Hi guys! I've been seeing some of the same questions crop up again and again, and thought I'd just answer them here! 😊 1. This is ONLY available on *WINDOWS.* Not Mac (yet - not sure if it'll ever be added). 2. "Will this work on pirated games?" *YES.* As long as you're on versions 1.67 or 1.69, it'll work. If you're on 1.67, use Steam/Retail version. If you're on 1.69, use the Origin version. 3. "How do I find where to put the files?" I show it in the video at 11:06 - go directly to your Sims 3 install directory. So NOT your Documents folder, but the place you installed The Sims 3. If you're not sure where your install directory is, *go to your Sims 3 icon on your desktop, right click, and hit "Open file location".* This will bring you exactly to the folder you need to place the files in. 4. "This didn't work for me!" Make sure you a) placed the files in the right place (Sims 3 install directory), b) *are launching with the provided launcher if using the Origin version* and c) are editing the .txt file to adjust the TPS value. 5. "I got a virus from this!" No, you did not. This mod might get detected as a virus, as it modifies the game's executable memory at runtime in order to modify a hardcoded function. This means some antivirus software, including Windows Defender, might remove it or prevent it from running correctly. If this happens you should add an exception to your Sims 3/Game/Bin folder. 6. "My game still lags." This patch is not an "end-all-be-all" fix. The Sims 3 has fundamental problems that are only gonna be fixed through the developers rewriting code. In addition, you should still add my fixes from my Ultimate Fixes video (th-cam.com/video/p-uBFKOen-4/w-d-xo.html). Hope this clears things up! 😊
@@matarada1510 It's actually the world that comes with Island Paradise that causes lag, but if you delete the Scott family and remove the boathouses it runs smoothly... Or to fix everyting you can download a fixed version of Isla Paradiso.
this patch is such a big deal for me because my main problem with trying to play the sims 3 was that it took so long to create a sim (because of cas’s lag) that by time i actually finished the sim i wouldn’t even wanna play the game anymore lol 😭
that AND the fact that if my game is ever gonna crash... it crashes right in the middle of my CAS session bc of all the loading its having to do. this is huge.
@G A nah I once played Sims 3 with alll EP (not all Stuff packs) on a Windows 7 32 bit with old ass 3rd gen i3, 4GB of DDR3 Ram with I think an old nvidia card and let me tell you, it definitely runs better than on my new system with Windows 10 64 bit with Ryzen 5, 8GB Ram and GTX 1650 (damn lag all over the game).
@@ToMmY-lt7dw what they’re saying is why didn’t EA update it recently with the technology and resources they have now if someone in the community can, not what it was in 2009
@@lloyd5615 Yea i get you. But again its Sims 3 a game made in 2009, they dont care about this game. They rather work on lets say sims 5, or do an sims 4 remaster.
This is incredible. I don’t think it’s the sims teams fault for not bringing a patch to the sims 3 it’s definitely EAs fault cuz they want us playing and buying the sims 4. But wow I’m so happy this is a mod that will make me play the sims 3 again.
Yes a lot of them are fans of the game and have a passion for it, some were even modders before they were hired. We can’t expect them to do what ea isn’t paying them to do.
I'm sure they COULD fix it if they wanted to. They were the ones that made it. But they don't want to invest any resources into an old game. The Sims 4 is their new cash cow now, so all their resources go into that game. When TS5 comes out, they'll abandon The Sims 4 as well, even if it's broken or unoptimized. They just don't care unless they can make a lot of money and their #1 source of revenue is new DLC.
@@baphometbby The definition of duchess may have something to do with it 1 : the WIFE or widow of a duke 2 : a WOMAN who holds the rank of duke in HER own right
Wooow! You have no idea. I cried with joy at being quoted in your video, I'm so thrilled with it, it's a privilege and a joy to be part of your discovery of this Smooth Patch which is the best thing ever created to optimize The Sims 3's performance! Thanks for quoting my tweets
i was SHOOK with this patch. I used to disable most of my expansion packs bc i couldn't run all of them, but now i can lit play it so smoothly with all the packs. holy cow
when i saw this i've downloaded it immediately and let me tell you something with nraas and optimizing the game for my pc (because it's 10yrs now) i run it smoothly with all the packs + 7GB of CC installed it really made sims 3 even better
@@susanneplays1545 🤔 that's a good point but that also means that expansions make the game slower, which it shouldn't unless they try to load everything at the same time in the memory which makes it terrible if they are limited to only 4GB, which I find ridiculous, even in 2009 we already had 64bit based systems, like there is nothing wrong in trying to make the game accessible to a lot of people that cannot afford a massive gaming rig, but that just means well optimizing the game, not limiting it to low end rigs, because when some of them can get a more powerful PC, they will have the same shitty experience
@@BluueFSD they do slow it down tho both on sims 3 and 4. Especially expansions like weather in seasons for both, island paradiso (for ts3) and eco lifestyle with green neighborhood in ts4. But more assets in general do slow down the game
@@BluueFSD yeah nah you're absolutely right, it comes down to the engine and with Sims 3 I assume the way it handles the city, processing each person and household, together with the streaming in and out of memory of all the assets etc. Just chokes it up hard. It just barely functions with no expansions, but throw in just a few and especially all of them and its just kicking and screaming. It's a shame that such a great ambitious game is bogged down by inefficient tech, which EA prob could've fixed at this point (like at least adding 64bit etc.). Thing is Sims 4 is prob no better really, they didn't actually improve or optimize the game, they just downgraded it, removed the open world etc.
