Getting the Sims 3 to Run on a New Laptop?
Hi all, A little over a year ago, I bought a new gaming laptop. I was really eager to get the Sims games up and running on it, but I've run into an issue while trying to get TS3 to work. Of course,...
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A GTX 1050Ti is certainly powerful enough to require fps limiting. And when so limited, it should be able to run the game on mostly the highest of graphics settings in Game Options. We do suggest that Water and Mirrors be set to a medium setting and High Detail lots set to 2 on most any card though, as higher settings can impact performance more than they really enhance gameplay. Then one might want to later experiment from there. There should be no worries of the game causing any kind of damage on that card once the fps thing is addressed and confirmed to be capped. The worst thing that can happen is that the game uses "too many" resources to service the very high end graphics settings and not enough is left to make the game run smoothly, but that doesn't at all lend itself to hardware damage and merely suggests it might be a good idea to turn some of the options down a little.
To see the refresh rate of your monitor, right-click on the desktop and choose Display Settings, then Advanced Display Settings. There's only about six pieces of information on the "Advanced" panel, but one of them is Refresh Rate measured in Hz. Again most monitors/screens are 60 Hz but some gaming laptops or special use monitors can run a bit higher (75, 144, etc.). That number becomes the goal for capping the fps.
Once the game and all of the EP/SPs you have or want are installed and confirmed to actually be running properly, use the Nvidia Control Panel to create a profile for TS3.exe (for Patch 1.69/Origin) or TS3w.exe (with the "w' for Patch 1.67/disc, Steam, everyone else). For that profile, set vertical sync to On or Adaptive (whichever one works better when testing the fps in-game) and Triple Buffering to On. If you have dual graphics as many laptops do, make sure the TS3 profile in the Nvidia Control Panel is set to use the High Performance Card.
Vertical sync only works, for those for whom it does work by itself, in full screen mode. If it's not enough to lock things in at or under the refresh rate or if windowed mode is needed, then we add Nividia Inspector (download and install required) and use it to explicitly cap the frame rate for TS3 to 60, or whatever the real refresh rate is, or to some value as close to that as Inspector will let us enter (59, maybe 61 etc. would be fine).
See this post, under the spoilers, for illustrations on setting up the Control Panel and Inspector.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16365571/#Comment_16365571
To see the refresh rate of your monitor, right-click on the desktop and choose Display Settings, then Advanced Display Settings. There's only about six pieces of information on the "Advanced" panel, but one of them is Refresh Rate measured in Hz. Again most monitors/screens are 60 Hz but some gaming laptops or special use monitors can run a bit higher (75, 144, etc.). That number becomes the goal for capping the fps.
Once the game and all of the EP/SPs you have or want are installed and confirmed to actually be running properly, use the Nvidia Control Panel to create a profile for TS3.exe (for Patch 1.69/Origin) or TS3w.exe (with the "w' for Patch 1.67/disc, Steam, everyone else). For that profile, set vertical sync to On or Adaptive (whichever one works better when testing the fps in-game) and Triple Buffering to On. If you have dual graphics as many laptops do, make sure the TS3 profile in the Nvidia Control Panel is set to use the High Performance Card.
Vertical sync only works, for those for whom it does work by itself, in full screen mode. If it's not enough to lock things in at or under the refresh rate or if windowed mode is needed, then we add Nividia Inspector (download and install required) and use it to explicitly cap the frame rate for TS3 to 60, or whatever the real refresh rate is, or to some value as close to that as Inspector will let us enter (59, maybe 61 etc. would be fine).
See this post, under the spoilers, for illustrations on setting up the Control Panel and Inspector.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16365571/#Comment_16365571
