Sims 3
I’ve noticed that since the January 2025 update for the Sims 3 my game keeps freezing whilst I’m playing. I can still hear background stuff and sounds like birds chirping or notifications but my game...
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I've taken out Story Progression and set the Max Frame Rate to 72. I've noticed that I managed to play for a tiny bit longer than usual but it ultimately still froze. But this time I can't hear anything in the game like before. I can still move my cursor but that's about it.
@AndreJsy Please try playing in a clean boot:
The one service to leave enabled is the EABackgroundService, which the EA App needs in order to run. Disable the rest as described.
When you reboot your computer, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down any service that doesn't absolutely need to be running, for example anything from MSI Afterburner to RGB software might still be enabled. If you accidentally kill a critical process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer again.
Don't open anything other than Sims 3 and the EA App while testing, not even a browser window.
As a side note, if we don't finish this conversation before this site goes read-only, you can find me on the new EA forums in a few days, when that site is out of read-only status, once the transition has finished. This thread should port over intact.
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