The Horror...
Elektro Guy:
I've reached my wits end trying to fix this annoying problem. It terrorizes me enough sometimes that I'm about ready to throw this game in the fireplace and call it good.
I've got a high end computer system (a $400 video card...what more do you need to know?), yet I'm cursed with stuttering issues when I move the camera around. It's not a constant stutter...like, there'll be smooth movement, and then a stutter, and then smooth movement again. Moving the camera in Build and Buy mode is smooth (mostly), but in Live mode, when the game is paused it's least noticeable, and when the game is on normal time it's alot more noticeable. I won't get started on fast forward time. There are brief, laggy moments, but I won't get into that either.
I've tried everything in my tech savvy power to eliminate this annoying problem. The camera shouldn't be stuttering like this...it doesn't happen in other games I have that run smooth as silk, but this one's plagued with choppiness. Yes I really have tried alot of things. Checking, monitoring, decrapifying, compressing, merging with all kinds of programs that aren't meant to have to make a game run for Christ's sake! It doesn't have anything to do with official or unofficial custom content because I've installed and run a new save with just this game and its expansions on another computer (with basically the same specs as mine), and the camera still does its evil little thing that annoys the hell out of me. Sometimes it will make the game unplayable...like, when I'm laying a bunch of pre-built houses (game ones) down in the hood. Then a Sim day or two later I'll get assaulted by this constant stuttery lag bullshit and I'll have to load a previous save to get things more, err, back to normal...
Why does this stutter happen? Anyone else have issues with it? Any suggestions on what to do to maybe fix the problem? Or is it because The Sims 3 is just a poorly coded game and should be banished to hell, never to return? Curses, EAxis!
I wouldn't have brought this up, but it really does bug me when a game should be performing well on a system like mine, and it doesn't. I'm just looking for a miracle I guess. :-\
myskaal:
We all keep hoping for that miracle. We all keep hanging onto the hope, with every "fresh new hood and a brand new install" THIS will be the one that doesn't stutter/freeze/chop/blue screen/error code/hang/general borkedness/EIAFBVFS.
In essence: Computer specs really don't seem to make any bit of difference (by perusal of the many different specs listed in the multiples of threads covering these issues). The game runs like crap. It's how it was built.
This forum exists. I brought coffee.
Working in my latest "spankin fresh hood" atm.
Tever:
If you have a lot of custom content, including store stuff, merging it all into just a few files might help some. But yeah, like the above guy said. It's just part of the Sims 3 experience.
AloeOwl:
Quote from: Elektro Guy on 2010 March 14, 02:13:44
I've reached my wits end trying to fix this annoying problem. It terrorizes me enough sometimes that I'm about ready to throw this game in the fireplace and call it good.
I've got a high end computer system (a $400 video card...what more do you need to know?), yet I'm cursed with stuttering issues when I move the camera around. It's not a constant stutter...like, there'll be smooth movement, and then a stutter, and then smooth movement again. Moving the camera in Build and Buy mode is smooth (mostly), but in Live mode, when the game is paused it's least noticeable, and when the game is on normal time it's alot more noticeable. I won't get started on fast forward time. There are brief, laggy moments, but I won't get into that either.
I've tried everything in my tech savvy power to eliminate this annoying problem. The camera shouldn't be stuttering like this...it doesn't happen in other games I have that run smooth as silk, but this one's plagued with choppiness. Yes I really have tried alot of things. Checking, monitoring, decrapifying, compressing, merging with all kinds of programs that aren't meant to have to make a game run for Christ's sake! It doesn't have anything to do with official or unofficial custom content because I've installed and run a new save with just this game and its expansions on another computer (with basically the same specs as mine), and the camera still does its evil little thing that annoys the hell out of me. Sometimes it will make the game unplayable...like, when I'm laying a bunch of pre-built houses (game ones) down in the hood. Then a Sim day or two later I'll get assaulted by this constant stuttery lag bullshit and I'll have to load a previous save to get things more, err, back to normal...
Why does this stutter happen? Anyone else have issues with it? Any suggestions on what to do to maybe fix the problem? Or is it because The Sims 3 is just a poorly coded game and should be banished to hell, never to return? Curses, EAxis!
I wouldn't have brought this up, but it really does bug me when a game should be performing well on a system like mine, and it doesn't. I'm just looking for a miracle I guess. :-\
Just a quick question: Are you using the FPS limiter? If you are you should check what level it's at when playing.
I seem to be having the same stupid issue as you are. For anyone else that might be able to help, I have my FPS at 30 (Which should be more than enough) but when I start moving around, it goes down to 10-20 and because of the screwed laws of physics we see the game as jerky. I tried moving the FPS up to something like 50 to see if it decreased a specific amount of numbers, in hope of it decreasing to something like 30, but it went back down to 10-20!
I don't know what to do. I don't have much cc (Around 160 files, which might seem like a lot but it actually isn't) but the game does the same thing even without any cc; and my graphics options are on a medium level, enough for my game to run very well. The FPS just goes down randomly by itself!
I know the game is built that way but there must be something we can do about it. Additionally, the game itself is slow too, like loading times take a hell of a lot of time. Elektro Guy, are you having the same issue with loading times?
Deleting the cache files seem to worsen the speed since the game has to reload all the thumbnails and such. So I don't think it's a cache issue.
What do you guys think?
J. M. Pescado:
If your frame rate drops below 30, FPSlimiter no longer does anything as your computer is already maxed out, and therefore does not need to be limited. If this is happening regularly, you don't need it at all because your computer is inadequate for running it under the current conditions anyway.
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