ULTIMATE SIMS 3 FIX GUIDE 💫 (2021)

My long awaited MASSIVE Sims 3 fixes I do! I get a lot of questions of how to make The Sims 3 run at optimal performance, well, here it is!

0:00 hi guys!!
1:54 01: matching your graphics card to your game
21:17 02: matching your CPU to your game
22:36 03: limiting TS3's framerate
27:08 04: "featureditems" folder
28:45 05: "fixed worlds" by Ellacharmed
34:25 06: settings menu stuff
37:37 07: overhaul of the memory system
39:54 08: NRAAS extras *crucial
49:11 09: cleaning out unnecessary files
52:11 thanks for watching! 💕

[acottonsock]

This will eliminate the first ~20 minutes of this tutorial. *Therefore, you can start the tutorial at **21:17**.*
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*IF YOUR GAME ISN'T LAUNCHING, AND IT DELETES YOUR DEVICECONFIG.LOG, YOU LIKELY MESSED UP WHEN EDITING GRAPHICSRULES.sgr.* Lots of people are stating that their deviceconfig.log automatically deletes. This is because you messed up adding your graphics card to the GraphicsRules.sgr file (16:19). You need to compare what you have against mine. Pay CLOSE attention.
You more than likely *have an extra ) right before where you're supposed to add your graphics card type (the 'GTX 10??' part), and removing that extra ) fixes most people's problems.* If this does not work for you, please perform a game repair on the EA App.
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I keep getting the question, "If I have ___ amount of VRAM, what do I put?" Without further ado, here are VRAM numbers that I didn't include in the video!
1gb - 1024 (will be utilizing all your vram)
2gb - 1024
4gb - 2048
6gb - 3072
8gb - 4098
16gb - 8192

[yeah]

"you don't want internet connectivity on your game"
me, a pirate: i don't have a choice

[cjcobbs]

i impulsively just uninstalled all my sims 3 games for a fresh start and forgot how much i struggled doing this the first time around omggg like- why am doing math and coding to play my silly little game 😭😭 thank you so much for this tutorial, definitely a life saver

[KatelynnCastellano]

YOU DESERVE SO MUCH MORE RECOGNITION BECAUSE I JUST DID EVERYTHING FROM THIS VID AND IT SAVED MY GAME!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH, I HAVE NEVER PLAYED THIS GAME SO SMOOTH

[Kim_gs]

Also, use Save cleaner! Very important! It cleans your save, deletes all the accumulated bullshit and reduces the size. I play in huge custom worlds with over 200 sims and about 120 service sims. I started with 100 homemade pretty sims and now after all the mariages etc they're up to 200. These files become huge. After cleaning it usually reduces 1/4 of the size or more and it plays amazing. This way your files don't get corrupted and you can keep them for years. (always make back ups every now and then though).

[mbfupov]

Dude, 2 years later and this was still so extremely helpful!!! Used it on my Sims 3 and Sims Medieval :) Thank you so much

[GwenDaisy]

Just in case people are confused like I was, to find what number you need to put in seti texturememory take your vram, divide it by two, then times that number by 1024. I have 12gb of vram so I did 6 x 1024 and got 6144. Hope that helps

[GrimGrenadine]

This has gotta me the the most thorough and indepth fix guide i have seen for any game. Holy shit, thank you so much for taking the time and effort to do this

[koconut]

Didn't know I needed this! Thanks so much for being so patient and thorough!

[Tony-lqzp]

omg give me a break, i just watched all your past videos, and SPENT 2 days adjusting now you came up with a new video !!! HAHA good job!

[kellsfreeman]

SO easy to follow! It's a small thing, but the way you use the cursor to point out what you are showing us rather than flinging it around the screen really helped lol. Thank you so much for this!

[thehorrorlord]

I’m so loving you atm. Looks and runs so much better. Basically my card was barely being used and looked up everywhere thinking story progression was my problem

[ivannavgan]

the fact that you already had this done and you took an hour to explain tells a lot about your person, thank you so much!! 💚💚

[broccoliable]

girl tysm omfg the graphics card part took me only a trillion years but I finally got it matched😭🥺ty for helping me rediscover the sims 3 entirely!

[lettya]

It is the year 2022 and 1 this all still works 2 THANK YOU! My game has never worked this well before and I appreciate how user friendly you made everything. I know nothing about computers and was able to easily follow this. Also thank you for your Nraas videos, never understood how to use them but now I do.

[yoonginismo]

just came here to thank you!! i did everything recommended on the video and now my the sims is even more fun to play!!! now my CAS is smooth af srsly i used to spend like hours creating a sim because of how much horrible to download my stuff it used to be, the gameplay is so much more pleasurable like i can actually move the camera freely without fear. you are the best fr you won a new subscriber 💗💗🥰🥰

[Darkvintagewitch]

You saved my life! Sims 3 is currently my favourite from the franchise, however the lag KILLS ME everytime since I've started playing it in 2011, which led me to deleting all my saves and restarting again many times. Now I can run it smoothly and you explained everything so well for us Sims dummies! Thank you sm! You got a new subscriber ;)

[yoonki_min__]

YOU ARE A LITERAL QUEEN FOR THIS VIDEO, thank you so much omg 😩💜

[crazycookiesims]

Wow. Thank you so much for the video. I haven't really tested my game after applying your tips, yet. But I still wanted to thank you for the work you put into this video.

[forestkorok]

you're an ANGEL for this. back on my sims 3 obsession and this was necessary.