oh my god my yt algorithm is saving me once again. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS!! this is everything i needed since i play sims 3 more than sims 4. brb installing🏃🏻♀️
OMG!!!! the fact that a 20-year-old Modder can solve every simmers had when playing the game while A WHOLE FREAKING TEAM cant???? what kind of logic is this???
Exactly. EA voluntarily never optimized Sims 3 (for example they could easily have made it 64 bits) so that they could use it's sluggishness as an excuse for moving to Sims 4. It was their main marketing trick at Sims 4 launch: a solid foundation 😁 they kept bashing Sims 3 for the same reason and they still do it to this day.
I can't wait to get off work so I can test it out. Just in time for a long weekend 😍 I love sims 3 so much but I mostly play 2 because it runs so much smoother. If I can get 3 to run smoother it's gonna be hard to pick a favorite!
Sims 3 has always run really well on my computer as I've been able to edit settings and stuff to make gameplay optimal for my gaming computer but the CAS and B+B CAS is always something that is just laggy for me as for everyone else and I'm definitely going to get this patch just for that! This is so amazing!
One thing that helped me TONS was to load all the cache and mods folder onto a ram disk. basically you load the cas files and such onto your ram so it's always accessible to the game, and you greatly reduce load times. I can do this since I had 16GB (now 32gb) but if you got 8 or less I wouldn't recommend it.
The recent holiday sale for Sims 3 got me back into Sims 3 after finally being so fed up with how lackluster Sims 4 is and your videos have been so helpful! Already have a few Nraas mods put in and I'm grabbing this smooth patch too. Thank you!
Yeah same, my laptop is an old-ish model I've had for years and it runs the sims about as smoothly. The main difference is it loads the game in very very slowly, I always assumed it loads everything at the beginning so that's why the game can run so smoothly. CAS does tend to take a bit to load though I will say.
@@jayak8217 It definitely made my older saves run smoother than before - but keep in mind that it doesnt fix all problems for your game - like for example, i had a problem w/ my game crashing and even w/ the smoother patch it still happened (i later found the mod that was causing the problem and everything was fixed) But I def recommend this patch - it works wonders!
@@geekerellauwu thanks so much☺️. I will definitely try it out, along with other mods because my game was unplayable the last time I opened it😓. It's going to be a lot of work, but this channel gives me hope.
One thing I wanna note, please, don't think it's a magic wand. If your PC is not the best one it won't really show an effect. The better pc = more tps you can use = better perfomance. Also about unlimited, when we uh tested it actually did worsen the loading etc. As tics did take all processing power and didn't really left space for (loading other stuff? As most of ingame stuff is compressed as far as I know.) Also about high end, I have not so high end computer (nvidia 940mx, i5 7200u) and 1000 works much better than 500 so if your PC is close to that, then 1000 is definitely worth trying. (Mainly check how much percent it uses, if it uses like over 60% then go back to 500.)
Damn. I installed this yesterday, not really thinking it would make much of a difference. I THOUGHT my pc handled Sims 3 pretty ok. This is lifechanging lol. My load times aren't much different but in game? HOLY SHIT. Everything is so snappy and quick esp BB and CAS, its incredible. I have no lag. None. I will never play without this again. And I will definitely play TS3 alot more now.
@@ninaaliviya I already have a good computer to run it but I have noticed that it has been loading faster and some smoother movement while moving the camera and using build mode. I even up'd the tps to 1000. I really want to try the -1 (careful may crash your computer) but scared to, even with a decent rig. TLDR: It WORKS!
