This article has been flying around tumblr since last night: How I ran The Sims 3 faster in 5 seconds.

Original source of the information (which is also linked to within the link above) is on MTS here: <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=571180" rel="nofollow">Unpark CPU - Performance Increase</a>.

I haven't had a chance to read it all yet or test it out but was just wondering what everyone else thinks.

LOL, the fake advertising is cute. But in the explanation it should be "unpark your cores" (not drives).

I've been watching that thread at MTS and am going to try it out eventually. My expectation is that the benefits the game will get will be minimal, so one shouldn't expect miracles; the tl:dr version of the theory is that all the CPU energy your computer wastes unnecessarily parking and unparking cores could be put to much better use, like servicing the game. As stated several times in the thread, though, you do have to have a smooth working game to begin with to reap any benefit here.

Has anyone else here tried this yet?

I've tried it and I do notice more activity from sims, especially more interactions with eachother. As for less lag, well I didn't really have any before so I can't see any difference there (Hi Sarah! *waves*)

@igazor: Haha! Yes, I was a bit sceptical. Thanks for your explanation. I'll give this a try tomorrow now as I've already started up my game for today.

@deesim: *waves* Hi!

My game is faster (loading and create a style). Don't know about the gameplay yet 'cause I din't play (just build mode)
But my brother test with his games and said that improved (fifa, NFS...)

I'd imagine this would give a slight improvement, yes. This game is a CPU hog so making the CPU instantly available would obviously benefit it. I'd hope people who have low end hardware aren't expecting this to magically fix things though, it's not going to.

I have a fairly high-end CPU, graphics card and 16 Gigs of RAM but the lag in older saves has been reduced to the mini-stuttering the game can't seem to run. So, yes, it seems to help, even for better computers. 3 speed is faster too.

I also noticed that when I follow my sim around when they are driving, it's A LOT less choppy. One could almost call it smooth. Almost.

I noticed some smoothing of the game play, but I noticed even move improvement after moving most of my saved sims to another folder outside the game folder. What a difference that made!!!

I would second all these statements. WOW! Huge decrease in lag - especially when scrolling!