!!FOR EVERYONE ASKING ABOUT MATCHING THE GPU!! If you don’t understand/can’t figure out how to match your gpu to your game, there’s someone who make a sims 3 gpu add-on that automatically writes the code for your gpu. You can find it here: www.nexusmods.com/thesims3/mods/106
So do you still have to manually match your video card to the graphics rules (per your steps) or does that mod already do that for you as well? Thanks!
This was more fiddly than I accounted for, because I had issues with my mod folder. After some hunting through forums, fixing the mod folder and THEN following this tutorial... ...Dear god could you imagine if the Sims 3 ALWAYS ran like this?! It's INCREDIBLE!
This tutorial is absolutely amazing! My game has never run so good, I’ve always just dealt with annoying bugs and lags just strugging it off as the sims 3’s problems but now my game actually runs nicely. Thank you so much
Thank you sooo much! I recently got a new laptop and was very disappointed when my game would still basically run like crap... It isn't perfect but it runs much smoother now. Especially the create-a-style tool. 😍
Thank you so much for helping us out with this video. Normally my game has no lag when playing on max settings but I recently created a custom world in CAW that is huge and was experiencing lag for the first time in forever. I thought I was going to have to sacrifice my graphics settings but you saved the day. I did a bunch of the tricks you recommended and let me tell you, Smooth Patch made a huge difference. Now my large world is flying and I can play with all my graphics set to max.
Thank you so much for explaining this. This was easy to follow, but I did have to take my time and pause the video a few times. My game is running so much better.
I always stopped after the graphics card and CPU, and did nothing else. I recently had to completely wipe out my game and start over due to performance issues. This video will probably prevent me from having the same problems all over again. Thank you!
I just did this and my game has never run as great as it runs now!! I’ve been playing sims 3 since it came out and it’s never been this smooth! I stopped at the FPS change and it’s amazing how fluid it is. Zero Lag and it looks beautiful! Thank you!!! I have RTX 3060.
16:31 Thank you so much for this, it's a very useful trick! ☺️✨ Finally I will no longer have to be cleaning that folder every time that I want to load the game
My GPU is an AMD RX 6600 XT so I also included the XT based on how the other gpus were named in the document and It worked. So it would be "*RX 66?? XT*"
On the forum page for origin there was one talking about the lag from the unrecognized video card. I did what the forum said to do w mine and I added it to it… needless to say it in fact made it way worse.
Did you follow the steps exactly as mentioned in the video? If you did & it lags more, it might have something to do with your card not being updated, or with your card not being compatible enough with the game
I tried to start the game via the TS3PatchLauncher, but the game won't start as there is a notification saying I must install Origin in order to play the game. I bought the game via Origin though :( Also, I left the launcher in the bin folder and did everything accordingly to your video
Have you installed the right one? So the origin version? Otherwise try to install it again, I’ve never encountered this problem. Maybe try to repair your game??
I did all of this, but the game is still lagging just as much as before. Doesn't make any sense, I'm on a really high-end PC, but it just seems like nothing I installed works.
that`s weird have you tried 4 gb patch ,did you downloaded nraas mods ,and did you delete your cache files,if this doesn`t work then tell me your specs maybe i can help you .
I tried it with the GPU add on as well, and now with your tip, it still shows me found and matched 0. I have a GTX 1660 Ti. I tried with "*GTX 1660 Ti*" just to make sure, AND "*GTX 16?? Ti*"... nothing works... I dont know why it does not recognize the letters after the numbers...
Great video, thank you. But sadly my game is still laggy even after doing all these. I have a GTX 1660 SUPER GPU and RYZEN 5 3600 CPU, so they should be more than enough, but my game is very laggy. I'm also at the very beginning of the game with a fresh install.
did matching your graphics card work? does it now say found 1, matched 1? your drivers should be more than able to run the game well, but if it's not recognized by the game, it's gonna run awfully
@@xyttra that is very unfortunate. it can be caused by everything like lack of storage, being installed on a hdd instead of sdd, an old cpu/gpu, etc...
Every time I save the files it creates a new one and renames the current one with "old". Not only that, but after doing everything step by step, it still shows found:0, matched:1. I don't get it. EDIT: launching the game and exiting twice in a row fixed it, not it shows 1 and 1 in both places. Thank you for your video!
completely normal, the newer the system the more you need to limit your game. My Game is the smoothest with Screen Refresh Rate limited to 30fps in the Game (no need to play around inside your GPU Control Panel) ofc you still need the fixes of: matching your hardware, memories limited, smooth patch and nraas. Also nice Tool would be the Regul Safegame Cleaner (backup your safes, in case it breaks) and ofc deleting your cache files after each play. hope that helps!
That can not possibly be true, there must be some error in the log file, definitely your graphics card has a full name, look up the full specs of your PC/laptop online or in your operative systems settings/description somewhere. Either way it shouldn't matter for the sims in this case, I guess EA is so scuffed and broken you will just have to add the name without series number and see what happens.