This might just make me go back to sims 3 😍 It was my absolute favourite, but the slowness made me quit. As I hated sims 4, I ended up just giving up on the sims altogether 🙁
*FINALLY* I can sit comfortably and play TS3 on excessively long hours without lag ^^ *(also a big thanks to you making this comprehensive video you have a new sub
Damn, this is night and day difference. I don't have a bad pc, I use a i5 7600k (can turbo up to 4.2 ghz), 32gb ram and a rtx 2060, but still I was getting frustrated with the microstuttering and the panning stuttering. I have high detailed lots on 8 (the max) and I used to have a lot of lag when panning the world. Thats all gone now. Everything loads SO fast, the panning is faster in Live mode and Speed 3 seems to go a lot smoother too. I do have a bit of stutter in the world when panning, but thats because it has to load up the various elements (for example on a festival lot). This is SUCH good news for me, because I LOVE and LIVE for Sims 3. Have a love/hate relationship with Sims 4, since it also introduced a lot of FPS drops. I never had any of those in Sims 3, and with this handy little script, I can load up Sims 3 much faster. The game who I think honestly is the best one in the franchise. Thanks heaps for this!
🤯🤯🤯 I just loaded up the game with this, and CAS is going sooo fast now!! Seriously, I usually just get up to do stuff when I need to load CAS, since I have to wait for the thumbnails to load. And I don't even have that much content/CC. I didn't mess with her settings, and I haven't tried Build/Buy mode yet, but holy crap it's night and day so far. LazyDuchess has been my Sims 2 queen for awhile, but she just swooped on in to save the Sims 3.
There still lag for me but massive improvement thou! sims 3 will lag when it wants too. I'm going to keep using this patch for now on. Also, there no way EA doesn't have remaster Sims 1,2,3 as a backup plan if sims 5 flops. I am pretty sure sims 5 will flop if they try to remake it as sims 4 2.0. Also, I find it weird that EA copy striking people how to pirate sims 2 videos when sims 2 can't be purchase anymore, makes you think they have a remaster in mind or am I crazy?
Given that for several years, Sims 2 The Complete Collection, was literally free for years until they completely stopped offering it at all, they don't really have much case.
WOW i really want this, what puts me off playing Sims 3, is the time it took to load all the cas items up, so this literally is a game changer for us :D Thanks for the vid and thanks so much to LazyDuchess for making this smooth update :D 💖💖💖
LOL I can't believe it, am I dreaming????? A few month back I tried to reinstall Sims 3 and I totally gave up because of the lag, no fixes solved the extreme lag I got and my PC is not even bad. My prayers have been answered!! What a time to be alive, I'm trying this for sure, fingers crossed I'll get a lag free game.
I think it’s safe to say it improves the speed of scrolling or using UI elements (like sliders or scrolling through options). But the game still runs like a slideshow way too often so sadly the patch isn’t worth it for me. Thanks for covering it though!
I heard about this but at that time it wasn't compatible with origin. But I installed it along with you and boy it works wonders! My streams on twitch are so much smoother now! I spend a lot of time in create a sim and create a style, which is often where the game buffers. The sims 3 is a great game, made before it's time. Between the mod tricks, this new patch, and the tricks of the game cleaning, my sims 3 game honestly runs better than my sims 4 game, no joke. I'm visiting my cousin this month, whose sims 3 game runs horribly so much so she can't even play it. Honey, ya got a big storm coming @~@
The first time I installed it, great performance but since then it makes my game crash every time. I have tried changing the tps in the text file to no avail. It says Smoothness Patch failed or just crashes my game. Crash analyser says it is insufficient graphics. I have an AMD Radeon TM R7 so it is very unlikely the reason. I will have to remove the patch until an update is released. I'm disappointed.
The fact that The Sims 3 doesn't have 64bit version is astonishing to me, it's not like EA are a small studio. In fact their games are just a cashgrab. Their customer policy is the most shitty one I have ever seen
@@uraddiictOnx3 I have no idea about that, my sister still has physical disks of TS and TS 2, so I never really checked it online Edit: either way, I wouldn't be even surprised knowing EA
Seriously, im glad the algorythm brought me to your channel! Lately, i ve been feeling like playing Sims 3 'cause Sims 4 is TRASH...YEAH, i said it 😅 I'm gonna try it as soon as I can! PS: You are so cute x🥰
Hi guys! I've been seeing some of the same questions crop up again and again, and thought I'd just answer them here! 😊
1. This is ONLY available on *WINDOWS.* Not Mac (yet - not sure if it'll ever be added).
2. "Will this work on pirated games?" *YES.* As long as you're on versions 1.67 or 1.69, it'll work. If you're on 1.67, use Steam/Retail version. If you're on 1.69, use the Origin version.
