Bars & clubs always empty in Bridgeport?

[Nextexit42]

My bars, lounges, and clubs are always empty in Bridgeport. When my sims are out it is just the bouncer and bartender and if lucky one other sim at the bar. Has anyone else noticed empty bars?

I have read on the officialsims 3 forum this is a bug and there are a number of theories how to fix it.

This is the link to the official Sims 3 forum discussion and possible http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/307092.page

This is a brief summary of the fix I’d like to try. It will trick the program to thinking I have the best computer regardless of what I acutely have. It seems to have a problem identifying the i7 corectly, and possiblyset my cpu score much lower then it should be.

SHORTVERSION:
1) Be sure file extensions are shown on your PC.
2) Make sure you the Electronic Arts directory in your program files isn'twrite-protected so that you can edit/delete files within it.
3) Go into C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 LateNight\Game\Bin
4) Copy the contents of the GraphicsRules.sgr file into a notepad and editthe cpu levels from 1, 2, 3, 4 to 4, 4, 4, 4. Change the notepad's name toGraphicsRules.sgr.
5) Make a backup of your original GraphicsRules.sgr then replace it withthe new GraphicsRules.sgr you made.
6) For safety, make the new GraphicsRules.sgr read-only.
7) The game now ignores your processor rating and allows a max of 20 simson any lot. You may exerience a drop in FPS if your processor can't handle them. Revert back or lower the values from 4s to 3s. Also, patches to the game will overwrite this file, so you'll have to do this again after apatch.

But I cannot find where steam keeps the game files, therefore I can’t findthe file GraphicsRules.sgr. Does anyone know how I can modify this file with the steam version? How many people have empty bars/clubs?

[jp_rsardeto]

Did you try going in this folder: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3 LateNight\Game\Bin ?

About the clubs, I can't say because I don't own it yet. But in The Sims 2 Night Life everything was always empty. :(

[Nextexit42]

I found the file in

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin

My bars are 10x better now lots more people and my loading screens look better, more anamations. If anyone is having empty bars they should try this fix. I have an i7 920 but i guess becouse its a new proccesor the sims does not regnize it and the defualt must be the lowest cpu. Hope this helps other people and im still curious who else has/had empty bars?

[PhamousVegas]

and my loading screens look better, more anamations.

I find it odd that this happens from increasing the amount of cores the game uses... unless I'm misunderstanding.

[Nextexit42]

I dont think it is increasing the amount of cores the game is using. By setting the CPU score to all to 4s it tricks the game into thinking you have the best CPU possible which increases the max number of sims allowed on a lot amoung some other settings. The code they use to determine the cpu score was giving mine a low score.