Sims Two’s Lazy Duchess Done More For Sims 3 Players This Year Than Lazy EA Simgurus

What a brilliant mod, and from a completely unexpected source!

Lazy Duchess is a Sims 2 modder, but she’s decided to try her hand on one for Sims 3 which does exactly what it says on the tin – makes the game’s logic threads run faster.

From what we’ve found, Build/Buy runs a whole lot faster (no ‘go away and make your dinner while waiting for Decor/Misc to load up’!), as does CASt, and the game itself runs a lot smoother too. CAS as per usual is still a drag, but still with some notable improvements, even in the dreaded Accessories.

Most important of all, there’s different versions for those playing Sims 3 from disc/PC/Steam and those playing from Origin. Installation is a doddle.

Both of us have been using it for the last few days (Windows 10 appears to show the more dramatic improvements, by the way) and are well pleased.

There’s simple instructions included inside the mod download, suggesting you start on 500 ticks per second and move upwards if you think your computer will gain anything from it (or downwards). Our advice is try between 500 to 1000 first, and play the game several times before getting any bright ideas of going any higher – in other words, make sure you’re appreciating the difference it’s making rather than going mad.

That it’s taking a Sims TWO modder to fix Sims THREE problems EA couldn’t be arsed fixing encapsulates why we never touched Sims FOUR.

Let sweetmeats and angels kisses and fluffy squirrels rain down upon her noble head (but not from too high a starting point, ‘cos that would be painful and fluffy squirrels are a bit squishy on hard surfaces)