I have 2 drives, an SSD and an HDD.
My C is my SSD & I ONLY keep games on it other than the OS. My D is my HDD, everything else is installed here.
The reason why it has that much space is bc I have exactly Overwatch, Blade & Soul, Watch Dogs 1 & 2 and Sims 4 installed on it.
But if you think that is an issue, I can uninstall Overwatch & both Watch Dogs. (I already uninstalled Overwatch now since I don't rly play it anyway).
Also I'm not a casual user. This is just a laptop I'm using temporarily for giggles.
That doesn't explain why the game was just fine before this update and now it isn't. I didn't change anything on my laptop at all.
I noticed I am not the only one with this issue as well, so idk if this is just a "me" problem.
I have a desktop at home that's over 1TB & 2 drives but I'm not at home rn to test is the FPS drop is present there and prob won't be until after New Years.
Also the 2 pics show that the nvidia driver I installed was stated to be WHQL, so idk why it would not be?
New dxdiag attached too.
Edit: If anything, I can also move Sims 4 to the other drive if that really is a problem.
Looking at your DxDiag I can see that it only reports one HD (WDC WD7500BPVX-22JC3T0) that is partitioned in a C: and D: drive. Since you say there should be two drives it appears that there is a problem with the SSD drive since it is not detected. Or you are mistaken and there only is one drive installed.
While there isn't too much space left on C: there is enough. Next time you install a new program you may want to install to D: to avoid running out of space on C:
Back to your problem. It appears that you are running the 32bit version of The Sims please change to 64 bit.
In Origin rightclick the game, select Game properties and on the Advanced Launch Options tab change to 64 bit.
Also make sure that the game runs on the Geforce card as the built-in Intel Graphics are not powerful enough.
