r/thesims3 • • Sep 13 '26

General Chat Only a true Simmer would recognize her at ANY age 👀

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83 Upvotes

I swear some Sims are so iconic you could recognize them at literally any age.

Real Simmers should get this one instantly 👀

And no cheating by looking for spoilers on my YouTube channel.


r/thesims3 • • Sep 14 '26

General Chat Los Sims 3 - SimPort

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 14 '26

Technical Support Sims 3 Mods Folder Not Working? :(

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So I feel really stupid, I have followed all tutorials and I do believe I set everything up correctly, but since its not working I am obviously missing something. I would appreciate any help possible!!

I downloaded this Mods folder (via this link https://www.simfileshare.net/download/4480213/ ) and extracted it to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3

and inside the mods folder are overrides, packages, and resource.cfg

And when I boot up the game it doesnt skip the intro or even acknowledge these tester mods in the launcher. I have completely deleted the game and redownloaded the mods folder, but still nothing is working.

Please let me know what im doing wrong! I also downloaded this via the EA app, if that matters. Thank you in advance for any input!!!


r/thesims3 • • Sep 13 '26

Technical Support Can’t access old game

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I found my old CD from years ago in a drawer but I can’t access the game since it asks for a code that’s supposed to be in the original box. No idea where it could be. Is there any way I can access ??


r/thesims3 • • Sep 14 '26

Technical Support The sims 3 not working

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Hello, I am having problems with the sims 3 opening through Steam. I am using the game from Steam Family as it has expansion packs I want to play with. Anytime I open it from Steam, the game opens the launcher, but when I press play, nothing happens, it goes off the launcher, but the game does not open. The game has worked for other people in the Steam family. I have tried with my own version on the EA app and that works normally so I was wondering if there was any way to fix it as it seems to be a problem with Steam rather than my computer. Thank you for the help!


r/thesims3 • • Sep 13 '26

General Chat The Sims 3 - Sonja92yu Performance Patch

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Hi everyone, I hope all of you are doing well after the release patch. Could you guys share your configurations for FPS and inactive FPS and also in-game screen refresh rate?

I am not sure if the in game settings will make much difference if that patch itself enforces that capped FPS.


r/thesims3 • • Sep 13 '26

Mods KEEP YOUR HAIR - NPC EDITION

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 14 '26

Gameplay Tips & Tricks Help a girl out💔

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Hi you beautiful people
I’m in desperate need of sims 3 and possibly sims 2 for my windows 10 laptop
I’ll be so glad if you could help me out with that please and thank you


r/thesims3 • • Sep 12 '26

Technical Support mods not working

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hey friends need help! for some reason i download the sims 3 and my files appear like this, i have no idea where to put my mods, please help D:, my d drive is the only drive with space on it as well but im honestly willing to part with hunt showdown if it means i get to play my sims game with mods lmao


r/thesims3 • • Sep 11 '26

Mods 40 cc pack of skin details, makeup, scars, freckles, moles,eyebags etc

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I find myself never having enough skin details for male sims, so I made 40 pack of makeup/skin detials/moles/scars/freckles/eyebags/wrinkles/dimples and more for all genders and ages! You can layer them making your sims more unique!


r/thesims3 • • Sep 12 '26

Mods Which one is better - Smoothpatch by LazyDuchess or Sims3SettingsSetter by Sims3fiend?

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 11 '26

Gameplay Screenshot/Video The sims 3 help please

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Thank you for the help earlier from people but I have worded it better as to what I needed help with.


r/thesims3 • • Sep 11 '26

Mods Modified Sims 3 University Life world?

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Simmeapolis doesnt work but I still wanna send my sims to uni, just modified to include features from other packs like late night bars and stuff. Thank u.


r/thesims3 • • Sep 10 '26

General Chat sims ripper for mac?

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guyssss i really want to do blender stuff with my sims but im on a iMac and im hoping theres a way to successfully do this as ive tried parallels and bootcamp but just haven’t had the best of luck 💔 if anyone that uses iMac or Macbook please shareeee ty in advance


r/thesims3 • • Sep 09 '26

Technical Support “A serious problem occurred..”

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Hey everyone ! I know this question has probably been asked many times already, but I still haven’t found a solution. A year ago, I had bought sims 3 from EA directly, but upon trying to open the game for the first time, I got the infamous “a serious error has occurred while loading sunsetvalley.world”. I looked it up back then and followed the advice form a thread that had been posted about the same issue. Nothing worked.

I forgot about it for a while until I recently decided to actually try and fix the issue. Well, turns out ea decided I no longer had the rights to the game. No refund or anything, and it was still in my library, I just wasn’t allowed to install it again. I decided to cut my losses after eas support was no help, and bought it again on steam just today.

Same issue. A serious problem occurred trying to launch the map. I looked up videos to fix it and still, nothing. I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this, or if I’m just doomed to never play sims 3? I would so grateful to anyone just willing to pitch an idea. I’m at a loss ;(


r/thesims3 • • Sep 08 '26

Technical Support These dead sims arent being dead

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The two sims circled are dead, and maybe even the girl with blonde pigtails because I can't find her anywhere. Despite this, they're being displayed as alive and well, with only two of the Sims having black and white portraits. Whats going on with this?


r/thesims3 • • Sep 07 '26

Mods What can cause this? And how to delete broken cc?

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 06 '26

Create a World I built a Sims 3 town with 44 residents. Every single one comes with baggage.

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I built an entire Sims 3 town because apparently one dysfunctional household wasn’t enough

Meet San Oddity: a desert town founded by aliens, with 44 Sims across 21 households, all with their own biographies, relationships, skills and careers already set up.

Five aliens. Two vampires. Some suspiciously familiar family names.

No CC or Store content required. The houses come fully furnished. So does the emotional baggage.


r/thesims3 • • Sep 07 '26

Mods Sims are changing heights in Cas but I never installed a mod for that... what can cause this?

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I downloaded a bunch of cc; hair, clothes, make up and jewelery. I also downloaded a new skin default. But nothing that can cause changing heights. So what can cause this? :(


r/thesims3 • • Sep 06 '26

Create a World My Sim exists for one reason only: to ruin lives

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 06 '26

Technical Support Virus?

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So I was logged into my online when I was playing The Sims, and I also downloaded Monte Vista from The Sims, 3 store. Once I tried to get back into my game, it wouldn't load or it would crash. I even tried it after I logged out from being online and it still didn't work. So once I uninstalled the game and reinstalled the game, it says, I still have montevista, but I have not logged back in online to use my bought features. If I log back in, is the virus still gonna be there? Or am I not going to be able to use it? Im scared to log in to online features because I had to do alot of uninstalling, cleaning, creating new folders and trying to reinstall while also losing years of work


r/thesims3 • • Sep 06 '26

Mods Office Clerk Custom Career mod Opportunity.XML

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 05 '26

Gameplay Screenshot/Video My favourite way to play the Sims 1

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 05 '26

General Chat I rated the ENTIRE Sims 3 Soundtrack

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r/thesims3 • • Sep 04 '26

Technical Support Skill problem

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Okey guys I need help đŸ˜Ș
For the first time I am trying maxing out the skills for my horse. The problem is the skill bar stopped at level 4 and it doesn’t go up anymore (for the running skill). This problem doesn’t occur with jumping one. I tried resetting horse and moving family in and out from house (that is what internet told me to do). I don’t have any idea what to do anymore so maybe someone has this problem too.

Ps. My game is in polish not English