Re: The best laptop to play Sims 4 with all packs and mods/cc
@bellalala93 By special graphics settings, I meant the ones that you referred to when you said "Then game visual theres so many graphics modes too." I don't have an Asus laptop, so I don't really know what options its software offers. Even if you want to use ArmouryCrate in general, it's still better ot test the game without it running, and then with it running and on all default settings for Sims 3, to get a baseline. That just means if there's a profile within the app for Sims 3 (or TS3.exe), go through that profile and disable all the settings that Asus suggests you might want to use. If you've already done that, you don't need to do anything else.
Your laptop is capable of running Sims 4 on ultra settings, so feel free to max out all the options and see how it runs. For COD, I don't really know, but if the game feels choppy at the settings you pick, turn them down and see how it goes.
As far as temperatures go, your CPU can and may reach 90º C without being a problem. Above that, and it's time to think about better cooling, e.g. a cooling pad or a fan pointed at the laptop while you play. Above 80º, the graphics card will throttle performance to protect itself, so while a temperature that high isn't necessarily a problem in and of itself (unless it's much higher, like 90º), performance will suffer significantly over 80º. If your GPU is constantly running that hot, better cooling is definitely a good idea.
The other thing that can help a lot with less demanding games is enabling vertical sync in game settings. That will limit in-game framerates to the refresh rate of your screen, so the graphics card isn't working harder than necessary. (The screen won't display more frames per second than its refresh rate, so anything over that is just noise.)
If an older game doesn't have an fps limiter or an option for vertical sync, or it doesn't work (e.g. Sims 3), you can get around this by setting a max frame rate in the Nvidia Control Panel. Right-click on the desktop, select the CP, then Manage 3D Settings, and under Global Settings, there will be a Max Frame Rate you can enable and set to whatever you want, but again it should be no higher than the refresh rate of your screen.
A lower workload means less heat and less stress on your GPU, although it can certainly handle a high load. But the combination of a high load and very high framerates is not good for a GPU, so if you're playing a game where fps is well into the hundreds, you'll want to limit it somehow. There are plenty of ways to do so; how to see in-game fps depends on the game and the game launcher that you're using. For example, the cheat fps on works in both Sims 3 and Sims 4, and Origin can be set to display fps in whatever corner you want, though the Origin in-game interface.
