And the second every time before you launch your game. I strongly recommend doing the first clean up, once a month or week. Plus they will regenerate when you start the game.

As for the Start up and loading screens, go to your My Documents-> Electronic Arts-> The Sims 3 and delete, CASPartCache.package| compositorCache.package| scriptCache.package| simCompositorCache.package| socialCache.package| files.ĭon't worry, these caches are just a bunch of backup files of all the package files ever used in the game which you obviously don't need.

If it makes you feel better, you can keep a backup of the folder and test it yourself.

Basically, you go to your My Documents-> Electronic Arts-> The Sims 3-> DCbackup.

So I deleted them and my game played a lot better and faster. I tried many things and mods to speed up my game until I found out that the problem was caches holding all the items used in game for easier access. Not to mention how long it took it to start. sluggish, that it was painful and annoying to play.

I'm personally addicted to clutter, it's never enough clutter for me. Installing mods for The Sims 3 can be very tempting where you'd end up just downloading a whole bunch of stuff, and eventually cause your game to lag. When a house contains custom content put the package that starts with the word LIBRARY in your Library folder - this is the house file.

Sims 3 custom content package files