Hey, So my problem is everytime I wanna play in windowed mode my game is lagging idk why because in fullscreen mode the game is very smooth, but also in fullscreen mode the game got that dark screen who makes the worlds look like it's everytime the night :(
The game works best in full screen mode yes, but i’m not quite sure what you mean with “dark screen”? Have you updated your graphics card? Could be a graphics issue
If it doesn’t work, something has gone wrong somewhere. You are sure you put the right lines in both the graphicscards as graphicsrules files? And did you launch the game after you saved & quit the files?
i followed all the steps before matching the game to your cpu but when it still said 0/0 so i gave up before finishing the video. I decided to boot up the sims 3 to make sure i didnt break it and it loaded wayy faster than normal and has zero lag? I swear it was so laggy before and i didnt even finish this tutorial, so i have no clue if this helped or if its something else i did unknowingly? Either way i'll say thank you anyway :D
The one i linked is for people who don’t have amd/nvidia cards & therefore don’t have the software that comes with it. The limiter i linked does the same thing as mine does
@@AlpaCakeGames ah I see! I can’t find a tutorial for linked version anywhere especially for the sims which sad because my game has decided to crash every 5 minutes and it’s upsetting 😭
@@AlpaCakeGames hey theres a program (sims 3 gpu add on) that changes the graphic card txt automatically. I wanted to tell you because it can be helpfull for people who havent understood it well
You may need a frame rate limiter if you have a Nvidia card. My Sims will run at 500fps without a frame rate limiter... That will absolutely ruin a graphics card. Causes stuttering and lagging
Help ! When I try to save the modified note files in their original location (trying to overwrite the base file) I get an error message saying "You do not have permission to open this file. Consult the owner of the file or an administrator to obtain authorisation". What should I do? Thanks !
Oh thank god no more build mode lag spikes anyways the map went to white except the location icon but going back to household Its normal. But I don't mind nor do I care As long as the lag spikes are gone I'm good for now.
@@CyberGhost366 sadly no matter what I did I couldn't get this to work so instead I went into the nivdia panel and changed the Frame rate to 60 and vertical to on and it runs beautiful.
I’m not sure! You might have an integrated card which means you have to skip this part. I would recommend to look at the gpu add-on a modder made. You can find the link in the pinned comment
Do both files have to be saved in the bin?? Like my computer won’t let me save it in that location for some reason it’s saying I don’t have permission and to save in documents instead😵💫
@@dominykabajoriunaite6074 like I’m about to screammmm. & when I try to just download the GPU add on app my computer warns me about it having a virus or something💀
Click right on the the sims 3 directory folder, security (I believe. I have different language), edit (as she did with featured folder) and give yourself full access over that folder
Funny enough, how newer your pc, the worse it’ll run. Hence why you need these fixes. Matching ur gpu to your game does WONDERS. The game is old & therefore doesn’t recognize newer videocards. That’s why matching yours to the game manually is SO important for the game’s performance
make sure you inserted everything correctly and use the graphics add-on that i linked in the pinned comment if you're unsure what to write down. even if it says found 1, that still means that the game is unable to run the game through your graphics card
Yeah, I just installed the game for some nostalgia and I used AMD to see what my FPS was at..... 2158 FPS..... So yea, the limiting FPS thing is needed XD
I followed your instructions and after all of the steps my deviceconfig file still said Found: 0 Matched: 0, and now my EA app and sims 3 wont even start up. I have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 it has 12GB of vram I believe and my GPU rating is 5. Can you help me figure out what I did wrong? Can you verify the information that I need to be putting in?
I don't understand the part about the permissions for the Featured Items folder. You have a profile called "Everyone" that you have denied the permissions for, but I don't have that on my computer. I only have SYSTEM, my personal account and Administrator. Which one do I deny the permission's for?
@@AlpaCakeGames Ah! That makes sense, thank you. I’ve implemented all the things you spoke about in the video and my game is running the most smooth I’ve ever seen it. I didn’t know the sims 3 could run this well!! Thank you for making such a helpful and informative video 😄
Hello, I would like your help. I game lightly on an Asus Vivobook laptop until I can finally afford my first gaming PC. So my graphics card is AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics and it's an Uber one. What do I write in the GraphicsRules? I tried the Sims 3 GPU Add On, but I prefer to type it manually and I don't know what to type. If you could reply as soon as possible, i'd greatly appreciate it!
I highly recommend still using the add-on because i'm not entirely sure. Though, I believe just "Vega 8" should work in the graphics rules files. Please make a backup of the file first though, so that if anything goes wrong, you can replace the broken file
It doesn't let me replace the graphics file because I don't have a permission and also when I click save it doesn't change the note file it does this thingy where it creates a new one and I cannot add it :/
@@marija9777 Not entirely sure! If you wanna be sure, then use the gpu-add on that i've linked in the comments. and otherwise i think R9 M2?? should suffice, but please make a back up before trying it out!
