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#1 Old 3rd Dec 2025 at 2:28 PM

This user has the following games installed:

Sims 3, World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Showtime, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise, Into the Future
Default That brief black screen when starting the game... not so brief.
So, once the intro plays and the actual loading screen with the progress bar pops up, it's generally not unreasonable, about 20 minutes, which sucks ass for a game in general in 2025 but isn't too bad for Sims 3, especially with large amounts of CC involved, but the thing is, before reaching that screen, there's just a black void, that can take from 40 minutes to upwards of an hour. It seems to change based on how much CC I have installed.

I've not seen this "stage" of loading mentioned anywhere, any idea why this is happening in this way and how to cut this time down to the seconds/minutes this screen is supposed to take? (Other than "remove all/a vast majority of your CC" because I know that bloats load time, but I also assume if it was the only thing that could possibly be controlled to affect loading time, that complaints about this initial stage would be more common.)
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#2 Old 3rd Dec 2025 at 5:16 PM Last edited by vesko_sims3 : 7th Dec 2025 at 8:57 PM.
@katlovet10

You have to make a clean copy of The Sims 3 game data folder and reinstall you mods/CC. Use save cleaner.
Check your mods for conflicts with Sims 3 Dashboard .

Check this page: https://www.nraas.net/community/Sho...y-mods-together
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#3 Old 11th Dec 2025 at 5:09 PM
@katlovet10

Did you fix your issue?
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