- #THE SIMS 3 CC USUABLE ITEMS HOW TO#
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Lastly and VERY IMPORTANT, before you install a new sims 3 expansion pack or stuff pack, or do ANY of the patches, remove all of your custom content and make a backup of your save game. Hopefully you never have to deal with this :DĦ. When it starts having problems again, it will be the last few files you put back in the Packages folder that are causing the problem. Start putting back a few files at a time from the problem folder and reloading your game. Once it works, it will be the last folder you took out that has the problem file in it. Repeat with all other folders if necessary until it works. Remove your Objects folder and try again. If it doesn't load, then it is somewhere else. If it loads, then there is a file in this folder that is causing your game to screw up.
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So if your game is not loading or locking up frequently, move your Keep Up To Date folder into your Mods folder (or anywhere outside of the Packages folder). If your game loads but freezes, or there is strange stuff happening, it will be something in your objects folder. Generally speaking, if your game will not load at all it will be something in the Keep Up To Date Folder. Objects can sometimes cause trouble, but not as often as core mods, or things that change the game around. Although it is possible that hair and clothes can be broken files, it is not likely. If your game does not load or is looking weird, go to your Keep Up To Date folder first. If it's anything that is going to change things around in the game (relationships, censoring, faster skill building, more recipes, more maids, glitch fixes, etc), put it in here.ĥ. If something you are downloading says it is a core mod, or that it changes the core mod, place it in here. Very important - put anything that requires being updated every version in the Keep Up To Date Folder. Put anything that doesn't fit elsewhere (such as the nosparkles and the nointro packages already in there) into the Other folder.
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Put any poses/animations you download into the Poses folder. Put any buy objects/building objects/decoration objects into the Objects folder.
Put any clothes/accessories/makeup/eyebrows you download into the Clothes folder. Put any hair you download into the Hair folder. Inside the Packages folder, I have folders for Hair, Clothes, Objects, Poses, Other and a folder called Keep Up To Date. It is a really good idea to organise your Packages folder before you start. Then, delete the zipped files, and move the unzipped/extracted files into the packages folder.Ĥ. What I do is I find what I want to download, save it in Documents - Electronic Arts - The Sims 3 - Mods, then I extract it into this same folder. Here is how you install sims 3 packs, and here is how you install downloaded sims.ģ. Sims 3 packs and individual sims do not need to be installed in the same way. Make sure that what you are downloading is a. It's an easy thing to confuse sometimes but trust me, once you've been there (like me), you will never ever forget to check what game the CC is for :PĢ. If it is for sims 2 and you place it in your sims 3 game, it will slow it down and might cause it to crash. Make sure that what you want to download is for SIMS 3.
#THE SIMS 3 CC USUABLE ITEMS HOW TO#
Now, here will explain how to add CC to your game, but there's a lot of crap in there that you don't need to know so I'll just explain here briefly the rules of downloading CC.ġ. You should now have been in your game, and the intro should have been gone and the sparkles when you build walls should not have appeared. Do not continue if you haven't, because it won't work. Carefully reread the instructions and look at the pictures to make sure you have done it right. If these things are still here you have done something wrong. Once you start your game there should be no intro before it loads, and when you're in game, there should be no sparkles when you are building walls. Now you need to start your game to make sure your folders are set up right. This will tell you how to set up the folders you will need for downloading custom content (CC). You should now know how to unzip a file and have a program that does this (like 7zip, winzip.) So first, if you don't know what ' extracting files' or ' unzipping' is, go here. I'm going to be lazy and link you to pages that will tell you what to do.
This is for littlemotorkitty, and anyone else with a passion for The Sims :D