Sims 3 Time speed issue

[Miniimoo~]

After the 12th week of sims time, my game time and speed gets really low and skips around, anyone else? I use no mods. It's only after a certain week 12 or 13 usually.

[HiFive]

LAG PREVENTION - WHAT I DO

I'm not using any mods yet, so here is some of what I do:

I use sequentially-numbered saves. (Always use the "Save As" button and use different names. Don't use the "Save" button.) Whenever my game seems to be getting buggy or has severe lagging, I try finding a save from before the problem started. You can either keep reusing about 9 - 12 different save names, or you can purge old saves on a regular basis.

I make very frequent saves. Doing this helps a LOT. I don't know why, it just does.

I've learned to clear excess baggage out of my Sims' inventories on a regular basis. If you have a gardener, it's easy to get way too much stuff in your inventory, and this causes a lot of lagging, and subsequent bugs. Keep the count of those apples and limes below 100 each. Under 30 is much better. Try to get to the point where you only have edibles of the same quality in each stack - like all Perfect apples, and all Perfect life fruit.

Don't collect or buy too much scrap for your inventors. Acquire what you need, and use it, then get more. A max of about 200 units per inventor table or Sim inventory is best for my Sims.

I don't allow tons of fish either. Either I sell them all, or keep only the ones that are of the same quality for the best garden fertilizer.

In general, the fewer details the game has to keep track of in your inventory, the better.

Don't go crazy with the fast-forward button. Using it too often can cause problems. If I'm using it for actions my Sim is doing, I will often pause it after a bit - do a save - and then continue. Better still is to only let the game do fast-forward for sleep cycles.

If one of your Sims gets really laggy, or yours or any other Sim gets stuck, use the reset function. Use Cntrl+Shift+C and type:

resetsim nameofyoursim (whatever that name is)

A more extreme measure for those with serious issues where the above 4 steps are still not enough: Limit customizations as much as possible, i.e., just use whatever generic Sim/house/items the game has, and don't change the colors and patterns or build your own house, etc. This is what I had to do when I was working on a shrimp of a machine for a while.

There are 5 cache files that should be deleted every time you end a play session.

CASPartCache.package
compositorCache.package
scriptCache.package
SimCompositorCache.package
socialcache.package

This is safe to do for only these files. The game will create new ones when you play it again.

Here are some good guides with a lot more information:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131162350
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=279488894

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Originally posted by Doomslayer NepNep:

ive been looking and how great the sims 3 is and im planning on getting it are there any performance issues or bugs i should know about?

Yes, and if you have any problems there are some very good guides on here to help you. I don't use the Nraas mod, but a lot of people do, and it seems that if you want to get more than 5 or 6 DLC's, it's probably necesssary to get it. The biggest problem people have is lag and the bugs created by the lag. I have instructions for helping with that below, if you experience it.

Keep in mind that if you install any DLC and then try to uninstall it later, there will still be some registry gunk left behind that will probably disable your ability to open the game. It's a hassle to fix, but there are guides to help with that. There is also a free cleaner you can get for it, but then after a while you'll get constant notices to "upgrade" to the paid version, and the free version will stop working. I used it once and got tired of the popup notices so I uninstalled it.

Also, some very good advice from cruinne:

Originally posted by cruinne:

I'd also suggest the usual game stabilizing tweaks:

• Turn off shop mode.
  
• Turn off online notifications.
  
• Limit framerate to your monitor refresh rate with your video card software.
  
• Use NRaas Overwatch to reset stuck Sims and clear up other issues.
  
• Don't run other things in the background while playing.
  
• Don't alt-tab between other programs while in fullscreen mode.
  
• Always use "Save as" and never use "Save" or "Save and Quit".