Game Lag every 10 seconds (Sometimes less)

@Seawlovr   If you computer is a pc (I think it is), please post your computer's dxdiag - link - how to post dxdiag   thank you.

Here is the DxDiag report. I would like to know as soon as possible, how to keep my game from lagging as much as it does. Thank you.

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@Seawlovr wrote:

My game lags every 10 seconds and is driving me crazy. Even after trying to adjust the game settings (to the point where they are now a low as possible, which is displeasing), adjusting my graphics card settings, and cleaning up my computer so that it is not causing my game to lag due to unused files and whatnot. I supposedly have the minimum requirements, but it still lags every 10 seconds. How do I get it to run smoothly without any lag whatsoever? Please help me. I have spend so much time and money trying to get all of these games and have them just work properly for a change, and would like to be able to use all of my expansion packs at the same time.

The games that I own on disk:

• Sims 3
• Sims 3 Pets (expansion pack)
• Sims 3 University Life (expansion pack)
• Sims 3 Island Paradise (expansion pack)
• Sims 3 Supernatural (expansion pack)
• Sims 3 World Adventures (expansion pack)
• Sims 3 Monte Vista
• Sims 3 Ambitions (expansion pack)
• Sims 3 Showtime (expansion pack)

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I did a video on ways to try and get your Sims 3 running faster. Hopefully it will help 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstaY45wsj4

Look at the comments as well as I did do a couple of errors in the video and I explained them in the comments.

@Seawlovr  Please post your computer's motherboard model. How many programs are you running at the same time as the game? The game creates and processes some large files and if you run tight on free space on your system device the operating system will not push ram out to virtual memory and this will cause performance issue. How do you have the game installed - did you install the game to the 500GB drive? Unless you really really know the Windows operating system I would NEVER sell a gaming computer with less then 500Gb of system storage. If you are installing the game to the data drive this could cause performance issues. The Sims 3 game is a 32 bit program and will run like a 32 bit program. You need to post any changes to a typical installation.

I only run the Sims 3 by itself, no other programs. I have the game installed to my SSD drive.

@Seawlovr  Really?  There is zero, nada, zilch programs running in the back ground? 

In the meantime, you could try-

lowering the gfx to min

cap the fps to 60, either thu the vhidja card control panel or download a utility form the  card manufacture

check dep is enabled

verify the game cache [steam] check files [origin]

defrag/trim ssd

Depending in how the game is installed, roll it back to base game without mods/cc then re install individual ep/dlc and check after each install

Thru task manager set the CPU affinity to only utilize two cores

Check windows has the latest Microsoft updates

Check for recent mobo, video, sound drivers

You could try temp over clock the gfx card/cpu/ram  [web search for tools] 🕹️

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