So I've got QUITE a few issue with my game, and so I'll list them in order.
- My Sim will stand still for ages to change clothes, I do not use that much custom content outfit, and I also pause the game to let them change, but it causes the game to become tiresome. It still happen after using 4GB/8GB of my Ram.
- The game often saves forever, I save each night, but occasionally it is a save where it never ends (no error 13 either) and I use Nraas mods like overwatch and saver, but it still occur not matter how small or big my progress was.
- My Sim often use LOD models like here
if I zoom out slightly, and like outfit changing issue, it lasts a long time, and also happens to my house residents even if I zoom out the smallest amount from my house like the 2nd floor.
So these all issue are here, and they only seemed to happen after I came back from playing TS2 for a few months, despite not adding any custom content since, and using a fresh save.
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But taken together with the other symptoms, and assuming the game ran better than this in the past, it sounds like something else is going wrong here. Could we get a dxdiag report on this computer? It will tell us about the hardware set and drivers you are working with and if anything stands out as being problematic or in need of adjustment.
How to run one: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information
What to do with it: The easiest way to provide it is to send it up to Pastebin.com (the free version is fine) and provide a link so we can read it.
This all assumes you are running the Windows version of the game. If on a Mac, that would require a different conversation.
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Alright, here is a DXDIAG. https://pastebin.com/AGfFNrE5
Have not used much CC
I don't know on which drive you've installed TS3, but if it is on C, uninstalling and reinstalling on E, and then redirecting your Documents folder to E as well, would help tremendously. Of course, you won't have a whole lot of space on E either after you do this, but perhaps there are other files you can move to external storage.
Your drivers are also a year old. You should be able to download new ones from the computer manufacturer's website, or Nvidia's site if the manufacturer isn't offering them.
When you're ready to play TS3 again, the next question is whether you're using an fps limiter for TS3. The game has no working fps limiter of its own, and an Nvidia GTX 970 is strong enough to damage itself if your frame rates aren't capped. The first tool to try would be the built-in Nvidia Control Panel. But CP doesn't always work, and never works in windowed mode, so the next step would be to download Nvidia Inspector (free). Here are screenshots for the settings for both tools, under the spoilers:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16540301/#Comment_16540301
But first and foremost yes on the drive space issue whether that C drive is carrying Windows only or both Windows and the game, either way that has to be "fixed," and yes on the one year old drivers needing to be updated as well. After that, I also think we should see a DeviceConfig log to make sure the game is really using the GTX 970 and not the also present Intel integrated graphics chip as the latter would not function properly in this setup at all.
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But of course, I don't have a large enough sample size to know when dual monitors are likely to be a problem, let alone the technical expertise to explain why, or to distinguish between setups that pose issues and those that don't.
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It is on E Drive.
It has, and it also performed even better before I switched to a 970, I also have it installed on the E:Drive which should be enough space.
We can't really move forward with other forms of troubleshooting if this is the case, the operating system needs more room than that to function properly. Or, is it the case that you really have Windows running from E as well?
As already noted though, you don't have tremendous amounts of free space left on E as well so it's not really our intent for you to switch the problem from one drive to another. Are all of these files, whatever they are, necessary to keep on the computer itself rather than external to it?
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Most of them seem necessary, I have very little of programs over 500MB on my C:Drive, not many other files like .AIF and .MP4s to use it room, and trying to free up space doesn't work too much, no Sims 3 backups around either since they used up so much room
And you are using up 717 GB of your E drive, which is why I said that's a lot of storage for a machine that doesn't have the local space you need it to and mentioned potentially seeking external storage.
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I've barely managed to free up an extra 10GB after removing a lot of less important files for my C:Drive and also a 100GB from my E:Drive, however issues still remain with LOD sims from short distances, the endless save issue and sims taking forever to change outfits with little CC
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I do have 30/119 GB and 140GB/811 on my both my harddrives left, which should be higher than 15% and perfectly able to run, I have also been using frame limiters like 3Booter for a long time, yet the issue has only surfaced recently.
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