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@SimmerGeorge The frame rate depends on many things and one bottle neck can really affect FTS. You don't list your display device. If the display device is 60 FTS then anything over 60 FTS is dropped. It depends on the bandwidth of how your display device is connected. It depends on the video driver settings like triple buffering. It depends on how many backgrounds programs are running and what they are doing. It depends on the resolution you have the program set for. The higher the resolution the slower the frame rate. The more changes in a given frame requires more processing. The sims games do some post video card processing in software. Actually TS4 is less demanding then TS3 but performance is is only be as good as the weakest hardware bottleneck. When Windows operating system in installed the size of the page file that is created is based on the size of the system storage device. If you have a 1Tb conventional drive the page file would be larger then a 225Gb ssd. While a 128Gb ssd or even a 225 Gb ssd may not be large enough for a typical gaming rig if you don't know how to manage it. While a 128Gb storage device may be large enough for a business/student computer, IMO it is not large enough for the average gamer as today's games keep getting larger and larger. When users come to me for a computer one of the questions I ask is are you going to run games on this computer. If the answer is yes then the smallest system storage device would be 500Gb. With the price of ssds in free fall I see no sense to skimp on storage. Would you try 4K resolution with a VGA display? So to answer your question a tech will need to know ALL aspects of your system. First thought is I don't think the GTX 1060 is the issue. Have you tried running a graphics benchmark like 3Dmark?
- SimmerGeorge6 years agoSeasoned Ace@roberta591 Okay, I didn't know you needed that info. On my 225gb SSD I only have The Sims 4 installed. I usually install all my other games in my 1TB hard drive. I am playing in 1920x1080 and using a display port to connect my display device. (My monitor is called iiyama G-master G2530HSU) but device manager lists General PnP Monitor.
As for the other settings I don't know what they really are I use default NVIDIA settings.
I have never used a graphics benchmark.- roberta5916 years agoHero (Retired)
@SimmerGeorge When you install a program (game), user data data usually gets written by default to the system device. With this game you can install the core game file to a different location but the use data by default gets saved to the system device. As this is an expandable game that means some user data will get added to your user data. to use 3Dmark, google 3Dmark, download the free version, install and run and it should give you a value to compare to other video cards. When you install the game to the 1Tb data drive you loose the advantage of the performance that the ssd gives you.Have you tried running the game with Origin in off line mode? This seems to affect performance in some computers.
- SimmerGeorge6 years agoSeasoned Ace@roberta591 Will the program just tell me how I compare to other video cards? 'Cause I could just google that. I googled the recommended card vs the one I have and mine is a lot faster. Also GeForce experience automatically sets my optimisation to "best visual quality" which means it detects I can run this game in ultra? It doesn't do that with more demanding games though.
That just gives me the impression it is not the card, it's the game optimisation maybe.
I have tried offline mode but it's kind of the same, still low frames with vsync on and with vsync off I get very visible screen tearing.
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