Corrupted files
Hi, Last night my Sims 3 game never fully loaded. There is no panel showing in order to access the Sims Inventory, etc. Also, there are no character icons showing to control them. In EA Help, the ...
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Glad to hear my PC has enough stuff for Sims 3🙂
>>>>>This is why it's critical to manually cap fps; if you haven't done so and want help with the process, please ask, and let me know whether you ever play in windowed mode.
I don't know how to manually cap fps. I'd like to try.
I only play in full screen. In other games over the years I used full screen because I liked it so much more, but now that I'm getting older (63) my eyesight isn't great.
>>>>>By the way, World Adventures is one of the lowest-impact expansions...
Good to know.
>>>>>....don't ever disable an expansion and then load a save that has been played with that pack active.
Not sure if I've ever done that. If so, it was an accident.
A couple weeks ago I got a message saying items were missing. It wasn't from a missing expansion pack. They were the store bought items. I was tired and not thinking and hit save. What a mess. The game substituted stuff everywhere. I knew to always check which expansions are checked off to load, but didn't look to see that store bought items were showing. Now I don't know what caused that, but I always wait until I see the store bought items in the downloads window. They don't appear immediately like they used to.
>>>>>NRaas mods help Sims 3 run better, but most of their impact has to do with keeping saves from getting corrupted.
I'll read up at your mod links tomorrow & get back with you about that.. Grandkids woke me up early today & were here all day.
Thanks much for your patience. Very kind of you🙂
@jeanmarie618 Capping fps is easy enough. Right-click on your desktop, select the Nvidia Control Panel, choose Manage 3D Settings > Program settings, and pick TS3.exe from the list. (You want TS3.exe, which is for Origin installs, as opposed to TS3W.exe, which is for disc or Steam installs.) Scroll down to "Vertical sync" and set it to Adaptive. Enable triple buffering too, just above vertical sync. These settings only apply in fullscreen mode.
In case you ever want to play in windowed mode, in the same list of options there's a Max Frame Rate setting, which you can set to 60. This works in fullscreen and windowed modes, but it's best to use vertical sync and triple buffering in fullscreen mode because they also help prevent graphical issues like screen tearing.
As for the store items, they simply don't load sometimes for no apparent reason. If you see it happen again and accidentally save, you can always load the backup save instead. It's also a good idea to get into the habit of saving first, then quitting without saving as a separate step. In addition to making easier to avoid clicking "save and quit" when you don't intend to, the advantage is if the save process fails, you see it happen and can do something about it rather than the game going straight to "quit."
Thanks so much. I'll work on the FPS tomorrow.
>>> if the save process fails, you see it happen and can do something about it rather than the game going straight to "quit."
Ok. I'll try your way🙂 Thx. (trying to think of ways a save has failed for me ... other than Error 12)
