"puzzlezaddict;c-17983409" wrote:
@Kelvin There is absolutely no reason not to play at 144 fps, especially on a 1080 ti. Two things can shorten the lifespan of a graphics card. One is overheating, and of course it's a good idea to monitor the GPU's temperatures while playing, but as long as this card or its cooling solution isn't defective it should be fine in Sims 3 at 144 fps. The other is excessively high framerates, but that means fps well into the hundreds, think ~500 or more rather than 144.
A well-made graphics card can run games at core loads close to 100% for years without breaking down, again provided it's not overheating or generating extremely high fps while doing so. If this particular 1080 ti is running Sims 3 at 200 fps with no limit in place, 144 won't put it anywhere near 100% core load anyway, or likely anywhere near dangerous temperatures either.
And I at least do notice a significant difference between 60 and 144 fps in Sims 3. It looks and feels a lot smoother.
@Jeansoo It's still better for your card to cap fps so it can't run wild when it wants. Did you in fact enable vertical sync in the CP? It's not the monitor setting you showed in an earlier screenshot, which I think pertains to G-sync, a feature of the monitor itself; v-sync is further down on the list. And are you seeing 200 fps with v-sync enabled, or at least Max Frame Rate enabled? If so, let me know what kind of install this is: Origin, disc, or Steam.
For a Radeon card, you can try the built-in Radeon control panel, which may or may not work. (If this is on a Bootcamped Mac, it almost certainly won't work unless something has changed recently.) Or you can use RivaTuner Statistics Server to set an fps limit, or you can use D3DOverrider to force vertical sync.
Thanks. I checked that exactly 204 fps was the highest one while playing the sims 3 for 10 mins. The patch version is 1.69 origin installation. I checked the fps before posting here, so the v sync was not on. I will check the fps again tomorrow while the v sync on at the geforce control panel. No I got a descent pc after moving to other country. I gave the imac away to someone else. So now I’m playing the sims 3 on PC. :smile: Yes, I set the 144 in G sync this evening but I haven’t played the sims 3 after that. I’m playing the sims 4 at the moment, but I’m going back to the sims 3 after I finish the sims 4 university challenge. I want to set everything right for the sims 3 beforehand.
