Melted Graphics Cards?
I recently downloaded the Sims 3 on my computer again and it crashed (to no surprise). On my old computer it would crash all the time but my new computer is a bit better though so I did a quick Google...
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"Celticgamer0;c-17098880" wrote:
I hope I did it right lol
https://pastebin.com/EkPYDgpQ
You did, but we never established which problem we need to solve or what the question was.
Your computer is a laptop with dual graphics. The Nvidia Control Panel should be used, as per the above, but also to set the correct TS3 executable to use the high performance card (the Nvidia) as opposed to the Intel graphics chip. And then the fps checked on in-game to verify that it is staying at or below 60 fps as your laptop screen is also 60 Hz and Nvidia Inspector can be added if needed again as per the above.
Also very important though and should be taken care of first, your C drive is an SSD that does not have enough free space for both Windows and the game to maneuver. We always recommend at least 15% or 40 GB free, yours is at 24 GB I assume when the game is not running and that's way too tight. It is possible although difficult to game on a 256 GB SSD such as yours, but you have to constantly watch over the free space and keep shifting things away from the C drive to make more room. Your included D drive is a much larger 1 TB HDD but it seems to be unused. Another common strategy with such a setup is to install the game on D and use Windows to redirect the entire user Documents folder there, thus freeing up all kinds of space usually, but then you would lose the benefit that the SSD can give to TS3 in particular.
I'm also seeing Windows Update failures but that might be (it's difficult to tell) because there just isn't enough free space on C for it to update properly.
