High CPU usuage in Sims 3?

@graceymanors  Okay, this is the long route, but you can try disabling just the other features (not Microsoft Services) on startup inteaad, to see if it helps.  Here's how:

https://www.howtogeek.com/74523/how-to-disable-startup-programs-in-windows/

Actually, one other thing I was wondering about was whether it made a difference to play in fullscreen or windowed mode.  You might want to test this first, just to see, since it's so much easier.  And in windowed mode, you can see the Task Manager without minimizing the game.

I will give both of those a go.

It is better in WIndows mode, It runs at 63% compared to 100%(kind of hoping this wasn't the case though, as window mode bugs me lol)

@graceymanors  If windowed mode turns out to be the solution, you could always try Windowed Borderless.  It still has the disadvantage of disabling edge scrolling, but at least you get the fullscreen view.  But that was more of a test, anyway.  The fact that your CPU usage is down significantly is good information to have.

I don't like having the edge scroll off its annoying,

but I guess its good to know.The disabling the tasks though, however didn't help with the full screen.

I will definitely try that tonight.Thanks

I don't have the option to change the display settings like that.

Edit: There's no advanced graphics settings, and under advanced display settings there's no full screen options.

I don't want to mess with registry stuff like the 3rd option says because I don't know anything about that.

I did a little googling from that link and found that I could disable full optimization from right clicking on icon.I did that, and it seems to have helped, the game isn't stuttering as bad.Its still reaching 70% CPU usage, but its much more tolerable!

@graceymanors  Okay, I'd expect there to be a setting somewhere, unless the feature was pullled entirely.  (It came with the Creator's Update that caused so much trouble, so that wouldn't be surprising).  But I can't boot into Windows right now to look around.  And I agree, this isn't worth poking around in the registry.

Edit: (Sorry, I got called away and then didn't refresh the page before posting).  If you still want to troubleshoot, I'm happy to keep trying different approaches.  70% is much better, but you might still be able to improve.  Just let me know.

So, in the meantime, I'm curious if you ever took steps to get your graphics card formally recognized.  Another helpful player pointed out to me that the processor will carry more of a load with a weaker card, and while yours is more than strong enough for all of TS3, the game might not think so.  And windowed mode is easier on your hardware than fullscreen, so that would also explain why the CPU usage dropped.  The relevant data is the Ratings Info category in the deviceconfig.  You can just copy and paste those two lines here, if you want.

Also, for the sake of getting a good benchmark, could you list your CPU use for both fullscreen and windowed mode, playing entirely offline, with a new save in a vanilla folder?  The person I want to talk to about this is great with Windows but doesn't know a whole lot about Sims games, so it would be helpful information to have.