on request and I have successfully managed to get the game to recognise my graphics card already.
It mostly consists of simulation stuttering from either moving the camera around a lot/map view at any simulation speed or just not moving around at all and watching the Sims animations freeze up and then fix themselves after about 5 seconds or so. Speed 1 seems to be the most stable but it still happens a lot and I can't wrap my head around it.
Primarily I use speed 3 and have done so in the past without any issues towards gameplay but seems like something changed and started causing problems? I bought a new PC around a year and a half ago and hadn't tried The Sims 3 properly up until recently so it could be just a modern system thing but I'm not sure.
Here's a list of the expansions and any mods I use:
Expansions
The Sims 3
The Sims 3 Ambitions
The Sims 3 Pets
The Sims 3 Seasons
The Sims 3 Generations
The Sims 3 Showtime
The Sims 3 Late Night
The Sims 3 World Adventures
Stuff Packs
The Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff
The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff
The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff
The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff
Mods
No Intro
NRaas Overwatch
NRaas ErrorTrap
NRaas MasterController
NRaas MasterController Cheats
NRaas MasterController Progression
NRaas GoHere
NRaas Decensor
NRaas Mover
NRaas Traveller (WA fixes)
NRaas Dreamer
NRaas Dresser
NRaas OnceRead (surely you know the answer to "Where's Bella?" by reading it the first tme)
NRaas PortraitPanel
NRaas Register
NRaas Retuner (no, stop with the date calls, bad, she's married)
NRaas Saver
NRaas SecondImage
NRaas StoryProgression (marked bold as it's supposedly more of a hog)
NRaas StoryProgression Extra
NRaas StoryProgression Money
NRaas StoryProgression Population
NRaas StoryProgression Relationship
NRaas Tagger
NRaas Tempest
NRaas Traffic (tried turning down the amount of taxis)
NRaas WrittenWord
More Entry Points Version 1 EA (noticed a lot of kids/teens trying to enter school in the morning so needed to address them getting stuck)
May just need to chill with the mods but I've found these useful for day to day tweaking and management of world stuff and had no issues before. Every time I've cleaned out the cache files and checked CurrentGame is empty before starting the game, always Save As, and quit and reload the game if I'm loading save files.
Anyway thank you for reading.
Edit 1: Should have mentioned that I have followed several guides on the internet already for ensuring best peformance
Edit 2: I'm also using the "fixed" versions of the EA worlds and currently reside on Twinbrook
It mostly consists of simulation stuttering from either moving the camera around a lot/map view at any simulation speed or just not moving around at all and watching the Sims animations freeze up and then fix themselves after about 5 seconds or so. Speed 1 seems to be the most stable but it still happens a lot and I can't wrap my head around it.
Primarily I use speed 3 and have done so in the past without any issues towards gameplay but seems like something changed and started causing problems? I bought a new PC around a year and a half ago and hadn't tried The Sims 3 properly up until recently so it could be just a modern system thing but I'm not sure.
Here's a list of the expansions and any mods I use:
Expansions
Stuff Packs
Mods
May just need to chill with the mods but I've found these useful for day to day tweaking and management of world stuff and had no issues before. Every time I've cleaned out the cache files and checked CurrentGame is empty before starting the game, always Save As, and quit and reload the game if I'm loading save files.
Anyway thank you for reading.
Edit 1: Should have mentioned that I have followed several guides on the internet already for ensuring best peformance
Edit 2: I'm also using the "fixed" versions of the EA worlds and currently reside on Twinbrook