A couple months ago I upgraded my CPU and switched from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7. TS3 ran fine with my old setup and I kept all the same settings and custom content, the majority of which is 1.5GB of decrapified store content in DCCache. After I installed the game and all the EPs I noticed a strange problem: when I click on the active Sim there is a two-second delay before the menu pops up. When I click on another Sim there is about a one-second delay. There is no delay when clicking objects. When I take out the contents of DCCache this delay completely disappears. I tried moving the DBC files to my Mods folder instead, using Moryrie's store packages, and reinstalling all of it through the launcher but nothing changed. The game runs great in every other way and the delay is unrelated to whether the Sim is using any of the store content.
I never had anything like this happen with my old computer setup even though I had the exact same DBC files in my game. I was searching for other people with this problem and found
this thread on MTS. As someone noted, the people with the issue so far have both a bunch of CC (store or otherwise) and are on 64-bit Windows 7. Apparently it's only been an issue for some since the Generations patch but mine was doing this before that too. Does anyone here have anything like this happening in their game, or is using Win7-64 and a lot of store content with no problems? It's driving me crazy trying to fix it and I'm annoyed that I upgraded my computer just to have one of my games run a bit worse.
Specs:
Windows 7 Home 64-bit
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (yes, it's old, upgrading this year)
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz
4GB DDR3 RAM
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