I don't have a super high end computer but before the newest patch the game used to run really smooth and fine, it had no issues. Since recent patch from this month, the game now lags a lot, framer...
@Half-rose The Sims 4 errors in your dxdiag are likely related to the driver for your graphics card. Since you already have the newest driver, please do a clean uninstall and reinstall. Download Display Driver Uninstaller from here:
Next, take your computer completely offline—disable wifi and/or pull the ethernet cord—and double-click the DDU.exe. Take note of where the file will land, and click Extract. If it's easier, you can copy the path and then paste it into the address bar in a File Explorer window. Open the folder and then launch Display Driver Uninstaller.exe, and you'll get a message that you're not in Safe Mode. Click OK, then go to Options and enable Safe Mode dialog. Here's a screenshot of what your options should look like; make sure the box in red is checked:
Close options, and the DDU, and then open the DDU.exe again. For launch options, choose "Safe Mode (Recommended)," and then click Reboot to Safe Mode (you'll need your password, so find it before rebooting). Once you login, you'll see this:
In the blue box, choose GPU, then Nvidia if it's not already showing. Then click Clean and Restart (red box).
Once your computer has rebooted, now back in normal mode, run the driver install .exe in custom mode. Select "perform a clean installation" and install ONLY the GPU driver and the PHYSX software.
Reboot again, go back online, and see whether the game works normally. If not, let me know.
quick question before doing it. I never put any password on my windows. does that mean the safemode also doesn't have one or it comes with a pre-made password?
@Half-rose What kind of Windows account are you using: admin or something else? Do you input a PIN or just automatically login to your account at boot? I've always thought you needed a password on at least one account on the computer, at least with Windows 10.
Since I'm not sure what's going on with your account, before you boot into safe mode, please try setting a password; you can remove it later. Otherwise, you might lock yourself out and lose your data. Hit Windows key-i, then Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options, and you can set or change a password from there.
I'm the admin of it. I actually managed to do it without requiring a password so I suppose my safemode didn't have any.
I done all the steps, unfortunately, it is still stuttering itself to oblivion. I did a quick record of what it is doing, sometimes it gets worse than that, making full stops.
this confuses me even more because I run games with a lot more graphical and polygon requirement than sims 4, in fact i've played said games yesterday with no issue. It is just doing it for Sims 4
@Half-rose I can see how that stutter would be annoying. It's not really lag though, which is when the game clock seems to pause for a few seconds and then catch up, with the sims' animations also freezing and catching up all at once. I'm not sure if this is just an issue with the game and the latest Nvidia drivers, since you're not the only person to describe this with the newest driver installed. I'll keep an eye out for more posts like this and see if there's a good way to address it.
In the interim, you can try playing with the graphics settings to see if a lower setting in one category or another helps. I'm not saying you need to play like this, but trying on low settings and then increasing one or two at a time might flag a particular setting as problematic.
You could also theoretically revert back to a slightly older driver for your card. Your current one is version 446.14, so you'd want to go back a few versions (441 or 442 perhaps; I'd have to look up the numbers). I'm not really recommending this, I'm just saying you could experiment if you wanted. If you do, please make sure you use a reputable site like Guru3D.com and get a WHQL driver rather than a hotfix.