I only know that there’s a mac specific version on origin. Besides that, I recommend using the nraas mods I mentioned in my video. Try not to use too much eps at once & save regularly
Yeah, forexample I am using cracked sims 3 and I need to play from TS3.exe from game folder.If I open launcher, game does not work because my TS3.exe is cracked exe pragram.''I can't use sims 3 smooth pack''.@@AlpaCakeGames
Thanks this really helped me get my card recognized. I also have and AMD Radeon card. My game plays fine but I have a weird purple hue to everything is there a way to fix this. Not sure what to play with in the AMD app.
I have an Nvidia RTX 2080 and did everything properly, but only got found 1, matched 0. Any idea what went wrong? They were both 0 before, so something worked, but also didn't XD
@@czerniana that’s so weird. It must be a problem somewhere in the code, so something must be put in wrong.. unfortunately it could be anything that i showed in the video, so i can’t help you a lot. I can only advice you to check everything again, everything that you’ve written down in the files. Or start completely over if you have the back up files
There is a program out there that matched it for you. You just have to install it and you don’t have to go into those files and change it. The program will do it for you. I couldn’t do the matching and it did it for me. It’s hard for us, I also have the RTX
Someone please help! At the moment my game is running okay through the EA app. However, i’ve never updated it and i am interested in downloading mods to prevent the came from crashing/glitching. What do you recommend? Should i update my game first? I found updates through my sims 3 store account online.
The mods i mention in the video are all based on the latest version of the Sims 3. I don’t know if there are older versions of the mods still available on the sites, so you could look into that. Otherwise, you will have to update your game
@@AlpaCakeGames okay awesome because I didn’t wanna spend the money re buying the sims 3 again and then I’m not able to play it on my Mac. Considering so many people are having lagging issues..
Try to 'save as' to your desktop. if it changes to .txt make sure that you change the name of it to .sgr (make sure you have the text extensions on in your document. you can find this in your files folder at 'view'.) then rename the file on your desktop to .sgr and then put it in your bin folder.
@@Fall1N1_Ali you need to look at how the rest of the cards are listed for intel in graphicsrules. Then you can match yours to those. I dont know how they are listed & dont have access to my pc rn to help
I tried and followed all these steps but when I tried playing the game I was not able to modify the graphics in the settings of the game. Also my device configlog is now empty 😓. How can I fix this?
i need help please! everytime i do the required stuff for matched: 1. It literally doesn't load up my game, im doing everything as shown in the video, please help.
@@AlpaCakeGames haha sorry, with the whole uber, high, medium, low. They all have numbers, so 5 is uber and 1 is the lowest. But my graphics card being what it is idk if the 1 rating is correct.
That’s probably an Direct X problem! There are guides on the internet for that. Just look up “sims 3 launcher won’t launch” & they will help you. After your game works, you can apply these fixes :)
Hey Fleur, als ik de smoothpatch installeer, lukt het me niet om het spel op te starten. Ik speel al jaren DS3, maar ben nieuw in modding. Ik heb alle stappen doorlopen van Mod The Sims, maar nougabollen. Het lukt niet. Waaraan kan dit liggen? Hartelijk dank voor je hulp en veel succes gewenst met je kanaal.
@@AlpaCakeGames i think i’ve figured it out since my card is an intergrated card it doesn’t have a specific number so i can’t match my graphics card for this but thank you!
I assume you have started your game before? If not, try that and see if it spawns. If that doesn't work, are you sure you're in the right destination and the game is installed there?
Hello. Thank you so much for this video! When I look to see what my graphics card is called, there are two names. One is intel and the other nvidia. Do I list both of these names in the "Graphicscards.sgr" file?
I think so yes. But if you want to be sure, use the gpu add-on module that a modder made. It auto generates the gpu line that you need. The link is in the pinned comment.
I have a question about the name in graphic rules. In deviceconfig this name is shown: Name (driver): AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics and i added in graphiccards.sgr under ati : card 0x15d8 "AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics" more specific info about my graphiccard AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz so my question is...what do i have to type in the graphicrules? I don't have 2 or 3 digits in the name
I believe the AMD Ryzen 5 is your cpu, not your gpu (graphics card). Pretty sure that cpu is rated a 5 (uber). Concerning your driver, take a look at the gpu add-on that automatically writes you gpu code. The link is in a pinned comment. Hope this helps!
!!FOR EVERYONE ASKING ABOUT MATCHING THE GPU!!
If you don’t understand/can’t figure out how to match your gpu to your game, there’s someone who make a sims 3 gpu add-on that automatically writes the code for your gpu. You can find it here:
www.nexusmods.com/thesims3/mods/106
THANK YOU SO MUCHHHH
@@dianadou 💗💗💗
So do you still have to manually match your video card to the graphics rules (per your steps) or does that mod already do that for you as well? Thanks!