3. "How do I find where to put the files?" I show it in the video at 11:06 - go directly to your Sims 3 install directory. So NOT your Documents folder, but the place you installed The Sims 3. If you're not sure where your install directory is, *go to your Sims 3 icon on your desktop, right click, and hit "Open file location".* This will bring you exactly to the folder you need to place the files in.
4. "This didn't work for me!" Make sure you a) placed the files in the right place (Sims 3 install directory), b) *are launching with the provided launcher if using the Origin version* and c) are editing the .txt file to adjust the TPS value.
5. "I got a virus from this!" No, you did not. This mod might get detected as a virus, as it modifies the game's executable memory at runtime in order to modify a hardcoded function. This means some antivirus software, including Windows Defender, might remove it or prevent it from running correctly. If this happens you should add an exception to your Sims 3/Game/Bin folder.
6. "My game still lags." This patch is not an "end-all-be-all" fix. The Sims 3 has fundamental problems that are only gonna be fixed through the developers rewriting code. In addition, you should still add my fixes from my Ultimate Fixes video (th-cam.com/video/p-uBFKOen-4/w-d-xo.html).
Hope this clears things up! 😊
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Also remove island living if u have it. I heard it causes games to lagg.
@@matarada1510 It's actually the world that comes with Island Paradise that causes lag, but if you delete the Scott family and remove the boathouses it runs smoothly... Or to fix everyting you can download a fixed version of Isla Paradiso.
@@Bueno_Y i understand but its sad that Modder is fixing perfomance that EA was lazy to do it.
Also you need to adjust the number. For me 600 was the sweet spot.
this patch is such a big deal for me because my main problem with trying to play the sims 3 was that it took so long to create a sim (because of cas’s lag) that by time i actually finished the sim i wouldn’t even wanna play the game anymore lol 😭
me too. the compact clothing setting from the master controller mod CHANGED MY LIFE.
that AND the fact that if my game is ever gonna crash... it crashes right in the middle of my CAS session bc of all the loading its having to do. this is huge.
YES! I can't play without changing my sims clothings every week/season. So this is everything I needed in my life
so so true. it’s so draining to deal with all that lag. also omg yes jinsoul in your pfp 💙
Frrr that in itself is like 3 movies long for a single sim
THE AUDACITYYYYYYYY that this woman had to make this for US?! She’s iconic, she deserves a HUGEEE thank you from the sims 3 community. CMON EA🤦🏽♀️
My game constantly lags,I'll try downloading it tomorrow.
@@angelicgalaxy4534 same here. I hope it works
This woman deserves ALL the love in the world from the Sims community. What a legend.
Just cash app her forty bucks
i dont think theyre a woman fyi
Why wait for Sims 3 64 bit when you have the legendary modding community
@G A Well macs were never made to run any games in the first place so
@G A nah I once played Sims 3 with alll EP (not all Stuff packs) on a Windows 7 32 bit with old ass 3rd gen i3, 4GB of DDR3 Ram with I think an old nvidia card and let me tell you, it definitely runs better than on my new system with Windows 10 64 bit with Ryzen 5, 8GB Ram and GTX 1650 (damn lag all over the game).
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Exactly
You’re telling me EA couldn’t have done this…the person who made this patch did an amazing job wtf 😳
You know that this game was made 2009...
@@ToMmY-lt7dw yeah? Ive been playing since 2009.
Back then they couldnt make a game with a lot better optimization like some games today...
@@ToMmY-lt7dw what they’re saying is why didn’t EA update it recently with the technology and resources they have now if someone in the community can, not what it was in 2009
@@lloyd5615 Yea i get you. But again its Sims 3 a game made in 2009, they dont care about this game. They rather work on lets say sims 5, or do an sims 4 remaster.
Idk where she gets the Lazy in her name- she’s done more than EA!
And that's on period.
If she was busy she would find the source code of all three games!
This is incredible. I don’t think it’s the sims teams fault for not bringing a patch to the sims 3 it’s definitely EAs fault cuz they want us playing and buying the sims 4. But wow I’m so happy this is a mod that will make me play the sims 3 again.
Yesss
Yes a lot of them are fans of the game and have a passion for it, some were even modders before they were hired. We can’t expect them to do what ea isn’t paying them to do.
someone please give this woman an award cause she surely deserves it.
they're a boy
Billion-dollar company: we can't fix it.
1 20-year-old with some spare time: Done.
