Impossibly slow gameplay

[Ayesha1234Play]

Hello there!

I've recently decided to reinstall all my Sims 3 games which is to say all EP's except WA and Showtime and no SP's. So, I got it all installed and opened it up to play. It took more than an hour to just get into the neighbourhood(Appaloosa Plains, if it matters)! Fair enough, I had installed all five games without ever starting it up, but even in CAS it was so laggy and impossibly slow, I just ended up making my sim and quitting. Today, it was just as bad. It takes ages to just go to map view and the loading time for things like lots are ridiculous.

I've cleared my .cache files and regenerated the The Sims 3 folder in my Docs which did not help. The thing is, I know it doesn't have anything to do with mods or CC for the simple reason that I didn't even have a chance to download any yet.

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System Information

* Time of this report:
: 6/16/2012, 16:01:49
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* DxDiag Version:
6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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* Card name:
: Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset
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* Driver Date/Size:
5/20/2010 04:56:06, 5615104 bytes


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Sound Devices
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* Description:
: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
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* Date and Size:
7/14/2009 02:07:00, 350208 bytes

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Disk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives
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Drive: E:
Free Space: 18.4 GB
Total Space: 110.9 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: SAMSUNG HD502HI ATA Device

Those are my system specs. I did the Can You Run It Test and I passed all, but that doesn't explain why I'm growing old just trying to get my sim to a community lot.

Thanks so much for helping! :D

[HystericalParoxysm]

As far as I can tell, the G41 Express is equivalent to the Intel 4500. The Intel 4 series is technically supported for TS3, but it is not really suited for playing TS3; it's an underpowered, integrated chip. If you were playing with it before, it's likely that the strain of running the game has just caught up to it. The "can you run it" test is notoriously unreliable and just because it says your good to go doesn't mean that you actually are.

See: Game Help:Onboard Graphics and Game Help:Your Computer is Like a Car for more info.

[spacely11]

Honestly...the Sims 3 is a horribly optimized game.

I just built a new computer with an 8 core AMD FX-8120 processor, Radeon HD 6850, 8 GB of RAM running at DDR3 1600, and a pretty darn fast HDD and the Sims 3 doesn't run optimally on my machine. It's fast yea but it's still choppy at a lot of times and takes longer than it should to load, going in and out from world view, etc. Heck even Battlefield 3 on ultra runs better than the Sims 3 on my machine. So the only thing you can really do is limit custom content and hopefully one day purchase a better machine.