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Lola18790
5 years ago
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Sims 3 64-bit Keeps Crashing and Lagging 2021

Hello, So I've been playing the Sims 3 for about 7-8 years now but when the Sims 4 came out, I switched over to the Sims 4 and have been playing it ever since. Just yesterday, I decided to download ...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    5 years ago

    @Lola18790  Try turning down lighting quality to the lowest setting.  Do so at the Main Menu, then quit to desktop before loading a save.

    If that doesn't help, what world are you playing in?  Sunset Valley and Riverview are quite stable, but some EA-made store worlds have routing issues, and custom worlds can have all kinds of problems, even ones from the Exchange.  If you're not playing in SV, try doing so as a comparison.

    However, the issue here may be the presence of the Pets expansion itself.  Even without pets in your active household, strays will spawn elsewhere on the map, and other households may adopt their own pets.  There are ways to address some of this with mods, if you're interested in trying.  But since it's not clear at this point which elements of Pets cause problems, other than the obvious (pets in the active household), it's also not clear whether any of the available interventions might help.

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago

@Lola18790  Honestly, if you can play with Pets enabled, you're ahead of most people with your type of graphics chip.  There's a mod that can control or eliminate the stray pet population, which may or may not cut down on the crashes.  You can play with the graphics settings a bit more, maybe turning down something else or playing in windowed mode and/or at a reduced resolution.  But the game is not likely to be perfectly stable as long as you have the pack installed.

If you'd like specific suggestions, let me know whether mods are on the table or not.  It's totally understandable if you don't want to use them; just let me know either way.

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Lola18790
5 years ago

Hi,

Sorry for such a late response. I'm not interested in using mods, as long as the game runs okay without them, I'm fine with it. Thanks again for your help. 

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