Some really smart people out there, Can she do the sims 4 next? :)
Sims 4 stinks. There is a reason sims 3 still has such an active community
Lazyduchess does use any pronouns but idk it’s weird people are only saying “she” when they don’t identify as a woman
LOL; she does the impossible, not work miracles. 😀
I'm sure they COULD fix it if they wanted to. They were the ones that made it. But they don't want to invest any resources into an old game. The Sims 4 is their new cash cow now, so all their resources go into that game. When TS5 comes out, they'll abandon The Sims 4 as well, even if it's broken or unoptimized. They just don't care unless they can make a lot of money and their #1 source of revenue is new DLC.
@@baphometbby
The definition of duchess may have something to do with it
1 : the WIFE or widow of a duke
2 : a WOMAN who holds the rank of duke in HER own right
Wooow! You have no idea. I cried with joy at being quoted in your video, I'm so thrilled with it, it's a privilege and a joy to be part of your discovery of this Smooth Patch which is the best thing ever created to optimize The Sims 3's performance! Thanks for quoting my tweets
You're the best! Thank you!!
Awe cool!
i was SHOOK with this patch. I used to disable most of my expansion packs bc i couldn't run all of them, but now i can lit play it so smoothly with all the packs. holy cow
So glad it worked for you! 💖
This makes the whole game so smooth, loading lots is fast and just moving the screen around is so much smoother!!
when i saw this i've downloaded it immediately and let me tell you something with nraas and optimizing the game for my pc (because it's 10yrs now) i run it smoothly with all the packs + 7GB of CC installed it really made sims 3 even better
Omg I'm crying-- definitely gonna try this
Definitely going to try this!!!! If you don’t mind can you share how you optimized the game for your pc??
I really thank Modders everyday to make my games more enjoyable. They're amazingly talented.
I honestly feel like EA purposely destroyed the sims 3 performance with updates, because the games used to be relatively smooth in the beginning
It’s probably because of buying expansions. Base game is faster
@@susanneplays1545 🤔 that's a good point but that also means that expansions make the game slower, which it shouldn't unless they try to load everything at the same time in the memory which makes it terrible if they are limited to only 4GB, which I find ridiculous, even in 2009 we already had 64bit based systems, like there is nothing wrong in trying to make the game accessible to a lot of people that cannot afford a massive gaming rig, but that just means well optimizing the game, not limiting it to low end rigs, because when some of them can get a more powerful PC, they will have the same shitty experience
@@BluueFSD they do slow it down tho both on sims 3 and 4. Especially expansions like weather in seasons for both, island paradiso (for ts3) and eco lifestyle with green neighborhood in ts4. But more assets in general do slow down the game
@@susanneplays1545 which boils down to the engine itself I guess, since a game like GTA has a ton more assets and can run smoothly on decent PCs
@@BluueFSD yeah nah you're absolutely right, it comes down to the engine and with Sims 3 I assume the way it handles the city, processing each person and household, together with the streaming in and out of memory of all the assets etc. Just chokes it up hard. It just barely functions with no expansions, but throw in just a few and especially all of them and its just kicking and screaming. It's a shame that such a great ambitious game is bogged down by inefficient tech, which EA prob could've fixed at this point (like at least adding 64bit etc.). Thing is Sims 4 is prob no better really, they didn't actually improve or optimize the game, they just downgraded it, removed the open world etc.
You can see people still like playing Sims 3 .I can't see this game dying ; it's the game of life...
Ohhhh my LORDT THIS IS INCREDIBLE. GIVE THIS PERSON THE WORLD 😩
Why do I get The Sims 4 vives with these graphics???? This is the realisation of a dream!!!! TS4 graphics with TS3 gameplay
to be honest ts2 gameplay is much better
@@tobamii Said by someone who probably have never played sims 2, you wouldn't say no if you had. TS2 comes first then TS3.
So you prefer that cartoony look from the sims 4?
I honestly almost cried when I started my save with this patch added, it's so fluid. I honestly recommend this patch!
oh my god my yt algorithm is saving me once again. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS!! this is everything i needed since i play sims 3 more than sims 4. brb installing🏃🏻♀️
You're welcome!!
OMG!!!! the fact that a 20-year-old Modder can solve every simmers had when playing the game while A WHOLE FREAKING TEAM cant???? what kind of logic is this???
Won't, not can't. Important distinction.
@@vivalamew ok grammarly
@@vivalamew Honestly, seeing how coders talk about the Sims coding and how buggy everything is half of the time... I think "can't" is a fitting word.
