The Neverending Pause
spockblock:
Quote from: Anach on 2011 March 08, 10:17:17
The never-ending pause was an issue on anything under a quad core. With a quad, that pause only lasted a few seconds and with the i7 it was barely there at all.
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Honestly, anyone trying to play this game on less than a quad core, with 6Gig of RAM and a 4000 series ATI is asking for lag.
I've got a Core2 Duo, 4Gb RAM and a low-to-mid-range nVIDIA (9400m) and a fuckton of mods and lots of CC and I never get this pausing.
Phnx:
I had freezes as well but they seem to have been resolved after following the instructions on one of these links.
http://geekmontage.com/texts/the-sims-3-late-night-expansion-pack-crashes-freezes-errors-glitches/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Sims-3-Late-Night-Freezes---Sims-3-Late-Night-Keeps-Freezing,-How-Do-I-Fix-It?&id=5574362
bongart:
Yes, I am kicking a topic that has been left alone. I think it is important to the issue as people still are having it AND I have a couple of interesting points to add to the mix.
I am playing Vanilla S3. No expansion packs. No mods. The only world I have added is Riverview. I have less than 20 pieces of custom content added, and all from the Sims 3 store at EA (the free stuff that did not cost any Simpoints, but not the pile of free decor). I am patched up to 1.33, and was patched up to that point before the pauses started.
I played the game on and off for more than a year before playing more frequently this past month. I never had any issues with it pausing. I have changed motherboards (Biostar to Asus... same base chipset), video cards (9600gt to 9800gt... Evga replaced it), the processor (AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ to AMD Phenom II x6 1100t) AND the brand of Ram (G.Skill F2-6400 to Kingston 2G-UDIMM) since I first installed the game, and never experienced this pause (the hardware change occurred at Christmas... I treated myself). By choosing my hardware carefully, I did not have to reinstall Windows XP MCE, and I have had No issues with any software installed before the hardware change.
So hardware is not causing the issue for me. Mods are not causing the issue for me. Custom Content is not causing the issue for me.
One thing I can comment on is that I can clearly remember (last night) when this problem first started, and what occurred in the game.
Male teen guest was visiting at the home of a female teen. He had been "invited over" by her, and they are boyfriend/girlfriend. The visit was considered to be (automatically turned into) a date, but they never left the front step of the home. When it was time to ask him to leave, the only option given was "Ask to leave date". I chose this. The game appeared to pause, but all the animations continued (the spinning hearts over their heads, the girl's plumb-bob, etc.) After the pause stopped, he ran home (across the street) and she went in to eat before bed.
Ever since then, the game has been freezing like that every few minutes. Saved it, shut down, came back to it today, it is still doing it.
Now. I've seen references through this thread to "fixall" and "resetworld" but I can find no reference as to where to download these tools in the thread itself, nor another thread which indicates where to download. I also did not see anywhere in this thread anyone mentioning when they first noticed the pauses, or what happened in the game when they first started. I shall change to another family, and see if the pauses continue.
Starler:
Wow, you necro'd a thread because you didn't RTFM for Awesomemod? Even worse, you wrote all that just to tell us you didn't RTFM in the last paragraph?
Here's a hint: PEBCAK
Also, just because you bought better RAM doesn't mean you have enough. If you are using a 32-bit OS, your RAM is capped regardless of how much is installed, so the problem could still be insufficient RAM.
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Starler on 2012 April 02, 18:51:28
Wow, you necro'd a thread because you didn't RTFM for Awesomemod? Even worse, you wrote all that just to tell us you didn't RTFM in the last paragraph?
Quote from: bongart on 2012 April 02, 18:25:09
I am playing Vanilla S3. No expansion packs. No mods. The only world I have added is Riverview. I have less than 20 pieces of custom content added, and all from the Sims 3 store at EA (the free stuff that did not cost any Simpoints, but not the pile of free decor). I am patched up to 1.33, and was patched up to that point before the pauses started.
Now. I've seen references through this thread to "fixall" and "resetworld" but I can find no reference as to where to download these tools in the thread itself, nor another thread which indicates where to download.
If I understand it properly, the fucknut doesn't even have AM installed and wants to know where to download the commands from.
Quote from: Starler on 2012 April 02, 18:51:28
Also, just because you bought better RAM doesn't mean you have enough. If you are using a 32-bit OS, your RAM is capped regardless of how much is installed, so the problem could still be insufficient RAM.
Also, remember that the FOJ has stated several times, that the game is only a 32-bit game, so even with a 64-bit OS to see all available RAM, I doubt the game would see it all. You would be relying on the OS to move all other tasks away from the RAM the game can see, thus allowing the game to use the maximum amount of RAM possible, which I doubt happens.
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