Re: Mac: my game is lagging

I recently discovered the reason why my game lags so bad was because i was streaming while playing. I used twitch platform, streamlabs, obs and currently Stream elements. Stream elements seems to work better than the other platforms. The game lags a tiny bit but once i press "start streaming" the games starts to lag very bad. I have a My Mac book is a MacBook Air  apple M1 (2020), 8gb of memory version 12.5.1.and running my sims games folder from a external hard drive,  SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable SSD - Up to 1050MB/s - USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 - External Solid State Driv... . The EA folder is on my desktop but that folder is an alias and i store the files on the drive through a symlink