graceymanors Then I would suggest trying to play in a clean boot to see whether it helps. The idea is not that you need to play like this going forward, but that it would be useful to find out whether disabling background services makes a difference. Maybe one of these is conflicting with Sims 3, or maybe it's just about the sheer volume. At any rate, it's a quick test:
If you were playing through the EA App, you'd need to leave the EABackgroundService enabled, but it looks like you're currently using your Steam install, so that's not a factor.
When you reboot your computer, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down any service that doesn't absolutely need to be running, for example anything from MSI Afterburner to RGB software might still be enabled. (And please do check this list too.) If you accidentally kill a critical process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer again.
Don't open anything other than Sims 3 while testing, not even a browser window.
If this helps, you can selectively reenable services until you find the culprit, then either leave that disabled or (if it belongs to an app you want to keep using) let me know what it is so we can try to fix the underlying issue.
Okay, I will give that a go. I hope its as simple as this and not a graphics card or hardware issue. I literally just paid this PC off.
