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Re: Game started lagging out of NOWHERE? No change at all, at my wits end...

Okay, so although our issue is different, because of the 'randomness' of it, and the inconsistency of it, I have a feeling that once my game starts becoming demanding, windows is doing something in the background to limit the programme. I have played around with the DPI settings, by looking under the compatibility tab on the properties for the game, and I have made a small improvement. However, I don't really know what I'm doing and just changed something around- if anyone has any more specific advice on this, it would be super helpful. I'm going to keep trying to find a solution, and if I ever find one, I will let you know!

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IrisuChan
New Ace
4 years ago
@Lcgreen97 thanks, please let me know if you do! I hope we both get our *smooth* gameplay back. 🙂 But what if it was related to latest game update? There were two events for me that happened, after which I noticed the lag the first time. A game update, and my install of Backyard Stuff.
Lcgreen97
4 years ago
Have you tried reverting an earlier version, temporarily disabling backyard stuff, and seeing if that's definitely the problem? In that case, you could maybe be eligible for a refund but I'm not totally sure. This isn't the case for mine, as I had no change between my game running flawlessly to laggy, which is why I'm so confused- no new packs or patch updates!
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
4 years ago
@Lcgreen97 Your new dxdiag shows a few errors from µTorrent, so please shut down any BitTorrent-related processes before launching the game. (Go through the Task Manager's background processes list to make sure you've caught everything.) If that doesn't help, please try playing while your computer is offline again, now that you've set high-performance mode.

If you still get lag, please do some hardware monitoring. Download hwinfo from here:

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

You don't need to install anything if you don't want to; just choose the Portable version, unzip it, and launch it from Downloads or wherever you want. (If you would like to install, be sure to click the green button, not the orange one.) Because you have a Mac, you may need to apply a fix to get hwinfo to work:

https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/hwinfo64-stops-responding-with-sensors.2791/

Restart your computer, and don't open any other apps. Launch hwinfo, choose "sensors only," and click the icon that's a sheet of paper with a + sign to start logging. Save the file to your desktop for easy access later.

Wait five minutes, then launch Sims 3 and play for 20 minutes or until it crashes. Click the same button to end logging. Then upload the log to a third-party free filehosting site and link it here. Please leave it in .csv format, or if you use OneDrive to share, please compress it in .zip format instead.