# The Sims 3 settings guides

> Graphics, controls, and performance settings: what to change, and what it costs. Player-made The Sims 3 guides on QnA.GG.

The page: https://qna.gg/games/the-sims-3/settings. Every guide as JSON: https://qna.gg/api/guides?q=settings&game=The+Sims+3.

## Guides, most read first

- [The Sims 3: Complete Guide](https://qna.gg/g/the-sims-3-complete-guide-860bb7b2.md), by Qloud: Everything you need to run a successful Sims 3 household in 2026: how traits, wishes and skills actually drive the game, how to make money, which expansions are worth buying, cheats, and the fixes that keep this 2009…

## Questions these guides answer

- [How the Core Systems Work](https://qna.gg/g/the-sims-3-complete-guide-860bb7b2#section-how-the-core-systems-work), in “The Sims 3: Complete Guide”