Yes, thats the post I was referring to.

I asked as I was curious to what 'Play' meant and how things work.

It seems from what you say there may be more reason to consider what to do and see what others say here to weigh my decision.

does cc magic work with 1.69 I have sims 3 on disk but some stuff packs and expansions on origin.

From all reports, CC Magic does not work on Patch 1.69.

ok I should look what I have on disk and install those and buy the rest on amazon. I have master suite stuff, sims 3 diesel stuff, seasons, fast lane, ambitions generations 70,80, and 90, stuff, outdoor living, and late night so what else I need too buy on disk I have the complete set.

I know I need pets, island paradise, into the future the sims 3 ShowTime supernatural university and world adventures maybe able too get special 2 for one with world adventures and just need 2 stuff packs high end loft and town life so might be able too get all for about 100 or so maybe

everything on amazon except the stuff packs is 32.08 shipping per item is extra have too add that in. be about 20 more for shipping

I can see if some other shop online has the disk I want though I saw so far it is 55 before shipping cost not sure if I will do that all at once may do it over a few months

Removing references to sites that sell the entire collection of EP/SPs for an unbelievably low price. They are not dealing with legitimate copies of the game and they are ripoffs.

ok sorry about that may not come with the serial codes anyway

Anyway, I'd like to get the topic back to what Sarah_Sim's said last and see what others have to say about it, please:

"Sarah_Sims about 11 hours ago
Thanks for all the backup everyone. I was beginning to doubt myself after reading the original post on MTS by the creator of CC Magic, granthes. Within the first few lines he mentions that the program helps with lag which had me somewhat confused.

Quote: "Game Lag : When you have more than about 200 custom content files, the game begins to slow down noticeably. This is a limitation of the way modern computer operating systems work, not an issue with the game itself."

This simply isn't true though, is it? Or are we all missing something vital here?

@t888: I'm in agreement with simsoes and am also wondering why you would want to start the game using the official Launcher rather than CC Magic.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but doesn't having The Launcher open while playing, use up extra resources from your computer (i.e. memory), especially if you are connected to the internet? I don't know if this is a good way to test or not but I've just opened up both CC Magic and The Launcher on my PC, together with Task Manager. CC Magic is using 54,500K of my RAM and The Launcher is using 135,420K. This is without the game actually running though but if you also take into account the fact that I have 7.31GB of CC installed in CC Magic and only 28.8MB installed through The Launcher, it makes you wonder exactly what The Launcher is doing. I know which one I'd rather have open while I was playing. "