Adirtylittlepig Please repair both games to undo the effects of the Alder Lake patch. It's no longer necessary for Sims 3 at all when the game is installed through the EA App, but more relevantly, the issue never affected older Intel processors, only some of those 12th-gen and newer. And the patch only ever fixed a startup issue, nothing to do with performance after that.
For the issue itself, please provide a dxdiag. Click Windows key-R, enter dxdiag in the run box, wait for the scan to finish, click "Save all information," and save the file to your desktop. From there, you can attach it to a reply using the paper clip (Attachment) icon included with the other formatting buttons.
Please also let me know whether you've taken steps to manually limit your in-game framerates in either game. It's necessary for both games, as they don't have a native fps limiter.
Gotcha, repaired both games. My FPS is limited to 60 through Nvidia, I just downloaded the Nvidia app as well. Attached the dxdiag, thank you so much for helping!
