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@ElDimentio Please test in a new save not in the Cottage Living world, with a couple different fridges, just to be thorough. While you're playing, please also check how much of your CPU Origin is using the Task Manager—sometimes it takes all the resources it can, for no good reason.
By the way, it's unlikely to be the cause of this particular issue, but you'll get better performance overall if you plug your monitor directly into the graphics card rather than into the motherboard as is now the case.
Origin was using 0% of CPU the two times I checked (loaded into the lot, and after testing all the fridges). I was not having any FPS drops either.
- puzzlezaddict5 years agoHero+
@ElDimentio Try clearing Origin's cache:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
and repairing the game: open your Origin game library, right-click on the Sims 4 icon, and select Repair. Even if you've repaired before, it might work better without Origin using stale cached data.
If that doesn't help, try disabling any apps that include an overlay, for example Steam or Discord. It shouldn't really make a difference, but some overlays conflict with each other or with the game. Disable Origin in-game as well: hover over your username, select Application Settings, then the Origin in-game header, and disable the option at the top.
If that doesn't help either, try playing in a clean boot:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10
It would also be weird for this to make a difference, but given that I haven't seen other complaints about this, it does seem like something is going on with your particular computer.
The suggestion to plug the monitor into the graphics card is about overall system performance. Your GPU is capable of much more than Sims 4 could ever demand of it, especially on a 60 Hz monitor (even in QHD), so you probably wouldn't see any difference there. But it would help in other more demanding games.
- ElDimentio5 years agoSeasoned Adventurer@puzzlezaddict Thanks for your help but those suggestions seem to be stretching it. This is my gaming desktop, and no other game I play on it has any frame dips including much more performance hungry games.
See here a timestamped link to a video of a game changer experiencing the lag as well at only level 3 Cooking (took about 2 seconds for the popup to load) https://youtu.be/6NKEHaAjgPo?t=1665
It takes longer the higher your cooking level is as I indicated in a previous post. 1-2 seconds at Cooking level 1 and then it slows down to around 4 seconds at level 10 with more cooking options but without all the City Living recipes unlocked (I bet that would slow it down even more).
I can't recall if this was an issue before, but I definitely only noticed it after Cottage Living came out.- OtakuD5 years agoSeasoned Rookie
Yup, also experiencing slow cooking menus here.
- 4 years ago
I'm having the same problem since I bougth the cottage living pack as well. Before no issues.
It has to do with this pack. Can this be fixed please.
- 4 years ago
It's not a pc problem it's the Living Cottage pack problem.
I never had this issue before and I bougth the pack 2 days or so ago and since then I have this problem as well.
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