Thats what I ended up doing - works like a charm! Thanks for the insight

This right here is a life saver! This keeps my otherwise buggy game running smoothly and mostly bug free. I had no idea that deleting folders and resetting stuff would help the game. You've saved my sims generational stories from annihilation. Thank you!!

Much appreciated. The chugging that was slowly killing my desire to play has all disappeared.

thank you very much! I use it from the very beginning and this is a huge time saving!

Running this causes origin to insist I activate the 'unknown game' instead of opening the launcher. Is there a way around this?

I'd like to use this, but does it overlap in any way with Kuree's Save Cleaner?

I looked it over, but I'm not sure what the save cleaner does, exactly. I doubt there will be a problem, since this program does not touch your saves in any way. I'd still recommend making a backup of your files before experimenting, just to be safe.

Looking at the page for it (I needed a full refresher, myself)...

I have 1.1 (which is preferable to 2.1/2.2 since that version apparently throws errors and/or overzealously deletes pictures you take with the camera in World Adventures).

A great utility.

If you want to use it for a manually installed game, simply replace the Steam ID/Origin ID with something along the lines of "E:\Games\"Sims 3"\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe"
Set it to your own install folder, of course, but that does it for mine. This launches the game directly and doesn't require Steam/Origin.

Thanks so much for writing this! I don't use steam or origin though and I got annoyed manually launching it each time so I added the line:

start /d "C:\Games\The Sims 3\Game\Bin" TS3W.exe

to the end of the batch file so it would launch the game from the batch file directly like it does for the origin and steam versions
Of course, the path may be different for others but it's not a bad framework. This way, you don't need to replace any info on the Steam/Origin launchers and instead can directly use the manual install version of the file.

Does this work on pirated version of the game? If yes, please instruct me how to install this. I'm a noob in computer and seeing these programs terrify me to change my game but this is really needed. Thanks in advance.

I swear I've used this before without any problems, but after installing Sims 3 to a different hard drive, every time I run the game using this tool, I get a Service Initialization Failed number (0x02957b48)-error, which forced me to reinstall the entire game once (before I figured out I could just use Steam's scan game files-function).

I REALLY need this! Thanks!!

will this work with the new EA desktop app?

Greetings, I read about your tool and I said that it was interesting, maybe this will help me with the problem of error 12. Anyway, I put the tool, the version of cleaning files, first in the root folder of the game, I saw that it did not work, then I put it in the download folder and it worked , then run the launcher that makes my game go to 60 fps and it didn't work, it gave me an error then I said well I run it normally with origin and it gave me the same error now I have to reinstall my game it's somewhat annoying since I have modified files but Anyway, I'll try again if it gives an error, it's not my business anymore, regards