@@yxles You're missing the point. It's not grammar. They're not correcting you, they're saying EA is lazy and greedy
Exactly. EA voluntarily never optimized Sims 3 (for example they could easily have made it 64 bits) so that they could use it's sluggishness as an excuse for moving to Sims 4. It was their main marketing trick at Sims 4 launch: a solid foundation 😁 they kept bashing Sims 3 for the same reason and they still do it to this day.
Ever since i found this channe ive been binging all your videos, Cant wait to watch as many as possible!
for the first time…ever? i can run my game on 4x speed!! this is so amazing
I can't wait to get off work so I can test it out. Just in time for a long weekend 😍 I love sims 3 so much but I mostly play 2 because it runs so much smoother. If I can get 3 to run smoother it's gonna be hard to pick a favorite!
Hope you enjoy it!
this is amazing !! i think this’ll even help me play it on my crappy laptop.
Sims 3 has always run really well on my computer as I've been able to edit settings and stuff to make gameplay optimal for my gaming computer but the CAS and B+B CAS is always something that is just laggy for me as for everyone else and I'm definitely going to get this patch just for that! This is so amazing!
One thing that helped me TONS was to load all the cache and mods folder onto a ram disk. basically you load the cas files and such onto your ram so it's always accessible to the game, and you greatly reduce load times. I can do this since I had 16GB (now 32gb) but if you got 8 or less I wouldn't recommend it.
insane, i just came back to sims 3 and this is a game changer omg thanks so much for the video.
You're welcome!!
The recent holiday sale for Sims 3 got me back into Sims 3 after finally being so fed up with how lackluster Sims 4 is and your videos have been so helpful! Already have a few Nraas mods put in and I'm grabbing this smooth patch too. Thank you!
IM SO EXCITED TO USE THIS !! THANK YOU SO MUCHHH !!
Thank You! Made my CAS and CASt load faster and smoother. Definitely an improvement for me.
You're welcome!
I've been waiting for this one! Soo thankful for this modder doing her thang! 🥺👏🏽
Hope you enjoy it!
@@acottonsock ❤️❤️❤️
TH-cam recommend me your video and oh my god how do u only have 3k??? your charisma is literally amazing and you just overall seem so friendly!
Thank you so much!!
Me with a whole power outage on my street rn
👁👄👁
I saw this on my recommendations, thank you for sharing this with us!
You are so welcome!
I'm sooo happy to see this! thank you so much for bringing it up for us who are not very up to date with all sims 3 news
Girl eye make-up is on point
❤️❤️
had a craving to play Sims 3 again, and your tutorials have helped me get this game to actually work. cheers!
Funny thing, it runs this smoothly for me even with my 5 year old pc without this.
Yeah same, my laptop is an old-ish model I've had for years and it runs the sims about as smoothly. The main difference is it loads the game in very very slowly, I always assumed it loads everything at the beginning so that's why the game can run so smoothly. CAS does tend to take a bit to load though I will say.
@@chicka-boom7540 I also have an old laptop. What's the specs for ur laptop?
EA needs to hire her-
Love how this comes out after my computer got wiped and all my cc + saves disappeared 😎
testing it out now! - cant wait to play with it :D
How did it go?
@@jayak8217 It definitely made my older saves run smoother than before - but keep in mind that it doesnt fix all problems for your game - like for example, i had a problem w/ my game crashing and even w/ the smoother patch it still happened (i later found the mod that was causing the problem and everything was fixed) But I def recommend this patch - it works wonders!
@@geekerellauwu thanks so much☺️. I will definitely try it out, along with other mods because my game was unplayable the last time I opened it😓. It's going to be a lot of work, but this channel gives me hope.
@@geekerellauwu which mod caused the problem?
The 2.1 patch BROKE it and I had to uninstall the whole thing, I'm not happy because it looked like it was a lifesaver for a lot of people.
hey same here lol
This is how my game ran on my old pc I swear. It's only when I moved to a new laptop that I had issues.
Omg this is a literal game changer for me!!
My game used to load for 7 minutes to get started, now it only takes 3!
Love it♥️♥️
I will say I play with all expansions because I'm insane and this patch helps so much dude oml
Definitely going to try this out tonight. If this runs as good as shown on my game it'll be motivation to continue on with my custom super hood.
its a MIRACLE 🥳
This looks more fluid than my sims 4 game :')
I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS... LOVEEE IT. LUCKILY I JUST HAD A NEW PC 😍
thank you for always being so in depth with your videos! your videos have helped me a ton with getting into the sims 3 :)
I'm so glad!
WOW! Mind Blown! This really works! I have TONS of custom content and it all loads instantaneously! I can't believe this! SHARING!
