Will Sims 3 destroy my Acer Nitro 5?

It is absolutely essential that you cap the frame rate on that video card and check with the in-game "fps on" cheat code to make sure it stays capped. Yes, vertical sync but also explicit fps capping by way of its Nvidia Control Panel. We can use other tools as needed if the fps doesn't stay locked in. Note that vertical sync itself only works in full-screen mode.

Other than that, which is a shortcoming of the game as a victim of the years in which it was designed thus giving no functional built-in fps limiter of its own, your laptop has more powerful components to it than TS3 can ever use. All EPs on high end Graphics Options would be fine on it, at least as fine as the game can ever run. SPs don't really add any overhead. :)

"igazor;c-17865754" wrote:
It is absolutely essential that you cap the frame rate on that video card and check with the in-game "fps on" cheat code to make sure it stays capped. Yes, vertical sync but also explicit fps capping by way of its Nvidia Control Panel. We can use other tools as needed if the fps doesn't stay locked in. Note that vertical sync itself only works in full-screen mode.

Other than that, which is a shortcoming of the game as a victim of the years in which it was designed thus giving no functional built-in fps limiter of its own, your laptop has more powerful components to it than TS3 can ever use. All EPs on high end Graphics Options would be fine on it, at least as fine as the game can ever run. SPs don't really add any overhead. :)

Thank you very much for the quick response! I'll definitely be sure to enable vsync and cap the fps before I play. Are you sure my power supply (180 W) won't be an issue as well? I've read on some forums that a lower psu can be cause for concern.

Some questions are easier to answer than others. Well, I guess all questions are easy if you know the answers but never mind. :)

An insufficient power supply would hinder processor and graphics card performance across the board. I have to admit that I am not a hardware engineer by trade, but Acer is not going to sell you a pre-built $1,000 USD gaming class laptop with a power supply insufficient to run its own components. Your H-series processor is more than capable of running the game "with two fingers up its nose" as the charming expression goes (okay, perhaps more common in the US would be "with one hand tied behind its back").

Issues with power supplies are over whether they are sufficient to run the components you have, not run programs you wish to install. This becomes important when building or upgrading one's own computer, but this is a laptop and can't really be upgraded like a desktop can. So you can't, for example, just pop a higher end graphics card and processor into a desktop that doesn't already have a PSU sufficient to run them without upgrading that as well and taking cooling system issues into account, and expect that to work. But that's not what we're talking about here at all.

"igazor;c-17865770" wrote:
Some questions are easier to answer than others. Well, I guess all questions are easy if you know the answers but never mind. :)

An insufficient power supply would hinder processor and graphics card performance across the board. I have to admit that I am not a hardware engineer by trade, but Acer is not going to sell you a pre-built $1,000 USD gaming class laptop with a power supply insufficient to run its own components. Your H-series processor is more than capable of running the game "with two fingers up its nose" as the charming expression goes (okay, perhaps more common in the US would be "with one hand tied behind its back").

Issues with power supplies are over whether they are sufficient to run the components you have, not run programs you wish to install. This becomes important when building or upgrading one's own computer, but this is a laptop and can't really be upgraded like a desktop can. So you can't, for example, just pop a higher end graphics card and processor into a desktop that doesn't already have a PSU sufficient to run them without upgrading that as well and taking cooling system issues into account, and expect that to work. But that's not what we re talking about here at all.

I see, that makes sense! Thanks again, I very much appreciate your help and explanations! :)