#smooth patch

The game's brightness, by default, is extremely low. As a result, it's supposed to hijack your screen controls and make the brightness like 200% or something. I've seen this behavior on macOS. However, for some reason, on Linux it isn't doing that, and the window stays dark. The solution is to run it in windowed mode, which does fix it, but... then it's in windowed mode (ew). So I saw on Reddit that Lazy Duchess's Smooth Patch came force the game into a borderless window mode. Great! That'll fix all my problems. However.

In order to make the Smooth Patch run, you have to launch the game from TheSims3Launcher.exe

Problem: I don't have a disc drive on this computer. I backed up all my TS3 DVDs onto a 128 GB flash drive, and I installed the game from there. My usual method of playing is to bypass the launcher entirely and launch the game directly using the TS3.exe file. However, doing so will cause the Smooth Patch not to launch. If I do try to open the launcher, of course, I can't launch the game because I don't have the disc inserted.

So, like, wtf do I do? I can't use LD's Custom Launcher because it's for 1.69 only, and the disc version is 1.67. So, like, is there any way to launch the game from the launcher without a DVD? Like, are there cracked launchers or some way of bypassing the disc requirement. Idk.

I can use a USB disc drive, but digging that thing out every single time I want to launch the game is gonna be tedious. I'd be nice to just be able to launch it normally. So any tips would be appreciated.

Do any of my Tumblr friends use the Smooth Patch by LazyDuchess? I need some help: which of the two files do I need to download? I always start my game via the EA app. The second one? AND: When I still had Origin, I often had the problem that shortly after pressing the start button, the game didn't even start up, but crashed immediately.(I have used this patch before, but it was a while ago) I want to do everything right this time with the installation etc. Maybe someone can give me some good instructions.🙄

Hi!

It might come out in a couple of weeks (or sooner or later) as I polish it up and fix more things.

🙄😛

I've now inserted everything correctly into the bin folder (that's all right, isn't it?) and the id file is also in my mods folder.

I've also installed the modified launcher. Now comes the big BUT: normally the game is supposed to start faster with this patch. But I have the problem that after pressing the start button it takes over 3 minutes for the game to start. So everything takes a lot longer. Not just when starting the game, but also in CAS.

It doesn't matter whether the clothes/accessories are set in a compact form or not, it takes ages until everything has finished loading. It's nerve-racking, really. In the time it takes for everything to load, you could go shopping or spend a day at the zoo (to put it exaggeratedly). Everything takes a lot longer WITH the patch installed than without. I don't understand it…

I've already increased the TPS in the text file, but nothing at all happens. . when I started the game via Origin back then, the effects of the patch were already noticeable in the game, faster loading etc., I can still remember that. But the game often crashed when it started because of the patch. For whatever reason. After that, I stopped working with the thing and now I would like to do it again. But as I said, everything is just worse instead of better. So I'll probably carry on without it…. I'm not that stupid and I know that I actually did everything right. (or?)