r/thesims3

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I bought The Sims 3 with some Expansion Packs. As for now, I have Late Night, Generations, Seasons and University Life. I want to buy one or two more but I don't know which ones to get since there are seven options for me to choose. Which ones do you recommend? Why?

I have looked them up yet I still can't decide, I want other Simmers' experiences. Thanks!

Hi! I’ve decided to start populating a world for the first time, and I’m having trouble deciding how many of each age group I should add. I want the world to feel alive and to make sure there is a good balance in all of the ages—I don’t want my child sim to be the only kid at the elementary school or for my teen to have like two choices on who to date lol.

However, as a newbie to populating worlds, I’m really not sure what the ‘best’ make up of ages in the game are, and I’m having trouble finding anyone online who has shared theirs. So I was hoping some people on here would share theirs/tell me what they prefer their age demographics to be in their game. Any responses would be greatly appreciated!

(Currently, my max population size is 150, though I might change that later on, so any population size is welcome!)

Hi everyone, I recently got a new mid-range gaming PC and installed my game with all the packs, but I notice little change compared to my previous build, which had older parts but it was still working. I read online that this is a 32 bit game so it can’t use more than 4GB of RAM, which makes me wonder, how do certain youtubers have such smooth gameplay with their expensive gaming pcs if the RAM apparently does not matter? I am so frustrated over this because I always dreamt of having a PC that can run this game with CC, mods, etc.. :’(

I have sims 3 and my other packs on ea. I’m missing ambitions and showtime, and they are both available on instant gaming for $5-$6 bucks which I don’t mind paying… but I’m nervous because I don’t have sims 3 on steam, it’s on EA but it doesn’t list if it’s on ea or not. Every post I see about instant gaming is from years ago and don’t specify if it’s people on steam or ea either so I’m just unsure and asking if anyone has used it for ea !

Hello!

I re bought Sims 3 yesterday (used to play back in the day but the account and device are now long gone :'). The game is dated obviously and between not saving settings and gameplay or recognizing my graphics card I feel a little lost on where to start optimizing it and hope I may be able to get some advice here on what to pay attention to, any "must have" softwares or important things to note.

I looked around the internet a bit to gather information but it seems hard to actually find a good source for getting started cause some things are only on website A while others are scattered around website B, C and D. I also heard of some software (dont remember the name actually) you should install for the game but never got a reply when asking what it's for and such.

Hoping to get some pointers here, I really wanna make the game work, the nostalgia I got opening it for the first time in more than a decade was so wonderful!

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wanna spend $15 on Sims 3 CC that’s been locked for over a DECADE? then check out TheTogetherStore!

hahaha- just kidding! i took one for the team and am happy to share a working simfileshare folder containing all of their Patreon content, free of charge! you can also find it listed individually on my Tumblr as well with the tag TTS

enjoy:)