@x-Sakaeru-x I'd like to see the results of some hardware monitoring. Please download hwinfo (it's free) from here:
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
You don't need to install anything; just choose the Portable version, unzip it, and launch it from Downloads or wherever you like. If you do want the full installer, be sure to click the button for hwinfo itself, not for lansweeper.
Restart your computer, open hwinfo, choose Sensors Only, and click the button that's a sheet of paper with a + to start logging. Save the log file to your desktop for easy access. Wait five minutes, then open Sims 3 and play for at least 20 minutes. Don't alt-tab out of the game or run any other programs, aside from the EA App of course, while you're testing. When you're done, click the same button to stop the logging.
Please upload the log to the third-party filesharing site of your choice (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) and link it for me. Either leave it in .csv format or, if you're going to use OneDrive, create a .zip file, and don't open the log before uploading it, or else my log reader might not be able to interpret it.
Okay here it is. Game was so painful to play lol.
Hope this link works. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP4ORXwNwheGe_8uyAIL2ym8WzT6KpjD/view?usp=sharing
I assume the problem has something to do with memory, especially because I was getting the error code 12 whilst saving a lot before the game became unplayable like this. It's just weird because I'm able to run games like Planet Zoo with 5000+ NPCs and 100s of animals being simulated at once on max graphics and it runs beautifully. Maybe it's because I messed around with virtual memory a bit in the past when trying to fix the error 12 problem but again I don't know why it suddenly stopped working after being fine and I don't understand why every other game works perfectly but the sims is stuttering more than it did on my * laptop when I was a kid and this is without any cc, mods, or expansion packs.
Thanks for your continued help c:
@x-Sakaeru-x The link probably does work, but it's asking me to sign in, which means access is restricted. Please either set the permissions to "anyone with the link" or, if you prefer, you can PM me the link instead.
What exactly did you do with virtual memory? Your dxdiag shows plenty of storage set aside for the page file, in truth a lot more than your computer could probably ever use, but if you merely increased this size, that wouldn't affect how Sims 3 runs. The game doesn't respond well to having its data paged, and that wouldn't do anything to overcome the 32-bit limit anyway.
Are you running an existing save or a new one, and did you ever play it with more than the base game active? Since you mentioned not using any expansions, I want to make sure that that's not the issue: removing an expansion from a save that's already been exposed to it can cause anything from terrible performance to an error when trying to load the save in the first place.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP4ORXwNwheGe_8uyAIL2ym8WzT6KpjD/view?usp=sharing
I think this should work.
And yes for virtual memory I just increased the amount my PC can use so it shouldn't cause any issue but wanted to mention it anyway.
I have been running a new save each time I've done tests and haven't activated any expansions since the last time I reinstalled. When the problem started I hadn't changed anything to do with cc, mods or expansions so I don't think it's anything to do with that. I was running it with all expansions and a lot of CC and mods but it was working fine for months.
Also just to add: I have spent hours trying a million different ways of launching the game. The problem still persists with any variation of expansions activated and with graphics on lowest settings and crap screen resolution. Every other game of mine still working perfectly -- I have no idea what to try next I feel like I've tried everything. I just don't understand how the game has been working perfectly and then suddenly stopped ☹️
