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CoolPol42's avatar
CoolPol42
5 years ago
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Delayed interaction menu when clicking on sims, computer and fridge.

It takes about 5-15 seconds.
pc
ElDimentio's avatar
ElDimentio
Seasoned Adventurer
5 years ago
@puzzlezaddict I tried a new save in Willow Creek and the speeds seemed about 1 second faster (2 seconds with Simple Living, 3 seconds without it). It was an empty lot with nothing but 8 fridges on it. There was no difference between fridges.

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.
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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago

@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.

  • ElDimentio's avatar
    ElDimentio
    Seasoned Adventurer
    5 years ago
    @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.
    • OtakuD's avatar
      OtakuD
      Seasoned Rookie
      5 years ago

      Yup, also experiencing slow cooking menus here.

    • puzzlezaddict's avatar
      puzzlezaddict
      Hero+
      5 years ago

      @ElDimentio  I understand what you're saying, but if this were a universal problem, there would be a lot more complaints about it.  So I'm trying to figure out what's different about your setup.  It's obviously not that you have weak hardware, but maybe there's something else running in the background.  Or maybe this would be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling Sims 4, although that seems a bit extreme, and a repair is usually good enough.

      The monitor being plugged into the motherboard will absolutely lower the overall performance of your system.  I'm not talking about fps drops, I'm talking about lower fps overall than you'd otherwise see.  How much lower will depend on the games involved and your motherboard, and as a practical matter, you might not notice any difference at all with a 2080 ti driving a 60 Hz screen.  That really depends on the games you play.  But what is absolutely true is that the graphics card passing data directly to the monitor is much more efficient than the card passing that data through the motherboard.

      And again, this has nothing to do with Sims 4, this is something I saw in your dxdiag that I thought was worth mentioning.

      • cattziie's avatar
        cattziie
        5 years ago

        I'm noticing this delay when opening the Cook... Menu too. It ranges from 2s for a lower cooking skill level to around 5s for my chef. This adds up a lot if you're using that menu frequently. I wonder if people aren't reporting it because they use a different pie option on the fridge, or tend to use Sims with lower cooking level?

  • DeliciousMango's avatar
    DeliciousMango
    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.

  • DeliciousMango's avatar
    DeliciousMango
    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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