I'll be simming soon - I'll make a note of the cpu load and post it here later.
Also a point worth noting - my game isn't entirely vanilla. I use MC command center and about a dozen small script mods by Bienchen, but I try to keep it to a minimum. Sorry I forgot to mention it sooner.
When I look at task manager there are a lot of different background processes running (currently 103) and most of them are using 0% of the cpu. The others are on average using less than 1%, usually less than 0.5% The thing that sometimes uses about 5-10% is the system.
Ok, so here are the readings from my latest play session: It was running slightly hotter, maybe because I was in a larger world and moved between lots a fair bit. Here's how it appears on my hardware monitor.
Max. temps:
cpu package - 97c,
core #0 - 88c,
core #1 - 77c,
core #2 - 94c,
core #3 - 83c,
core #4 - 97c,
core #5 - 94c,
core #6 - 94c,
core #7 - 89c
max. load:
processor - 66%
cpu #0 - 71%
cpu #1 - 63%
cpu #2 - 73%
cpu #3 - 66%
cpu #4 - 63%
cpu #5 - 63%
cpu #6 - 63%
cpu #7 - 55%
cpu #8 - 98%
cpu #9 - 98%
cpu #10 - 100%
cpu #11 - 100%
cpu #12 - 58%
cpu #13 - 59%
cpu #14 - 58%
cpu #15 - 70%
@babysquare The max loads are what would be expected: you'll see very high spikes when a game or other heavy program is loading, and workloads do shift from core to core (to some extent) as time goes on. The more interesting readings would be the average loads, which should be somewhat lower.
The temperatures still seem high to me, although part of that depends on the average workload. A brief spike in load should cause only a smaller spike in temperature before both settle down to more reasonable values.
It might be easier to cut to the chase though: please play in a clean boot, run Hwinfo and log the session, and send me the file. That way, I don't have to keep asking you, and you get an answer sooner. Here's how to do a clean boot:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-boot-windows-10
When you reboot, you'll need to go through the Task Manager and shut down any inessential programs—quite a few don't get disabled in a clean boot. That goes for any game performance software as well as whatever monitoring app you've been using, at least for the purposes of this test.
For hardware monitoring, download hwinfo from here:
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
You don't need to install anything if you don't want to; just choose the Portable version, unzip it, and launch it from Downloads or wherever you want. (If you would like to install, be sure to click the green button, not the orange one.) Restart your computer, and don't open any other apps. Launch hwinfo, choose "sensors only," and click the icon that's a sheet of paper with a + sign to start logging. Save the file to your desktop for easy access later.
Wait five minutes, then launch Sims 3 and play for 20 minutes or until it crashes. Click the same button to end logging. Then upload the log to a third-party free filehosting site and link it here. Please leave it in .csv format, or if you use OneDrive to share, please compress it in .zip format instead.
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