sims 3 unicorn
Hello. my name is Nena and i live in the netherlands, I have a problem with the sims 3 pets. i really hope someone can help me. I have the sims 3 pets for 7 jears. they say there would be unicorns ...
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@Nena16lovex When you're looking for a unicorn in Map View, make sure you have the game clock running so that the glow shows up.. It doesn't always happen, but you should definitely have seen one by now. What world(s) are you playing in? Does it make a difference if you start a new save in Appaloosa Plains? It's possible that the unicorn is spawning in the wrong place in your existing world, and either you can't see it, or it gets reset.
If you've disabled horses in the game settings, it may also disable unicorns. Or if you have a mod that affects pets in any way, that may also interfere. An easy test is to start a new save in a clean game folder, without any content at all added back in. Move your entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, launch the game to create a clean folder, and test, again in Appaloosa Plains.
Finally, do you see wild animals, horses or otherwise, in your current save(s) in general? Aside from game settings, some players don't see any wild animals spawn at all. This can be related to having a computer that's underpowered for the game, or that the game thinks is underpowered.
@puzzlezaddict . thank you for your reaction.
I play in the world Appaloosa plains.
All the mods that i have in the game are mods for clothes and hair. Can they affect the unicorn? also i first installed a mod 1 year ago. i never saw a unicorn before that.
What i do notice is that my computer is running out of memory. I also notice that the dragon egg i have in the game won't come out( its like al the magical things in the game are not working) Can this have anithing to do witch each other?
I do see other wild animals, also horses. but just never a unicorn.
@Nena16lovex It's unlikely (possible, but unlikely) that custom content hair and clothing would have any effect on the wild animal population. But the dragon egg not hatching could be related, and your computer running out of memory could definitely be the cause. Please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post, so I can take a look.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
I think i have now added the file in this post? I hope you can see it.
if not let me know !
@Nena16lovex Yes, I can see it fine. The most obvious issue is that you have zero free space on your C drive. I'm guessing data is being redirected to D (it looks like this is one drive partitioned into two), or else your computer would have stopped working a long time ago. Still, you need to free up at least 20 GB on C before you can rule that out as an issue.
However, your computer's hardware isn't really strong enough to handle Pets, or any of the more demanding packs. That's not to say you can't or shouldn't play, and this system has survived a long time. But it's possibly that no unicorns is just a symptom of the hardware not being able to keep up with the demands the game places on it.
You could test by starting a new save in a clean folder. Move your existing Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts (and definitely onto your D drive—if you need to, just create a folder on it called Backup or something), then launch the game to create a new folder. Start a save in Appaloosa Plains, the world that came with Pets, and see if you can spot a unicorn.
Another possibility, although I'm not sure how likely it is, is that the unicorn is spawning but your graphics card isn't rendering the aura that you're looking for in Map View. The card is quite old, and its driver is old as well, so it's possible that it's not doing its job here. This is harder to test, unless you want to manually check every park, fishing spot, etc. in town every night. There is a mod that can help search for sims on a map, although I've never used it specifically to look for unicorns. Let me know if you're interested.
