EXTREME LAG AND SLOW AFTER JULY PATCH 2019
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.53.115.1020 What e...
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I've already tried setting everything to the lowest settings possible. I just assumed if it was below minimum requirements the game wouldn't start up at all, not have all these glitchy incidents. And also have these minimum requirements changed since the patch or have they been the same for a while? Because to me what it sounds like is that because of this new rebranding I have to spend thousands of dollars for a new computer to play this game that I've already spent hundreds on.
One of the reasons I loved this game and spent so much money on it was BECAUSE it was so accessible to play, even on my slower, older computer. Ever since Dell ripped me off with my newer computer, I've been forced to use my older pc for gaming, and one by one I've been losing my ability to play my favorite games due to updates similar to this one. I simply do not have the money to buy a new computer at this time, and quite frankly I'm not sure I ever will. Sims was my last game that I was able to play that I truly enjoyed, and now because of this patch It's been taken from me. Needless to say, I'm hurt and disappointed.
Edit: Btw this is probably why no one else wanted to post their dxdiag. Because the moment we do, it places the onus of fixing the problem to the people who have significantly less ability to fix it, ie us the players. A lot of us don't have the money to shell out for a new pc to play this game now that this patch has shut us down. Meanwhile the developers have all the power to revert the game back to the state it was before the update.
Also I'm noticing now that my first response to this got deleted somehow. All your recommended steps had already been implemented prior to this patch even hitting my computer, and the game seemed to run just fine before this patch. Were these minimum requirements always in place or are they brand new to this update?
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The minimum requirements for the base game has not changed. However recent expansion packs (Cats & Dogs and later) do have a higher minimum requirement.
Ok so in theory if i get rid of the later expansion packs (which I don't use that much of anyway) it should work again?
I will attempt to do this however I don't see this as a potential solution since I'm assuming the pack is still technically installed, you just can't access the content. I'll add it to the list of things I wish EA would fix about this game. Also, on the off chance that I DO get a computer that will meet these minimum requirements, would this command be set on just the computer i use it on, or will it carry over on my origin account? If so I'd also like to know how to reenable those packs.
However, the more and more replies I'm seeing on this thread, I'm realizing that I don't seem to think the expansion packs really made the difference here, since I was playing with all of them installed with no issues. Clearly something has changed with this new patch, since myself and many others are having these issues POST PATCH and not prior. I would suggest that they either severely reconsider this patch and risk alienating a lot of players such as myself or at the very least, reevalute the impact of this patch on the base games minimum requirements and openly announce these changes. At least that way we know what we're getting into with these patches. We also should have the option of opting out of these patches. I'm fully aware that means that we won't be able to play new content as it comes out, but at the very least we'd still be able to play the base game and the packs we already own without worry of being kicked from playing a game we've already sunk money into, and also giving us time to save money for new computers/parts.
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