@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.
@kixxinghae It sounds like you might be using a teen cc hair that's causing at least part of the trouble. Find a teen that seems to cause lag, and try reassigning the hair; or just temporarily remove all teen cc hair and see whether it makes a difference. You can use "save as" and rename the save, so your original remains intact while you experiment on the new copy.
Having a fan blowing against the bottom of the laptop case can help a lot, although I don't know whether you want to invest in a laptop cooling fan or cooling pad at this point. On the other hand, you could use it on a new laptop if and when you get one. But if you have a friend that uses one, maybe borrow it and try it out to see how much difference it makes.
Ultimately though, this is probably more about managing the lag, keeping it to a minimum, than any surefire fix. It will help if the laptop can cool itself better; removing some high poly (high resolution) or broken custom content will improve things too. But this laptop is always going to struggle somewhat when running Sims 4; the question is how much.
I don't know what the crackling sound is and couldn't begin to guess. Do you use standalone speakers? Is the crackling sound coming from those speakers, or from the laptop speakers; or is it a mechanical sound from the laptop components?
@puzzlezaddict I've removed some CC hair from teen sims that I suspected messing with my game. The lag slightly improve but its still there. I guess my main issues are bad CC hair and overheat CPU. Thank you so much for helping me, now the lag is more bearable I wont complain so much about it 🙂
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