Hi again! I really appreciate your quick and detailed response! And yes, the biggest deal is that my laptop's hard drive is significantly small. Unfortunately, over half of it is taken up by window's required files. I have very little downloaded onto my laptop besides the EA app. I did manage to free up a little bit of space. I will still try and free some more space in the meantime. I also have another question. Since the hard drive that my laptop was made with is so teeny tiny, I did purchase an external hard drive to help with storage. Is it possible I can utilize this external storage in increasing said page file, or is it necessary it be my systems built-in hard drive? All of this is new to me, so I thank you again!
@emilyffaye It's worth looking through Apps & Features and Other, in your first screenshot, to see whether anything else could be deleted or reinstalled on the secondary drive. While you're never going to have a lot of space on C, even a few gigabytes can help.
To answer your question, yes, technically you can move the entire page file to your external drive. However, if it's an mechanical drive (HDD), which appears to be the case from your second screenshot, that would only make things worse. Your laptop's internal drive is much faster than the fastest HDDs, and the swapping back and forth between RAM and the page file needs to be fast so as not to impact performance even more than you're seeing already.
At any rate, you can add another few GB to the page file to get back to where you were, with 11 GB free. Here's how (option one):
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/77692-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10-a.html#option1
I would set the minimum size to 8000 and the max to 12288, which should put you back at 11 GB free, but double-check the free storage after restarting your computer anyway.
Aside from this, disabling any other apps from starting with Windows, running nothing alongside Sims 4, and playing with the EA App in offline mode, there really isn't anything else you can do. I guess you could experiment with in-game options, for example avoiding San Myshuno or the eco footprint effects or the lot traits that involve wild animals, but I'm not sure how much those would help or if they're even contributing to the problem. There is, unfortunately, only so much you can do with your laptop's hardware.
Hi! So, I followed the instructions concerning the page file, it seems like the changes applied but I really didn't notice much difference in the game? My computer is also telling me the C drive has 14.9GB of storage left. Do I need to do anything else?
@emilyffaye You can run the EA App in ofline mode and experiment with the in-game changes I mentioned; perhaps you'll find some combination of settings and playstyle that makes the game run well enough for you. But like I said before, this laptop is always going to be limited in how well it can run Sims 4, and you may be running up against that limit right now. I'm sorry, I don't really see a way to solve this, just work around it to whatever extent it's possible.
Hi! Yes I completely understand that! I was honestly surprised that it would run a game like The Sims at all, so I am fine with a little lag for now. I really appreciate all of your help! That's awesome you do this for people. I have noticed a little bit of a difference in my game upon playing with it a little more. It runs smoother without so much freezing and lag, but I think the delay is just gonna have to stay lol. Once again thank you so much and I will make sure to follow your other advice!
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