Exit Stage Left, Please.
The_Goddess:
As you can see Zoni, there are several things that can cause a lag in the game. Without more information you are going to get several answers to fix the problem. What world are you playing? (Sunset Valley, Riverview, other?) What are the stats of your computer and can it handle the game? Are your drivers up to date? Are you using Supreme Commander? Does this happen in your hood, or only while on vacation? Custom content that is not made properly has caused many glitches in the game that seem completely unrelated. Removing CC and experimenting to see if it still happens with all CC and/or mods removed might help to pinpoint the cause.
spaceface:
I can confirm that a lag was caused by a sim in my playable family gettting stuck. I was going nuts because the game would pause every few seconds, for minutes at a time, during which time I could do nothing. Game time did not pass during those lags, although all other animations and sounds continued. I was playing a family on vacation in China so I thought it might be somehow related to the vacation, and decided to get all my sims to Base Camp and then send them home.
This particular Sim would not come home, and it turned out that she was stuck on a riverbank. She had been fishing at one of the spots closest to Base Camp, but could not find her way up the bank (she kept getting that "there's something in my way" thought bubble). I directed her to a part of the bank that she could climb. As soon as I managed to do this, all was fine and my game ran perfectly again.
Just for the record, I have never used Supreme Commander.
airilina:
So your screen can still move around, but time and sims stop? Mine is different. The whole thing stops (except animations of trees and and sounds, however cars do not move) and I can't scroll anywhere to find the problem. The longest I've sat and waited for the hiccup to fix itself was about an hour. I basically left it running and did housework hoping it would right itself. During these times, I have to manually shut down the game with Windows.
lordrichter:
The game is responsive for me, it takes a while for it to notice I am there. I usually hit "0" (zero) to log a request for a pause. Eventually, the game will notice and pause. Once that happens, the camera moves without a problem and it is possible to switch between sims.
Zoni:
My computer is more than able to handle Sims 3, heh. I build and repair computers. All of my patches are up to date, and I've never used SupremeCommander. I do have some mods in, but I've tried taking all of them out and still had it happen. It's really quite annoying, since I can't pinpoint the cause.
Airilina - No, I can't scroll. That's what happens with my game, except I can't confirm cars because none have been close to my sims houses when it happens.
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