They are the only thing I don’t convert cause I’m scared but don’t be like me, be brave and do it! Patterns converted to packages sometimes need fixing, here is how you can do it. I use this tool.Ĭounters converted to packages can be fussy in game, if their texture breaks use the CASt tool on them, click on the first preset and they’re good to go again! BACKUP YOUR FILES! CC magic will “eat” them, so have all your CC files somewhere safe on your computer, and on an external hard drive if you can.Once you have CC magic installed and you know how to use it (do a test with two or three items of CC), we’re ready to start!

Basically it organizes your files easily, and it merges them together, which will reduce the lag CONSIDERABLY. You can always ask me if you need to though!įirst thing is to get CC magic here. I won’t do a CC magic tutorial, there are plenty of them already, I like this one. I assume you already know the very basics of installing CC, like the mods foler and so on. But if you just throw it all in the launcher, install it and call it a day, your game will probably die, I’m sorry. Believe me they are essential.ĬC is awesome. It is very useful to reset a buggy sim and I would advise to reset the whole town from time to time too.ĮrrorTrap and Overwatch basically catch and correct a number of bugs. MasterController can do loooooooooooots of stuff but for the purpose of smooth gaming, it will allow you to reset a sim, a family of sims, an object, a house or the entire town. Have a folder somewhere on your computer with all your saves, and thank me later. For some reason it saves faster and your save will load faster too.īackup your saves. This will make it so much easier to go back to a former save if something goes wrong! For example “Moonlight Falls 1”, “Moonlight Falls2”, etc. It will prompt you to save every thirty minutes (but you can change the setting to your liking).Īlways use “Save as” and have multiple saves. SAVE SAVE SAVE! I would recommend Nraas Saver They slow your game down.Īnd use the Save Cleaner tool here to clean your saves. Remove any Screenshots or video files from your Sims 3 folder and put them somewhere else. Then, go and disable the featureditems folder in your sims 3 folder following this tutorial. This folder keeps pictures of the objects and is useless, it will just slow down your computer.īefore playing your game, always delete the five cache files in your sims 3 folder: You’ll notice this is a tool to start your game too: this is my second tip, never start through the launcher!

So start by getting a FPS limiter, I use this one.

The Sims do not have a built-in FPS limiter (FPS is frames per second, google it!) and that can fry up your computer. Hi there! So I’ve been on this CC cleanout surge recently and I learned a few things along the way, I thought I would share.

What folder to put cc in sims 3