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Plantyl
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2 years ago
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EA App's offline mode causes FPS to drop upon opening the game

I updated my game to 1.102.190.1030 a couple weeks ago and whenever I open the game in offline mode, the FPS never exceeds 30. This leaves me no choice but to play the game in online mode in order to...
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    Plantyl
    2 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict I'm writing this reply prior to the new patch and I've finally found the culprit. It's the Online Social Features Access under the Other tab. The FPS went back up immediately after I disabled it.

    Thank you very much for all the help ♡

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puzzlezaddict
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2 years ago

@Plantyl  For Sims 3, is the behavior different with the EA App in online vs. offline mode?  I see you're using the Lazy Duchess launcher, which is fine, but it raises the question of whether you've manually capped your in-game fps (you absolutely should if you haven't already), and whether you get different results with fps uncapped.  It's not dangerous to test this for a minute or two; just remember to impose the fps cap again when you're done.

Going forward, please simply list the answers to my questions.  It's much easier to reference a list than to go scrubbing through a video every time I wonder about one detail or another.  You can of course include a video if you want, and it was helpful to see the Task Manager values, but it does make things more difficult when the info isn't in the post itself.

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    Plantyl
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict My apologies.

    Yes, I do use Lazy Duchess' launcher and smooth patch, and I set the FPS limit to 65. I was playing the game in offline mode this afternoon and it was running completely fine, no drastic FPS drop.

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      puzzlezaddict
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      2 years ago

      @Plantyl  Just to be clear, in Sims 3, if you remove the fps cap entirely, do you get the same framerates with the EA App in online and offline mode?  The App may also be imposing an fps drop in Sims 3, except that you can't see it because the floor for fps is higher than the limit you've set.  The reason I ask is because it helps narrow down the source of the problem as well as informing where to report it if it is in fact an EA-side issue.

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        Plantyl
        Seasoned Adventurer
        2 years ago

        @puzzlezaddict OK, the FPS limit has now been disabled in both the smooth patch file and NVIDIA Control Panel. It caps around 285 in offline mode, and around 220 in online mode. (I did the testing in the smallest world I have by the way so that I could get the accurate amounts of maximum framerates.)

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