Lag and FPS Drops
Hey simmers, So I recently installed sims 3 on my new desktop with all packs. It was pretty laggy at first with ultra settings but the overwatch mod seemed to help a lot. However I’m playing in the s...
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We have a host of tips to improve game performance on this page, if you are not already familiar with them.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Tips%20For%20Better%20Game%20Performance
The biggest favors you can do the game, if you aren't already, are turn High Detail Lots down to 2, Reflections (water & mirrors) to one of the middle settings, play offline at both the Launcher and in-game levels, turn off the in-game EA Store shopping experience and the hidden object startup game, and disallow scrapbook memories or use a mod to control them.
But the game camera will stutter and drop frames on the newest higher end cards when zooming in and out and especially when playing at higher than Normal (1) speed. It's a nine year old game now and it might behave itself even better than it does on modern hardware if it could make use of any more than 800 MB of video memory (vram). A 1060 card is great, but much of its power is wasted I'm afraid because the game can never make use of more than that.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Tips%20For%20Better%20Game%20Performance
The biggest favors you can do the game, if you aren't already, are turn High Detail Lots down to 2, Reflections (water & mirrors) to one of the middle settings, play offline at both the Launcher and in-game levels, turn off the in-game EA Store shopping experience and the hidden object startup game, and disallow scrapbook memories or use a mod to control them.
But the game camera will stutter and drop frames on the newest higher end cards when zooming in and out and especially when playing at higher than Normal (1) speed. It's a nine year old game now and it might behave itself even better than it does on modern hardware if it could make use of any more than 800 MB of video memory (vram). A 1060 card is great, but much of its power is wasted I'm afraid because the game can never make use of more than that.
