Sims 4 Crashing, Cannot Play Game
Hi there! I'm hoping to get some help. I've been an avid sims 4 fan since it came out, and have had no significant issues with my games until recently. I would say about two-ish months ago my game ...
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LilBbyBeeee Your dxdiag lists some crashes that are usually associated with high-end Intel processors that the motherboard may overclock by default. Sometimes a BIOS update helps, but you already have the newest-available version installed.
The usual next step is to boot into BIOS and disable CPU Turbo Boost, which should be somewhere under Advanced settings (exactly where varies a lot). This shouldn't have any measurable effect on performance in Sims 4, but if you do other CPU-heavy work on the computer, that might be a bit of a problem.
One other alternative that might work—at this point it's just a suggestion, not confirmed—is limiting Sims 4 to using only the CPU's P cores. You can do that in the Task Manager's Details tab. Right-click TS4_x64.exe and select Set affinity, then select the cores you want the game to use. Your CPU has six P cores, likely options 0 to 5, and eight E cores.
You can experiment with different core configurations as well if you want. Four cores is more than enough for the game, and in fact before DirectX 11 mode was introduced, it could only use four cores at all.
