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Anonymous
13 years ago

My sim on sims 3 wont build athletic skills no matter what i do.

My game went really slow all of a sudden so i shut it down restarted my pc as it was taking 20 mintues just to load to my sims house and it still never fully loaded. I decided to delete the family and start a new one with just one sim, i started building skills until i tried athletic and no matter how many hours my sim worked out it just wouldn't build. The sim would even become fatigued ect. This happened just after i rebooted my pc and decided to check if my game needed an update in a patch to which it did so i updated the game and now it won't work peroerly this is rather annoying as i can't play my sims without this as i will just end up having to delete the family again. i have tried this several times including uninstalling sims 3 university life, my pc is well above the running needs for the game to as i have a gaming pc. Someone help me before i end up snapping the disc in frustration i dont get ont he pc often and when i do this happens.

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    • Does it happen to all your Sims or only one ?
    • Are you using any mods in your game ?
    • What happens if you start a new test game, do you have the same issue there ?
    • Is it just the athletic skill or others as well ?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Nope it does it to any new sim i make, no i am not using any mods at all. I have tested this about 6 times now every time it does this. As far as skills go i am not sure, my sims learnt handiness,logic and cooking fine but when i tried athletic it just wouldn't budge. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I didnt fancy doing either of them frankly the mod looked unsafe and i just ended up uninstalling it all and reinstalled it and low and behold the problem is STILL there! im starting to think its a patch problem... it didnt start until i was up to date on my patch and now won't disappear.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    Did you do the factory reset ? Uninstalling does not rid you of bad user files.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    This did not solve the issue please get it working this is very dissapointing

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I have this problem too, people are saying it's to do with vampires learning skills quickly but my game crashed while installing store content, and after that my male sim in a house of 4 sims (3 sims and one cat) couldn't increase any skills, and he seems to glitch when he is holding his toddler, he keeps clapping as if he is an excitable sim (which he's not) and the toddler is staying in the sitting position, but the male sim's arms are going through him (I don't know if has anything to do with the skill gltich). This is really annoying, and I have to use nraas master controller to add the skills when I think he's improved it, but it's really irritating and I think lots of people are having this problem. 

    They have also been to university twice, if that makes any difference.

    I really hope someone can help, I know its been affecting lots of people's gameplay!

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