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Best non-gaming laptop for the sims 4
Hi! I’ve recently been looking for a non-gaming laptop that is suitable for the sims 4, with mods, cc and the game packs. Is having a non-gaming laptop the best? Or is it best to have a gaming laptop? As I would like to have a non-gaming one for school work as well. Thank you!Flashing white screen and game crash
Hello, I've got a problem since a few days. No matter what I do in the game (CAS, Gameplay or Build mode), the screen start flashing white and after stay on white screen. I must force restart the computer. I dont use any CC or mod. Yesterday I reinstalled all the game properly and update all the drivers. I've got a good computer for the sims. Today the problem is still here, I'll try to make a new part and it happened 4 times in the CAS. It isn't possible to play like that. Everytime I have to restart everything. Thanks to you. Have a nice day.Game keeps crashing at loading screen
Hi guys, as the title says, every time I open up the game, it crashes right after showing the game title. I've been trying a few solution provided but still am unable to get it load. What I've done so far: Uninstall and reinstall both sims4 and EA Downloaded Nivida game driver, tried to run sims4 from there Didnt install anything related to razer, i dont know where to find RazerChroma in my files Really appreciate your help on this as i'm not very tech savvy! Thank you all in advance! My Dxdiag as attached.game keeps crashing not sure what to do:(
I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have been trying to get this game to work for like 3 days now. I don’t have an amazing computer just a windows laptop with windows 11 that used to run sims 4 just fine. I deleted the app for awhile but i just tried to redownload and play 3 days ago and it will not let me play for more than 5 minutes without crashing. I checked my graphics driver and everything else it seemed like i needed to check but it still doesn’t work. it seems like my computer is compatible so im just kinda stumped right now. I also took all of my mods out so i know it’s not an issue with any cc or mods. at least i think so lol. anyways any advice would be deeply appreciated!!!!!!Camera movements very choppy since BH patch
Hi, I have a problem that started since the BH patch, that during Sims day time moving the camera, especially rotating it, or panning through the world becomes incredibly choppy, to a point that the game is not enjoyable anymore and even gives me motion sickness. I had created a bug report 2 months ago, but it seems like noone is sharing this problem (as there are barely votes on it), so I'm starting to wonder if it is a technical issue I'm experiencing, otherwise I would think more people would have raised it by now. I would really appreciate help 🙏 My computer is quite a strong gaming PC - with a NVidia GeForce RTX 3080, - a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12 core processor - 32 GB RAM - running the game on dirextX 11 - a SSD hard drive with TBs free storage - windows 11 I updated graphics drivers after experiencing these issues, to be sure it is not that, but no luck. I play Sims 4 daily since many years, and have always had 60 - 170 fps, the higher range since direct X 11 started (at least from the second directX 11 patch on, as at first the performance went down and the second patch had fixed an issue with my type of graphic-card for directX11), and have been so happy to have such a fluent experience. But since the BH patch suddenly I'm having real troubles panning with the camera, or following a Sim, as it's so choppy. When it starts stuttering, my fps goes down to 40-60 fps, and the "Copy" section of my GPU Performance in Task Manager goes up a little, just above 0, while it's usually flat on 0. It doesn't stutter constantly but only when I move the camera for a few seconds, especially when rotating, after that it becomes fluent again, until i move the camera again and it again stutters.. it seems like it is loading something in the background when moving the camera around, and that brings down the fps to around 40-50 and stutters all camera movements. Once it stops stuttering it goes back to 120 fps and more. At in-game's night time it's better, then in the morning it starts to become worse and it's at its worst in community buildings or when I have a small business open with lots of customers. I tested this without mods (which made no difference at all) and also once on a fresh save - The fresh save started off a lot less choppy and then became more and more stuttery over time. I haven't played too long with it though, as my gameplay is a rotational save with a full set of all lots built-up. At first I thought it's maybe the new world of BH, but even when i reverted to the first save where I got the pack without any custom builds in this world, just the premade ones, it still had the same amount of stuttering when panning around it. I also get this bad performance in old worlds now. I have a feeling it has to do more with the Sims than with the buildings, given the performance is great at night time - which is the time when there are barely any Sims walking outside. Does anyone have any tips, how I could debug this, I would really love to play Sims 4 fluently again, the stuttering makes me feel motion sick?Helppp please
Hi guys! I moved my sims game to a hard drive a while ago, I ended up having lots of trouble with it most recently and FINALLY I was able to get it to work. I decided to buy a few more packs and now they won’t download. Correction- I had 2 expansion packs download but when trying my stuff packs it keeps pausing randomly, or saying this folder doesn’t exist. Please can someone else. I’ve done everything under the sun. I’ve changed the names, the paths, deleted, redownloaded . Deleted certain folders, cleared cache, got a new cord, tried different ports. I don’t understand this. I can’t, I’m so exhausted I’m just annoyed becuase I just spent over $60 bucks and now I can’t play the stuff I want. If there’s anybody that went through this that can help me out I’d appreciate it so much.
