Hello!

I have been struggling for a while now with my sims 3 gameplay and I think it's about time I try to fix it. I believe I have duplicate mods in my game but I don't know where they are! I used cc Magic and put all the mods into my game through that except mods I know I would be swapping in and out of the game. So, when I tried to play my game one day, It crashed..and I mean crashed to the point I got the blue screen error and it shut my whole computer down and restarted. I took ALL of my mods and cc out of the cc magic folder and I only have cc and mods from my package folder (to see if my game would run smoother) but when I started the game, it still had nraas mods, and that mod to cut short the intro, and the list of mods that come up when you first load the game and have to click the check box. I did a search for the mods, and my computer is only showing the ones I originally took out.

I've heard having duplicate mods and cc can crash/slow your game down. How do I figure out where the other mods are if I thought I took them out already?

All types of help are welcome! Thanks so much!

This tool has bbeen around a long time, and every simmer should have it.
https://modthesims.info/d/387006/si...8217-25892.html
Unfortunately, there are things that it won't catch that can crash a game or lead to odd stuff happenning. MANY mods use the same xmls. I had a vampire mod that caused the mood bbars on Plumbots to go blank! 50/50 is the only way I know to find something like that, unless it's a recent problem that came after adding a mod and you know which mod you added.

Don't forget to re-run tinyui if you use it, too, and delete your caches! Source: I always forget to re-run tinyui and have to redo it

Hi! thanks for this, at the time I didn't see the duplicates at all, but then I realized that when using CC magic and taking everything out, the Sets are in the cache folder in the mods folder.

I had moved everything from:


but they were still in my game at:


The game is running better, but I know some CC I still need to take out, something definitely is conflicting and since the packages are merged in the cache folder, I'll have to see whats going on.

Thanks so much for your help!

I've seen that before but didn't know exactly how to use it or if it reduced lag for game play. I thought it was just to make the dashboard smaller. Does it help make the game run smoother?

It resizes the whole UI so it fits better on modern screens. But you run it separately, so when you change something it modifies (usually scripts that display stuff to the end user) you have to re-run it or you get issues. I don't think it does anything for lag, though. I tried to use CC magic but got very confused with it so I just have a well-organized (hahahahha *sob* hahaha) mod folder with sub folders for things like actual mods, clothing, looks, and so on. Have you read the optimization guides? There's quite a bit you can do, but the biggest lag reducers for me (other than all the nraas, all the time) has been merging my CC using simpe. It's not hard, and you can always work on copies so you don't risk your original files.