How to lower fps?
Hopefully someone can help me? I desperately NEED to lower the fps when I play sims 3. It hits about 170fps max. and maybe 60 fps min. I have tried pretty much everything. My laptop has a NVIDIA G...
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"Cororon;c-16486217" wrote:
@igazor But if she gets a framrate of 60-170 fps in Sims 3, shouldn't it mean that the laptop can handle the TS3 graphics more than well on the quality settings she uses?
I used RTSS Rivatuner for a while when I had my old graphics card, and it worked fine. I have Windows 7, though, and Ella has Windows 8, but it should work. :smile:
No, afraid not. Uncapped wildly fluctuating frame rates are the equivalent of digital noise that monitors are unable to interpret. By themselves, they are not evidence of suitable power even once they are tamed, so to speak. These lower end cards have more narrow bit buses than their mid-range counterparts, that's a source of bottlenecking (sort of, maybe that's not the best word to use in this case), limited throughput might be better to say, and instability when pushed too hard.
@iEllaLouise - Reaching out to others on the TS4 tech discussion board is a great idea, as is investing in a laptop cooling pad regardless. I would say that 70c is at least 10 degrees too hot, generally. Bit too late to be helpful now, sorry you didn't see this and come to us prior, but both the TS3 and TS4 boards have ongoing threads for New Members who cannot start their own so they have places to ask questions like this.
