help! why do the those sims keep freezing?

[AlienWarfighter]

its like this the sim freez for just a couple of sex while the tv, the rain, the music everything works fine and doesnt freezes except the sims like when the sims walk or whatever they freeze and the contnue walking its very annoying is this a graphics issue? is there something i should uncheck cause the game runs pretty fine like full setting gives me 150fps so what should i change in the graphics option

[IvanSudar]

Maybe you need to make lower graphic, restart game and make your graphic what you use)

[Leyla]

perhaps you're playing in a custom world ?

[i could eat glue]

This happens to me quite often, even though my options are set on low. However, I haven't been getting this problem as long as I don't have extraneous programs open in the background.

I have yet to find a solution. Have you tried asking on the Sims 3 forums?

[cruinne]

This usually happens when TS3 is using a lot of CPU/RAM trying to figure out what to do because it's let itself get out of hand. (Things like routine clean up seem to be an alien concept to the Sims devs.) Often, this happens because various Sims (and animals, if you have Pets) are stuck trying to get somewhere, or age, and there are abandoned cars and toddlers and such all over the neighborhood and the game is figuring out those too, and the game is busy powering all the TVs and stereos that various Sims have left on all over the town, and it's confused because any number of the digital photo frames in the game are "stuck" and don't know what to do next, and so on, and so on.

I use a mod called Overwatch by NRaas that detects these stuck Sims, abandoned cars, unwatched TVs, &c. and resets them before they drag the whole system down with them. http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Overwatch

[Kiya]

While I recommend checking out the Nraas mods you can fix this problem without them.

While you are in-game send all of your sims off their home lot then press CTRL+Shift+C to bring down the console and type resetSim * - don't forget the asterisk.

That should reset all sims in the game and fix the freezing problem.

[cruinne]

That does work, but it resolves the problem only until it happens again, and it resets all the Sims (including the family you're currently playing), interrupting what they're doing, regardless of whether they need it.

It's a nice, immediate solution, but you soon get tired of typing it.

[Sarahzor]

this happens to me when I have a lot of CC downloaded. I recently uninstalled and reinstalled the game with all expansion packs, have played quite a bit so far without any CC and it hasn't happened yet. I'm bummed, because I really do love my CC. :(

[Mr.Jack]

Lols secs..

[kaiyl_kariashi]

It's because of the god-awful routing in the game. You absolutely must have at least overwatch to play Sims 3 for any amount of time...or NEVER use fast-forward option, which is where all the routing problems occur because the game maxes out it's available ram allotment (and since it's 32-bit, having more then 4gb won't help) trying to find routs for everyone and starts cutting corners, dumping them into unrouttable terrain which makes the calculations take even LONGER and more processing power.

Playing on custom maps can help IMMENSLY with this, as most players actually bother to test and fix their maps before releasing them, that thing EA can't be bothered with because it requires spending money on which they refuse to do.