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Anonymous
12 years ago

Re: Extremely slow/Freezes constantly

It's not fair. If they're going to make this meteor a part of the game, then they should have the game prepared to accept that and continue to run smoothly as  usual.

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  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    some of the lags and freezes are also down to the world we play in for example  island paradise is full of lags/routeing issues a lot of people are have the lags and freeze if other worlds play fine then it is island paradise that is the issue ( i still have a small hope that a patch will come to fix them )

    what is your OS ? pc or mac ? can you post a dxdiag for someone to look at have no idea when they will be online to look and respond i have no idea how to dxdiag a mac

    will post this in the helpers corner for futher help

    http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/HOW-TO-DxDiag-for-Sims-3-PC-Only/m-p/1049584#M47181

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Time of this report: 3/16/2014, 20:52:09
           Machine name: MARIANGIE
       Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600) (9600.winblue_gdr.131030-1505)
               Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
    System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
           System Model: HP ENVY TS 15 Notebook PC
                   BIOS: F.14
              Processor: AMD A8-5550M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics    (4 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
                 Memory: 8192MB RAM
    Available OS Memory: 7386MB RAM
              Page File: 2453MB used, 6084MB available
            Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
        DirectX Version: DirectX 11
    DX Setup Parameters: Not found
       User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
     System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
        DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
         DxDiag Version: 6.03.9600.16384 64bit Unicode

    Do you need more info than this?

  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    probally but you'll be asked for that maybe the drivers part

    wait i see it's a note book  lemme think *think mcfly think *  i could be wrong so wait for further advisement notebooks arent meant for gameing  2.1 ghz is a litlle low but not much  recommened is 2.4 lowering some of the game settings in the  options menu mayyyy help  so keep cecking back someone will reply if you need to go to bed or whatever

    for an example like this

    --------------
    Display Devices
    ---------------
              Card name: ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
           Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
              Chip type: ATI display adapter (0x9490)
               DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
             Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9490&SUBSYS_902D1B0A&REV_00
         Display Memory: 4095 MB
       Dedicated Memory: 1013 MB
          Shared Memory: 3082 MB
           Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
           Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
          Monitor Model: VA702b
             Monitor Id: VSC231C
            Native Mode: 1280 x 1024(p) (60.020Hz)
            Output Type: HD15
            Driver Name: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
    Driver File Version: 8.17.0010.1129 (English)
         Driver Version: 8.970.100.7000
            DDI Version: 10.1
           Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
      Driver Attributes: Final Retail

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Thank you. Like I said though, it was working very smoothly and just fine until the meteor came. Whether or not the notebook is for gaming, it really was working perfectly until the meteor. I play many other games on here with no problems at all. It was the meteor that slowed everything down to almost no movements at all. It's terrible. I really wish the meteor never came. So not fair.

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    12 years ago

    Apparently what ever happened in the game increased the load on the cpu. The A8 APU has no L3 cache and that hurts the performance (a lot). I'm guessing the computer is an old version as HP is now putting the AMD A10 in those models.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Actually I just bought this laptop, lol. I have Windows 8 and all already installed when I first bought this in February. So I at least hope this isn't an older version of HP. So is there anything I can do to lessen the load or whatever?

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