@@emilym8863 it updates the file automatically. No need to edit or copy/paste
The way I would pay someone to do this for me.
Yeah me too
I’ll do it. Where are you located?
This was more fiddly than I accounted for, because I had issues with my mod folder. After some hunting through forums, fixing the mod folder and THEN following this tutorial...
...Dear god could you imagine if the Sims 3 ALWAYS ran like this?! It's INCREDIBLE!
This tutorial is absolutely amazing! My game has never run so good, I’ve always just dealt with annoying bugs and lags just strugging it off as the sims 3’s problems but now my game actually runs nicely. Thank you so much
Oh my, I’m so happy I could help!!
Thank you sooo much! I recently got a new laptop and was very disappointed when my game would still basically run like crap... It isn't perfect but it runs much smoother now. Especially the create-a-style tool. 😍
Omg yay! I’m so happy this worked 🥰
Thank you so much for helping us out with this video. Normally my game has no lag when playing on max settings but I recently created a custom world in CAW that is huge and was experiencing lag for the first time in forever. I thought I was going to have to sacrifice my graphics settings but you saved the day. I did a bunch of the tricks you recommended and let me tell you, Smooth Patch made a huge difference. Now my large world is flying and I can play with all my graphics set to max.
Thank you so much! It really helps to play the sims 3 in 2024 :D
HUGE THANK YOU!!! 🙏 This helped so very much! The game runs smoothly now and my graphics card isn't whining at me anymore. 🙂
YAYY!! I’m SO happy to hear this 🥰have fun enjoying the sims 3!
Thank you so much for explaining this. This was easy to follow, but I did have to take my time and pause the video a few times. My game is running so much better.
I always stopped after the graphics card and CPU, and did nothing else. I recently had to completely wipe out my game and start over due to performance issues. This video will probably prevent me from having the same problems all over again. Thank you!
Glad I could help! 💗
"'Found : 0, Matched: 0"
/starts sweating/
You got this!!!!
I just did this and my game has never run as great as it runs now!! I’ve been playing sims 3 since it came out and it’s never been this smooth! I stopped at the FPS change and it’s amazing how fluid it is. Zero Lag and it looks beautiful! Thank you!!! I have RTX 3060.
I’m so happy to hear that!! Enjoy☺️
This is possibly the greatest video I have ever found on youtube!!! Thank you!
16:31 Thank you so much for this, it's a very useful trick! ☺️✨ Finally I will no longer have to be cleaning that folder every time that I want to load the game
No problem! Happy to help! 💗
thank you so much. you explained so well and it reduced my lag tremendously!
So glad i could help!
You made me fall in love with the game again
So much hassle to just play the game its insane
you can definitely still play the game without these fixes (i did for YEARS). these fixes simply optimize your game :))
Thank you so much!
This video is amazing, you can explain and teach people really well!
Shoutout to you boyfriend. Nice Save
Omg thank you so much! That means so much to me :)
thank you for all the hard work !!!!!! we truly appreciate it
Thank you so much 🥺
Sims 3 runs as well as someone from My 600 pound life running a marathon so this was a welcome improvement :D
Tons of kisses to you, My Dear. Worked like a charm, and no lag in build mode. TYVM
I’m so happy to hear that!!
your background wallpaper is so pretty 0:18
thank you so much!
This video really helped me and you explained it all so well, dankjewel!❤
My GPU is an AMD RX 6600 XT so I also included the XT based on how the other gpus were named in the document and It worked. So it would be "*RX 66?? XT*"
That should be right yes, but make sure to backup!
Hello from Russia! Thanks for the advice! Your video is the only thing that helped me out of the whole internet❤
Oh my! I’m so happy that I could help!
On the forum page for origin there was one talking about the lag from the unrecognized video card. I did what the forum said to do w mine and I added it to it… needless to say it in fact made it way worse.
Did you follow the steps exactly as mentioned in the video? If you did & it lags more, it might have something to do with your card not being updated, or with your card not being compatible enough with the game
Mine says found 0 matched 1… idk if it’s right or not
What if my driver is a intel? what letters and numbers do i put?
Much better, thank you!
THAT AWESOME!! 👍🏻😲
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i did all 3 first steps and it still lags, is there hope? it only lags in gameplay, it works fine during build mode etc.
get that smoothpatch and Nraas! makes the game playable even without the first few steps, so imagine it WITH the first few steps!
really helpful!
did developer play them game? it's so many laging.
Thank you for this video that's fantastic
my english is bad sorry that
Fr tho! Sometimes i doubt if they’ve play tested it 😂 you’re so welcome!
Your voice is so cute❤🥰
Awe thank you!
Thank you so much, great! ♥
You’re so welcome 💗
Dankjewel !
