How To: Merge Your Custom Content | The Sims 3

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.

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

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

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!!

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 :)

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! :-)

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 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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

this is a life saver.

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

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. <3

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

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.