Glad it helped!
One thing I wanna note, please, don't think it's a magic wand. If your PC is not the best one it won't really show an effect. The better pc = more tps you can use = better perfomance. Also about unlimited, when we uh tested it actually did worsen the loading etc. As tics did take all processing power and didn't really left space for (loading other stuff? As most of ingame stuff is compressed as far as I know.) Also about high end, I have not so high end computer (nvidia 940mx, i5 7200u) and 1000 works much better than 500 so if your PC is close to that, then 1000 is definitely worth trying. (Mainly check how much percent it uses, if it uses like over 60% then go back to 500.)
Damn. I installed this yesterday, not really thinking it would make much of a difference. I THOUGHT my pc handled Sims 3 pretty ok. This is lifechanging lol. My load times aren't much different but in game? HOLY SHIT. Everything is so snappy and quick esp BB and CAS, its incredible. I have no lag. None. I will never play without this again. And I will definitely play TS3 alot more now.
...the moment I am awake enough, I am installing this fantastic mod! :)
This is the moment when I realized that my game is already working great
I just re-downloaded it too. Gonna try this when I get home! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
how did it go for you? i want to download because my game has been crashing
@@ninaaliviya I already have a good computer to run it but I have noticed that it has been loading faster and some smoother movement while moving the camera and using build mode. I even up'd the tps to 1000. I really want to try the -1 (careful may crash your computer) but scared to, even with a decent rig.
TLDR: It WORKS!
This might just make me go back to sims 3 😍
It was my absolute favourite, but the slowness made me quit.
As I hated sims 4, I ended up just giving up on the sims altogether 🙁
Welcome back!
Same!bought sims 4. Deleted after a month. Sims 3 is 100x better
*FINALLY* I can sit comfortably and play TS3 on excessively long hours without lag ^^
*(also a big thanks to you making this comprehensive video you have a new sub
Glad I could help!
Crazy timing. I was thinking of playing sims 3 again and this comes out! YAY!
Damn, this is night and day difference.
I don't have a bad pc, I use a i5 7600k (can turbo up to 4.2 ghz), 32gb ram and a rtx 2060, but still I was getting frustrated with the microstuttering and the panning stuttering. I have high detailed lots on 8 (the max) and I used to have a lot of lag when panning the world. Thats all gone now. Everything loads SO fast, the panning is faster in Live mode and Speed 3 seems to go a lot smoother too.
I do have a bit of stutter in the world when panning, but thats because it has to load up the various elements (for example on a festival lot). This is SUCH good news for me, because I LOVE and LIVE for Sims 3.
Have a love/hate relationship with Sims 4, since it also introduced a lot of FPS drops. I never had any of those in Sims 3, and with this handy little script, I can load up Sims 3 much faster. The game who I think honestly is the best one in the franchise. Thanks heaps for this!
I watched this...and learned a new thing about create a style LOL. didn't know you could move stuff!
"Look how smoothly it glides through the neighborhood"
*lags and stutters*
That's pretty good for Sims 3 tbh 😐
@@acottonsock Haha yeah I believe you! Haven't played Sims 3 for a decade now so my perspective was different 😂
Lol yeah, that's understandable if it's been that long. It was actually way smoother than normal.
Idk why but the graphics feel smoother also. Makes it feel really different idk
I recently downloaded this mod, after which my Sims 3 would no longer start. This completely broke the game.
Yep. If you have Origin It doesn't work. I had to delete that version just to get the game to work again
@@Brocka08 I have pirate version but this doesn't work anyway.
OMG so stoked for this. Sims 3 is the superstar of the series IMO. Thanks for making this video :)
You're so welcome!
🤯🤯🤯 I just loaded up the game with this, and CAS is going sooo fast now!! Seriously, I usually just get up to do stuff when I need to load CAS, since I have to wait for the thumbnails to load. And I don't even have that much content/CC.
I didn't mess with her settings, and I haven't tried Build/Buy mode yet, but holy crap it's night and day so far.
LazyDuchess has been my Sims 2 queen for awhile, but she just swooped on in to save the Sims 3.
For a second I thought you had a clothes hamper behind you until I saw that they were pictures.
I'm building whole towns right now and this goes legit would cut hours off that I would spend in loading time.
I can't believe my eyes. It's breathtaking 😭🥺
Omg I’m in love. It’s smooth 🥰
There still lag for me but massive improvement thou! sims 3 will lag when it wants too. I'm going to keep using this patch for now on. Also, there no way EA doesn't have remaster Sims 1,2,3 as a backup plan if sims 5 flops.
