Who's still playing TS3?

Still playing on The Sims 3

?? I wish I coulddddd but it's so laggy ?? it was such a well rounded game

"DreamingAboutBREAD;c-18306378" wrote:
?? I wish I coulddddd but it's so laggy ?? it was such a well rounded game

I recently purchased Lucky Palms and I have SO much less lag in Lucky Palms any others. I think trees might be causing serious lag for me. I also recently reinstalled Windows from scratch and do not leave the game logged in while playing and both of those changes made a huge difference.

"BlackSand;c-18308175" wrote:

"Katofhyrule12;c-18306422" wrote:

I think trees might be causing serious lag for me.

If you have Seasons installed ...
Trees and other greenery can cause lag when your video card is try to keep up with them blowing in the wind.

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Thank you so much for explaining that to me! I knew something was very different in Moonlight Falls compared to Lucky Palms.

I'm still playing. I set myself the challenge of using everything I ever bought and/or was gifted from the official EA content.

To do this, I made separate folders for every world, so I could just install the items that fit in with that world. I have about 25 The Sims 3 folders on my computer, one for each town I play (that includes a few user-made worlds).

https://i.imgur.com/VyQeGBZ.jpg

So, for instance all my future-themed content is of course installed in Lunar Lakes, while the Tiki sets are in Sunlit Tides, etc. I play all the pre-mades, rotation-style, and place community lots where I think they make sense... Not every town has every different type of lot, because sometimes there just isn't room.

https://i.imgur.com/RHnZjda.jpg

Sometimes I feel like tweaking a world, sometimes I just want to play so I just start up a town that I have already completely tweaked to see what everyone is up to.

https://i.imgur.com/ZEBcHIe.jpg

I made a start with every world, but not every world is totally finished (is anything ever totally finished in this game?) so I think I'll have enough to keep myself entertained for at least another four or five years (after which my computer will probably need to be replaced, and chances are I won't get the game to run any longer...)

Having said that, I did recently manage to install The Sims (a.k.a. Sims 1) on Windows 10, and it plays beautifully. So there's hope yet.

https://i.imgur.com/DNArwu3.jpg

(Sorry - I just LOVE the scenery!!)

What’s TS3? ?
https://i.imgur.com/GgDuEWN.jpg

I am! :smiley: ?? And always will. (Lately I've been revisiting Sims 2 because I had an itch. ;) I loved the heck out of it <3 before the lovliness of 3's open world suc'ked me in. :star: ) Played 4 once when it first came out, for about 2 hours, couldn't get into it, and have never played it since. I happily went back to playing the iteration I've always loved the most, and I'm always happy to see people discovering and rediscovering it. :blush:

I haven't had much time to play Sims 3 since I started a part-time job back in February. :pensive: It's made me sad, but it's the way life has to be sometimes...especially in today's economy...

*Sigh* Life...

I re opened the sims 3 after a few years of not playing..

30+ hours later... in less than 2 days lol

I have always loved The Sims 3 for the longest time. Spent money on a game that I barely did gameplay for. But loved making stories, sims and builds even made youtube videos for awhile. Started Streaming (royalghostx) with The Sims 3 and then found Overwatch and that took over my life.

At last, I have found The Sims 3 again and started to download more and more CC for the game. I wanted to try at the LEPacy Challenge. The fact we can choose what DLC through the launcher is great and easy to slowly get back into the game from the beginning.

The Sims 3 Base Game and good old Sunset Valley.

Don't get me wrong about the sims 4, i will love that game and still download CC and pay DLC for it. But taking a break from the loooong waiting for the game to even open is also good.

The Sims 2 will always be my first love, and The Sims 3 will be the second.


I still do my daily CC downloads for The Sims 4 and now The Sim3 since i started playing again looking through my old folders on my PC and finding CC that I still have. I also added Reshade to the game, since i used it for The Sims 4 I wanted to try for the sims 3 as well. But for some reason when i try and take a photo using TAB Camera mode it just spins in a circle and is very sensitive when moving. There was also a recent Windows 10 update that may cause that glitch for some reason idk how to fix.