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puzzlezaddict
3 years agoHero+
Yeah, no surprise that it was your cc, or at least one item.
It's absolutely normal that Sims 3's power usage is "very high." I don't know what the cutoff is, but any game that's even moderately demanding will exceed that, and you want that to be the case for performance reasons. Your CPU and GPU will need to draw a lot of power to run the game, and that's what they're designed to do. I'm a little surprised the launcher is so demanding, but I wouldn't worry about it.
If your fans are running loud, that could be perfectly normal too, depending on how many and what kinds you have. It could also be a sign of overheating, so it's worth checking out. Have you taken steps to manually limit your in-game framerates? If not, let me know what graphics card your computer has, and I'd also like to know whether it's a laptop or a desktop regardless of framerates.
There are plenty of ways to measure hardware temperatures, but my preference is for hwinfo, which reads pretty much all the sensors it can find. The portable version and the full installer are both free and available here:
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
For the portable version, just unzip it and launch it from Downloads or wherever you want. For the full installer, be sure to click the button for hwinfo itself, not for lansweeper. In either case, launch it and choose sensors only, and you'll see a very long list of measurements. You can ignore most of the data; just look at CPU and GPU temps, near the top and at the bottom, respectively. I'd like to know the overall CPU temps (not per core, just the others like CPU package) and however many GPU temps you see (possibly only the chip itself, possibly also the hotspot and/or the VRAM).
Please check both as soon as you have a save loaded and after you've been playing for at least 20 minutes. When you do so, put the game in windowed mode, but don't minimize it, and let me know the max temperature as well as the current one.
It's absolutely normal that Sims 3's power usage is "very high." I don't know what the cutoff is, but any game that's even moderately demanding will exceed that, and you want that to be the case for performance reasons. Your CPU and GPU will need to draw a lot of power to run the game, and that's what they're designed to do. I'm a little surprised the launcher is so demanding, but I wouldn't worry about it.
If your fans are running loud, that could be perfectly normal too, depending on how many and what kinds you have. It could also be a sign of overheating, so it's worth checking out. Have you taken steps to manually limit your in-game framerates? If not, let me know what graphics card your computer has, and I'd also like to know whether it's a laptop or a desktop regardless of framerates.
There are plenty of ways to measure hardware temperatures, but my preference is for hwinfo, which reads pretty much all the sensors it can find. The portable version and the full installer are both free and available here:
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
For the portable version, just unzip it and launch it from Downloads or wherever you want. For the full installer, be sure to click the button for hwinfo itself, not for lansweeper. In either case, launch it and choose sensors only, and you'll see a very long list of measurements. You can ignore most of the data; just look at CPU and GPU temps, near the top and at the bottom, respectively. I'd like to know the overall CPU temps (not per core, just the others like CPU package) and however many GPU temps you see (possibly only the chip itself, possibly also the hotspot and/or the VRAM).
Please check both as soon as you have a save loaded and after you've been playing for at least 20 minutes. When you do so, put the game in windowed mode, but don't minimize it, and let me know the max temperature as well as the current one.
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