8 years ago
TS3 Lagging & Unrecognized Video Card
I recently bought a new ASUS ROG GL502VM laptop with 12 GB of memory, a 1 TB hard drive, quad-core Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB. I have TS3 and all expansion packs except University installed, and I also have several mods but no cc. The mods I have are master controller, overwatch, twallan's story progression, and awesomemod.
So on to my issue... my game runs well for the most part, but it will freeze/lag for a few seconds every so many Sim minutes. Although it doesn't freeze for very long, it's still very frustrating how often it happens and on a laptop that I thought should run the game without these issues. I do have all my graphics settings set to the highest settings (except for "high detail lots", which I have set to "4"), but I figured having the highest settings would be fine given my NVIDIA graphics card. Speaking of my card, I received a notification when I first installed and opened up my game that said my card was unrecognized and my graphics settings would be set to the highest they could go.
I've searched for a solution to my problem, and I have already enabled vertical sync on the NVIDIA control panel as one solution suggested. I think it may have helped a little, but not completely. I also found another trick to make TS3 recognize my video card involving changing some things in the GraphicsCards and GraphicsRules SGR files, but I must have done something wrong (after I made changes to the files, my DeviceConfig was pretty much empty). When my DeviceConfig did this, I just completely uninstalled and re-installed my game and deleted all TS3 files to start fresh. So, that is where I am at now!
Here are the pastebins for my DeviceConfig, DXDIAG, and GraphicsCards/Rules SGR files.
DXDIAG - https://pastebin.com/S2Jigbvr
DeviceConfig - https://pastebin.com/SmFLtx9q
GraphicsCards - https://pastebin.com/Uut61pbV
GraphicsRules - https://pastebin.com/NHgsdVWD
I would greatly appreciate any help, and please let me know if I need to provide more information! :smile:
So on to my issue... my game runs well for the most part, but it will freeze/lag for a few seconds every so many Sim minutes. Although it doesn't freeze for very long, it's still very frustrating how often it happens and on a laptop that I thought should run the game without these issues. I do have all my graphics settings set to the highest settings (except for "high detail lots", which I have set to "4"), but I figured having the highest settings would be fine given my NVIDIA graphics card. Speaking of my card, I received a notification when I first installed and opened up my game that said my card was unrecognized and my graphics settings would be set to the highest they could go.
I've searched for a solution to my problem, and I have already enabled vertical sync on the NVIDIA control panel as one solution suggested. I think it may have helped a little, but not completely. I also found another trick to make TS3 recognize my video card involving changing some things in the GraphicsCards and GraphicsRules SGR files, but I must have done something wrong (after I made changes to the files, my DeviceConfig was pretty much empty). When my DeviceConfig did this, I just completely uninstalled and re-installed my game and deleted all TS3 files to start fresh. So, that is where I am at now!
Here are the pastebins for my DeviceConfig, DXDIAG, and GraphicsCards/Rules SGR files.
DXDIAG - https://pastebin.com/S2Jigbvr
DeviceConfig - https://pastebin.com/SmFLtx9q
GraphicsCards - https://pastebin.com/Uut61pbV
GraphicsRules - https://pastebin.com/NHgsdVWD
I would greatly appreciate any help, and please let me know if I need to provide more information! :smile: