I bought and installed all the DLCs at once before playing.
The game lagged right from the beginning — even during Create-a-Sim. I tried playing in three of the top recommended worlds, but the lag was still severe during gameplay.
I set the game to cap at 60 FPS and adjusted the settings to default and even lower, but it didn’t help.
I’m not sure about the FPS counter you mentioned, but I did follow acottonsock’s instructions (from the popular performance guide). Unfortunately, it didn’t solve the problem either.
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