Hello ! I'd like to ask why I have super intense lag on Live Mode and Buy Mode. CAS is very smooth but playing on my current household on live mode (etc.) is very choppy for some reason.- I have played around with the Settings, everything is on medium except for Visual Effects. And High for Edge Smoothing (I play on Windowed.)- I have tried it with my CC and without my CC.Weirdly, I was very sure that I was lagging due to the fact that my merged CC package is 500 000 kb+ but upon disabling CC and Script Mods, the lag was still the same. (Though, all my Sims are now wig less) Right now, CC is turned off as I ask this question.- All my drivers are updated and are recognized and are better/on par with the required. This only started happening recently when my DELL laptop had the April Update for WINDOWS 10 but before the update It seemed to run smoother. There's also a problem with some of the objects (Paintings, Fairy Lights, Wall Accessories, Rugs) being very pixelated despite fixing my NVIDIA settings AND putting Edge Smoothing on High.- I have tried doing some stuff like playing around and deleting spotlight-en-us package and localthumbcache (or whatever it's called).Before I updated, the files only used to stay below 50kb but now the highest for localthumbcache was 1800kb for some reason. Can anyone help ?

@clemjmcI can see that you have very little space left on your C: drive. Try clearing up more space by using Windows Disk Cleanup, removing programs that are no longer used and possibly moving the Documents folder to your D: drive. Google: "How to move the Documents folder in Windows 10".

Intense Lag on Live Mode and Build/Buy Mode + Pixel-ish

11 Replies

roberta591
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago
@clemjmc Please post your computer's dxdiag - link - how to post your computer's dxdiag and attach the file created to the paper clip in the lower right of the response window. thank you
clemjmc
8 years ago
Uploaded it to Original Post, is this safe? Sorry, this is the first time I upload a dxdiag ;x
EA_Mai
EA Staff
8 years ago
Hi @clemjmc,

Please, don't worry, your dxdiag doesn't contain any private information - just information about your computer 🙂

Considering your message, I guess you already checked, but just in case - are you sure the game is using your NVIDIA card instead of Intel's? If the update changed those settings, it could explain why you noticed lower performance.

Cheers,
-Mai
jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago
@clemjmc
I can see that you have very little space left on your C: drive. Try clearing up more space by using Windows Disk Cleanup, removing programs that are no longer used and possibly moving the Documents folder to your D: drive. Google: "How to move the Documents folder in Windows 10".
clemjmc
8 years ago
Yep ! I have checked countless of times if i'm using NVIDIA or INTEL and it's definitely on NVIDIA, still lagging for some reason though.
clemjmc
8 years ago
Thanks! I'll try that.
clemjmc
8 years ago
Still laggy for some reason..
roberta591
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago
@clemjmc You really need at least 60Gb to 70Gb (or more) of free space on the system drive for Windows to operate correctly with a game that creates large temp files on the system device (C🙂. Windows bloats it always has and Windows 10 is no different. If you are a casual Windows user and don't understand the basic operations of the Windows operating system you should have at least a 500Gb system storage device for a gaming machine (The Sims 3 is a 3D graphical game) unless you want to monitor the free space every time you boot up the computer. If there is not enough free space to create the temp files or the file has to be written in fragments this is going to cause the game to wait until a solution is found and the game will stutter and lag. You need to talk to a computer technician about a solution.
clemjmc
8 years ago
After playing around for a bit, it seems to run smoothly on Fullscreen, but I usually play on Windowed so that it doesn't heat. (Fullscreen causes Laptop fan to go crazy, even with Cooler pad and elevation.) Any reason why?
jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago
Try cleaning your Laptop for dust. Compressed air in a can works great for this.
To run it smoothly in Windowed mode set DPI scaling back to default (100%) before starting the game.