@puzzlezaddict does that mean I cant replace my vga? Is mine irremovable? I just take a quick look at the task manager:
Right after start up
CPU: 12%
Memory: 25%
Disk: 69%
Starting the game:
CPU: 64%
Memory: 61%
Disk: 41%
During events:
CPU: 59%
Memory: 83%
Disk: 22 %
Idk which one indicates the RAM percentage. I have no other program opened. There're 33 background processes that only takes like 0 point something percent, I guess it doesnt matter. Do you think just adding more RAM alone will eliminate the lag though? I would like to try the hardware monitoring you mentioned earlier.
@kixxinghae Memory is RAM, as in random access memory, the place where data is held by your computer for immediate use. It does look like you're not completely running out, although hardware monitoring would give a more complete picture. Since you're interested, 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 3 and play for 20 minutes or until it crashes. Click the same button to end logging. Then upload the log 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.
I'm not sure what you mean by vga, but you can't replace the processor or its integrated graphics chip, and your laptop doesn't have room for a dedicated graphics card. So you're limited to what you can do with the components already built into the laptop.
@puzzlezaddict @ We refer graphic card as VGA here in my country 😅 whoa I thought i could replace my graphic card but oh well.. I guess adding more RAM wont help either? Here's the file you're asking : https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ti2t4cisu3no0k/sims4.CSV?dl=0
@kixxinghae Sorry for the late reply; I've been a bit occupied with other things. (And I should have known about VGA, but I saw it and thought of the type of connector and not the card itself.)
While your laptop does run low on memory while you play, it's not critical: the lowest reading for the available physical memory was about 1600 MB. The real slowdown happens when a computer is forced to swap data back and forth from RAM to the page file, but page file usage didn't jump until the last 2 minutes of the hwinfo log. So unless Sims 4 was running great until that point and then suddenly slowed down, I doubt that's the issue.
The more obvious detail is that your processor and graphics card are running hot. This isn't critical either, in that both components easily throttle performance to get back to a reasonable temperature. But that throttling could and probably does account for lower performance at least to some extent. It's possible that the throttling on and off is a constant while you play, and you only notice the symptoms while in a demanding in-game situation like an event. It's also possible that those events are the only time the throttling is significant enough to cause a noticeable drop in performance.
It's hard to be sure about cause and effect without knowing what you were doing during the log, and when, but it doesn't really matter. The underlying point is that your laptop wold run the game a little better if it could cool itself more effectively. Elevating it while you play can help, whether you use a laptop tray or put something under the corners. So could pointing a fan at it, or even getting a cooling pad.
Adding more memory may help too, but again, it's not clear from the hwinfo log that this is the issue. Before you spend any money on RAM, try cooling your laptop as much as possible. A little extra cold air on the bottom of the case can make a big difference, and of course it's cheaper to use a fan you already have than to get the laptop upgraded.
@puzzlezaddict so i just reseted bios setting to default and defraged my C drive (its said 15% fragmented) even tho the game is located on E drive (it's 0% fragmented so i didnt defrag it). I also lifted my laptop and put a fan under it. The lag during events seems kinda reduces a very tiny bit. It still lags like crazy but now it's more playable. I dont know which one of my action did it. I'm thinking of getting more fan to put under my laptop to see if it'll make any better.
Do you have any suggestion of what can I improve next? I can't change sims graphic to any lower than very high and lighting setting to lower than medium since it'll make sims' hair glitchy. I've tried lowering the other settings but still the same outcome.
Edit: I notice that my teen sims seem to cause lag the most.
Edit 2: I forgot to mention that everytime I turn my laptop on or off, I hear a crackling sound twice as if the CD player is being opened. Idk what that is.
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