I’d bet NRAAS master controller can do that somehow. But worst case scenario could take the sim into CAS with it and change their age?

(Debug mode) Testingcheatsenabled true - (click on sim) age up
along instant Nraas master controller -> Sim -> Immediate > age up

I don't use aging off as I prefer shorter lifespans but I use these two when aging up sims, but I don't know if they work with aging off. Perhaps it's my specs, but testingcheats one tends to crash when aging up several sims at the same time.

Is there a modded ceiling fire sprinkler somewhere for TS3? I tried looking for one but  kept being lead to old posts on sites like Yahoo talking about the garden sprinkler which isn't what I want, nor is it the same thing.

I haven't touched TS3 in over a month. Last night I decided to play and a fire broke out in the livingroom because of the fireplace.  To add further insult to injury, the fireman that showed up, didn't help put the flames out. He stood around, waited for the fire to be put out by my sim, then I got the pop-up about being more careful. 

It's a good thing don't have cowplants installed.  There may have been a unfortunate 'accident' if I did.

I can imagine the situation in my head. So typical of NPCs in this game. Same with my exhausted babies and toddlers starving, lying outdoors in dirty diapers, while the babysitter watches TV or eats snacks from the fridge and demands to be paid for doing nothing. I wonder why the parents never actually kicked the babysitter's ass for this.

The situation shouldn't have bothered me like it did, but I wasn't in the mood NPC nonsense. I just wanted to play my game in peace with no drama.

I use NRAAS Story Progression and don't allow anybody in my hood to have children unless it is a playable household and even then, I won't play a different household until the baby at least a child.  I can't stand seeing the TS3 burrito babies being left in the snow, abandoned in parks, being left on sidewalks, ect... I realize they are just pixels but it bugs me so no babies unless I'm in the mood to play that way.

Agreed. Sometimes I cheat one of my sims to friendship with the adult just so I can take care of their baby for them (using Master Controller to instantly age them up if all else fails). The store child care items (baby plat mat, baby swing, playpen, walkers, etc.) have high advertising. If you scatter them around lots, it seems NPC sims will use them fairly regularly. If you don't want to spend money in the item mall, Around the Sims has some really cute versions (like turning the playpen into a little ball pit).

Thanks for the tip.  I'm currently busy mucking around with lots, but I'll certainly check out Around the Sims. 

Not a stupid Sim thing per say but a stupid launcher thing... first it says "it's recommended to play with just a few packs at a time". So I make an adjustment. But then it says "save files may not work correctly if you don't use the right packs." Like... it just told me to remove packs? Apparently it wants me to play with JUST two or fewer packs... what's the deal here EA? You made all these packs... but then you say "oh actually, only play base game please. Because the other packs we had you shelve out money for is too intensive. So don't." I dunno... it just bugs me that it's "recommended" to just play with a few packs at a time.

Also... for some reason Bridgeport... that came with Late Night if I'm not mistaken, is disabled even if you have Late Night activated. You need additional packs for it to show up. For some reason...
Apparently you need High Loft stuff for it to show up. Odd.

Oh and can I say how annoying it's to have to download additional store neighborhoods via that old Sims 3 site?

Everyone on a Patch1.69/Origin controlled game potentially sees that message regardless of the strength of their system. The best advice is to ignore it and check the box that says "stop telling me this nonsense" (or whatever it actually says). It's fine to run all packs if your system can handle it. And no, in most cases you cannot load a saved game that has already "seen" one of the Expansions without it present. The Stuff packs shouldn't matter and add no real overhead anyway, but substitutions for items used will be made if they do not load.



The only requirement for Bridgeport to load is Late Night. Stuff Packs like HELS are never an expansion or game save requirement. Afraid there may be something else going wrong there.

I have been away from Sims 3 for several months, so I don't remember how to fix stuff like this. One sim in my active couple is a virtuoso and spent most of the evening practicing guitar for his job. When he went to bed, his husband kept getting the "React to Noisy Sim" action in his queue and could not sleep in the same room. When I turned my sound up, I could still hear the guitar from when he was playing earlier. The radio was not on, and the sound seemed to be only around him.

How do I fix this so he doesn't keep waking up his husband?

its a couple I made in CAS and put into Hidden Springs.

If you have NRaas mods in play, do a MasterController reset of the residential lot (from the lot menu).

The other way: Retreat to Edit Town, evict everyone in the household to the side of the map, copy the lot down to the bin, bulldoze the uninhabited one, replace it with a copy, and move everyone back in without having left the screen.

Either way should fix the current problem. What's causing it, if it keeps recurring, may be more of a mystery.

The game can't even recognize my graphics card. It's a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB card... I would expect it to be able to run the game... I also got a 6 core/12 threads CPU and 16GB of RAM... if that's not enough to runs Sims 3 then oh boy.

You'd think so wouldn't you! But when I try to only load Late Night on a fresh install/no CC, Bridgeport doesn't show up... I have to add HLS. But maybe that's because my base game is the Starter pack which contains base game, Late Night and High-Loft stuff pack?

"But maybe that's because my base game is the Starter pack which contains base game, Late Night and High-Loft stuff pack?"

That will be it, for sure.

The game doesn't formally recognize any graphics cards on its own that were released to market after late 2013 as it went out of development just around then, in Jan 2014 (except for the new 64-bit Mac version which does recognize newer cards on Macs, but that one is a very different story). Not formally recognized doesn't mean the card isn't being used, it means it gets a usually inferior set of default settings in Game Options. Formal recognition can be obtained with some some relatively simple sgr file edits, but in most cases it doesn't really accomplish a lot. Much more important than this is getting the frame rate capped since TS3 has no functional built-in fps limiter and a GTX 1060 will run wild on frame rates if not tended to.

Has anyone made ani's savvier seller mod work? I installed it and forced sims to visit the lot, but nobody would buy anything. I tried to open up a community lot instead, there was ONE person out of maybe 10 who looked at an item, but nobody bought anything

How do I cap the frames? I didn't know it could be an issue...

Use the Nvidia Control Panel to set up a profile for TS3.exe (for Patch 1.69) or TS3w.exe (with the "w" for 1.67). Arrange for Vertical Sync (On or Adaptive, whichever one works better), Triple Buffering On, and set the max frame rate explicitly to the refresh rate of your monitor or just under it. Most monitors are 60 Hz, so the goal becomes 60 fps or under. Some can run higher (75, 144, etc.).

To see the frame rates you are actually getting in-game, Ctrl+Shift+C to bring up the cheats console and type fps on (enter). As you play and move the game camera around, the displayed frame rate should never exceed the refresh rate of your monitor, or at least not by very much. To make the display go away, cheats console again and type fps off (enter).

If the Nvidia Control Panel settings are not enough to cap the frame rates, then we move on and add in another tool such as Nvidia Inspector or RivaTuner Stats Server (RTSS). I use RTSS myself because all of my cards are AMD and not Nvidia to begin with, and AMD's own control panel tools have never done the job for me.

Thank you!