Re: Re: The sims 4 sim & computer pie menu lag

I freed up some space on my pc, leaving about 44 gb of free space. I also did the clean boot as explained and it actually seemed to help, laptops and computers are still a little laggy but for the most part it did help.

@TiffSims04  That sounds like part or most of the issue is caused by running other apps or services at the same time as Sims 4.  You can selectively reenable the services in the same way you disabled them for the clean boot, then see how Sims 4 is affected.

It's likely that only one or two services are contributing to the lag, for example perhaps an app like Discord (or its overlay) is hogging resources, or maybe some Dell support software.  I'd leave those for last, testing everything else first so you get a sense of how Sims 4 runs with most of the background services enabled too.  Then add back the Dell apps one at a time, then apps you either use often or have set to open with Windows, e.g. Discord, a music player, etc.

I'm a little stuck on this step, I'm not sure what to disable and what not to disable. I'm not sure how else to explain it other than I'm confused. Am I supposed to keep track of what has been disabled and then narrow it down from there?

@tiffsims11  When you set up a clean boot, all the services you disabled stay disabled until you manually reenable them, or (sometimes) until an app updates.  So you just go back and reenable some of the services, but not all of them.  The point here is to add back a few services at a time until you run into trouble, then look at the last batch you reenabled more closely.

If it's easier, you could just reenable ten or so at a time rather than keeping a list.  Whichever batch of 10 causes problems, split it and retest until you find the issue.  It's like the 50/50 method for testing mods, except with services.