Speculation on why lagging occurs

comstarhatesu

Plain and simple, I think that Late Night is the cause for a majority of the lagging I've been reading of recently.

My game ran perfectly before I loaded Late Night. And now, the longer I play any of my saved games, the more they lag/ drag/ become increasing aggravating to play. I wish I knew exactly why the lagging becomes worse as the game plays on, but I do not. Some people say it's because of the vampires... Others say that it's because sims are getting stuck somewhere in the neighborhood...

I've gone so far as to buy a new $230 graphics card, because I thought it might've been my computer graphics card slowing the game down. Nope...

Like I said, this is only speculation, so take it for what you will. But I'm going to uninstall Late Night (if not all of The Sims 3 with the exception of Late Night) and see what becomes of it.

We're all probably going to have to wait out to play Late Night until a patch can hopefully solve our problem(s).

Unless, anyone else can solve this lagging mystery...

LittleV

Please post your Dxdiag report:

1) Click RUN
2) Type "DXDIAG" and click ok
3) Click "Save all information" and save it to your computer
4) Copy and paste the entire thing into a post

Lagging also occurs by CC, and data accumulated from save games. Depending on the computer's specs, the longer you play a particular game or the more you save it, the more data is attached to the file, causing longer load times and lag.

comstarhatesu

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System Information

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Time of this report: 11/7/2010, 16:55:20
Machine name:
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DDI Version: 11
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Nichaedemus

Hi,

The following threads may be of interest to you:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/178853.page
And:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/266875.page
And:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/293406.page

Turbine

My game was lagging because after the first sim day, the other sims in Bridgeport had 13 cars, 9 televisions on and multiple stereos. A mod deleted all the cars and turned off all the stereos and presto, almost no lag at all. Some bumping every once in a while but averall VAST IMPROVEMENT! overwatch

Mullerkrm

Nichaedemus wrote:

Hi,

The following threads may be of interest to you:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/178853.page
And:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/266875.page
And:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/293406.page

I just posted a thread about lag issues as well and read these when I saw this. I tried resetting ALL of the sims on my lot and it still didnt fix it what on earth is going on