Sims 3 pets I don't have strays animals !
Hello there... I hope there are still people alive around here Since i bought the game several months ago i got a little "problem", 60 hours later i never met any strays animals althrough i bought...
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@_Sophouille_ There are still people around and answering questions, even if not as many as before.
Pets is the most demanding expansion pack in TS3, and stray animals are a big contributor. If your computer's hardware is borderline, the game itself may dial back the options to try to keep things running smoothly. It would be helpful if you could run a dxdiag and attach the results to a post here.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Another possibility is that you have a mod that's controlling, and in your particular case basically eliminating, the stray population. NRaas Register is a popular option, although certainly not the only one. So let me know if you have any mods installed that might govern strays.
wow i didn't expect a so quick answer !!
As said, i don't have any mods (i don't know how to use them xd) and i'm playing on the Steam version with other expansion packs (generation, university, ambitions, season...)Here the results, I hope it's able to help you to find where's the problem xd
@_Sophouille_ Okay, there are a couple potential issues I see, although your hardware is fine; in fact it's great for TS3. (Sorry about the mods comment; I might have a few threads open at the same time right now, and it's really too early for that kind of thing.)
The first thing to address, if you haven't already, is your in-game frame rates. TS3's fps limiter doesn't work, and your card is powerful enough to eventually damage itself from overwork if you don't cap fps. You can see your frame rates by bringing up the cheats console (crtl-shift-c) and entering "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above 120, the refresh rate of your monitor. ("fps off" makes the number go away.)
For an Nvidia card, the first tool to try is the built-in Control Panel. But it doesn't always work, and it never works in windowed mode, so Nvidia Inspector (free download) is next on the list. For each one, you'll want to set up a profile for TS3 using TS3w.exe, with the "w," as you're on a Steam install. Here are screenshots of the setups for both apps, under the spoilers:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16540301/#Comment_16540301
It's possible, though unlikely, that excessively high frame rates are causing the lack of stray animals. More probable is that TS3 doesn't recognize your hardware properly. This can be an issue with newer graphics cards in particular. But it's certainly fixable. If you could copy the first 40 or so lines from your deviceconfig into a post here (stop when you get to the list of game options), it will show what the game makes of your system. The deviceconfig is in Documents\EA\TS3. You can delete your machine name and username, but none of the other info is specific to you or your computer.
np about the mods ahah ! But Question : How do you know all these things ? xD
Well, my computer makes sims 3 go largely above 120fps... it's around 250 O.o absolutely insane i didn't know it was possible
i don't dare to edit this file, idc if you see my name lmao it is not shameful
