Sims 3 Island Paradise freezing every couple of seconds

Try turning off the interactive loading screen in your options and check if your graphic card is properly recognized by the game:

http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/06/getting-the-game-to-recognize-your-card.html

Hi Crinrict!  How does one check if the graphics card is properly recognized by the game?  I can play any map/town without issues, just not island paradise.  The freezing makes the game unplayable.  Should I uninstall and reinstall?

RESOLVED!!

I did some more research and found a post from you, telling someone to resetsim *.  It worked for me.  Now they only freeze for a split second real time every 10 minutes in game time.  Thank you Thank you  But I would still like to know about the graphics card!

Did you try clicking on the link I posted in the post above ?

That's all the info you should need.

I'm having the same issue and validated that my graphics card is indeed found (found:1 match: 1).  Any other ideas?

I started having the issue after trying to visit a cave and then got kicked to landside.  I'm having weird bugs with boats as well.  I think I'm going to try moving my sims back to a normal town.

With the bad support I've recently gotten from EA/Origin and this buggy crap software, it makes me want to file a credit card chargeback.  It's unplayable.

I have the same problem with my game, and i was using solutions people were suggesting and it wasnt working. I found my own solution which stopped the game Island Paradise pack from freezing and that was to reduce the graphics. I know it will make it look a little weird, but the graphics don't take away that much, plus you would rather have the game to work than worry about the graphics.

• The Sims 3 freezes when playing. Especially when you play Isla Paradiso.
  Why you ask. Well simulation is the answer.
  
  All households who are around you need to be stimulated. You say to your Sim to cook. But the computer must simulate all computer played Sims households around you to do things.
  
  
• Computer do your sims stuff: takes 100 milliseconds.
  Computer do Scott family (4 sims) stuff: takes 4*100 milliseconds.
  Computer do Mark family (4 sims) stuff: takes 4*100 milliseconds.
  ... On Isla Paradiso are about 20 (4 sims) families living on the island that must be simulated. 20*4*100=8000 milliseconds. THATS 8 SECONDS.
  
  
• The solution. Go to "Change city" and wrecks (move out) all families in the city. Let shops and other facilities remain. You will still be visited by Sims even if no one else but you live in the city.

@CrystalBennett  The biggest issue with Island Paradise is that the world itself is poorly made, specifically that there are routing errors all over the map.  Other features, like the fog and the resorts, can cause problems too, especially on lower-end computers, but that's more about the cumulative effect of all the issues together.  When a sim is stuck, i.e. it can't properly route to its destination, the game tries to unstick it, but that's not always possible on the IP map.  So the game engine can overstress itself, causing lag, freezing, and even crashes while frantically recalculating routes over and over again, especially if several sims are stuck at the same time.

If you remove all the sims from a world, there won't be any left to get stuck.  But an easier solution is to use a fixed version of Isla Paradiso.  A player named ciane repaired the world herself and has offered her work to anyone who wants it.  You can download her fixed version of IP, or copy her edits into your own game.  She documented all the problems that she fixed and linked the downloads in this thread:

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/811253/removing-ip-lag