How can I get this to work with the 3booter?

Wow this the best thing ever, kid u not i really don't know what the heck i am doing but ,from my experiment with all of my cc down load i count 338 file i tried to un stall them and only use patterns .so that my lag; that everyone calls it would stop.So I
tried putting some more cc on to see if this really work oh ohhh my gosh ur A Damn saint i must say thank ya a bunch for share. I am now praying that keep running so damn smooth I CANT BELIEVE HOW FAST IT UPLOADED AND I WAS MOVING AROUND WITH OUT THE LAGGING.OH, WHAT A DRAG THAT WAS .NOW IT FEEL AS IF I CAN REALLY GET INTO THIS GAME NOW. HUWWWWWW THANKS AGAIN. PLEASE KEEP IT BUG FREE FOR US. IT IS SO DAMN GREAT LORTY I REALLY NEED THIS.SO WHEN I GET MINE (MY)IN NEXT MTH. GOT TO GIVE THIS JUST TO GREAT.

On the Options tab is a setting called "Game EXE Override", just put the full path to your 3booter file. If you have to pass parameters to 3booter, you will need to create a batch file and put the path to that batch file in the override line.

I need help. It crashes at 'Import Downloads'. I have all the requirements and even downloaded all the updates on my computer to be sure. I really have no idea what could be the problem.. unless it's the fact that I have a ton and I mean a ton of downloaded cc content. Anyway, do you have a solution? I would appreciate it as I'm really looking forward to using this. All this cc has really slowed down my game.

I searched the issue online and found that after checking the log, there were zip, rar, and corrupt files that I had to delete first in order for it to work. Each time CCMagic would reach one of these files, it would crash. Anyway, works now. Now I better get to work. I have a couple thousand files to sort through

Thanks so much, seems great so far :D

Ok.. so. I've been having issues again. The game seems to crash when I go to CAS. Also, I'm not sure if this was the original function or not but cc magic does not seem to be doing anything about my mods. I know that the mods are generally what are causing my game to slow down the most. However when I open cc magic it only pulls stuff from the packages and downloads folders, not the mods folder. I can technically move them from 'mods' to 'downloads' or something but then I'm not sure they will still function in the game. Any ideas on these issues?

Mods will work either way, you can move them from Mods\Packages into your Downloads folder and re-run CC Magic, or you can just go to the "Legacy" set in CC Magic and drag it there.

Be sure to have your CC moved into the Default set (or a sub set of default) so that CC Magic can consolidate them.

Also, some mods are just CPU hogs and will always lag the game. For those bigger mods, the only hope is a faster computer. But for the other 99% of stuff out there, CC magic should really help.

I appreciate your quick reply. I have thought of moving the mods from 'mods' to 'downloads' and trying that, and I'll let you know how that goes. As far as computers go, my computer is very fast (it's new). I'm still not sure why my game is crashing when I go into CAS, however, because that's something it has never done before. When I turned my game on after running cc magic, my sim's hairstyle was reset from a custom to a standard, so I had to go to CAS to change it back. When I did, the game crashed. Since the cc is not coming out of 'downloads' but is running from cc magic, could this be a bug, or what? As of right now I'm not able to play.. hoping to get this resolved.

It sounds like you may have a corrupted pattern in your CC.

The best way to find out is to move all of your patterns into a new set in CC Magic, and be sure and DISABLE that set on the configurations tab. Then rebuild the cache and play.

Patterns, especially mad with the Create a Pattern tool, are very prone to causing crashes in CAS.

I went to cc magic and enabled the sets, however now whenever I select an object and try to randomize a pattern, nothing happens, and when I select an item and try to customize it, the game freezes at loading and says 'materializing materials', at which point I have to force close the game because it never loads up. I just have no idea what is doing this.

This is a symptom of how the Create A Pattern created patterns aren't working properly.

It isn't caused by CC Magic, but CC Magic tends to make it much more apparent.

Thanks for your reply. At this point I think I'm going to have to delete the program because not only is it not making my game any faster, but it's causing issues that I never had before. I have way too many patterns to go through disabling them one by one to figure out which one is causing the problem (if that's even the issue). It seems that when I fix one issue, another one appears. I'm spending more time trying to figure what is wrong each new time than actually playing the game at this point. Anyhow, hope it works out better for others. Thanks!

I have a mac, which means I can run the .exe file I get when I try to use the set-up. Can you please explain how to install this? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. >.<

Since we have macs, we can't run it straight from the .exe files. It instead shows up as a textedit. I am pretty sure there are programs out there which allow us to open these, but I have never used one before. Granthes, any suggestions?

I thought so too, but I am desperate to have this since I spend an hour JUST to open my game... >.<

I need help again.. ugh. I uninstalled the program and the whole create a pattern issue is still happening.. did I uninstall something incorrectly? Everything worked fine before I installed this.. how do I resolve this?

Be sure and delete the <documents>\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Cache folder and all of the contents. This is where CC Magic puts the content for the game.

However, I really don't know if that will help or not. The patterns issue has nothing to do with CC Magic, so removing it may or may not help. It's really a random issue with the patterns themselves...

Unfortunately, I don't own a Mac, so I can't make CC Magic work on one. I have no idea how to make programs work there.

I do know that MTS has a Mac forum that has a bunch of helpful information on how to make programs run on Mac OSX. You might take a look there.

Thank you for this. It sounds like it would solved my problems! Going to try it out

I love this program! Before it, it took forever for my game to load. Now, it loads just like it would without any CC Thank you for making this!

I love this mod so far! Very awesome, thank you The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to drag Multi selected items from the default set to a new set I've created. :O Anyone able to help? Thanks

I'm confused about EA Store content. What do I do with it? Will this launcher include it in the game or ignore it?

If you click on the first item, then shift-click or ctrl-click on the last one and hold the mouse while you start dragging, it will keep the entire selection.

Because store content is encrypted, CC Magic will ignore it.

The current version has an issue where store content can cause a crash, but I plan on uploading an update in the next few days to correct that.

OOoo, I see! Never did the and 'hold part'. Thank you kindly! Again thanks for all your efforts in producing this amazing program xox