Experiencing FPS drops and poor performance
I'm having performance issues with The Sims 4; my FPS drops a lot, which I found very strange because I play on an Acer Nitro 5 with an i5 12450H, RTX 3050, and 24GB of RAM, so The Sims 4 should have...
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danilo29oliveira Sorry for the late reply; your thread was moved to the PC tech forum for further troubleshooting.
How do you lock the game to 144 or 60 fps? If you're using Vertical Sync in the Nvidia Control Panel, does it help to set it to Adaptive rather than On? If you're using a different method, one that works in windowed mode as well as fullscreen, does the game run better in one of these modes rather than the other?
Please also let me know whether you see the same behavior with post processing off; when the camera is still, or only when it's moving; and on all lots, including on a blank lot in one of the base game worlds, or only on a few. The question is whether this is inherent game behavior or is dependent on context. If you notice any other patterns to the fps drops, please share them as well.
puzzlezaddict So I've already tried several ways. I've set the refresh rate to the default in The Sims 4 settings, then to 60, then to 144, then I went to the Windows display settings and switched from 144Hz to 60Hz, then I went to the Nvidia control panel and limited the FPS to 60 and turned vertical sync on and off, all without success. I've tested it in DirectX 9 and 11 and observed that when the game is running at 144 FPS it's fluid, but during gameplay the FPS drops, especially when I visit community lots and there are many Sims; it starts dropping to 100, 90, 70 FPS, and then the game starts to stutter and the camera becomes very slow. Adding to this, the laptop overheats, reaching 94 degrees Celsius. When I tested the game at 60 FPS, the laptop didn't overheat, but the game stuttered a lot. So I thought... It must be because my screen is 144Hz, but I recently bought GTA 5 and Resident Evil 3 Remake and tested them at 60 fps, and both GTA 5 and Resident Evil 3 Remake ran smoothly and perfectly at 60 fps. So I came to the conclusion that The Sims 4 isn't optimized for 144Hz or higher screens, and I even tried the new memory boost setting. I believe that if The Sims 4 were optimized to deliver 60 fps like Resident Evil 3 Remake and GTA 5, it would improve performance. It's as if it can't utilize my hardware, and I don't have problems with other games. I play with all the graphics settings on low to try and keep The Sims 4 at 144 fps, and even then, I experience slowdowns and stuttering at times. I don't use mods or custom content. I hope that, as The Sims Direct posted, they can fix the performance of The Sims 4 for modern computers and laptops because it's very frustrating to have this problem. An i5 12450H, RTX 3050, and 24GB of RAM, putting the game on minimum graphics settings, still results in the game not being smooth.
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