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Lisostep0306
Seasoned Newcomer
18 hours ago

Sims 4 huge fps drop and lag after introducing the last event

After the last "Forever Friends" event and memory boost option introduced, the Sims 4 started to lag very often and drop fps, it is almost the same in new save and old saves. I tested it without any mods, with only cc, and with minimnal mods (only MCCC, updated), the lag is still there.
My specs are supposed to be more than enough to run the game, and i used to play in ultra graphic without any lag before. Nothing seems to help. I own almost every DLC (except Enchanted by nature, Adventure Awaits and Batuu). I noticed that even without mods (and with Memory boost) game uses 11GB of RAM which is a lot. It seems that to play the game with all DLC and some mods smoothly I need to update RAM to 32, which is crazy for Sims.

My specs

Processor Intel Core i7-107 10U CPU
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1650 with Max Q Design (updated drivers)
RAM 16GM
SSD 476.9 GB 

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  • HI Lisostep0306​ 

    Could you post your Computer's DxDiag?

    - Press Windows-Key + R
    - Type: DxDiag
    - Click on Save all Information.
    - Attach the Text File to your post

  • Lisostep0306's avatar
    Lisostep0306
    Seasoned Newcomer
    18 hours ago

    Thank you for reaching out, attaching the DxDiag hereto. It shows I have Direct x12, dont know if this can be a potential issue.

  • Lisostep0306​  Your dxdiag crashed while running and is therefore missing some information.  It might be a fluke, and there are a couple potential issues it does list that are worth addressing first.

    Please don't use Memory Boost for now, not until the game is running as it should in normal mode.  Please also kill Nahimic in the Task Manager's background processes list before you open Sims 4.  It'll restart with Windows, but it should stay disabled until then.  If you don't see anything with Nahimic in the name, look for something called A-Volute.

    If these don't help, please post a new dxdiag.  Please also look for new errors in the Reliability Monitor.  Click Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes, and you'll see a chart of errors and updates with a column for each day.  Today is on the right.

    Look for an error that happened during your most recent play session, after doing the above.  If you find one, double-click it to see more details, then copy that info and paste it into a reply here.  If you don't see a new error, check back in an hour or so—the Reliability Monitor doesn't always update right away.

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