I am pretty sure sims 5 will flop if they try to remake it as sims 4 2.0. Also, I find it weird that EA copy striking people how to pirate sims 2 videos when sims 2 can't be purchase anymore, makes you think they have a remaster in mind or am I crazy?
@mlcd don't assume that EA is not greedy enough for this. They love money. It just be a stupid business decision not to.
You might need a better pc 💀
@@jasmineevu5895 Well duh but I'm throwing out a perfect fine PC until I need a new one
On my 7 year old PC with lowest graphics settings, running on 3 cores not all 4 seems to make the game much smoother.
Given that for several years, Sims 2 The Complete Collection, was literally free for years until they completely stopped offering it at all, they don't really have much case.
er merr gerrrd! I understand your dribbling, I too am drooling after having my mouth so agog after installing this
WOW i really want this, what puts me off playing Sims 3, is the time it took to load all the cas items up, so this literally is a game changer for us :D Thanks for the vid and thanks so much to LazyDuchess for making this smooth update :D 💖💖💖
Hope you enjoy it!
I just reinstalled Sims 3 and holy cow, you really came to my life to make my inner gamer girl very happy xDDD THANK YOU VERY MUCH
This mod has been updated and is available on MTS update includes borderless and FPS.
what a Queen! Instantly installed it in my Game.
I have quite a few CCs and CAS takes forever to load everything in. ._.
this mod runs smoother than my brain
LOL I can't believe it, am I dreaming????? A few month back I tried to reinstall Sims 3 and I totally gave up because of the lag, no fixes solved the extreme lag I got and my PC is not even bad. My prayers have been answered!! What a time to be alive, I'm trying this for sure, fingers crossed I'll get a lag free game.
Omgosh I'm excited, no more waiting or getting stuck in progress hopefully.
You and me both!
The sailing the seas pun haha, i see you
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omggg my cas is smoother than ever thank you！
Sims 3 was ahead of its time
I have never needed a video more than i needed this what the HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I can't get this to work at all. I've tried both options and neither works for me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong! D:
IM DOWNLOADING NOW THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE
Cries in Mac
just as im getting ready to play sims 3 again yessssss
Omg I couldn’t play the sims 3 for so long thank you thank you for this
You're so welcome! 😊
Oooo I might have to give this try I haven’t played sims 3 in years because of lag! Lazy dutchess is a sims hero
I think it’s safe to say it improves the speed of scrolling or using UI elements (like sliders or scrolling through options).
But the game still runs like a slideshow way too often so sadly the patch isn’t worth it for me.
Thanks for covering it though!
Not YTA knowing I picked up TS3 for the first time in a year -
I’m going to download this after I get home from work this afternoon
I heard about this but at that time it wasn't compatible with origin. But I installed it along with you and boy it works wonders! My streams on twitch are so much smoother now! I spend a lot of time in create a sim and create a style, which is often where the game buffers. The sims 3 is a great game, made before it's time. Between the mod tricks, this new patch, and the tricks of the game cleaning, my sims 3 game honestly runs better than my sims 4 game, no joke. I'm visiting my cousin this month, whose sims 3 game runs horribly so much so she can't even play it. Honey, ya got a big storm coming @~@
💞 Thank you!!
The first time I installed it, great performance but since then it makes my game crash every time. I have tried changing the tps in the text file to no avail. It says Smoothness Patch failed or just crashes my game. Crash analyser says it is insufficient graphics. I have an AMD Radeon TM R7 so it is very unlikely the reason. I will have to remove the patch until an update is released. I'm disappointed.
Mine keeps crashing out too but I don’t know how to remove it 😞
I just found my Sims 3 disks in my moms basement!! God this makes me that much more excited to play again!
The fact that The Sims 3 doesn't have 64bit version is astonishing to me, it's not like EA are a small studio. In fact their games are just a cashgrab. Their customer policy is the most shitty one I have ever seen
Didn’t they remove a sims 2 game that people paid for with no warning and no compensation!?
@@uraddiictOnx3 I have no idea about that, my sister still has physical disks of TS and TS 2, so I never really checked it online
Edit: either way, I wouldn't be even surprised knowing EA
Seriously, im glad the algorythm brought me to your channel! Lately, i ve been feeling like playing Sims 3 'cause Sims 4 is TRASH...YEAH, i said it 😅 I'm gonna try it as soon as I can!
PS: You are so cute x🥰
Yes!! Literally the only problem I have with the sims 3 is the lag!
i never t hought i would see a sims 3 update from ea of a modder so this is supper exciting!
They needed 10 years for this..