Geen probleem 💗
Ahhh my head hurts 🤣
Anyone have issues when matching CPU? It makes my settings get stuck and won't change unless I put it back. Unsure how to fix it.
I tried to start the game via the TS3PatchLauncher, but the game won't start as there is a notification saying I must install Origin in order to play the game. I bought the game via Origin though :( Also, I left the launcher in the bin folder and did everything accordingly to your video
Have you installed the right one? So the origin version? Otherwise try to install it again, I’ve never encountered this problem. Maybe try to repair your game??
I did all of this, but the game is still lagging just as much as before. Doesn't make any sense, I'm on a really high-end PC, but it just seems like nothing I installed works.
that`s weird have you tried 4 gb patch ,did you downloaded nraas mods ,and did you delete your cache files,if this doesn`t work then tell me your specs maybe i can help you .
Same, I’ve done all the mods, all the tricks and still it’s unplayable for me.
I tried it with the GPU add on as well, and now with your tip, it still shows me found and matched 0. I have a GTX 1660 Ti. I tried with "*GTX 1660 Ti*" just to make sure, AND "*GTX 16?? Ti*"... nothing works... I dont know why it does not recognize the letters after the numbers...
Have you tried leaving out the letters completely? I don’t know what the problem could be. With the add-on it should be working
I have intel so none of this makes sense for me 😅 Idk what to do at 10:30 intel looks completely different
I have the same problem unfortunately
Great video, thank you. But sadly my game is still laggy even after doing all these. I have a GTX 1660 SUPER GPU and RYZEN 5 3600 CPU, so they should be more than enough, but my game is very laggy. I'm also at the very beginning of the game with a fresh install.
did matching your graphics card work? does it now say found 1, matched 1? your drivers should be more than able to run the game well, but if it's not recognized by the game, it's gonna run awfully
@@AlpaCakeGames I did match my card and I tried countless other fixed, sadly it was always laggy.
@@xyttra that is very unfortunate. it can be caused by everything like lack of storage, being installed on a hdd instead of sdd, an old cpu/gpu, etc...
Try to run a lower number of loading detailed houses.
Every time I save the files it creates a new one and renames the current one with "old". Not only that, but after doing everything step by step, it still shows found:0, matched:1. I don't get it.
EDIT: launching the game and exiting twice in a row fixed it, not it shows 1 and 1 in both places. Thank you for your video!
Glad i could help!
I need your help is that normal when my graphic card is recognized but my game is still laggy
completely normal, the newer the system the more you need to limit your game. My Game is the smoothest with Screen Refresh Rate limited to 30fps in the Game (no need to play around inside your GPU Control Panel) ofc you still need the fixes of: matching your hardware, memories limited, smooth patch and nraas. Also nice Tool would be the Regul Safegame Cleaner (backup your safes, in case it breaks) and ofc deleting your cache files after each play.
hope that helps!
thanks sorry for late reply
Cheers, amazing video.
the tutorial make me lazy to follow all the video step 🥴 sims 3 is still lagging and i give up 😊
In the last step what do I put if I don't have a series number? The name of my driver is just AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
Same! I was just looking for this answer in the comments
also looking for an answer
That can not possibly be true, there must be some error in the log file, definitely your graphics card has a full name, look up the full specs of your PC/laptop online or in your operative systems settings/description somewhere.
Either way it shouldn't matter for the sims in this case, I guess EA is so scuffed and broken you will just have to add the name without series number and see what happens.
Hey, So my problem is everytime I wanna play in windowed mode my game is lagging idk why because in fullscreen mode the game is very smooth, but also in fullscreen mode the game got that dark screen who makes the worlds look like it's everytime the night :(
The game works best in full screen mode yes, but i’m not quite sure what you mean with “dark screen”? Have you updated your graphics card? Could be a graphics issue
unfortunately, the first tip did not work for me. I checked my progress several times to see if I had made a mistake but nothing 😞😓
If it doesn’t work, something has gone wrong somewhere. You are sure you put the right lines in both the graphicscards as graphicsrules files? And did you launch the game after you saved & quit the files?
I want the smoothness patch, but my packs are half cd and the other half from origin
Hmm that’s a tough one! I think it depends on how you’ve installed the base game (disc/origin), but i’m not entirely sure!
Nice !
Thank you! Hope it helped you :)
@@AlpaCakeGames ✨💫
i followed all the steps before matching the game to your cpu but when it still said 0/0 so i gave up before finishing the video. I decided to boot up the sims 3 to make sure i didnt break it and it loaded wayy faster than normal and has zero lag? I swear it was so laggy before and i didnt even finish this tutorial, so i have no clue if this helped or if its something else i did unknowingly?
