Usually, general performance issues can be traced not to something wrong with the game's programming, but an issue with your computer itself in some way. Go down the list and you could be playing a better quality game in no time! This guide is meant to give you some tips for bettering the experience while playing 'The Sims 3' and, maybe, your computer as a whole! Each one of the following subsections has a link to an article that will help you down the road to making the game more enjoyable. If any of these apply to you, you have stumbled across the right article.

Or, maybe even you just want to know how to increase your performance to a higher level than it already is. Does your game lag or jump around constantly? Can you barely make it through a sitting without your game crashing, distorted images, or the program freezing on you? Maybe your game performance has gone downhill from when you originally installed it.