Is my GTX 1050 Ti too slow for Sims 4?

"graventhe;c-17034000" wrote:

"duhboy2u2;c-17033790" wrote:
I've got the 1030 with no problems. But like @izecson says, I use mods so they may improve things like lag.

"SiliClone;c-17033798" wrote:
I have the 750ti and my game runs fine.... 1050ti should eat it for breakfast.

Do you guys play have all expansions and play with everything on ultra?
Also I'm not sure if its lag, its sluggish, low fps when moving around San Myshuno or living in apartments or penthouse, especially bigger ones, like, compared to other worlds it's way less smoother and not comfortable for the eye to play when everytime you move around it's so sluggish..

I have all expansions (including GP and SP), something like 10 GB of cc, and I play on full ultra/max settings, yeah. (Dunno why my dinosaur computer isn't having the same issues unless it's the constant micromanaging to appease my thoroughly out-of-date CPU.)

"Goldmoldar;c-17034063" wrote:
Maybe even though Sims 4 does not scale up or down to your specs, it is still important to make sure the GPU, CPU and memory works well together. Example; an GTX 460 will have an hard time keeping up with an i7 7800K etc which may increase lag on top of the lag that may be contributed to it not being optimized.

An excellent point. If one of your components is a weak link, that's probably where your problems are gonna spawn from -- in my case, that would be my prehistoric CPU struggling to handle my modern 16GB of RAM and GTX 950FTW video card. That's also why I micromanage the daylights out of my Windows to minimize the stress my poor dino CPU has to deal with, apart from my games themselves anyway.

Things to consider:

TS4-specific troubleshooting things-to -check:

• Are you using the default TS4 camera or the TS3 camera to play? I use the TS3 camera & don't use edge scrolling (I dislike the slow drifting).
  
• When you delete the cache folders, do you delete the localthumbcache.package too? (You should!)
  
• If your internet connection is shared or isn't the greatest, you can disable TS4's internet access in the main menu to avoid lag from the Gallery silently updating.
  
• An update might have hiccuped while installing - "Repair Game" (in Origin) is a dogsend when things stay wonky (just backup your saves & mods first).
  
• Also, do you have Seasons installed? I've heard San Myshuno weather can be awful but have only seen clear days there so far; I've had rain in Whiskerman's Wharf stutter before a lightning flash, but I've mostly been playing Windenburg & haven't had noticeable lag or sluggishness in the neighborhoods there. If it's only certain weather making stuff slow you can possibly turn that weather event off in the main menu.
  

PC Things I've learned the hard way to check for:

• Check your antivirus' scan schedule & make sure it's not doing a scan in the background while you play.
  
• Also, check that Windows isn't downloading updates and chugging CPU while you're trying to say, attend a festival. Sometimes Windows doesn't recognize that playing games is not, in fact, the computer sitting idly doing nothing, and so we all suffer.
  
• Have you defragmented your pc recently? TS2 used to fragment a hard drive like there's no tomorrow, and while Windows 10 is supposed to do it automatically it can't hurt to check manually.
  
• How hot is the computer getting when it lags? If it's getting hot you may need a better fan system or stronger power supply.
  
• How much space is left on your hard drive? If you have less than 20% left that can sometimes cause issues.
  

May not be able to stop the game's slowness altogether but maybe it can at least be partially mitigated...