Lazy Duchess recently released a new mod for The Sims 3 that’s meant to speed up the game and make it load things faster. This mod’s intent is more to add realism and enjoyment to the game’s story progression mechanics but it does also happen to improve stability by completely disabling the buggy default EA system altogether and replacing it with a cleaner story progression system. NRaas Story ProgressionĪnother mod that inspired the MCCC mod for The Sims 4! NRaas Story Progression disables the default EA story progression settings and replaces it with a better, more balanced, and lifelike system. For example, resetting Sims that have gotten stuck underground or some other ridiculous location or managing your unplayed households. It adds countless options to give you greater control over your Sims and your world, more for the convenience of the player than stability per se, but the mod can still be used to help keep your game running smoothly, too. If you’re familiar with Deaderpool’s MCCC mod for The Sims 4, this mod is its predecessor. This mod removes anywhere between 70-100+ abandoned cars every single night in my game. The Overwatch mod switches off all televisions and radios in the world at 3am as well as deletes any abandoned cars sitting around town. When left unchecked, all this junk can bloat your save file over time until it can’t even load anymore. This mod acts as a periodic cleanup tool that removes junk and buggy objects from your game every night at 3am. NRaas OverwatchĪnother must-have mod to keep The Sims 3 running smoothly is the Overwatch mod. The Error Trap has fixed so many problems in my Sims 3 worlds, particularly when it comes to Sims getting stuck aging or becoming trapped in an unroutable location. If it catches an error it can’t correct, it “traps” the error and logs it so your save file can still load. This mod is a life saver! It catches and attempts to correct script errors that too often corrupt your save and render it unloadable. This is probably the game’s biggest weakness but the good news is that thanks to talented modders and players who have written good tutorials on how to tweak the game files, The Sims 3 can be the enjoyable experience it was meant to be. It was unstable back in its hey day and is arguably even moreso now with modern hardware that the game no longer recognises. However, even diehard fans of this installment can’t deny that The Sims 3 is rather… unstable.

Even though The Sims 3 is not my favourite of the series by a long shot, I still find myself revisiting it fairly often these days for a few of those nostalgic features I did enjoy and miss in The Sims 4, like horses, teen rebellion and milestones, and being able to invest in real estate.

There’s no doubt that The Sims 3 holds some nostalgic charm for a lot of us.

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