EA please tell us the requirements for Ultra Settings (with stable fps)

So hey, I recently bought a PC thinking it would be enough to run the game in ultra settings with 50-60+ fps on 1080p... but I was wrong. I had to turn down my settings slightly already because in ...

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holger1405
5 years ago
@SimmerGeorge

First, the GPU-Z reading is fine.

To your question: "(maybe the fps meter that is built in with the game just works this way?)"

No, the Frames counter will be fairly accurate. I assume this happens because of the uneven utilization of your system, especially of your GPU.

For the 1440P reading, rendering a game in 2K (2560x1440) means that you have to render roughly about 2x as many pixels as in Full HD (1920x1080P)

So that is way more demanding for the GPU. (And the rest of the system as well.)
Your HWinfo log, and your description, show that your GPU is scaling as expected, going out from the sub-average performance on 1080P.

So your system can not only handle the game, it can handle it at a much more demanding resolution.

That it looses more frames on a populated lot is completely normal, there is just more stuff to draw. Every object that is on the screen, or that could be on the screen in the next split second, has to be rendered, and if there are more objects to render the GPU has more work.

Now, @puzzlezaddict and I both think that the utilization of your GPU is sub-average compared to what we have seen so far, but we have also done everything that is reasonable for online troubleshooting. (Without having our hands on the machine.)
There are literally dozens of possible reasons why your performance is not ideal, and the game is surely not good optimized for modern high end systems.

If it runs better on 2K you can just set it back to that resolution, also let the High performance mode for the game enabled.
A positive side effect should be a noticeable better picture quality.
It is not uncommon for an older game to run better in a more demanding environment, the GPU is just better utilized and if you're not experience big shuttering 30 FPS zoomed out are not ideal of course, but playable.

puzzlezaddict

Hero+

5 years ago

@SimmerGeorge I think you might have done some hardware monitoring before, but it would be good to get another reading, to see if there's anything obvious. Download hwinfo from here:

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

You don't need to install anything if you don't want to; just choose the Portable version, unzip it, and launch it from Downloads or wherever you want. (If you would like to install, be sure to click the green button, not the orange one.) Restart your computer, and don't open any other apps. Launch hwinfo, choose "sensors only," and click the icon that's a sheet of paper with a + sign to start logging. Save the file to your desktop for easy access later.

Wait five minutes, then launch Sims 4 and play for at least 20 minutes. (More is fine.) Click the same button to end logging. Then upload the log to a third-party free filehosting site and link it here. Please leave it in .csv format, or if you use OneDrive to share, please compress it in .zip format instead.