The Sims 3: Laggy game/low game performance
Hello, I have some performance issues with The Sims 3. My game is choppy and freezes often and is laggy. I have all expansion packs and those are my PC specifications: - GTX 1060 6GB - i7-6...
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Hello, my game was always like this. It's more laggy on Isla Paradiso, so whenever I moved my family to there it became more laggy, but it was laggy in other worlds too. By system storage device u mean SSD or HDD right...? if so, sims is installed on my SSD, 223GB storage space in total, now only 28GB.
@Nika444 When your Windows system device is small (below 500Gb) you have to manage the system to provide a proper operating environment for Windows. 28Gb is not enough free space for the average consumer who doesn't know how the Windows operating system works. If you need to install applications to a data drive you will loose the advantages of the ssd and the more you do this you might as well ditch the ssd and get a good hard drive or spend the money and get a large ssd. The IP pack is very demanding pack. If you have the AA setting (anti aliasing) set to high, this is very demanding on the video system. You have to provide a complete description of your computer system and a dxdiag would help. How to post dxdiag - link - how to post dxdiag
My OS is installed on my SSD too, should I install Sims on my HDD then..? If I understand u correctly. Btw, my HDD has 428GB free space.
Anyways, here's my DxDiag file (sorry, it's in Polish)@Nika444 To maintain proper free space on your system drive you should install games and packs to an alternate storage device (your D🙂. Because you have a small system drive you will have to maintain this procedure to maintain free space on the system drive (C🙂. The applications (games) on D: will not benefit from the ssd. If you get 2 - 1Tb high performance (WD black) and raid them, the performance would be close to having a ssd drive. That's 2Tb of storage that boots about one sip of coffee slower then a ssd and overall performance is pretty good with out spending a fortune. Most gamers don't want to spend the time maintaining a small ssd (checking free space, installing to alternate locations, etc.). Most gamers just want to install the game and play. There is a read/write limit to the chips used in ssds and nobody really knows when that limit will be hit. IMHO ssds are a nice toy for people who want the latest and greatest and want to experiment but they are not ready for the average consumer who just wants to play games. We can argue about this but I would not sell you a gaming computer with a 240Gb ssd as a system drive. In the long run it just doesn't work. I'm usually upgrading the video card LONG before I have any issues with the storage devices. Should you use hdds? That all depends on your pocket book. High density ssds tend to get pricey. For a user who uses one computer for everything I would recommend a 1Tb drive (500Gb minimum) you can get for $50 to $75 usd. A 1Tb ssd will cost about $280 usd. That would increase the price of your computer about $175 usd. Is the gain in performance worth 4 to 5 times the higher price of a component?
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Alright, atm I can't really buy a new HDD, but as I said I already do have one, with 428GB free space(1TB in total, I already have many games and other applications installed on it), so I will follow your advice and install my game on it (I first thought Sims would run smoother if I install it on a SSD :u ) I'll let u know if it worked, thank you.
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@roberta591 so I installed Sims on my HDD, played it for a while, but it's still laggy and almost unplayable. Anything else I can do?
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