Sims 3 really slow after updating patch?

[artz03]

Hi. I have Sims 3 Generations and I took a break from playing for a few weeks. When I came back, I updated the patch to 1.67 and ever since then it's been playing super slow.

My laptop supposedly doesn't meet the requirements but before I updated the patch level, I was playing 2 families and I had 8 Sims in 1 house playing on max settings and it ran almost perfect.

But now after I've reinstalled, I only have 2 people in 1 house and it's super slow and it freezes all the time.

I followed the cleanup guide on here and I've deleted all the CC and reinstalled everything a few times but it's still really slow.

What should I do?

SPECS:

OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS 8 64-BIT (6.2, BUILD 9200)
LANGUAGE:ENGLISH
SYSTEM MANUFACTURER:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
SYSTEM MODEL:355VC4/356V4C/3445VC/3545VC
BIOS:P07ABF
PROCESSOR:AMD A4-4300M APU WITH RADEON (TM) HD GRPHICS (2 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
MEMORY:4096MB RAM
PAGE FILE:4985MB USED, 865MB available
DIRECTX VERSION:DIRECTX11

[Dellena]

Which town are you playing in?

Do you use any mods?

[artz03]

Which town are you playing in?

Do you use any mods?

Nope.

[artz03]

Im playing sunset valley.

[Dellena]

Sunset Valley is pretty safe.

Try starting a fresh game in Sunset Valley and just pick onE of the existing families.  Doesn't matter which one.  See if the lag continues in that game.

[artz03]

I started a new game & chose the Steele household & it's not lagging at all.

[artz03]

Idk why it freezes & lags so much when i have custom families?

[MrsFlynn]

Hi Artz03,

With starting a new game with a townie family, it seems to me that it could mean that either your saved game is getting to large. Or that you maybe playing with custom content.

A few things to try are:

01.) If you've got custom content, (items not made by EA aka 3rd party content) or even items from the Sims3Store or the Exchange. Try starting the game without it, by opening the launcher, click the Installed Content Tab. Checkmark Run Game Without Custom Content. Then click the Play button.

As sometimes CC does mess the game up for whatever reason.

Removing Bad Custom Content
http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/custom-content-cc/bad-cc

If you do not want to do this with your main save-game, make a copy of it and use the copy to test-play.

02.) Try playing your current family(s) in a new game. -- This is different than moving them into a different house or moving them to a different town. Save the household(s) and place them into a new game to see if things run smoother from there. If it's still buggy, laggy, freezing, or crashing your game save might be corrupted. This happens from time to time and when saved game files get too large.

03.) Try deleting the cache files (socialCache.package, Sims3Logs.xml, simCompositorCache.package, scriptCache.package, compositorCache.package, CasPartCache.package)

-- Also delete everything except Ccmerged.package file in your DCBackup folder.

-- Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > DCBackup

04.) Check your active household's family and individual inventories, as having to many items (100 or more items) in their inventories may cause lag and freezing. This can happen fast if the sims is a fisher, gardener, inventor or alchemist, not to mention collector.

05.) You mentioned that you just did a fresh reinstall of the game so try running a register cleaner program. (Something like Ccleaner, It's free - http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download)
This helps clean up temporary files, internet cache files and other files that are left behind that are no longer being used, after uninstalling.

If this doesn't help, please post back to see if we can come up with some more tips to try.

MrsFlynn