Best All-in-1 computer for Sims 4
Hi! I’m looking for an all-in-1 computer for playing the Sims 4, including (almost) all the expansion packs, mods and CC. I’m from the Netherlands and my budget is about €800. I don't really know a...
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@puzzlezaddict Okay, please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understand correctly, it basically doesn't matter which monitor I buy in terms of FreeSync and G-Sync, right?
I see that the AOC monitor you linked has Adaptive Sync, so hopefully that works just fine.
I really don't think it would be pleasant if screen tearing occurs so I would like to prevent that.
What exactly is an fps cap? I've never heard of that, is it built in as standard or do you have to buy it extra if necessary?
The AOC monitors all look good, but they are cheap, of course that doesn't have to mean anything bad, but sometimes cheap ends up being expensive, but I think it’s a trustworthy brand, so I think that if I buy a monitor from there I’ll be fine, a higher brightness is certainly my preference, so I think this monitor is perfect.
I've actually never heard of Iiyama, so I don't think I would quickly consider purchasing anything from it, but it's good to know, because as I said before, I saw the brand on the Coolblue website, but had never heard of it before, so I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.
It's so kind of you to say that I don't have to apologize for asking so many questions, but sometimes I just feel so stupid, but the last time I played Sims on a PC, it was Sims 2, and that’s quite a long time ago.
Anyway, I think it’s really nice of you to want to help others in making the right choices in terms of what system works best for them.
Until now I have always played Sims 4 on a PS4, but because it is getting slower and slower with longer loading screens and because I can’t download Mods and cc with it, I wanted to buy a PS5, but then I realized that there is still no option to download mods and cc, so after a long time of thinking and consideration, I decided to switch to Sims 4 for PC and that I have to accept the fact that I have to buy all the expansion packs again.
I see that the AOC monitor you linked has Adaptive Sync, so hopefully that works just fine.
I really don't think it would be pleasant if screen tearing occurs so I would like to prevent that.
What exactly is an fps cap? I've never heard of that, is it built in as standard or do you have to buy it extra if necessary?
The AOC monitors all look good, but they are cheap, of course that doesn't have to mean anything bad, but sometimes cheap ends up being expensive, but I think it’s a trustworthy brand, so I think that if I buy a monitor from there I’ll be fine, a higher brightness is certainly my preference, so I think this monitor is perfect.
I've actually never heard of Iiyama, so I don't think I would quickly consider purchasing anything from it, but it's good to know, because as I said before, I saw the brand on the Coolblue website, but had never heard of it before, so I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.
It's so kind of you to say that I don't have to apologize for asking so many questions, but sometimes I just feel so stupid, but the last time I played Sims on a PC, it was Sims 2, and that’s quite a long time ago.
Anyway, I think it’s really nice of you to want to help others in making the right choices in terms of what system works best for them.
Until now I have always played Sims 4 on a PS4, but because it is getting slower and slower with longer loading screens and because I can’t download Mods and cc with it, I wanted to buy a PS5, but then I realized that there is still no option to download mods and cc, so after a long time of thinking and consideration, I decided to switch to Sims 4 for PC and that I have to accept the fact that I have to buy all the expansion packs again.
@DenisevdWoude92 It doesn't matter, for practical purposes, whether your monitor has G-sync, FreeSync, or neither. Adaptive sync isn't a monitor setting, regardless of what the product page says; it's a setting within Nvidia's graphics control panel, and you can apply it independent of the monitor(s) you're using.
An fps cap is a cap on the frames per second the graphics card generates. The idea here is that there's no point in generating more frames than the monitor can display. Doing so can cause screen tearing and also make your GPU work harder than necessary, which isn't necessarily a problem but also doesn't accomplish anything. The Nvidia Control Panel has a Max Frame Rate setting, which is a hard fps cap, so you wouldn't need to install anything else. I was just saying that you can prevent screen tearing with existing built-in tools rather than needing the monitor to do it for you.
- @puzzlezaddict That's good to know, thank you for the additional explanation. I will think about it and take it into account in my considerations.
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