An old tutorial, but still useful! For anyone curious about what DBC stands for: it's DataBase of Content. In the Sims 3 game files, merged content has the file ending .dbc. But it is basically the same as a package, just with a different name that indicates that it contains several merged files in one. We "regular" users usually stick with naming our merged files as .package too because this is what our resource.cfg is usually configured to read! Some info on how s3pe works in the Import as dbc mode vs the regular import as package mode: When s3pe creates a DBC file, it automatically removes redundant files such as the Sims 3 Launcher XML, which is not needed when installing Custom Content as a package anyway but is a leftover from the conversion from Sims3pack to package format. This saves some additional space, thus you should use the .dbc method for merging your packages.

I know this video is 2 years old but thank you, my game is loading so fast now because of you!!!!

"it''ll merge these ten or twenty files" Me: MERGING MY FILES GOING BY YEAR BECAUSE I HAVE TOO MUCH CC TO SORT THROUGH

the fact that your cc is sorted BEFORE you merged it! I never changed the names of the files so im gonna be confused on what half of it is 😭 but thank you!!

Glad I found this video. My S3 game has been getting worse with the lagging until recently it jumped ship to horrible ... cas was a super sluggish nightmare... game loads and saves were also very long... I dwldd s3pe and followed your video and Voila! I have been playing the fastest loading, saving, cas'ing game in a very long time... Thank You MUCH! :-)

I find that grouping the hairs especially under the retexturer rather than hair creator easier, since its more easily identifiable in CAS the retexturer of the hair you wish to remove. Then when you're out of game, you can narrow it down by retexturer, rather than by name or original creator of the hair :)

Girl I LOVE YOU. I have just merged 5 times and my game is so much faster. It usually loads about 20mins til i can play with it really slow and now it was less than 10 mins and the game is so smooth🙏🏻💕.

THANK YOU for a simple, straight to the point video on how to do this. I've been wanting to but it's always a pain because people want to ramble on and don't explain very well. Thanks!!! Edit The Sims Online icon on your desktop sent me BACK

Thank you so much for making this video! I've been playing the Sims for the longest time with huge lagging, even though I have a high performing PC. I tried everything but nothing worked. Right after I merged all my files, barely any lag and CAS loads so much faster!

You sound so professional! Thank you for this gift from heaven!

you have such a sweet, kind voice, I subscribed, thanks for the help :3

So much easier than ccmagic omg thank you for helping me on tumblr its much appreciated

Thanks a bunch! This (and decrapifying) improved my gameplay PHENOMENALLY! (I'm just pissed I didn't find your video earlier!)

this is a life saver.

THANKYOU SO MUCH!! My game normally takes about 10 minutes to load all my clothes but I have about 1/50th of the cc you have! THANKS

Well, thanks to this video I finally gave in and am converting my stuf to packages and merging. You're right, it improves performance so much. I've merged all clothing, hair, accessories and poses. I left patterns and worlds alone, as suggested. That left me with questions: 1. Can/should I convert and merge lots? 2. Can/should I convert and merge downloaded sims? 3. Can/should I convert and merge furniture and other build/buy items? Thanks for a great video. I know it's kind of late to be expecting an answer on an old video, but maybe some other explorer out there can help.

THANKS SO MUCH. Game is so much smoother to run and CAS is no longer a hassle for me!

Beyond a life saver. I have an older PC and once my mods folder hit 3GB it would have lag spikes this helped so much.

I watched videos like this but they weren't that clear. This help me so much, thank you!! 💞

AHHH! Thank you so, so much. I'm so glad that I found your channel a few days ago. I'm too supid to use CCMagic and I was so desperate and sad bc I thought that I cant play with CC anymore. And now I found this! A great tutoral - I'm currently merging my things and I'm so glad that I can play Sims with CC again.

Thanks babes!! I really appreciate you doing this video.

thank you!!! my game has been AWFUL lately with loading and lag so hopefully this helps! :)

Thank you very much for this video, it worked for me and really made a great improvement in my game, keep the good work :)

I did this. But when I opened a save file, the cc that I merged had gone. For example: my sim's hair style was gone from her head, but was still in cas so I just needed to put it on again. However this became quite frustrating when it came to furniture and makeup because I couldn't rmember which I had used and some things were just gone like I had delteted them? I'm so confused because no one else has commented about this.

Thank you!!! this is 7 years old and still useful

You made my life much easier! Unfortunately, I already deleted two days ago all of my CC (I HAD ABOUT 1000, so it's... I think many), but who carez? Maybe it will be funny to download them once again and have them organized? ^^

Thanks really helpful. This post is super old, but if your still watching it, I wonder if you could be convinced to host your packages on something like google drive so lazy people like me can get them. Finding and downloading content for this game is super overwhelming, I don't even know where to start. Looks like you've organized it in such a way that the original creators get credit for their work, so that shouldn't be an issue. Anyway, thanks for your time and help.

