Disclaimer; I'm much more a forwards engineer than a reverse engineer, so if I am completely off base please let me know.

Sims 3 runs about as well as my asthmatic step-brother, especially if one tries to play with all Expansion Packs installed at once. This occurs (partially, I assume) for the same reasons the Unity3d engine gets hitchy; they both use an old version of the Mono Runtime for scripting. See, the first garbage collector that shipped with Mono was a Boehm GC. It was fast to implement and mathematically proven to work on any sort of code. However it accomplishes this by pausing all threads while it did its work, which isn't what you want in a real-time simulation video game.

Since then, a more .NET-like garbage collector was implemented, SGen, that reduced garbage collection times by switching from a mark-and-sweep algorithm to a generational algorithm. So I figure, if The Sims 3's current Mono Runtime was ripped out and replaced with a newer version that uses a Generational GC we might just see a performance increase.

The path to this would be to replace the statically linked Mono Runtime Library with a newer one, and then decompile and recompile all the scripting DLLs. Is this idea theoretically sound? Or have I missed something obvious?

You could make all of your sims chosen and use "therapture" to nuke EA's sims.

Please. Ambitions is an expansion pack. It changes game behaviors, so of course your hacks aren't going to work if they change game behavior too. It wasn't done maliciously but it was necessary if the expansion is going to do more than add clothes and furniture. Just wait for your hacks to be updated.

Yup, the N001 in UserData\Neighborhoods is a template. The game only uses templates to fill newly made neighborhoods with townies. Any neighborhoods you already have should be unchanged.

That's what I thought, so I download the files again (the whole 8 megs; my poor, poor internet connection). It was still broken. The creator knows about the problem though.

I'll go check...

huh. I completely removed my downloads folder and the mesh is now unbroken. I wonder what piece of CC would do that?


EDIT: Found it! It was the default PregMorph collection from the mystical one at MTS2.
(MESH_tmo-Default-PregMorph_afBottomSlinkySkirtBoots.package)

Is this outfit borked for anyone else?
It's the adult female long dress-thing at the very end of the catalog. Only the fat mesh is exploded.


I have all EPs, but I noticed there was a problem with this mesh in BV.