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himchanu's avatar
2 years ago
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Lagging very bad, unplayable

I've honestly never had any issues with lag on sims, few freezing here and there but that's bound to happen with the size of my mods folder, does anyone have any suggestions what could be causing this or any way to reduce lag. In CAS I'm okay, it's fine, can freeze for a second or two but I'm used to that, but when I go into the world to play, it's insanely bad... I don't know what to do!

My specs:

RTX 3060 ti is my gpu, my cpu intel 17 10700k, 2 16gb ram corsair and my storage is 1tb.

I update my drivers frequently and cache on the game. 

Any suggestions?

  • @himchanu  That means that the lag is something in your old Sims 4 folder.  Perhaps it's a mod, perhaps it's your save; the only way to find out is to test.  So please copy your main save to the new Sims 4 folder, but nothing else yet, and see how it runs.  Since you're copying instead of moving the file, you don't need to worry about missing mods or cc—the original save will be intact in the old folder.

    The Sims 4 errors in your dxdiag are somewhat generic, not necessarily mod-related but also not conclusively pointing to a different cause.  There's nothing else obvious that needs to be addressed, which just underlines the theory that the problem is in your old user folder.

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  • @himchanu  For comparison's sake, please try playing in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just start a new save and let me know whether it lags.

    Please also run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.

    https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

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    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @himchanu  That means that the lag is something in your old Sims 4 folder.  Perhaps it's a mod, perhaps it's your save; the only way to find out is to test.  So please copy your main save to the new Sims 4 folder, but nothing else yet, and see how it runs.  Since you're copying instead of moving the file, you don't need to worry about missing mods or cc—the original save will be intact in the old folder.

    The Sims 4 errors in your dxdiag are somewhat generic, not necessarily mod-related but also not conclusively pointing to a different cause.  There's nothing else obvious that needs to be addressed, which just underlines the theory that the problem is in your old user folder.

  • himchanu's avatar
    himchanu
    2 years ago

    Yeah i thought it would be my mods folder its very large, I had deleted all dupes and what not and cleared cache but when you told me to remove my sims 4 folder, its around 350gb I am just so attached to get rid of unwanted cc and it would be such a hassle but I ended up getting a program to help me clean it up, but after I put my sims folder back in the lag seems to have disappeared (for now)

    I will work without certain mods because my cc isn't a problem as this happened just so randomly

    thanks for helping