Laptop for Sims 4

@aiy9n2z7bufy  Without knowing where you're shopping for this laptop, I can't tell you what the best options are in terms of price and performance.  But if you happen to see a Lenovo Legion or an HP Victus in your price range, either of those would be a better option than an Acer Nitro or Lenovo Ideapad.  The latter two aren't bad, but their lower price is possible for a reason: lower build quality and less performance for the same components relative to the Legion or Victus.  I'd also take an Asus TUF over the Ideapad, but it's not really much better than a Nitro.

Having said that, it would be better to get a Nitro with a 3060 than a Legion or Victus with a 3050.  While a 3050 can certainly run Sims 4 with all current packs on ultra settings, a 3060 or even a 3050 ti would give you more room to accommodate future demanding packs or custom content or Reshade.

As for the CPU, which is better between Intel and AMD often depends entirely on which company's current-generation processors are newer, with each generation surpassing the previous releases from the other.  You probably read at some point that AMD CPUs are better for simulation-heavy games because they have more cores and threads over which to spread the sometimes large workloads.  But Sims 4 can only use 4 cores, so the important question is how fast the cores can run, not how many of them there are.  AMD laptop processors do currently run a bit cooler than Intel models, in case that's a consideration, but neither one is a bad choice here, and Sims 4's performance will be limited in almost all ways by the graphics card, not the CPU.

Having said all that, the issue you're currently seeing is random and not dependent on the strength or age of the hardware, so there's no guarantee you wouldn't see it again on your new computer.  I really don't know what else to tell you about this problem—it's been so stubborn and persistent that all of us ran out of ideas a long time ago.  If you haven't tried it already, a clean boot might help (leave the EABackgroundService enabled), and in testing that it would be best to make sure no other software is running.  But that has only helped a few of the affected players, with Razer software being the most common culprit.