The Sims 3 stuttering a fair bit
So I've returned to playing The Sims 3 after an extensive break but I've experienced stuttering problems and I'm trying to figure out if it's just "the game being the game" (age and everything) or the...
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What world are you playing in right now? Some are so poorly made that the game can lag and stutter regardless of how strong someone's hardware is. It's a good idea to test in Sunset Valley for comparison, if you haven't already.
Have you manually capped your in-game framerates? I don't know what graphics card you have, but even a mid-range dedicated card can produce extremely high fps if allowed, which can cause all kinds of performance issues in addition to being bad for the long-term health of the card. To see your framerates, bring up the cheats console (crtl-shift-C) and enter "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above the refresh rate of your monitor.
If you need help capping fps, let us know what kind of card you have, or cards if it's a laptop, and whether you like to use windowed mode at times.
If you're already playing in SV (or Twinbrook, or Riverview) and fps isn't an issue, then it would be useful to see a dxdiag.
Have you manually capped your in-game framerates? I don't know what graphics card you have, but even a mid-range dedicated card can produce extremely high fps if allowed, which can cause all kinds of performance issues in addition to being bad for the long-term health of the card. To see your framerates, bring up the cheats console (crtl-shift-C) and enter "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above the refresh rate of your monitor.
If you need help capping fps, let us know what kind of card you have, or cards if it's a laptop, and whether you like to use windowed mode at times.
If you're already playing in SV (or Twinbrook, or Riverview) and fps isn't an issue, then it would be useful to see a dxdiag.
