Nightside-Rush You shouldn't need to play with laptop mode on. Despite its name, it's really for low-end systems, mostly those that don't meet the game's minimum requirements.
You could try updating the Intel graphics driver, which is quite old. While Sims 4 would be using the Nvidia GPU, the rendering pipeline still passes through the integrated graphics chip on its way to the laptop screen, so it's possible this is the issue. Here's the newest driver, dated December 19:
Same deal as before: run as admin, restart afterwards.
If that doesn't help, feel free to post a new dxdiag so I can look for reasons the game might be running worse now than before.
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