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EA_Cade
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10 months ago
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DirectX 11 Technical Issues and Feedback Thread

Sul Sul Simmers! With today's base game update, we've enabled the use of DirectX 11 (DX11) on an opt-in basis for PC/Windows users. If you're interested in enabling this feature, please see the p...
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    EA_Cade
    6 months ago

    Hey all,

    We're locking this thread and starting up a new one here as we've released a patch that impacts how DirectX 11 and The Sims 4 function together.

    Please use the thread linked above going forward.

    Thanks!

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9 months ago

I tried the dx11 version and it's running well (specs: GTX3080OC(10GB), i9-12900K(3.20GHz), 64GB RAM(DDR5), installed on a NVME M.2, Windows10) but I noticed as well as other people have reported here that the GPU usage is very high when I'm looking in the task manager. The DirextX9 version stayed around 50% the Sims4 DirextX11 version keeps my GPU running much higher, often as high as 90%.

If you minimize the game (windowed mode) the GPU is going full 100%?

 I tried playing in full screen and limit the refresh frequency but it's still very high. CPU usage is low.

I'm not that great when it comes to computers and performance but this reminds me of games which don't have a limiter for how much performance is needed so the GPU is going all in when it doesn't need to.

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