Hi everyone, I’m wondering if anyone has any tips for making my game less laggy?
I used to play on a pretty high end MacBook Pro, then when I got the newest one (with Catalina) the game wasn’t compatible anymore, so I decided to buy a gaming laptop instead to play.
My laptop specs are:
- ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop
- Windows 10 64 bit
- AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 Ghz
- NVidia GeForce GTX 1650
- 8GB RAM
- 512 GB SSD
About my game:
I have all expansion and stuff packs except for Katy Perry Sweet Treats. My game is at patch 1.69.43.024017 using Origin. I have NRaas MasterController and Overwatch installed. I don’t really use supernatural beings and have the wild horses turned off in population control since I know they take a lot of power to generate.
I don’t have a lot of cc and rarely use the stuff I do have (nothing on CAS). I have Monte Vista and Hidden Valley but no other store content and I play offline.
I’ve already gone through the steps to make the game recognize my graphics card.
Finally, I play at pretty low graphics settings:
Reflection quality: off
Edge smoothing: off
Visual effects: medium
Lighting and shadows: low
Tree detail: low
Draw distance: low
High detail lots: 1
Texture detail: medium
Sim detail: high
The issue:
When I go to the world map it takes a few seconds to load beyond just blue blocks where the lots are. And then when I go to a specific lot, it takes about 10 sec (3 for very small and simple lots) to load all the objects. At first it’s empty, then gray objects with no texture, then finally the texture starts to load. Also, there’s a lot of lag when panning and moving around. It’s almost impossible to build anything in a non-empty world. Even building a lot in a completely empty world there’s still a bit of lag.
I tested starting a new save on just Sunset Valley and the issues were exactly the same.
I’m wondering if given my laptop specs this sort of performance is to be expected? Obviously on a PC I don’t have as many game crashes as when I played on a Mac but the performance is definitely a lot worse. I’ve been doing a bit of research but haven’t found many fixes I haven’t already tried. I’m a software engineer so I’d feel comfortable trying any fix even if it involves getting into code or game files.