Either way i'll say thank you anyway :D
sounds like a success!
i need a tutorial for newer rtss fps limiter as the one you linked isnt the same as what you have.
thank you
The one i linked is for people who don’t have amd/nvidia cards & therefore don’t have the software that comes with it. The limiter i linked does the same thing as mine does
@@AlpaCakeGames ah I see! I can’t find a tutorial for linked version anywhere especially for the sims which sad because my game has decided to crash every 5 minutes and it’s upsetting 😭
@@Twigg1Junior I honestly also don’t have any idea hoe to use it as i have the amd one, i’m sorry!
Omg i cant wait to try it on mine. Sims 3 are my favorite sims but i had lagg always and that pissed me off,hope i can solve it 😣
Let me know!! I’m so excited for you!
@@AlpaCakeGames hey theres a program (sims 3 gpu add on) that changes the graphic card txt automatically. I wanted to tell you because it can be helpfull for people who havent understood it well
@@nctzenahri thank you!
You may need a frame rate limiter if you have a Nvidia card. My Sims will run at 500fps without a frame rate limiter... That will absolutely ruin a graphics card. Causes stuttering and lagging
@@JessiTheBestiGaming im with radeon vega
Help !
When I try to save the modified note files in their original location (trying to overwrite the base file) I get an error message saying "You do not have permission to open this file. Consult the owner of the file or an administrator to obtain authorisation".
What should I do?
Thanks !
Try to save it to your desktop first & then try to put it back in the folder!
Oh thank god no more build mode lag spikes anyways the map went to white except the location icon but going back to household Its normal. But I don't mind nor do I care As long as the lag spikes are gone I'm good for now.
i follow this to a t i have card 0x1380 "GeForce GTX 750 Ti" but when i insert this i still get 0/0
same
@@CyberGhost366 sadly no matter what I did I couldn't get this to work so instead I went into the nivdia panel and changed the Frame rate to 60 and vertical to on and it runs beautiful.
have you used the graphics driver add-on that i linked in the pinned comment? that might help you with what to write down
What hair does the sim in your thumbnail use? ♡
My graphic card name is 'AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics' without a number, what will i enter in the graphics card number?
I’m not sure! You might have an integrated card which means you have to skip this part. I would recommend to look at the gpu add-on a modder made. You can find the link in the pinned comment
Do both files have to be saved in the bin?? Like my computer won’t let me save it in that location for some reason it’s saying I don’t have permission and to save in documents instead😵💫
Same
@@dominykabajoriunaite6074 like I’m about to screammmm. & when I try to just download the GPU add on app my computer warns me about it having a virus or something💀
Click right on the the sims 3 directory folder, security (I believe. I have different language), edit (as she did with featured folder) and give yourself full access over that folder
S a m eeeeee what can i do
I always save mine as .sgr files to my desktop, then drag/drop them into the right folder. It has me verify as admin and it goes in!
OMG..thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏
Glad I could help💗💗
Thank you so much!!!
You can’t, nothing will help. The game will lag even on the best pc ever with best gpu 3090, or else
Funny enough, how newer your pc, the worse it’ll run. Hence why you need these fixes. Matching ur gpu to your game does WONDERS. The game is old & therefore doesn’t recognize newer videocards. That’s why matching yours to the game manually is SO important for the game’s performance
Mine says Found 1 matched 0
Nvidia GTX1050 TI
same but i havegtx 1050 without ti
make sure you inserted everything correctly and use the graphics add-on that i linked in the pinned comment if you're unsure what to write down. even if it says found 1, that still means that the game is unable to run the game through your graphics card
And if I have 3GB?
you mean 3gb VRAM? I recommend putting 1024 in there, which roughly comes to 1gb.
@@AlpaCakeGames thank you so much❤️
@@natty6143 you're welcome!
Yeah, I just installed the game for some nostalgia and I used AMD to see what my FPS was at.....
2158 FPS..... So yea, the limiting FPS thing is needed XD
I followed your instructions and after all of the steps my deviceconfig file still said Found: 0 Matched: 0, and now my EA app and sims 3 wont even start up. I have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 it has 12GB of vram I believe and my GPU rating is 5. Can you help me figure out what I did wrong? Can you verify the information that I need to be putting in?
If you haven’t fix it there is an automatic program that can recognize your card for you
I don't understand the part about the permissions for the Featured Items folder. You have a profile called "Everyone" that you have denied the permissions for, but I don't have that on my computer. I only have SYSTEM, my personal account and Administrator. Which one do I deny the permission's for?
just deny it for every one of them!
@@AlpaCakeGames Ah! That makes sense, thank you.
I’ve implemented all the things you spoke about in the video and my game is running the most smooth I’ve ever seen it. I didn’t know the sims 3 could run this well!! Thank you for making such a helpful and informative video 😄
@@DeviousWeaselUK i'm so so happy to hear that it helped! enjoy!
@@DeviousWeaselUK i'm so happy that it helped
Hello, I would like your help. I game lightly on an Asus Vivobook laptop until I can finally afford my first gaming PC. So my graphics card is AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics and it's an Uber one. What do I write in the GraphicsRules? I tried the Sims 3 GPU Add On, but I prefer to type it manually and I don't know what to type.