Thanks for this, I have a little less cc than you but I needed to organise my stuff and now I have. I appreciate this post.

How will I be able to do this all if I've already put all my cc in one file?.....

used this vid forever ago n it worked perfectly! however as of recently my merged cc just stopped working? im missing a lot of cc that i had before in my files but they are just gone now. has this happened to you before? is there a way to fix? 😣

Hii! I'm going to try it. Thanks you

thank you so much for this! i only have one question. after i merge my cc into one folder is it ok to delete the unmerged versions of the same cc? does that make sence?

I have the same problem as @Cocodes . I've downloaded the most recent version of S3PE but it keeps saying "There is an older version installed, would you like to remove it?" No matter how many times I go through the process, nothing changes.

Hey, Brittany, how do you download cc from Newsa because every time I try and download it, it says I need to make an account, so I make an account and try download it, but it still says I need to have an account, Also, I love the hair Loena by Newsa, but they took it down (it's the hair Chantilly had from ep 1-8) do you know where to find it?

thank you so much!! my games lag' was so unresponsive before lmao

Thank you soo much for this! I have about 10K files overall that I'm sorting through so this will help a bunch! Can I ask what your game load time is like with all your CC?

Thnks for the vid💕 Btw, is it possible to convert .Sim3Pack to .package format?

Thank you so so so so much, this helped a lot, but I haven't gone into game yet lol. I bet it works though.

Thanks girl! Now I've seen what I done wrong when I was merging on my own (that import thing was wrong when I was doing it, I was importing from package and it totally didn't work).

Hello! I'm super late to the party, just started playing the Sims 3. I have two main questions pertaining to the video. Can you merge store package files? I recently download some store content packages from a Tumblr account and i was wondering if those could be safely merged as well? And then, you said you don't merge mods, defaults and cabinets. Why no cabinets? Does that cause issues?

in the organized files, what would you consider to be helpful or testing? im trying to organize my custom content and im confused

Hey! I know this is an older video, but I've downloaded s3pe, but whenever I click 'open' it says 'Could not import all resources - Aborting'. Please help! My sims game is so laggy !

Hey can you view your merged cc files? If so, how? Great video by the way :)

I merged my cc into hair, clothes, makeup, furniture, patterns etc and not all my cc show up! My package files are really big but it still should show up I thought?

Okay, so I followed the steps and merged all my hair packages. But now my "thesims3-mods-packages-cc-hair" file has all the package files still there with an additional package file named "Hair1" which is what I named the supposed merged file. Did something go wrong? It seems all it did was add another package to the long list of hairs in my Mods folder. :/

Thank You!

How do you organize your clothing file? I don't know exactly how I could do that because some of my clothing I have a small amount of custom content per file ..

hm.. I have a doubt, maybe you can help me with this. I'm merging my packages, and I selected 480mb of packages to merge, but when it finishes merging it turns into a 200mb package. Is that possible?

Thank You for the video it helped a lot, but I have one question does this help with your sims 3 launcher to fully load and be able to play the game because I have been having trouble with my sims 3 game not working I keep getting the same message every time I try to play Sims 3 Stop Working thing its pisses me off So yeah does it help with that problem.

this helped a lot!! question though...after you've merged your files do you delete the rest of the packages out of the folder or just let them stay in there with the merged file?

Thanks so much for making this it has really helped! i had forgotten how to do this and you helped :) Also how are that organised that you have all the different creators for each hair???

Hi! I have a question I did everything and then I get a package file called (what I named it) with the merged cc and stuff but then all the cc is still in a line but is it supposed to be a folder? Plz help

So I followed your video to a T my game loads smoothly and everything is faster than before but I have a slight problem and I don’t know if anyone has had this before where I converted and merged patterns but now when I try to enter create a pattern it gets stuck on “materializing materials” if anyone has had this problem and fixed it please please please let me know, I’m in the process of moving all my patterns which I detected through Delphys dashboard but i don’t know if it will help

so if my CC is in downloads under EA and they're not organized into files can I still merge them like this and do they all have to be package files or can they be Sims 3 pack files? sorry I'm very slow😅

hey so i was stuck on the step where you need to open the cc's that you want to merge :/ my cc's doesnt show up! and it is quite annoying... can you please help? tnx

What about content that is installed as store content? I have a lot of vehicles downloaded and they count as being from the sims 3 store even though they aren’t. Would I have to redownload them as package files? Also, if you remove CC that your sim is using and then, reinstall it as a combined package, will your sim still have it or will you have to give it to them again? (In my case, vehicles that they are using)

When i download s3pe, I save it to my downloads, but its in a package form so I right click on it, and then and it opens up, but i dont have a win rar i have 7zip, so i dragged the s3pe.Exe and put it in the downloads and i click it 2 times and nothing appears or happens, please help:(..

Hi!! thanks for your video! One question, the S3PE link takes me to the download but everytime i go to launch it says its an old version?

the package file works but the cc files still stay there so do I delete them?

