Extreme Lag even with Mods/CC Removed
I'm hoping someone can help me here. I've been playing the sims 4 on my gaming laptop for years with a massive CC/Mods folder, previously 90g large.
Over the last year my game and been getting extremely laggy. Even going down to a 20g CC/Mods folder or no CC/Mods at all my game is stuttering laggy and it's really bad. I'm getting 5 - 12 FPS when I play and have OBS Studio running.
I create YouTube videos playing the sims and it's really impacting my LPs when after a few sim years with a sim, once the family starts growing the lag ramps up and I can't play the household anymore.
Here are some of my specs and I also have the dxdiag report. I also have 35 of the packs installed on my game. All EPs, Most GPs and some SPs. And my save is around 68K GB, it's huge!
Is my laptop just too old with a weak CPU and GPU to play the game any?
Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad L340
OS: Windows 11
CPU: Intel Core i7 9th Gen 2.60GHz (12 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GXT 1650
Memory: 16 GB RAM
SSD: 1TB
HHD: 1TB
What I've done:
- I've checked the neighborhood log with MCCC - I have no Father Winter issues or a crazy number of hidden households
- I've deleted all ghost/homeless in my save file and it still lagged
- I removed all my mods and cc, started a fresh save, downloaded my family back into a brand new world, still lagging.
I'm starting to think it's my PC but I'm just not sure, my memory gets up to 89/90% when playing. It's never done this before ☹️