If you could reply as soon as possible, i'd greatly appreciate it!
I do the same on the same laptop!! Very interested to know what to do here..
Same question here
I highly recommend still using the add-on because i'm not entirely sure. Though, I believe just "Vega 8" should work in the graphics rules files. Please make a backup of the file first though, so that if anything goes wrong, you can replace the broken file
It doesn't let me replace the graphics file because I don't have a permission and also when I click save it doesn't change the note file it does this thingy where it creates a new one and I cannot add it :/
make sure you change the permissions on who's allowed to make changes to the document to "everyone"! that should fix the problem
Ok thank you, and also I have one more question, my graphic card is Radeon R9 M200X so do I put R9 M2??X in the notes?
@@marija9777 Not entirely sure! If you wanna be sure, then use the gpu-add on that i've linked in the comments. and otherwise i think R9 M2?? should suffice, but please make a back up before trying it out!
I have the same problem:( how did you solve it?
any tips on how to stop it crashing on Mac?
I only know that there’s a mac specific version on origin. Besides that, I recommend using the nraas mods I mentioned in my video. Try not to use too much eps at once & save regularly
Do you have to do ALL these steps or are the first do good enough?
Widnows won't let me open TS3PatchLauncher :/
What does it say when you try to open it?
Yeah, forexample I am using cracked sims 3 and I need to play from TS3.exe from game folder.If I open launcher, game does not work because my TS3.exe is cracked exe pragram.''I can't use sims 3 smooth pack''.@@AlpaCakeGames
@@fahreddindirekciyou probably didn’t install it correctly
Thanks this really helped me get my card recognized. I also have and AMD Radeon card. My game plays fine but I have a weird purple hue to everything is there a way to fix this. Not sure what to play with in the AMD app.
is this a shadows problem? if so, i am making a video on that today, which should be uploaded by the end of this week
I have an Nvidia RTX 2080 and did everything properly, but only got found 1, matched 0. Any idea what went wrong? They were both 0 before, so something worked, but also didn't XD
Are you sure you inserted it in the right area? So with the nvidia cards & put down RTX 20?? ?
@@AlpaCakeGames Yup, I triple checked it too =/
@@czerniana that’s so weird. It must be a problem somewhere in the code, so something must be put in wrong.. unfortunately it could be anything that i showed in the video, so i can’t help you a lot. I can only advice you to check everything again, everything that you’ve written down in the files. Or start completely over if you have the back up files
There is a program out there that matched it for you. You just have to install it and you don’t have to go into those files and change it. The program will do it for you. I couldn’t do the matching and it did it for me.
It’s hard for us, I also have the RTX
@@luciapereira3763 what program?
im gonna try those steps thank you, i hope it will work :( i just can’t do the nvidia graphic card thing
Let me know if you run into any problems
what if i have two graphic cards
Someone please help! At the moment my game is running okay through the EA app. However, i’ve never updated it and i am interested in downloading mods to prevent the came from crashing/glitching. What do you recommend? Should i update my game first? I found updates through my sims 3 store account online.
The mods i mention in the video are all based on the latest version of the Sims 3. I don’t know if there are older versions of the mods still available on the sites, so you could look into that. Otherwise, you will have to update your game
Any advice for Max users? I know we can play the sims on Mac 🖥 I just want to play the sims 3 again rather than play the sims 4.
There’s a special version of the sims 3 on Origin. It should be optimized for mac. I’m not sure if any of my fixes apply to mac
@@AlpaCakeGames okay awesome because I didn’t wanna spend the money re buying the sims 3 again and then I’m not able to play it on my Mac. Considering so many people are having lagging issues..
@@H.avery355 weird, my mac version works fine & didnt need to rebuy it either
@@AlpaCakeGames I had the sims 3 back when they were on disk and I already redeemed the codes so I will have to re buy it through origin.
@@H.avery355 ah i see, that’s sad. On cd keys you can buy a key for a couple dollars
7:39 - What do I put in if I have 12 gb? I have a geforce rtx 3060
12 gb is 12.288 mb so half of that is 6.144.
@@flo2784 thank you!
When I’m saving my cpu changes it doesn’t let me save it? It says cannot save in this file?
Try to 'save as' to your desktop. if it changes to .txt make sure that you change the name of it to .sgr (make sure you have the text extensions on in your document. you can find this in your files folder at 'view'.) then rename the file on your desktop to .sgr and then put it in your bin folder.
