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brubruQC1998
Seasoned Traveler
4 hours ago

sluggish perfomance when sims spawn ?

I just wanted to report a possible issue I’ve been noticing in The Sims 4, Ive been experiencing sluggish perfomance when sims spawn. Of course before the last big patch in January 2025 (behind the sims), there is no sluggish. When the map have no sims the game is 100% smooth, (except my last post about the festival fps drop when near festivals that's another subject).

 don’t think it’s my PC, as my specs should be more than enough to run the game smoothly:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
RAM: 32GB
GPU: RTX 3070
Monitor: 1440p
Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD

Just to be sure, I even did a full reinstall of the game without any mods, but the issue is still there. I’m running the game on DirectX 11, and I also tried switching to DirectX 9, but there was almost no difference. I even RESET windows same.

Thanks in advance for your help!

ea app
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no cc or mods

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    puzzlezaddict
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    2 hours ago

    brubruQC1998  Are you saying that the game is sluggish when the sims are appearing on the lot?  Or are you saying the game is sluggish when it's trying to create new inactive sims?  In either case, does the game recover afterwards, back to its usual performance, or does it stay sluggish?

    Please test this in a new save, in one of the base game worlds, on a default EA-made lot, and don't add any content from the Gallery or your own library, or any mods or custom content.

    For reference, please also provide a dxdiag.  Click Windows key-R, enter dxdiag in the run box, wait for the scan to finish, click "Save all information," and save the file to your desktop.  From there, you can attach it to a reply using the paper clip (Attachment) icon included with the other formatting buttons.

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