I would like to know everyone's opinion on this matter. I personally would really enjoy a 64 bit update, it might help with lag. :)

My game runs fine most of the time so I don't know. If it ever happens ... I won't hold my breath ... I will wait to see what others have to say about it. It's a case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" for me.

If it'll help with lag issue! I have my game on SSD with all add-ons and store, minimum CC and mods but original large worlds are still lagging for me. If the lag will be solved by this I'll be playing TS3 non-stop. It's my favorite in the series.

@logion - My sense is that 64-bit will help prevent resource overload crashes and Error 12s for ongoing games that were just on the edge of being overloaded, thus allowing them to be saved and continued forward. But it's really just going to kick the problem of what the game engine can handle a bit further down the road. If the ongoing game has or is becoming corrupt, if the world has too many places where sims are unroutable, if the resident population is too high, the world is too large or overstuffed with busy lots, if game file maintenance procedures are not followed, then only giving the game more RAM to work with is not going to cure performance issues more than temporarily. The goal will still be to find ways both with and without mods like those from NRaas to get the game to use fewer resources, not more, as we play our longer running game saves forward. I'm already imagining situations where the game is using let's say 6 GB (or more) to keep the open world simulation going and things progressing; at some point it's still probably all going to fall apart as the game engine as it's currently designed isn't going to be able to keep up with the increases in demand on it.But that's all just theory and we don't have to be so theoretical about it for much longer. The 64-bit version of TS3 for Mac has been worked on for over a year now and is slated to be released by EA tomorrow, Oct. 28. From all indications we are getting from those involved with the project, it really will be 64-bit and not as some of us suspected just a way to trick the Mac version of the game to work in any capacity on the current macOS which the current 32-bit Mac version cannot. Those of us with Macs are very much looking forward to trying this new version out to see how quickly we can break it...er, I mean how much further we can take gameplay on it.Thus I am not voting here yet, not until some of us get to try this new version out and kick it around the block a few times. :)

"Cinebar;c-17704864" wrote:I didn't have any idea EA was going to do this for MAC users. That's odd in a way after the game has been over for almost seven years. What's up with that?The original (older) Mac version of the game will not run on the current macOS because Apple dropped 32-bit backwards compatibility with the release of Catalina a year ago. So those on Catalina or higher cannot currently play the game at all unless they have a way to boot up Mojave or run Windows through Bootcamp on their Macs. That's the difference -- the game having built-in limitations or perhaps not running as well as it might vs. forget it, it's just not going to install or run at all on the players' native or main-use operating system.Another theory is that since Mac users represent only a minority of TS3 players, perhaps this project is a way to test how well 64-bit is going to work out and be received by a still very large sample set before seriously considering working on the Windows version. Or even if that was not really the original intent, it might very well be how things work out. Again, all just theories. :)

@Cinebar - Except that they are still selling TS3, and unfortunately to many who aren't noticing the system requirements and trying to run it on Catalina anyway only to find that it can't be done. And then there's the existing expansions and TS3 Store, revenue sources that kind of rely on players' games to work at least to some extent. But they could of course just as easily have decided to retire the Mac version and be done with it.But yes, somewhere among all of the possible explanations for why EA might be doing this, both the reasonable ones and those that might be a bit off the wall, and players having fun trying to figure out what their true intentions are (taking over the world is one, right?), there is the fact that very few of us expected such a thing to happen at this late date in any form. So that does indeed make it qualify as odd. :)

Would you be interested in a Sims 3 64 bit update

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Clousinators
5 years ago
Maybe its just me but I just have no desire to go back and play the older sims (1-3) I am not saying 4 is the best but I just get used to one system and at this point if I play a different Sims I want it to be because they released 5.
cb2342z
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I think it would run a lot better. I have a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7010 as an interim desktop. With a 3rd gen i7 and 16GB of RAM, it should run TS3 very well. But, it doesn't since we can only use 2 GB of RAM. Even cheap "budget-oriented" $300 laptops have more RAM than that! I won't buy any computer with less than 8GB of RAM. I have a Toshiba Satellite with a Pentium and 4GB of RAM I use less than once or twice a year (backup PC in case another bites the dust), and it's a paperweight. SO SLOW! And it was that way when it was still my main laptop before getting replaced with a laptop with i7/8GB of RAM.
igazor
5 years ago
"cody6268;c-17712190" wrote:
I think it would run a lot better. I have a refurbished Dell Optiplex 7010 as an interim desktop. With a 3rd gen i7 and 16GB of RAM, it should run TS3 very well. But, it doesn't since we can only use 2 GB of RAM.

That hasn't been true on Windows since Patch 1.17 was released in 2010, thus making TS3 Large Address Aware (LAA). Only the now older 32-bit Mac version kept the 2 GB cap.

The game on Windows will reach for up to just short of 4 GB, if and when it "thinks" it needs it and if the physical RAM is available. Resource overload and Error12s happen when usage approaches ~3.5 GB, this varies for different players, with 3.7 GB being absolute most the game can work with. A strong enough dedicated graphics card helps to offload a lot of the memory usage and is at least expected to improve game performance dramatically over integrated graphics.

Going 64-bit doesn't make the game call for more RAM earlier unless the game's programming is changed/remastered to take advantage of the increased capacity. On the new Mac version, I haven't played a world that is complex enough yet to require more than the 1.5 GB or so that it's currently asking for but stress testing will soon change that once I get finished adding all my content into it.
Simkid12341
5 years ago
The Sims 3 is Old And not better than the wsims 4 who has 64 Bits Support (Formerly has 32 bits support but has dropped)
NikkeiSimmer
Legend
5 years ago
"Leosims;c-17717754" wrote:
The Sims 3 is Old And not better than the wsims 4 who has 64 Bits Support (Formerly has 32 bits support but has dropped)

Highly suggest you don't open that door. You're going to start a war.
timurjr96
5 years ago
"Nikkei_Simmer;c-17718125" wrote:
"Leosims;c-17717754" wrote:
The Sims 3 is Old And not better than the wsims 4 who has 64 Bits Support (Formerly has 32 bits support but has dropped)

Highly suggest you don't open that door. You're going to start a war.

Hahahahaha :D
phozons
5 years ago
i used to absolutely love ts3, but it unfortunately got to the point where i could hardly run it. having it in 64-bit and being able to try it again after all these years would be so nice...
nycbigl
5 years ago
Question;
If I get the 64 bit Sims 3 would I still be able to use my old save file? Can I still pick up where I left off in my game by saving my save file and backups and then adding it to the new 64 bit version of Sims 3?
Plus will any world I create with CAW still work with the 64 bit Sims 3?

Update;
Oops! Never mind! Just realized that the 64 bit Sims version is only for Mac users and not for Windows. Oh well.
SamXNE_997
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Leosims;c-17717754" wrote:
The Sims 3 is Old And not better than the wsims 4 who has 64 Bits Support (Formerly has 32 bits support but has dropped)

Tell me you didn't just say that.
Burnziie
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I have a huge feeling it'd be essential. Last I tried it my computer which could keep stable 60s on modern games could hardly run TS3 without major simulation-lag + long loadtimes even with all the essential mods.

I really want to go back to TS3 but I can't because of the lag, and a nice 64bit upgrade might do wonders.

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