Advice for a new-old player?
I just found my old Sims3 game disc, and my laptop wouldn't read it, but hubs' laptop would, and I managed to play it on his. Took forever to install but once that was done, it only plays with the dis...
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For the flickering, does it happen in both fullscreen and windowed modes? Often, switching from one to the other helps, as does enabling vertical sync in fullscreen mode. The settings available and how to change them will depend on the graphics card(s) in the laptop.
If this is a gaming laptop, it's also a very good idea to manually cap framerates, since even a mid-tier GPU can generate wildly high fps and overwork itself in the process. Again, the options you have will depend on the graphics card in the laptop, as well as whether you'd prefer to play in fullscreen or windowed, but there are plenty of tools you can try.
To see your in-game framerates, bring up the cheats console (crtl-shift-C) and enter "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above the refresh rate of the laptop screen.
If this is a gaming laptop, it's also a very good idea to manually cap framerates, since even a mid-tier GPU can generate wildly high fps and overwork itself in the process. Again, the options you have will depend on the graphics card in the laptop, as well as whether you'd prefer to play in fullscreen or windowed, but there are plenty of tools you can try.
To see your in-game framerates, bring up the cheats console (crtl-shift-C) and enter "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above the refresh rate of the laptop screen.
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