Sims 4 crashed my PC
Platform: PC Mods: Normally yes, but currently removed. Game version: Latest version 1.120.117.1030 Hello guys, I’m at the point where I’m ripping my hair about about this and don’t know what to do. I have a relatively new PC still, a little over one year old which runs smoothly otherwise and with any other game. And I haven’t had any issues running Sims 4 before. But after not playing for a while I decided to play a bit yesterday, everything seemed fine, FPS where high and the game ran smoothly as usual. Then suddenly everything froze, including the mouse and everything, then the whole PC crashed. Understandably, I was shocked, my PC has never crashed like that before. And I’d played another game just fine right before (Wuthering Waves.) Regardless I rebooted again, thinking it might’ve just been a coincidence. Decided to run task manager on my other monitor just to keep an eye on things, the workload and temps were still good. But yet again, the game crashed a second time when I tried to run it. In addition, the game stood on the start screen for almost a whole twenty minutes while I was googling things, and monitoring everything without crashing. But the moment I entered a lot and started doing things it crashed again. So after that I spent all of yesterday trying to figure things out. I’ve done everything I know, reinstalling Nvidia Drivers, updated a Windows driver I’d missed, cleared my storage, did some repairs, removed all mods and started a new save file. Yet I didn’t dare open the game again last night, though I sat and played Red Dead Online and then Star Stable Online for the rest of the entire evening with no issue. So while some suggestions online pointed to a PSU issue? That seems unlikely since other games run fine? Since it’d ideally get ”overloaded” then too. And so, this morning I once again decided to finally try after everything I did yesterday, no mods, clean save and everything. Thought it was going good at first since I could make a sim, go into manage worlds and even move them into a lot. Even placed down a lot from the gallery. Then just to see, I left the game for a moment while I went to do something else for like ten minutes. And once I got back game had frozen my whole PC again, completely unresponsive but RGB and fans are still running. So had to shut it down on the power button, not ideal. But yeah, I’m getting quite confused and scared at this. On one hand it doesn’t happen in other games, but on the other hand the whole PC crashing is worrisome. Just wondering if anyone’s had any thing similar happen or might have an idea? Easy to say, I’m pretty scared of touching the game now. (PC specs: CPU: Intel Core i7 -12700F GPU: 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Memory: 32GB RAM Disk: 2TB SSD Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B760-PLUS WiFi D4 PSU: Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W V2)
Mouse Stops Working When Sims 4 Launches
Hello, I've seen a few discussions where people experience similar events but I have attempted to follow those guides with no success. Sims 4 on PC was working fine for me up until a few months ago, shortly after the fairy pack was released. Now, whenever the game launches my mouse is unable to move. Either using the bluetooth mouse or the mousepad does not work. I am able to click the Windows button and return to my desktop where my mouse works with no issues. If I try to return to the game, it's almost as if it loaded just a bit more but still frozen mouse. I have cleared my cache on my PC and on EA and nothing. Uninstalled and reinstalled the game, nothing. Repaired the app, nothing. I do not use mods but deleted everything regardless and nothing. I even attempted to put the game in the windowed version but that ended up freezing my entire screen. If anyone could please advise I would be super grateful. Thank you!please help, translucent white circles that move with the camera
like said in title, they are stationary white circles. I have tried just about everything :( Edit: i believe it is the fence that is causing it, when i rebuilt the porch with full walls and it went away but i cant have a fence? doesn't make since.
Best Computer Setup for Jam Packed Sims 2026
I know this has been posted before, but I can't find anything newer than 4 years old, and technology changes rapidly. Does anyone have any recommendations for a set up to play the Sims 4 (and future games) with all packs, along with lots of mods and cc? I have a Macbook right now and it's not cutting it. The graphics are getting bad, and my game is getting slow. I would really like to get into storytelling and sharing these stories on YouTube and other social media. So I guess I am also asking what would be a good set up that would run the game with the above, along with the necessary creative tools to edit photos and videos. (I can always use the Macbook for the editing, but just in case there is something out there that handles both well, I thought I'd ask!) Thank you for your help, and Happy Simming in the New Year!Where do I install the Sims 4
Okay so I couldn't save my sims game anymore because there wasn't enough space on my drive. I looked into it and apparently I installed my sims game on my school's one drive (i don't go to school anymore so if anyone knows how to uninstall that please let me know too). But anyway i uninstalled my sims game to re-install it on a different location on my PC. The game started up just fine. Now when i wanted to add all my CC it didn't work, it also looked different then i'm used too. Now i tried different location ect but it still looks like that. (see picture below). Can someone please help me out on what i'm doing wrong, and how to fix it.
(PC) Constant Crashes
Since the July 1st update, I've encountered constant crashes to desktop which I've never experienced before. Here's a list of everything I've done as well as a dxdialog attached: NO mods or CC Updated Nvidia driver Repaired game Deleted cache files Started brand new save games Played offline Moved the entire Sims 4 folder out and started fresh The one thing that seems to work is deleting the Options.ini file so it regenerates when I load up the game. But soon after it starts crashing again. It will crash in build mode, CAS, world management, loading screen, etc. I'd appreciate any insight into fixing this. Thanks!Sims 4 not working! HELP ME!!
why is my sims 4 keep freezing before i even get to create my people? no i do not have any mods or cc downloaded at all for some reason it won’t work i have deleted the ea app, and also deleted sims redownloaded them even repaired both of the app & they are still not working. someone PLEASE help me i am begging. also why does sims 3 cost near to 20$ anyone know a way i can get it for free or anything? send help
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