Hello I am using an intel iris xe without number what should I put in the graphicsrules
Usually intel cards already are recognized by the game! So you can skip the step
@@AlpaCakeGames But mine isn't still found idk the code name to put for the card name in the graphicsrules
It's so hard to make it recognize my graphics card. I'm using a Lenovo L3 with core i5 intel iris xe pls help meee 🥺
@@Fall1N1_Ali you need to look at how the rest of the cards are listed for intel in graphicsrules. Then you can match yours to those. I dont know how they are listed & dont have access to my pc rn to help
@@Fall1N1_Ali that information is irrelevant, only the gpu matters for this part of the video
I tried and followed all these steps but when I tried playing the game I was not able to modify the graphics in the settings of the game. Also my device configlog is now empty 😓. How can I fix this?
same (edit: i installed the mod from the pinned comment and now all is fixed!)
thank you so much!🫶
i need help please! everytime i do the required stuff for matched: 1. It literally doesn't load up my game, im doing everything as shown in the video, please help.
There’s probably an error in the graphicrules file. Does it give you an error code?
I was having problems with that too. There is a program that recognizes and matches it for you. Very simple. No need for us to change anything
@@luciapereira3763 yess i found it and it worked
@@livvypoo222 awesome 😎
i have a nvidia geforce rtx 2070 SUPER but i get a 1 rating for my gpu... i don't really know if thats right at all..
Do your mean the rating of your cpu by any chance? Because that’s something completely different than gpu!
@@AlpaCakeGames No no, like GPU is 1 CPU is 4 i double checked!
@@Khalopsia is the vram 1gb? I'm not sure what you mean by gpu rating
@@AlpaCakeGames haha sorry, with the whole uber, high, medium, low. They all have numbers, so 5 is uber and 1 is the lowest. But my graphics card being what it is idk if the 1 rating is correct.
@@Khalopsia ah gotcha! That’s actually your cpu (processor) rating! Not your gpu (videocard) rating! So it is probably right!
What about “GeForce 920MX” how should i write in uber section
RTX 9??
How you I get the radium software ??
Hi do you by chance mean the Radeon software? You can download it on AMD’s website if you have an AMD graphics card
Hi can you help me
how should I type my geforce 930mx in uber section please 🙏🙏
Use the tool I mentioned in my pinned comment!! It creates the rules for you☺️
Will this work for me. My sims 3 won’t even show the launcher ?
That’s probably an Direct X problem! There are guides on the internet for that. Just look up “sims 3 launcher won’t launch” & they will help you. After your game works, you can apply these fixes :)
Hey Fleur, als ik de smoothpatch installeer, lukt het me niet om het spel op te starten. Ik speel al jaren DS3, maar ben nieuw in modding. Ik heb alle stappen doorlopen van Mod The Sims, maar nougabollen. Het lukt niet. Waaraan kan dit liggen? Hartelijk dank voor je hulp en veel succes gewenst met je kanaal.
I did the first few steps and when you said to open the sims it just crashed it wont load at all. And my deviceconfig file is empty???
same (edit: i installed the mod from the comments and now it works!)
Hello hi im having trouble matching my graphics my driver name is AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 3 Graphics so what will i put in the uber part
Hi! I believe you will need to put in Vega 3??? , but i’m not entirely sure! Make sure to backup the file in case it doesn’t work.
@@AlpaCakeGames ok I will thank youuu
@@AlpaCakeGames what will i put it there is no number? my driver name is AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics, it doesn’t have a number at all.
@@ayanna5626 I honestly have no clue. All the cards in GraphicsRules include a number. Maybe look up the version of that specific card
@@AlpaCakeGames i think i’ve figured it out since my card is an intergrated card it doesn’t have a specific number so i can’t match my graphics card for this but thank you!
i dont have the game folder or the bin folder
I assume you have started your game before? If not, try that and see if it spawns. If that doesn't work, are you sure you're in the right destination and the game is installed there?
I thought so too, but I found it by right-clicking my laucher shortcut on the desktop, and "open file location"
Hello. Thank you so much for this video! When I look to see what my graphics card is called, there are two names. One is intel and the other nvidia. Do I list both of these names in the "Graphicscards.sgr" file?
It’s probably best to use your nvidia card
Question what if you don’t have a graphics card like your own a laptop or something will be still work I just want to know
I think so yes. But if you want to be sure, use the gpu add-on module that a modder made. It auto generates the gpu line that you need. The link is in the pinned comment.
What TS world is that ? very pretty
Hi! Please help; what if after doing the GPU steps, it says found:0, matched:1. Do I need to do it again?
No, you’re all good!
I have a question about the name in graphic rules.
In deviceconfig this name is shown:
Name (driver): AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics
and i added in graphiccards.sgr under ati :
card 0x15d8 "AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics"
more specific info about my graphiccard AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz
so my question is...what do i have to type in the graphicrules?
I don't have 2 or 3 digits in the name
I believe the AMD Ryzen 5 is your cpu, not your gpu (graphics card). Pretty sure that cpu is rated a 5 (uber). Concerning your driver, take a look at the gpu add-on that automatically writes you gpu code. The link is in a pinned comment. Hope this helps!