@mg75535 If your computer has a 12th- or 13th-gen Intel processor, that's the issue: Sims 3 doesn't start correctly on these CPUs. The workaround is to limit the game to one core as it's loading. Please see the accepted solution of this thread for more information:
If that's not the issue, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
This is absolute garbage. I have a monster pc but the game is lagging like *, likely because of this workaround limiting the cpu.
@330frosty You can lift the CPU core limit a few seconds after applying it, really as soon as you're sure the game is loading. That's in the instructions.
Since this thread is two years old now, I'll lock it here.
