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graventh8
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

Sims 4 slowly turning into sims 3 mess

As alot of people, I thought something wrong with my PC but then I realized it's just the game with the recent patches..

Sims 4 has annoying stutter that happens when playing on large community lots and on homes with a lot of clutter..
I have a gaming PC (GTX 1070, I7 8700k, 16 GB ram) and it seems the game cant take full advantage of my PC power, alot of people reported here:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Camera-Stuttering-on-community-lots/td-p/8198382

And there's a video to show the stutter in community lots, its alot more obvious to me in med to big home with clutter items (EA objects not cc)..

I thought my gtx 1050 ti is too weak for sims 4 at first then I upgraded to 1070 and more powerful processor, tried to test the game on a new fresh save with no mods on the new PC and the results were almost the the same as a year old save on my older PC..

It seems the game can't take advantage of more resources of a powerful PC and starting to feel like sims 3 lag and issues with all packs installed? So much for their promise it"ll never have sims 3 issues? Why the 64-bit version still feels useless?
Again..before you say you don't have any issue..I'm not testing this with one sim on an empty lot..its maintain 60 fps on that..but with community lots and home with more clutter items the stutter is noticeable and it seems its getting worse with more packs like the game is starting to have poor coding and cant take advantage of more PC power..
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  • Jobass24us's avatar
    Jobass24us
    6 years ago
    "ClarionOfJoy;c-17420783" wrote:
    Sims 3 is finished and stable. All the bugs have been reported with solutions to fix them. Even so, its gameplay had always been strong with so many ways to play it. TS4 is way more of a mess with an ever growing list of bugs that have yet to be fixed. Also its gameplay has always been very weak so that live mode is just not fun to do. You're left with just dressing up your sim dolls or building the lots it has over and over. Boring!

    I have TS3 on my old 2014 computer with 4gb RAM and an integrated Intel graphics card and the game runs well! I've been able to play it as a zombie apocalypse survival game (one of my favorite challenges), or play one of the many active careers using Zerbu's Ultimate Careers mod or create stories without any game stopping lagginess/stuttering or other bugs. Plus the sims do what they're suppose to do!

    Get TS3! It's just a much better game!



    Wholeheartedly agree!

  • hestiah23's avatar
    hestiah23
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    A lot of the bugs from The Sims 3 are fixed with routing mods which have been mentioned above.
  • Lonewolf1044's avatar
    Lonewolf1044
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    "mirta000;c-17421766" wrote:
    "Hestia;c-17421761" wrote:
    A lot of the bugs from The Sims 3 are fixed with routing mods which have been mentioned above.


    It wasn't EA that fixed them and I'm still peeved about that and I'm even more peeved that they seem to be leaving even more bugs in when it comes to The Sims 4. It means that you need to mod it to get it working and that every update you can't play the game again (and the updates are more frequent for The Sims 4), because you're waiting on your modder to update their fix mods. Fixing is something what 100% EA should be doing and not modders.


    I agree and I am not impressed with an game(Sims 4) that has less bells and whistles and falsely gives me the impression the game is great and it is not. EA/Maxis dooms their own products by not tweaking what they have. I am sorry Sims 3 with problems still for me is the better game.

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