A Guide to Organizing Your Custom Content My Way: Stopping Crashes and Reducing Lag

Are you tired of dealing with crashes and lag in The Sims 3? If so, it's time to get your custom content (CC) organized. In this article, we'll walk you through the steps to merge and convert your CC files, reducing the risk of conflicts and crashes.

Step 1: Merging Custom Content Folders

First, make sure only merged custom content and mods belong in your mods folder. You don't need both separate and merged files at once. Once you've finished merging all your custom content folders one by one, copy the merged package files into your mods packages folder.

Step 2: Moving Individual Package Files

Next, move individual package file custom content from your mods packages folder to its proper folders within your 'S3CC' folder. You created this folder in an earlier step.

Step 3: Converting Simpacks to Packages

Use the SimPack Converter (Sims 3 Multi Installer) to change simpacks into packages, then place the package files in their correct folder. For example, hair files should go into a 'hair' folder.

Step 4: Processing Files

If some of your files are still simpacks, cut and paste them to a new folder called processing within the S3CC folder. Make sure you select your main S3CC folder as where the merged files are saved.

Step 5: Avoid Merging Mods

Do not merge any mods; only merge package file custom content. This is because you may need to patch your game or make changes in the future, and merging mods can cause conflicts.

Step 6: Creating New Folders

Each time one of the sub-folders fills up with 100 items of custom content, create a new folder with the same name and a corresponding number. For example, clothes 1. Copy over all your existing package file custom content into their appropriate folders you just created.

Step 7: Resolving Conflicts

You can't have two mods editing the same things within the game; it breaks things and can cause crashes. If you have any mods, scan them with Sims 3 Dashboard too. If there are any conflicts, you'll need to choose one of the two conflicting mods to keep and delete the other.

Step 8: Scanning for Corrupted or Duplicate CC

Scan all your package file custom content using the Sims 3 Dashboard program and delete any corrupted, duplicate, or bad CC that the program finds during the scan.

Step 9: Labeling Folders

Label each folder with what you're going to fill it with. Make as many of these folders as you need for hair, clothes, etc.

By following these steps, you'll be able to organize your custom content in a way that reduces crashes and lag. Remember to create a new folder on your desktop called 'S3CC' to keep all your files organized.

I hope this guide helps you get your Sims 3 custom content in order!

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