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FFluffyNoodles
Rising Scout
6 months ago

The Sims 1 Legacy fails to work properly on AMD graphics cards

Me and a lot of people who have AMD GPU's are reporting MAJOR performance drops into the low 10's in frames when more than 3 Sims are on a lot, or more apparent in a Community lot, I hope this issue can get fixed because the game is unplayable in this state.

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  • ChibiShix3's avatar
    ChibiShix3
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 months ago

    I have exactly the same problem, even if I change the scaling, as soon as sims are in the picture, the FPS collapses. Also AMD graphics card.

  • EnesPlaysRe's avatar
    EnesPlaysRe
    Seasoned Newcomer
    6 months ago

    SAME PROBLEM AS SOON MORE SIM ARE ON ONE MAP I GET LOW FPS, I really hope they fix it soon.

  • Mxyzzy's avatar
    Mxyzzy
    Rising Novice
    6 months ago

    Same issue for me! Hope they can fix it soon! I was so excited for the legacy release :(

  • Same for me. Started the tutorial family. When a third sim appears on the screen or animals, then the games fps will drop to a very low rate. AMD Adrenalin Software shows me an average fps of 7.
    AMD Radeon RX7600

    Update: Seems to work fine, after updating Adrenalin and drivers to latest version

    Update 2: Nevermind... when ever a random sim walks around the property or particularly when moving to the citiy the fps will still drop horribly

  • FFluffyNoodles's avatar
    FFluffyNoodles
    Rising Scout
    6 months ago

    Yup, I'd issue a refund if you can since this has been an issue since launch and has yet to be addressed by EA in any of their patch notes

  • Inkerlink2's avatar
    Inkerlink2
    Rising Newcomer
    6 months ago

    Having the same problem, performance on my 9800 XT tanks when lots of sims are on the screen. Playing the game on my other PC Intel integrated doesn't have this issue. 

  • I'm running it on my Acer Laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile Processor and it works fine there.

    Update: GPU is AMD Radeon Vega Gfx.
    I'm able to stream it from the laptop to the Dekstop PC via Steam. So this is my workaround. Played for around 2 hours now.

  • Radeon RX 7600 with same problem. No sim on screen => full maxed out FPS no lag at all. 1 Sim on screen => lower FPS but still playable. Multiple Sims on screen => drops to 2fps which is basically frozen and unplayable. 

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