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AdrianT95
5 years ago

Sims 4 automatically turns on high performance under power options

Hi,

I have Windows 10 and each time I want to play the Sims 4, the game automatically enables the high performance plan under power options, or at least, that's what I think since my laptop's fans begin to be noisier, screen brightness changes and this doesn't happen when I play the Sims 3.

Unfortunately, I cannot keep high performance plan enabled for longer than 2 minutes since my laptop is prone to overheat easily, so I need to keep it on power saver plan, in this way, I can do anything with my laptop including gaming without having temperature issues. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's an image:

Is there any way to fix this? I have tried to enable laptop mode in the settings but didn't work... The game stills enable high performance mode every time I want to play.

Thanks in advance!

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @adriant95 

    A game like the Sims 4 demands a lot of power. This in turn means there are more heat to disperse. so the fans must work harder. 

    For your overheat problem make sure to clean out dust. You may also consider a cooling pad 

  • AdrianT95's avatar
    AdrianT95
    5 years ago

    @jpkarlsen Sorry, I can't. My laptop have had overheat problems when playing games since I bought it, so I don't think it's because there's dust. As I said, this issue doesn't happen to me with the Sims 3 and I can play them well with power saver mode.

    As you might know, the Sims 3 has a worse performance than the Sims 4. I've played both of them in my older computer and the Sims 4 was much smoother!

    If there's no way to disable this, I will only play the Sims 3 then...

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago

    @adriant95 

    A cooling pad doesn't cost much. The Sims 3 was not as graphics intensive as the Sims 4 is. You can try lowering graphics to Low and see if that helps.

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