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Re: Why is my Sims 4 so laggy?

@Scarlett_Wolf_02  The dxdiag is fine, and no, it doesn't need to be run while you play.  The problem is obvious: your computer doesn't have a graphics driver installed, so it's using the Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead.  This driver will run the game extremely poorly no matter what kind of hardware you have.

You can download the newest driver for your integrated graphics chip directly from Intel:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29474/Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-15-40-?product=80343

Install it, restart your computer, and test the game.  Let me know how it runs.

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  • @puzzlezaddict Thank you so much! It runs perfectly. I tried before to figure out how to update my graphics driver but I didn't know how, so thanks for the link!