Custom cars not showing up ingame.

[A Lonely Prince]

I'm having an issue with my game where custom cars and even vanilla cars do not show up in the buy menu. The only vehicle that shows up for me is some sort of Pickup Truck but nothing else. I have a save where I have a few custom cars already for my sim. When I use the tool to buy another of the same it opens the vehicles tab in buy mode and I can buy the car but I don't see the car in the buy mode list. I've been googling this issue for days now and I can't figure it out.

I've already deleted cache, reinstalled every single mod and store Item I have installed and it still is not showing up...

[HiFive]

Originally posted by A Lonely Prince:

When I use the tool to buy another of the same it opens the vehicles tab in buy mode and I can buy the car but I don't see the car in the buy mode list. I've been googling this issue for days now and I can't figure it out.

How can you buy the car if you can't see it? This sentence is a bit confusing.

[A Lonely Prince]

Originally posted by HiFive:

Originally posted by A Lonely Prince:

When I use the tool to buy another of the same it opens the vehicles tab in buy mode and I can buy the car but I don't see the car in the buy mode list. I've been googling this issue for days now and I can't figure it out.

How can you buy the car if you can't see it? This sentence is a bit confusing.

I bought the car a long time ago and then stopped playing for a few months. I returned to the save and I still have the cars but I can't buy them anymore. They are usable and work though which confuses me.

[A Lonely Prince]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3148709712

[HiFive]

Hmmm . . . try accessing the car menu from the tab above the one you've chosen. I don't have the game open right now - I think it's the "household" tab? Then, go to the section for Outdoor stuff and scroll down to where the cars should be.

[HiFive]

Or, in the menu you have open in the picture, click on the "everything" section (the infinity sign).

[A Lonely Prince]

Originally posted by HiFive:

Or, in the menu you have open in the picture, click on the "everything" section (the infinity sign).

I tried that, still wouldn't show. I don't even have many mods installed only like 5 because I prefer Sims 3 mostly vanilla. But I have hundreds of Sims 3 Store items installed which might somehow break the game.


I now fully reset my game by deleting everything in my documents folder including the mods and the save file. After I installed the bare minimum for mods to run I installed 1 car mod and it showed up together with all the vanilla cars.

It's weird how it works now, but I don't understand how even vanilla cars wouldn't show up before I did this reset.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by A Lonely Prince:

It's weird how it works now, but I don't understand how even vanilla cars wouldn't show up before I did this reset.

Yes, it's odd that this happened.

It would take some time and patience, slowly adding your mods or items back into the game, to find out which one was causing the problem.

A few of the guides for this game describe a tool you can download to package things up better so the game can deal with larger quantities of stuff.

This guide describes how you can increase the RAM, Video RAM, and CPU capacity that the game uses. Maybe doing that would fix the issue for you.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3147261346

[A Lonely Prince]

Originally posted by HiFive:

Originally posted by A Lonely Prince:

It's weird how it works now, but I don't understand how even vanilla cars wouldn't show up before I did this reset.

Yes, it's odd that this happened.

It would take some time and patience, slowly adding your mods or items back into the game, to find out which one was causing the problem.

A few of the guides for this game describe a tool you can download to package things up better so the game can deal with larger quantities of stuff.

This guide describes how you can increase the RAM, Video RAM, and CPU capacity that the game uses. Maybe doing that would fix the issue for you.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3147261346

I will look into finding this tool to package all these mods up, because I have 600+ Store Items and another 180 cars... The launcher definitely wasn't designed with almost a thousand store items in mind haha. Thankfully I don't have any performance issues after I forced vsync within Nvidia Control Panel. Without I'd get 300+ fps but when moving around the camera the fps would drop to like 150 which makes it slightly stutter for a moment, but now it runs good.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by A Lonely Prince:

Thankfully I don't have any performance issues after I forced vsync within Nvidia Control Panel. Without I'd get 300+ fps but when moving around the camera the fps would drop to like 150 which makes it slightly stutter for a moment, but now it runs good.

I actually limited the fps for this game (and a bunch of my other older games) to 30. The game runs much better for me now, since that was the standard rate for a lot of older games. If you use any NRAAS or other fix-it mods, you can maybe run it at 60 fps. Vsync is supposed to do that for you, but manually setting it to 30 worked even better for me. The game does not have its own fps limiter, so not setting it to a lower setting or not enabling Vsync can cause damage.