[FAQ] Lags & Freezes

• Make sure your computer fulfills the requirements. I think the minimum requirement for this game are way to low so if you are even lower than that, that is probably where your problem lies.
• Stuck or frozen Sims
• Stuck cars and bikes
• Tons of cars in the streets and the inventories of inactive Sim. These are temporary items that don't get cleaned up properly.
• Crowd gatherings that never dissolve.
• Tons of downloads (especially package files) and faulty ones.
• Bad Routing in Bridgeport and other towns
• Large Savegames. Games that have been played very long tend to bloat. Especially all the relationship information take up a lot of space.
• Spiral Staircases that don't work correctly anymore after Patch 1.26
• Make sure you have no areas where Sim can get stuck
• Trees in driveways make the game lag.
• Some of the bigger mods are very heavy on the resources. If you have an older/slower computer, don't use them.
• The game likes to spawn a lot of wild animals and strays. Similar to the car issue this makes the game lag
• Server Connections Issue (SimPort, social features)

Solutions

• Turn down your options or get a new Computer
• Reset all your Sims in town by entering the cheat resetsim *
• Delete stuck cars by using the cheat testingcheatsenabled true and then shift-click on the car and choose Object-Delete
• Try to reduce the number of cars in your hood. Remove them from inventories of inactive Sims and streets. To prevent them spawning everywhere again, delete the parking spaces as well.
• Reduce the amount of Custom Content you're using and make sure the ones you are using are actually Sims 3 files and not corrupt.
• Copy all your Sims to the library and move them to a new town. You will loose all your relationships but everything else will be maintained.
• Make sure to fix all spiral staircases in your town by turning them until they work correctly.
• Log out from game while playing.

Here's what I've noticed since getting Sims 3, what's it at least 2 years ago now.  Every game update has increased the problem with bugs.  It's so bad now, it's nearly unplayable!!!.  Lags and freezes are only part of the problem.  Game malfunctions have increased.  Example.  My sim marries his girl, she doesn't move in, her name doesn't change, but it says she's married to him.  Game saying carpool will arrive in an hour, though the sims next shift is more than a day away.  Today, my sim can't go to work and is losing job performance.  When I click go to work the icon pops up then just drops.  All of these suggestions are horse pucky.  My computer meets and exceeds the requirements for Sims 3.  EA Games has shoved all this social crap into it, which many of us don't want.  What we need rather than your suggestions on how to stop all this is for EA games to fix the bugs.  This is why I stopped spending money on EA products is because they bug it up, when you report it they blame your system.  It's like no, I know what my system is capable of, you guys fix the game, it worked fine till all these updates started showing up, like this social stuff, the reputation stuff.  Players shouldn't have to be doing any of this crap?  come on if these problems exist, it's from bad code being dumped on us!!!  Get real!!!  This is really bed support here.  EA GAMES FIX THE BUGS!!!!!