October 31st 2023 Sims 4 Lag Issue
After updating my game on Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 my game began to lag horribly. I have tried everything I can to fix it; I have deleted all of my mods, uninstalled then redownloaded the game, used a CCleaner to remove any and all unused files, optimized the game in GeForce Experience, reduced the settings to the lowest possible, and deleted the Sims 4 file from the EA folder. All of these were to no avail. I have not had an issue before the update, and was wondering if anyone has found a fix? From stalking the discussion forums on Steam and going on the Sims 4 Subreddit I know that I am far from the only person experiencing this issue.
@theatre_kid181 I've merged your posts with your previous thread in order to keep all the relevant information in one place. Does this mean that disabling Discovery Quests didn't help?
If it didn't, please try killing the Alienware Command Center in the Task Manager before playing. It's been crashing and may be affecting Sims 4.
If that doesn't help either, please try playing while your computer is offline. You can sign into the EA App and put it in offline mode, then disconnect from the internet before pressing Play.
Finally, please make sure Sims 4 is using your Nvidia graphics card. Go into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4, open Config.log, scroll down about 30 lines, and you'll see a GPU listed under "Graphics device info." Let me know what it lists: the RTX 3050 ti, the AMD chip, or something else.
