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D: talk about lag...
Evergreen226
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Alright, so today for my birthday, I got a brand new computer (woot woot!) and it was an iMac (21.5 inch) and it's really quite spectacular...
Until it comes to the Sims. It installed great, and I love it.... but it has the most unbearable lag ever. Like honestly, it takes about a minute (human time) or so for the game to render the fact that I have changed the sims outfit, and the loading screens are totally unbearable. I almost want to punch the game right now.
I have the Base Game, Ambitions, Late Night, and Outdoor Living Stuff currently installed (waiting to get World Adventures from a friend) and the lag was already there when I went to test it out with just the Base Game installed.
According to the Box, my computer has:
3.2GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 4MB Shared Level 3 Cache
4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
1TB Serial ATA Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
-ladedado pre built in stuff-
and then its running Mac OS X if that makes a difference.
I've got absolutely NO Custom Content installed yet, but I did put in my store content.
Any help would be appreciated ^_^
Until it comes to the Sims. It installed great, and I love it.... but it has the most unbearable lag ever. Like honestly, it takes about a minute (human time) or so for the game to render the fact that I have changed the sims outfit, and the loading screens are totally unbearable. I almost want to punch the game right now.
I have the Base Game, Ambitions, Late Night, and Outdoor Living Stuff currently installed (waiting to get World Adventures from a friend) and the lag was already there when I went to test it out with just the Base Game installed.
According to the Box, my computer has:
3.2GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 4MB Shared Level 3 Cache
4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
1TB Serial ATA Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
-ladedado pre built in stuff-
and then its running Mac OS X if that makes a difference.
I've got absolutely NO Custom Content installed yet, but I did put in my store content.
Any help would be appreciated ^_^
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If that doesn't work, or your graphic settings are already low, the only other thing I can think of is the thumbnail cache files. These will create lag if they get corrupted.
Here is a link to Simswiki that explains how to delete these files: http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Sims_3_Delete_Cache_Files
Good luck with this.