Maybe I will also add how to install sims3package or. I am a makeup junky and it is a good place to start with small, easy to install items like lipstick or eye-liner. Then start up your game in see if it installed correctly. Download and/or unzip it to: My Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 3>Mods>Packages. I would start simple: Fine ONE package file of Custom Content you want. Please note that the Resource.cfg file is NOT in your Packages folder, it is in your Mods folder. After you download it, move the resource file to My Documents>Electronic Arts>The sims 3>Mods folder. Design finalized, mods completed, procedures issued & necessary training completed.SIMS data base should be updated to show Item being implemented. The first thing to do is to verify that youre adding the Mods folder (and everything else) to the correct Sims 3 game folder. Sims 3 cannot read custom content without YOU adding a file telling it how to do so. My Documents>Electronic Arts>The sims 3>Mods>Packages

So now you should have 2 new folders: Mods and inside of Mods, Packages. Change the name of this second folder to “Packages” Click and open your new folder Mods and repeat the step above, File>New>Folder. While in the The Sims 3 folder, go to the top left corner and click on the menu “File”, then “New”, then “Folder”:Ĭhange the name of the “New Folder” to “Mods”. Go to My Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 3. I am going over package files only for now. You need to know how to unzip zipped files as well, since a lot of CC comes zipped. 2.4- Create another sub-folder within the Mods folder and name it Overrides (watch the case it must be exact). 2.3- Create a sub-folder within the Mods folder and name it Packages (watch the case it must be exact). As such, many GPU models are not automatically used by the game when you first run it. This is a very BASIC how to install custom content guide in Sims 3.įor more detailed instructions please go to Mod the Sims or Google “How to install Custom Content Sims 3” 2.2- Click to open the Mods folder so you are inside it. When the Sims 3 was made and the last patch was released, there still weren’t many of the current modern GPUs in the market. I have noticed a lot of questions about how to install custom content.

How to add mods to the sims 3