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Lagging, freezing, and jumpy Sims. Sims 3.

I know this has probably been asked, but there are so many pages of questions that it would take me hours to go through them all. I play Sims 3 from Origin and have experiencing lagging, freezing, and jumpy Sims for a couple of months now. I have looked around the internet for a solution and found to delete some things (caches, screenshots) from the folder (and I have), update the game (and it is), among other solutions. I have had my brother (who is VERY knowledgeable on fixing games and such on computer) look at it and he is at a loss. I have about eight to nine expansion packs (World Adventures, Pets, Seasons, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, University, Island Paradise, and even Town Life Stuff) and I even have a LOT of store content in my game, mainly things for children and some clothing items and merchandise for houses. I do have several saved games for several reasons: my sister-in-law has a game on there that she plays when she comes over for a visit (she has moved her family around a bit and has saved the game under different names, creating [unkowingly] two or three extra "spots" in the saved games "bank" when we start up the game); I have my main game that keeps lagging, freezing, and jumping and have started up two other games to replace it so I can play (those have started to experience the same problem); and I have about 3-5 other games that I like to play every once in a while, one or two are still smoothly playable. I am asking for help to fix my game and that a patch can be used, such as the one that was made for Sims 2 when it experienced the same problem and was fixed.

Thank you!

  • Yes, you did.

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    Try resetting all your Sims in your town with resetsim *

    To do so

    • Open the cheat console with ctl-shift-c
    • Type resetsim * (including the *)

    This should put all your sims and animals to a safe location.

    You might have a stuck Sim somewhere

    Here's some more tips: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Lags-amp-Freezes/td-p/646

    Also Islo Paradiso has it's own set of issues, that's why I asked what world you were playing. Sunset Valley and Twinbrookes should have any particular lagging issues. It's mostly Islo Paradiso, Bridgeport and the WA worlds that have those.

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    If that doesn't help, could you post your Computer's DxDiag?

    To gather a DxDiag on your computer, please follow the steps here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/HOW-TO-DxDiag-for-Sims-3-PC-Only/td-p/1049584/

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