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Pie menu lag?
carleighcane
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This issue is similar to something I heard others have after Showtime (I believe), where pie menus took a few seconds to pop up, but this only occurs when clicking on sims. Clicking on the active sim and clicking on other sims causes a 5-10 second lag before the pie menu pops up. Clicking on objects or the ground has no menu lag. It makes the game playable if I never want my sims to interact, which is not the case, hence his post.
This lag started randomly a few days ago, nothing about my game or computer had changed previous to the lag occurring. My computer can more than handle TS3, and I have been playing with only the occasional problem (usually patch related, fixed glitches I never had and gave me problems) for years.
The base game, EPs, and SPs I have are all legit purchased discs.
My game is updated.
I have mods installed, but removing them from my game did not help.
I have cc installed, checking 'run without custom content' in the launcher did not help. Removing it from my game seemed to shave a second off the lag time, but did not eradicate the issue.
This lag occurs both playing saved games and starting new games.
If anybody has any suggestions on how to fix this, please post.
This lag started randomly a few days ago, nothing about my game or computer had changed previous to the lag occurring. My computer can more than handle TS3, and I have been playing with only the occasional problem (usually patch related, fixed glitches I never had and gave me problems) for years.
The base game, EPs, and SPs I have are all legit purchased discs.
My game is updated.
I have mods installed, but removing them from my game did not help.
I have cc installed, checking 'run without custom content' in the launcher did not help. Removing it from my game seemed to shave a second off the lag time, but did not eradicate the issue.
This lag occurs both playing saved games and starting new games.
If anybody has any suggestions on how to fix this, please post.
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I'd recommend checking all inventories and remove all unnecessary items. I aim to keep my Sim and household inventories empty since I had MI uses of delay each time I tried to do anything.
If inventories are good then I'd try a factory reset. This is because bad cc can attach itself to things and there is no other way to get rid of it.
Critict has a sticky near the top of this forum on how to get rid of bad cc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
> For sure 3 has a slower engine and the sticky feel or delay is part of the problem but since this seems new to you. it's possible it's a hardware issue. What's your processor, card and ram amount. Also is it every game or just older saves?
Intel i5-2410M 2.30GHz
GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
6GB, 5.9 usable
(I know you didn't ask for hard drive space but) 465GB, 210GB free
It's all games, new and saves. The lag is actually even longer in new games, going up to 20 seconds.
thanks for adding hard drive that would matter as well. as for specs, you have listed a laptop processor but a desktop card can you confirm for me your process
My laptop has integrated Intel HD 4000 chip.
And have you tried loading up a new test game in a different world to see if the problem follows you over there or is specific to the world and home lot being played?
Have you tried running Delphy's Dashboard to look for outright corrupt package files and conflicts? Note that it will kick up some false positives and miss other things so it's not a perfect solution by any means, but might help point you in the right direction.
http://modthesims.info/d/387006
Broken patterns, yes of course, but in my experience those tend to cause the game to freeze up completely especially when using CASt rather than cause click-lag.
The only other thing you can really do is try different combinations of your mods until you can strike a balance between performance and the added affects as desired. Perhaps start with half of your current mods and see how that goes. If it's okay, then add half of what remains or if not, remove half and keep proceeding like that until you can narrow things down a bit more.
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I moved my DCCache to my desktop and clicking on a sim now took just 1 to 1,5 sec.
So what I did is.. I changed all .dbc files in DCCache to .package files. (Always make a backup!)
Just remove the .dbc and replace it with .package it’ll ask you if you’re sure click yes.
I then opened it in S3PE and it looked like any of the other merged package files I have.
I added the files to CC Magic (You can also put them in the mods/packages folder if you don’t use CC magic, which by the way I highly highly recommend!).
I ran Delphi’s Dashboard to see which of those files were conflicting and what it conflicted with. Turns out it conflicts with a or some Store Content and an item from Murano.
When I ran the game without the Store Content and Murano the interaction menu lag was only 1 to 1,5 sec instead of 5! I was amazed..
Now with everyone of my mods incl the “dbc” files I have a 2 sec lag.. so just by converting them into package files I managed to reduce the lag by 3 sec! And with games every sec counts.
I always have CCMagic Compress the mods when I do a rebuild (it’s the standard setting)
So I think this is the solution. Did a lot of testing A LOT! Before I figured this one out.