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 I've already tested all the settings in the Nvidia control panel. I play in fullscreen mode, and I've also tested windowed mode. This happens whether the camera is stationary or when I move the camera. This happens in all worlds. I can't even play on Ondarion because it's the worst of all. If I'm on a blank lot with just one Sim, the game runs at 144fps and is super fast, but if I build a house and have a family of 5 Sims, the FPS starts dropping below 100 and this happens. It feels like the game is running at 10 FPS. This is always the case, even if I have the graphics on low, and it gets worse each time. Not to mention that my Sims cancel everything I ask them to do. Sometimes I have to repeat it five times or more for them to perform the action. But the part that bothers me the most is this slowness. Sometimes I have the camera stationary and the Sim is walking, and suddenly it stutters and starts to slow down. I type Ctrl + Shift + C and check the FPS, and it's 70 or 60. Then I go back to a lot where there's nothing, and it goes back to 144 FPS, and the game runs smoothly again. This happens if there are more than 5 Sims on a community lot, especially if the community lot is heavily decorated like those in Ondarion.
Sorry for writing so much; I'm trying to be as detailed as possible.
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