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KripVille
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29 days ago
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Lag when Sims are doing activities

I play on PC, and I've been having issues with my game for a few months now. I'm on the third generation of a family now, so it's quite an old save, in case that's relevant. Everything runs smoothl...
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    28 days ago

    KripVille​  I can often, but not always, tell that something is wrong from a dxdiag.  In your case, I can see that the graphics driver is crashing over and over, occasionally causing a BSOD but more often timing out and forcing Windows to end the process.  That would explain why Sims 4 isn't running well.

    So please do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the Nvidia driver, as described here:

    https://crinrict.com/blog/2019/02/clean-re-install-of-graphics-drivers-with-display-driver-uninstaller-ddu.html

    Rather than using the very newest driver, try a slightly older one; you can get them here:

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

    You'll want a Game Ready Driver, not a Studio version.  Try the one from January 27, since the next one after that was a major update.  This one is still more than new enough to be compatible with Sims 4 and almost anything else you'd run on your computer.