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3 years ago

Extremely Low FPS in Live Mode

Hello everyone.

I’ve been experiencing an FPS drop in my game lately (particularly on one lot I built, it’s 40*30 and full of clutter, but there’s no high poly CC). I think there’s something wrong with my game/system since my specs should give handle The Sims 4 at max settings well. Nevertheless, on said lot the FPS stays between 7-30 while I wish it to be 40-60 (7 FPS can be in the most cluttered but not the biggest room while rotating the camera).

My config is:

Intel Core i7 8750H 2.20 Hz

NVidia GTX 1050 4GB

24 GB RAM

I checked these in Task Manager and none of them is being even half used/loaded when on the cluttered lot. Looks like they underperform for no apparent reason. Just for the record: I have 5,75 GB of CC and no hard mods that might cause underperforming.

Any ideas why it is so? Thank you!

That’s what the most FPS dropping room looks like:

17 Replies

masunka77
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddict Do you think that turning on Turbo Mode for my CPU will improve the performance?
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago
@masunka77 How does the game behave on ultra settings in a clean boot? If it runs well, or well enough, then you can start reenabling services until you find the one that's tanking performance. Use the 50/50 method for efficiency, or whatever variation of that works for you.

I doubt that the processor is the problem here, but as long as your computer is able to cool itself properly, enabling the CPU's turbo mode isn't going to hurt. So it's fine to try. But I would guess it's not going to help either, in which case you'd be better off disabling it again.
masunka77
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddict Clean boot barely changed anything at max settings.
masunka77
3 years ago
@masunka77 Still unsatisfactory. FPS never goes above 60 even on a small empty lot.
masunka77
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddictIf I transfer my OS to my SSD, will it improve the game’s performance, considering that the game is already on the SSD?
masunka77
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddictTurbo Boost did increase my FPS, like +25-30%, but it is still not the result I want.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago
@masunka77 Transferring the OS to the SSD will definitely help day-to-day performance. I don't actually know how much it'll help Sims 4, but I'd do it anyway just for the joy of not having to wait several minutes for the Windows startup process to finish. It's probably the single biggest quality-of-life upgrade you can make.

Did you test a new save in a clean user folder in the clean boot? If so, I really don't know what's going on, so maybe moving the OS to the SSD is the best move for Sims 4 right now even if it's not guaranteed to help at all.