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Would you like 64-bit for the Sims 3 on Windows?
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As the title says...
I wouldn't mind 64-bit for Windows.
I wouldn't mind 64-bit for Windows.
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Of course, after all these years I've pretty much 'fixed' my game with mods and the like so my game runs perfectly fine. But it would be nice to see how much better it could be with 64-bit.
I love playing large worlds that grow both in lots, items and population, and it would be so nice not having to monitor the RAM usage to avoid problems like Error 12.
I wish that the 64-bit version could be installed as a separate game, so the old 32-bit one would still be there. I am very attached to my sims and would like to get used to the 64-bit version and wait for the bugs to be fixed until I move to it completely. I have the old version installed from discs, so it would be very cumbersome to have to re-install them if, for some reason, the downloaded 64-bit version doesn't work properly.
I hope Sims5 is Sims4 characters but with Sims3 gameplay and worlds.
Yeah, I would worry about that too. I think it would be better, as I wrote earlier, if the 64-bit version could be installed as a standalone game, separate from the 32-bit one. They could call it "The Sims 3 64". EA wouldn't lose any money if we had both installed.
Routing system would be one of them. Almost every lag this game has happens because of routing issues. Even if the world is garbage, why is this system so hard on the game? At this point, I think routing system needs an overhaul that somehow makes it work ok even in a poorly made world.
Why does the game spawns like 30000 limos that Overwatch needs to clean every night? Why does this game has a clean up system written in it (Source: Twallan's State of the Mod) instead of fixing it in a way that no longer requires a clean up? Why does the pregnant premades in Isla Paradiso cause lag because they constantly try to change to their work clothes but can't because of them being pregnant? (Scott family)
I will obviously still welcome if such an update comes to the game. Upgrading the amount of RAM the game can use can be pretty good. But it won't magically make the game work great in my opinion. There are a lot of issues like those above that needs to be fixed.
Please don't argue that this is just base game with single sim. I tried this before with single sim and only base game with 1.67 patch applied and no mods/CC. Game stutter very frequent on i9-9900K / GTX 1080 Ti unlike in the video.
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Even more now that I've seen the video, I want Sims 3 in 64bit on PC. It's needed. 32bit is a buggy mess.
But of course, that's going to majorly take away sales from TS4 and that's probably why they're NOT going to do it...for as long as they can put it off.
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Where is the video ? I wanna watch !
scroll up.
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This is happening in my game on windows 10 now. I'm playing in Bridgeport with All Eps and All Sps. puzzleaddict explained it's not from mac upgrade to catalina and could be more from graphics driver update. It's really weird that it takes only 20 secs to load whole Bridgeport, takes only 20-30 secs for saving game.. I feel very light with my mouse moving as well.
I would rather that they remaster the game like they did with Command % Conquer, but maybe that will not work will all the packs and items that people have bought.
From the number of players who started with Sims 4 and have been switching to Sims 3 and joining us here, I would guess they're already losing sales because of the disasters their recent packs have been. I have a friend who plays it because her computer doesn't handle Sims 3 well and she can't afford a new one, and she's been telling me all about it.
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We aren't all enjoying our shiny new 64-bit version on the macOS, this thing had a flawed launch that just shoulnd't have happened where it didn't work for anyone and once we got beyond that there are plenty of mysterious in-game issues showing up. For just one example, if the game files and worlds themselves haven't changed, then why is it that our sims cannot be ordered to interact with open water in any world, with any combination of EPs - no player directed swimming, fishing, or boating on the oceans except for water taxis, and just going into the water or swimming by the beach shouldn't require any expansions.
But more importantly than boring life on a beach where there isn't much chance of getting wet unless it rains, one thing we confirmed very quickly is that by lifting the 4 GB RAM restriction, what 64-bit does is allow the game to reach for as much RAM as it thinks it wants. So, as we are seeing, some process or other in the game starts looping or running wild that on 32-bit would probably have been reeled in or cause the game to crash pretty early on. But on 64-bit, with no gating on the call for resources, the next thing the player knows is that their operating system is getting requests for 62 GB of RAM where they only have something like 8 or 16 installed, the macOS at least says err no, you must be drunk, and eventually tells the user that they are out of memory.
This isn't what players need, they need a properly implemented 64-bit game if there is to be one that reacts to unexpected calls for system resources in a more reasonable manner. If EA can fix these issues, and to be optimistic for a moment it certainly seems like they should be able to, then we may have something here. If not, the game is going to be more of a mess than it already was. And there may actually not be a way to fix these things entirely unless the game engine is redone from the ground up to behave itself and intentionally take advantage of 64-bit better than it currently can.
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You are one of the very few lucky ones then, because anyone like me who runs large worlds and lots of commercials lots and sims has run into the Error 12 problem.
I have never played with extremely large worlds made with CAW for a long time. I tried it of course but the thing is, large worlds means more sims which means more potential routing issues and more potential simulation lag before I even hit the RAM limit. Which is why I personally think routing issues should be number one priority. It lags the game so much you would think the game runs Crysis in the background or something. Like just the things I experienced from the top of my head:
In Bridgeport, it's suddenly the closing time of some random bar and 10 sims suddenly try rush to elevator at the same time: routing lag. After they successfully entered the elevator, everyone tries to exit the lot from that one door which only has space for one sim: routing lag.
Some random sim decides to walk in the air for some reason and the game tries to calculate a way out of this mess: routing lag. (I have had this happen with random townies on both Bridgeport and Sunlit Tides and I am pretty sure there could be others I haven't noticed before Overwatch reset them out of their misery.)
Again random sim decides swimming in the land is an excellent idea and the game again tries to get out of it but can't: routing lag.
Sims love to leave their boats around for reasons beyond me, and when they do, they close all the possible ways a sim can get out of the water while using a boat. The sim that tries to get out gets stuck in a loop left and right trying to get out but can never do so because of those boats until Overwatch decides to clean them at 3 A.M. : routing lag.
All of those above glitches can happen in a perfectly painted world with both Overwatch and ErrorTrap installed. Imagine playing this without NRaas mods and the pain it can cause to the game. Which is why I think that just increasing the amount of RAM the game can use won't magically fix the underlying problems. Routing system of this game is in need of a great overhaul before we can even start to look at other broken stuff. And I am not even talking about other non-routing related reasons that can also cause lag, memory leak issues players have been experiencing on x64 version of the game, and other game breaking stuff that does not cause lag at all (e.g: Travelling system) If a 64-bit version comes, it also needs to fix those issues I mentioned above and many more, otherwise I don't think it will be worth it. I mean it can improve the game in some situations, but you would eventually hit another "obstacle" which would prevent you from enjoying the game properly, in my opinion.
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