Hey, nice video, I'll use this video as a reference on how to use S3PE for my tutorial video, dont worry, I'll credit you for it :)

I already have lots of cc installed in my game via the launcher so I was wondering: Do I need to uninstall all that so the game won't try to load the same files twice(.sims3packs(installed stuff) and .packages)? ._. Thanks for the video btw! I never knew you could do that to increase performance :)

can you do it with things that are sims 3 custom content type cc that you have to like install in the sims 3 launcher

Thank you !!!

End of my rope here. Giving this a try! Crossing fingers! Thanks for sharing

Can you for example merge files together that don't have the same type... Hair+clothes..?

I did this with the 67 cars I got from Fresh Prince Creations. Game performance is night and day, even though the merged file is close to 300 mb.

Do know something to convert sims cc on a mac? I can't have more than 30 cc items without my game not starting.

I still have no idea what to do :/ but thank you for the video, maybe I'll get it one day...

hi i have problems with my game probably because of conflicted cc, i need to unmerged cc because i lost my back up with my old pc, you know how to unmerged?

1. the "s3pe" website told me i needed "Microsoft's .Net Framework 4" so where do i place it and why do i need it/what do i do with it? 2. which s3pe do i need? it's saying that there are two versions: " DOWNLOADS s3pe_14-0222-1852.exe: Windows Easy Installer version s3pe_14-0222-18523.7z: Unpack-It-Yourself version "

I love your video, very descriptive. I am having issues importing. I opened s3pe, but when I clicked on the import and dbc when I went into my folders none of my packages were there. I then opened file explorer, and all of my stuff was there, but when I opened it with s3pe it wasn't. Has this happened to you? Do you know how to fix this? My game got frozen last night, and I am trying to make my game run faster. Hoping that I will still be able to merge my cc.

can i combine sims3pack files with this program?

I don't have any folder called Mods or Custom content so I'm completely unable to follow along with these instructions, unfortunately.

Thank you so much! 👍

Hi. I know this is a pretty old video but I just got a new computer and it has Windows 10 so S3PE doesn't run anymore. I click on it and nothing happens. My old computer was Windows 8. Is there anything I can do to fix that or will it just not work on Windows 10? Is there a substitute I can use for S3PE?

this is a super old video but every time i open s3pe and go to import all my .package files turn to sims 3 pack files

i knew this video is older, but, i have net 4.5, but doesnt open :/ before it opened but after my pc get reseted and installed the net 4.5 doesnt open anymore

So basically if I do this I’d have less package files (I convert my sims3pack files into package files to make it easier) and also if I did this, would my game not lag as much due to trying to open the package files? If the answers are yes and yes, I am doing this :D

I am having problems with this software. It keeps saying not responding when I try to save my cc as a merged package.

Thanks! 💕

Can you merge sims3 packs into a large package file? I only saw you merging package files into one big package file, haven’t watched the whole video so I’ll keep watching, sorry if this is a dumb question!

where would you find the merged files?

Once I merged all of my CC, I still had the original .package files. Can I delete those alongside the merged package or do I keep them and put them somewhere else?

Hey, Girl Meets Pixels. I'm having some trouble, when I right click on the box in the s3pe, I don't get the option to import, or do anything. Please help!

I dont have any cc But the game still loeads the cities too long My pc is avarage and handles modern games well I dont understand whats up with it Maybe because it has some package files in override folder?

Just merged my first files! Super happy and hope that it helps my games :) Question though: I know you said not to merge mods does that include also mod professions and things?

Hi :) I just merged all my CC like you said. But my game keeps crashing when starting a new game. After the Neighborhood-Loadingscreen it crashes when loading is completed. Do you have any ideas?

can there be only cc clothes in one file or can I marge them with hairstyles etc.?

i have an unhandled exception, it couldn't find the "tmp5956.tmp" file

One more question.. how do you know how the file looks when you delete it out of your game? For example..clothing or hair. Do you google the name of it & decide if you want to delete it?

I Have A New Computer Will I Have To Remerge my CC Are Will It Still Be Merged

can you do a toturial on how to install cc ?? because i have problems doing that

All my cc including my sims 4 package somehow became sim 3 packages how do I fix this

So I’ve been aiming to make all my merges 200 mb like you mentioned, for some reason occasionally when I merge a group of CC it becomes smaller in file size, is this normal?

Quick question, so I have resource.cfg files and what not but I can only download sims3pack cc. Do you know how I can also download package files? And mods? Thank you.

Do you have to keep the pics after you merge the files

I have a question, so after i merged the files i still had the original files that were not merged what do i do with those ? do i just delete them and keep the merged version of them

So is this better and faster than downloading simpack files? I heard packages were slower for your game, so would merging them make packages faster than simpacks?

If I wanted to delete something from it, I would have to delete the merged file, and then delete the single thing from my back-up and then make a new merged file from it, is that right? 😌❤️

Do I HAVE to put it into the mods folder because i dont have one