I played Sims3 on a gaming rig, that near the end was upgraded to a brand new gaming rig. Went from a DDR2 to a DDR3, in fact. Without 20+ NRaas mods, I had all kinds of problems with Sims3. The weirdest thing was arriving at a lot and watching as the color very slowly dropped into place so that the cabinets weren't white outlines anymore but looked like cabinets. Some have blamed it on the endless color-wheel that enabled the player to customize just about everything in the game, as part of the reason for 'lag'. All I know is that the use of the mods reduced the problems and I could play the game. (Still had a delay in the color, however.) But, I'm not at all happy that the Sims themselves were basically sacrificed for said open world. Wasn't worth it in my mind. The zaniness and unpredictability of the Sims is more than half of the fun of this game, in my 'not so humble' opinion.
I'm not in the least bit vexed about the loading screens in Sims4. In fact I stopped playing Sims3 and returned to playing Sims2 whilst I awaited the release of Sims4, just to get myself 'ready' for the change.
