Which town patch or ep is stable?

[R-JeFF]

Hi all.

I decided to install sims 3 again but i cant play because of lags. My laptop has i5 processor gt540m graphic card and 4 gbs of ram. I was playing well with my old notebook which is a lot older than this. So i dont think my problem is hardware.

Bridgeport makes me crazy. I installed fixed world, nraas, overwatch, master controller, errortrap but nothing changed. Overwatch deletes about 60k cars every day and when i do it manually it deletes around a 2k cars in every 10 sim minutes. Even when game is paused it deletes a hundred cars every time. When i reset town lagging disappears for max 30 sim seconds and turns back to unplayable.

So I moved to lunar lakes. Its a lot better than bridgeport but there is still lag. Car problem still exists here. Same amount of cars are being deleted. When i delete the cars, game runs flawlessly. As if in build/buy mod. But for a short time.

I know there is a solution but i cant find it. I tried almost all towns. I was able to run the game smoothly even in bridgeport. (i dont remember which patch or ep was installed)

I heard that some ep's has problems. The car problem came with seasons and pets has lots of bugs like horses. So before reinstall all the game which ep patch or sp should i skip? I'm almost sure the problem is cars or pets because in university the game is perfect. There is no cars or pets or the game cant find an unroutable sim.


Edit: I have all ep sp's and no cc or mod except nraas overwatch master controller and error trap. Patch version is 1.55 and have windows 8. Meanwhile your site is perfect 

[Wai]

This is a difficult one to answer.

My computer is four years old and not exceptional spec.  I find Sunset Valley is the best place on my machine.  I have Ambitions, WA, Showtime, Pets and IP.  I have pet and horse spawning off.  The horses which are wild still generate, and they can get trapped in the science lab grounds.  Resetsim * fixes this.  For a more permanent fix, edit the facility and remove the fences.  There are problems in China (WA) but this is fixed by changing the two problem community lots to "no visitors allowed".

Currently I am playing in Island Paradisimo (or whatever it's called) and have some lagging problems, but it is playable.  My settings are default.  I use no mods or cc.

Hope that helps a little.

[R-JeFF]

Thanks for the reply. I'll try that removing fences but i think my main problem is cars. Overwatch deletes 60k cars and when i delete them from overwatch manually thousands of cars spawning in 5 sim second. I read that in another forum before seasons, overwatch was finding only about a hundred cars everyday.

As i said university is perfect. I dont see any cars and not getting unroutable sim messages. Is there any way to remove all the cars? I tried nraas traffic now but car values are same. 
 
I think when i was playing well i had pets so problem should be seasons but reinstalling game is a torture. I dont want to reinstall the game and try all ep's one by one.

[Angélique]

Overwatch deletes about 60k cars every day and when i do it manually it deletes around a 2k cars in every 10 sim minutes. Even when game is paused it deletes a hundred cars every time.

Do you really mean that your sims 3 game generates 60 000 redundant cars every sim day??? That would be almost 22 million cars a sim year if you don't have Overwatch installed, which I haven't. My biggest and oldest save file, Twinbrook, is now almost 2 sim years old, so that means there should be almost 44 million cars hidden somewhere in that town, but where could they be? Not on the streets, that's for sure, and not in the inventories of the sim families either. Where are they piled up in your game, if you do not delete them every sim day?

Another question, what would be the purpose of this horrible virtual car factory, so to speak? Have EA really done this deliberately, or is it just another one of all those hideous bugs/glitches?

[Wai]

Sounds like a bug to me, but, short of starting a new game, I can't think of any way to fix it.  Try factory reset, perhaps.  Clean out cache files, perhaps, check for .bad files and delete them as they can infect other files.  All just guesses I'm afraid.