Sims 4 RTX 3060 Laptop poor performance

@magz_4_life  Please try playing while your laptop is not connected to the internet.  You can sign into Origin and put it in offline mode, then disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable before launching the game.  Even though this isn't an ideal solution, it's a helpful test.

If you still see low fps, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

I am still getting poor performance and coil whine from my laptop.

@magz_4_life  Coil whine definitely isn't a good sign.  Please first make sure Sims 4 is using your dedicated graphcis card.  Go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4, open config.log, and look for the card name, about 30 lines down.  You should see the RTX 3060 listed, but let me know if the Intel chip is there instead.

I'd also like to see the results of some hardware monitoring.  Download hwinfo from here:

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

You don't need to install anything if you don't want to; just choose the Portable version, unzip it, and launch it from Downloads or wherever you want.  (If you would like to install, be sure to click the green button, not the orange one.)  Restart your computer, and don't open any other apps.  Launch hwinfo, choose "sensors only," and click the icon that's a sheet of paper with a + sign to start logging.  Save the file to your desktop for easy access later.

Wait five minutes, then launch Sims 4 and play for 20 minutes or until it crashes.  Click the same button to end logging; even if your computer crashes, which I hope it doesn't, the log should still be intact up to that point.  You can upload it to a third-party free filehosting site and link it here.  Please leave it in .csv format, or if you use OneDrive to share, please compress it in .zip format instead.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoJUqMC4DpMNvEl3P3naW19pi_B0?e=40WUi2 The fps problems have appeared to stop for some reason, but I am still getting coil whine and the fan is incredibly loud.

My laptop is definetly plugged in, it hasn't moved at all since I got it, and I always had vsync on. I checked the ram and looked to see if it was loose or incorrectly placed, but it seemed okay to me. I thought as the gpu was only 2 months old it would be not be optimised and before I played the game I added it to the .sgr files. I also noticed the coil whine on other games and contacted asus about it and they said it was normal, so I left it at that. Though I will try the high performance mode you were talking about. I did contact ea before I asked on ahq, and they said that it was a game problem. I will try today as the game updated last night, so I will see then if there are any problems.

@magz_4_life  There are certainly some optimization issues with Sims 4 on higher-end GPUs, and that's not limited to the 30-series.  For example, people with even 10-series cards can see significant fps drops despite the card's core load being nowhere near maxed out.  It's just the way the game works.  But framerates should still be quite high most of the time.

The phrase "coil whine" gets me nervous, but if you have fps capped and Asus says what you're hearing is normal, then it sounds like there's nothing to worry about.

I'd still try plugging the laptop into a different socket or power strip, just to see whether you notice any improvement.  The charging was definitely not keeping up with the power draw from Sims 4, even if the overall decrease in charge was small.

I think I found out why coil whine was happening, because when I put my laptop into silent mode the fps is capped at 60 where it runs fine, but when it reaches 144hz thats when coil whine becomes noticeable. I also think I found out why the charger was being strange, as there was a limit on my laptop's battery so that the health of the battery does not degrade, other than that the fps problem I said originally was because I forgot to update the drivers, but as I said the coil whine only happens at 144hz. But thank you for your help!

@magz_4_life  That's great information to have.  Thanks for sharing.